Europe and Middle East
Local government & agencies
URS provides a broad range of expert multidisciplinary and cost-effective services and sustainable solutions to Public Sector clients.We help government agencies and authorities throughout Europe shape future society, promote economic growth, provide for people's needs and manage environmental resources. Find out more about our expertise in Germany, Spain, United Kingdom and Ireland.
Germany
URS has extensive experience in restoring historically contaminated soil and groundwater sites across Germany. Additional infrastructure projects include the development and extension of ports and harbours, and key transportation hubs to cope with increasing usage, while improving their sustainability credentials by uncovering and removing hazardous building materials. We have been applying our patented 'Floating Bioreactor' methodology to projects involving on-site treatment of contaminated sediments.
URS is proud to be a founding member of the German Sustainable Building Council (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Nachhaltiges Bauen, DGNB), helping to establish the criteria for Germany's own system of certification for sustainable buildings. We lead the field in sustainable innovations such as climate protection and develop, implement and monitor government and public sector projects using renewable energies, including windfarms and phovoltaics.
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Spain
Working in close partnership with local governments and national government agencies URS works on a number of major infrastructure and environmental projects. These include the provision of Limnology and Water Quality services to manage the quality of existing and future water supplies, Environmental Management Systems to assess environmental risks and develop mitigation strategies and guidelines, and Soil & Groundwater services to tackle water contamination.
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United Kingdom and Ireland
URS' social, economic, engineering and environmental services support a wide range of public sector programmes and projects from policy development to project delivery. Our experience ranges across national security, emergency services, public assets, regeneration, housing, health and education, transportation, infrastructure, environmental regulation, sustainability and natural resources.
We participate in numerous national and regional frameworks, providing support for the delivery of key programmes and projects, including:
- our work with the Environment Agency to implement contaminated land assessment and remediation programmes,
- the development of effective estate rationalisation and management plans for building and land assets for clients such as Glasgow City Council, and
- the development and assessment of sustainable economic policies, exemplified by our work with Advantage West Midlands, helping them develop a robust evidence base to support the 'low carbon' components of their Regional Economic Strategy.