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About WSP

WSP is one of the world's largest engineering and professional services consultancies, headquartered in Montreal, Canada and operating across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. The firm describes itself as the home of ambitious, passionate and innovative engineering experts, scientists and advisors, working with clients to plan, design, create and deliver projects that shape the world.

Sectors

WSP organises its work around seven principal sectors, an unusually broad span that lets the firm move expertise between building, infrastructure and environmental markets.

• Property and Buildings - structural, mechanical, electrical, facade and fire engineering for commercial, residential, healthcare, education and cultural buildings
• Transport and Infrastructure - highways, rail, aviation, bridges, tunnels, ports and urban mobility
• Earth and Environment - environmental assessment, contaminated land, ecology, geotechnics and climate risk
• Water - supply, treatment, wastewater, flood management and coastal engineering
• Power and Energy - generation, transmission, renewables and grid infrastructure
• Mining and Metals - mine planning, processing and closure
• Industry - manufacturing, process and industrial facilities

Advisory Services

Beyond technical design, WSP offers strategic advisory covering business case development, asset management, programme management, digital transformation and decarbonisation strategy. This lets the firm engage before a project is defined - often where the decisions with the greatest carbon and cost consequences are actually taken.

Future Ready

Future Ready is WSP's signature design methodology. It asks project teams to design not only for current conditions but for the climate, society, technology and resources of the decades a building or piece of infrastructure will actually operate in. A drainage system sized for historic rainfall data, or a building cooled for today's summer peaks, may be inadequate well within its design life. Future Ready pushes those trends into the brief at the outset rather than treating them as future retrofit problems.

Sustainability and Climate

Sustainability runs through the firm's corporate responsibility framework alongside communities, governance, ethics and integrity, health and safety, inclusion and belonging, and Indigenous relations. Given the scale of infrastructure WSP designs, its choices on materials, carbon and resilience have consequences well beyond any single project.

Scale and Reach

WSP employs tens of thousands of engineers, scientists, planners, surveyors and advisors worldwide. That scale allows genuinely multidisciplinary teams - a single project can draw structural engineers, ecologists, transport planners and carbon specialists from one organisation - and gives the firm capacity for very large, multi-year programmes.

Market Position

WSP competes at the top tier of global engineering consultancy, alongside the other major multinational firms. It has grown substantially through acquisition, building depth in specific geographies and technical specialisms while positioning itself around climate resilience and future-focused design.

Why AEC Teams Should Know WSP

For owners and consultants planning major buildings, transport schemes or energy and water infrastructure, WSP is one of the most significant reference points in the global built environment - both as a potential partner and as a source of methodology on designing for a changing climate.