CONSULTING
The way we live and work is changing rapidly. Trends in areas such as digitization, mobility and sustainability mean that building and infrastructure owners, operators and users are constantly faced with new challenges. Our consultants support clients with the development and successful implementation of long-term solutions. As a consultant at Drees & Sommer, you get to know a wide variety of different companies – from startups to major international corporations. By providing future-oriented consulting services you help to shape a world in which all generations can work and live better together.
Areas of application
The world’s climate protection goals have been clearly formulated. To meet them, principals, owners and operators must realize energy- and resource-efficient buildings and districts, and make use of renewable energy. Our role as consultants is to support clients from the concept and design stages through to implementation and operation of buildings and urban districts. We develop cost-efficient tailor-made solutions – for new and established buildings as well as for entire portfolios. We work in interdisciplinary teams across all trades, combining expertise from sustainable construction and energy and building systems engineering with current topics such as Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) aspects, Cradle to Cradle® (C2C), and Green Building. Our holistic strategies and concepts help local authorities, companies, portfolio owners principals and owners get their properties fit for the future. In this way, we create sustainable solutions that will benefit the next generation.
Megatrends such as digitization, artificial intelligence and neo-ecology make huge demands on companies. How they deal with new challenges in this environment of disruptive change is crucial to their success. The COVID-19 pandemic acted as an accelerant on expectations for the future of the work environment. As New Work consultants, our role is to develop and implement solutions that are customized, cost-efficient and successful in the long term – and closely aligned with the customer’s core process. We do this by combining years of practical experience with the latest research findings. Our change and transformation processes leverage the expertise of all stakeholders at all levels of the company. We think and act systemically, ensure that interactions are transparent, and point out synergy potential. We see the big picture, but always focus on the next step. We take an interactive, co-creative approach that leaves scope for innovative ideas.
As a consultant for strategy and organization, you advise the executive board and management on strategic issues and work in interdisciplinary teams with colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds. You advise on topics such as business modeling, growth strategies and organizational development. You also support change processes and restructuring. As a result of their role, our consultants are very familiar with the impact of digitization, AI and sustainability. As an organizational and process consultant, you help companies that need to position themselves for the future to remain successful in a constantly changing market. In addition, you support our managers as a ‘trusted advisor’, involving experts from different areas as required. You also have a high level of competence in the use of consulting tools, broad knowledge of workshop methods, some coaching experience and strong communication skills.
Technical and Economic Construction Consultancy (TECC) involves providing advice throughout the entire planning and construction process. You monitor specialist planners, carry out costings and integrated economic feasibility studies, and participate in the building acceptance process. With these measures, you make a significant contribution to the optimization of the buildings and to quality assurance. Your professional competence creates added value both for customers and for those involved in planning and construction. Social and methodological competence ensure clarity, trust, motivation and quality for all parties involved.
Your development as a consultant
You can follow the development path within the consultant job family. This provides orientation, creates transparency, and ensures systematic yet personalized development. Whether you are aiming to take on management responsibility or would prefer to deepen your expertise in a specific field – at Dreso you can shape a career that suits your strengths and preferences.
JOB PERSPECTIVES IN CONSULTING
Professionally diverse and informal: this is how our colleagues describe their work in our consulting job family. In the video, they tell us what they value about their work and what prospective consultants should know.
As a project manager at Drees & Sommer Sweden, I value close collaboration with my clients, where we work together as a team to achieve our goals. Through clear and continuous communication, we have achieved success together and developed solutions that meet the client's specific needs. It is through this collaboration and shared commitment that we have reached our best results.
As a change manager, I relish the benefits of collaborating with various clients and the diverse challenges they encounter when adjusting to a new workplace concept and a different way of working. My role is to employ change methodologies and experience to facilitate and support management, leaders, and employees in understanding, embracing, and effectively working in new ways to achieve objectives. Although change management is a minor expertise in the Drees & Sommer world, it is a crucial element for ensuring the overall success of a project. People, technology, and the physical environment all need to come together to support the customers in being successful.
In my role as Managing Director of Drees & Sommer in Sweden, I have the privilege of working closely with customers, as well as colleagues, partners and the rest of the Group. Every day is a positive challenge where I am driven by curiosity to constantly achieve something that is one step better than what we did last time. One of the responsibilities I have is to translate the Group's overall strategy into operational action in the country.
Our projects
Everything we have already achieved together: Discover our projects - from underground railway lines to hospitals, factories and mixed neighbourhoods to skyscrapers.
