Sweco participates in developing eco-city in China

Sweco participates in developing eco-city in China 

A new city with an ecological profile will be developed in the Tangshan region
approximately 250 kilometres east of Beijing. Sweco is engaged for a series of
efforts to ensure that environmental aspects are taken into consideration.
Around one million people are expected to live in the eco-city in the future.  

”China is in great need of new cities that can relieve the pressure on the
country's congested and polluted mega-cities. Sweco has worked in the country
over the last eight years and has developed a number of cities and communities
with ecological profiles, but this is the largest assignment so far,” says Eva
Nygren, Managing Director for Sweco Sweden. 

The new city will consist of 150 square kilometres with an initial stage that
will have a scope of 30 square kilometres. A deep-water port and industrial area
are also being planned in conjunction with the city. Sweco shall formulate a
sustainable strategy based on the planning proposals that exist for the initial
stage of the city. The goal is to integrate the proposals and ensure that the
various environmental aspects are taken into consideration. 
”A major challenge with this project is to find solutions to tie the long-term
planning of the entire region together with the construction of the initial
stage of the city, which will be completed in 2020. An important goal in all the
planning is to find integrated solutions for energy and the environment that
reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses, and through that, global warming,”
says Ulf Ranhagen, senior architect at Sweco and professor at KTH  (Royal
Institute of Technology), who is project manager for the assignment. 

Within this area, Sweco shall also plan an exhibition building for sustainable
development, which will be used to market Swedish environmental technology. The
assignment is being carried out for the Administrative Committee of Tangshan
Caofeidian Industry Zone.

The assignment is part of the letter of intent that was signed between the
Chinese city, Tangshan, and Sweden during Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt's
visit to China in April. The assignment shall be structured so that Swedish
environmental technology companies are given good opportunities to participate
in the design and construction of the city and the region. So far, Sweco has
signed a contract for the assignment valued at SEK 10 million. 


For further information please contact:
Ulf Ranhagen, Senior architect and Project Manager, Sweco, +46 8 522 952 75,
ulf.ranhagen@sweco.se
Eva Nygren, Managing Director, Sweco Sweden, +46 8 695 66 60,
eva.kv.nygren@sweco.se

The information contained herein may be subject to the disclosure requirements
in the Swedish Securities Exchange and Clearing Operations Act and/or the
Financial Instruments Trading Act.


Sweco is a provider of international consulting engineering services with
combined expertise in engineering, environmental technology and architecture.
The Group has annual sales of approximately SEK 4.6 million and 5,400 employees
in ten countries. The company has projects currently underway in some 80
countries worldwide. Sweco is a member of the OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm.