Artelia delivers solid annual accounts

The consulting engineering company Artelia has just published the annual results for 2023. With a continued increase in both the top and bottom line, Artelia cements the position as one of Denmark’s largest consulting engineering companies with more than 1,200 employees distributed in offices all over the country.

The climate footprint at the bottom
A crucial part of Artelia’s strategy is to promote the green agenda through innovation, pioneering projects and active stance:

In the construction sector in Denmark, for example, Artelia has contributed to showing how the climate footprint can be reduced even further with projects such as Livings Places Copenhagen, created in collaboration with VELUX, EFFEKT and Enemærke & Petersen. Recently, the building was named the best residential project at the MIPIM Awards in Cannes, and it has previously been highlighted as a model project by the World Economic Forum. As part of the team behind the Reduction Roadmap initiative, Artelia has also given a knowledge-based input to the sustainability debate by agitating for more ambitious climate requirements for construction.

Within the energy sector, Artelia has long been a significant player, and here it is particularly the large roll-out of district heating that contributes particularly positively to the order book together with the modernization of the electricity grid.

At the same time, the tasks within the environment and nature have increased, and in the area of infrastructure the company has remained busy with everything from bicycle traffic to climate adaptation. Artelia is, among other things, a leading player in strategic traffic planning and in this connection takes part in the work with the so-called “Green Mobility Plans” in Copenhagen, Odense and Brøndby.

International development
As part of the Artelia Group – which is a worldwide multidisciplinary engineering group with over 8,500 employees – there is ample opportunity to draw on international skills that are highly relevant for both the green transition and resilience to climate change. The group has e.g. expertise in areas such as PtX, Carbon Capture, renewable energy sources and the development of public transport systems such as metro and railways. On a global level, Artelia is also a leading consultant in water construction, which implies massive experience with storm surge protection and coastal protection, which is current in a Danish context.

The cooperation across national borders is in full swing and not least in Norway, where the company solves several projects together with Dr. tech Olav Olsen, who is also part of the Nordic business unit in Artelia Group. The professional synergies are clear here, says Alex Fraenkel, and illustrates this with the urban development project Nyhavna, which also has Danish Cobe Arkitekter on the team:

“In Trondheim, we are helping to transform the old industrial port into a completely new district. Here we particularly offer our top competences within sustainability and mobility, while our Norwegian colleagues e.g. contributes with their great expertise in port construction. It is a good example of how we compliment each other.”

Social responsibility and ESG
In addition to the strategic focus on the green agenda in advising Artelia’s customers and business partners, the company also wants to demonstrate more social responsibility as a workplace and achieve progress within all ESG parameters. In 2023, the company has e.g. reduced CO2 emissions from own activities by 53% compared to the base year 2017, which is above the target of 50%. On a global level, Artelia Group has simultaneously achieved Ecovadis platinum, which is the highest level in the recognized CSR assessment system. In addition, the group has had its CO2 targets approved by The Science Based Targets Initiative.

Social responsibility is also an important benchmark for the company’s employees, who take an active part in the work to promote sustainability:

“In 2023, we have started planting a tree for every new colleague we get, instead of giving a welcome gift. The idea comes from the employees themselves, and in time it will also be a really nice picture of our growth when the Artelia forest gradually grows larger,” concludes Alex Fraenkel.