“Global challenges – sustainable solutions: the role of cities, companies and consultants” is the theme of the EFCA Conference 2017

“Global challenges – sustainable solutions: the role of cities, companies and consultants” is the theme of the EFCA Conference 2017.

The fifteen global Sustainable Development Goals, that were decided by the United Nations before the end of 2015, set an ambitious, yet necessary, agenda for global development. For Europe the Sustainable Development Goals is just one driver of change. Another is the Paris Agreement on climate change. A third is the changing business environment, where it is no longer decisions by nations but decisions made by cities, regions and companies across Europe, across the world, that is in fact driving change.

As an industry, European consulting engineering firms can design and deliver the solutions that are required to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we can design solutions and systems that are essential for meeting the requirements of the Paris Agreement on climate change. But as an industry, we need to understand the drivers of change, what are the macro trends? We need to understand the legislation and the formal set-up of regulation and we need to understand the demands, wishes and requirements of our clients – and of our global competitors.

Global challenges and the demand for sustainable solutions will drive business opportunities and create challenges for Consulting engineering firms across Europe. How to position ourselves as an industry and as individual firms in a changing marketplace will be some of the key takeaways from the EFCA Conference 2017.

See the web site of the event: http://www.efca2017.eu