AFRY Administration Consulting has launched a brand new apply devoted to the sustainability transition, assembling an preliminary crew of fifty consultants throughout 5 continents to kickstart its ambitions within the area.
With over 19,000 workers worldwide, AFRY is likely one of the world’s bigger engineering and design teams. The Sweden-headquartered group focuses on the trade, power and infrastructure sectors, and helps shoppers with an end-to-end providing from advisory and design by means of to engineering and realisation.
The agency’s consulting wing, AFRY Administration Consulting (which has about 600 consultants), takes care of AFRY’s suite of strategic advisory providers, with the unit’s portfolio now enriched with a brand new apply.
Having been lively within the discipline of sustainability since its inception over 100 years in the past, the area shouldn’t be new to AFRY. A glimpse on the agency’s monitor document within the discipline spans engagements throughout the total sustainability and ESG panorama, together with technique growth, influence assessments, decarbonisation roadmaps, regulatory compliance, and broader ESG-related work within the areas of social, governance, well being & security, human rights, and extra.
Tasks for shoppers stretch all corners of the globe, from serving to Swedish retail big H&M with growing a world round packaging technique and supporting a phosphate fertilizer in Brazil with mitigating river contamination, by means of to advising Southern African international locations on water administration, enabling the design and construct of renewable power within the Nordics, and guiding industrial teams by means of EU Taxonomy preparation.
“We’ve gathered specialists from completely different elements of the enterprise with deep sustainability knowhow to kind our new Sustainability apply,” stated Roland Lorenz, Head of AFRY Administration Consulting.
Commenting on the agency’s choice to launch a devoted unit, he stated: “Sustainability is excessive on the agenda of decision-makers in each trade. Increase a devoted crew of sustainability administration consultants will permit us to help our shoppers in sector-specific and overarching sustainability challenges and alternatives.”
The preliminary 50-strong crew will give attention to the strategic aspect of change, and work intently with a community of over 1,300 sustainability specialists throughout AFRY.
“They may deal with challenges and alternatives alongside subjects resembling local weather change, decarbonisation, round financial system, biodiversity, nature-based options, water challenges, and social duty, bringing excessive degree advisory along with actionable options guarantee measurable influence and actual change,” stated Lorenz.
Taking the reins
The recent Sustainability apply is led by the Swedish-Finnish duo Helena Mueller and Tiina Kähö, who each have been appointed to Co-Lead from inside AFRY Administration Consulting.
Mueller (based mostly in Stockholm) brings 25+ years of expertise from the banking and monetary providers trade to the function, whereas Kähö (based mostly in Helsinki) has a monitor document of 15+ years within the environmental consulting scene.
“Sustainability challenges and alternatives are advanced and due to this fact want holistic options and pondering. By combining deep sector data inside many vital sectors with administration consulting and engineering competence, we have now a singular place to help our shoppers,” stated Mueller.
Kähö added: “We’re proud that AFRY might be the spearhead advisory for companies wherever they’re on their sustainability transition journey. We are able to present recommendation, technical options and design, from the strategy planning stage to completion.”
Earlier this yr, AFRY Administration Consulting was named among the many greatest consulting corporations within the US by Forbes, and a number one administration consultancy within the UK by the Monetary Occasions.
In the meantime, AFRY final week introduced the acquisition of KSH, a Canadian engineering and mission supply agency with 130 workers in Montreal and Toronto.
