Andreas Gyllenhammar is Sweco's Chief Sustainability Officer

In September 2011, Andreas Gyllenhammar was appointed as Chief Sustainability Officer at Sweco. His primary task is to further develop and coordinate the company's sustainable services in Sweden.

"Andreas' role as strategist and business developer with a focus on sustainability is very important. Sustainable development is the foundation for our services and we are seeing continuously expanding business opportunities related to sustainability," says Eva Nygren, President of Sweco Sweden.

Andreas Gyllenhammar, who is one of Sweden's highly qualified sustainability consultants, is also responsible for coordinating and ensuring the Sweco employees' knowledge development in the sustainability area. "Sweco's combined expertise is an enormous asset and the more we cross-link this knowledge, the better we can contribute to sustainable development of society," says Andreas Gyllenhammar.

In the past year Andreas Gyllenhammar has alternated his job as a consultant at Sweco in Östersund with a role as environmental and climate strategist at Sweco. He holds a master's degree in environmental and water engineering and wrote his thesis on environmental analysis. Andreas has previously worked as an environmental scientist active in water-related research and in environmental monitoring for the county administrative board.

Andreas believes that Sweco can help its clients primarily by finding viable and sustainable solutions to their problems. Helping clients to understand how their activities affect the environment and how they can take responsibility for this is another example of what Sweco can offer. Sweco can also assist companies with an already established sustainability agenda in achieving their sustainability goals.

The assignments Andreas finds most exciting are those that involve all of Sweco’s areas of operation.
“Sustainability is in our DNA here at Sweco, and that’s particularly noticeable when we are working on projects where all of our areas of expertise can interact. Then we can create closed loop solutions, calculate the overall financial picture and see how people are affected by changes in the urban environment. This overall expertise contributes significantly to making Sweco the unique company it is,” explains Andreas.