COWI is a leading consulting group that creates value for customers, people and society through their unique 360° approach. Based on their world-class competencies within engineering, economics and environmental science, they tackle challenges from many vantage points to create coherent solutions for their customer.

Organisation and Ownership

The COWI Group is organised into four business lines - Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Bridge, Tunnel and Marine Structures.

• COWI Denmark includes subsidiaries in Belgium, India, Poland, United Kingdom and Africa
• COWI Sweden includes a subsidiary in Lithuania
• Bridge, Tunnel and Marine Structures includes subsidiaries in Germany, Hong Kong, India, Korea, North America, Norway, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom

Their Values

To COWI high professional and ethical standards are inseparably linked with business-oriented thinking. They act with credibility and integrity in all respects - an attitude that permeates their values, vision and policies.

Their values have remained fundamentally unchanged for decades and are integrated in the way they work and interact.

• INTEGRITY: They act with credibility and integrity in all respects.
• RESPECT: They respect those they work with, nature and society. They respect each other in decision making and implementation. They respect friendships across the organization, independent of the hierarchy.
• INDEPENDENCE: They attach great importance to their financial independence and the freedom it enables in their work.
• PROFESSIONAL CAPABILITY: They are proud of their professional capability. They encourage innovation and professional courage whenever it creates value for their customers.
• FREEDOM: They have considerable empowerment in their work. They believe in freedom of thinking and the good dialogue.

Vision and Mission

Their vision expresses the direction which they wish COWI to take. Their mission is their reason for being. Together with their strategy and values, they point us to the future.

Their Vision

Their vision is to create coherence in tomorrow’s sustainable societies.

They want to be:

• An industry top player: They are a top earner in the industry creating substantial value to enable growth and innovation
• The customer’s first choice: COWI is the customer’s partner of choice when it comes to creating innovation and sustainable value
• The best people: They have the highest level of competencies and knowledge sharing in the industry based on their high performance teams
• A leading brand: COWI is the strongest brand and the preferred consultant in all of their designated markets
• World-class international specialists: They are recognised as the world leader within their international business lines
• Excellent operations: Their continuous improvement efforts benchmark with the best

Their Mission

They are consultants creating significant value for customers, people and society through their knowledge and 360° approach by:

• Involving and engaging customers and stakeholders in co-creating optimum solutions.
• Applying world-class knowledge and experience globally and locally based on engineering, economics and environmental science.
• Creating prosperity and opportunities for customers, employees, shareholders and other stakeholders.