Major contract wins for rebranded engineering group

Swedish-owned engineering company Sweco, has won some major contracts just a year after rebranding from Grontmij.

It has secured major contracts including improved facilities across british Antarctic Survey research stations and the development of Galway Wind Farm, the largest of its kind in Ireland with the capacity to generate electricity for 84,000 homes.

Sweco was also appointed by Irish Water in December to deliver a modernisation project.

Sweco, which employs 800 in the UK from its Leeds base, specialises in the energy, transportation and environmental sectors.Its Swedish parent company turns over £1.4bn and has 14,500 employees as well as being listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm.

For the year to December 2015, the company returned turnover of £55.2m and pre-tax profits of £3.5m.

Sweco UK managing director, Max Joy, said: “Rebranding to Sweco has enabled us to plan for sustainable, profitable growth. We had strong, positive momentum from day one of the rebrand and our teams have thrived upon the new and exciting opportunities that this brings.”

President and CEO of Sweco, Tomas Carlsson, said: “The UK is an important market for us where we see a lot of potential. The integration of our UK business has exceeded our expectations both in terms of pace and performance.

“This has been achieved by developing and empowering a strong leadership team who are efficiently delivering Sweco’s collaborative multi-disciplinary approach by inspiring both their people and our clients.

“We are confident that our UK consultancy will go from strength-to-strength and look forward to supporting Max and his team as they continue to expand our operations.”

Sweco UK has offices in Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Maidenhead, Manchester, Newcastle, Peterborough and Solihull.

Max Joy finished: “We are delighted with the progress that Sweco UK has made over the past 12 months. Key in our continuous growth plan is the recruitment of more talented individuals to complement our highly skilled employees.

“This will ensure that we further establish our position in the UK market as the most approachable and committed partner with recognised expertise.”