Cowi India - Gurugram

2000s to today

In 2002 COWI acquired Kampsax and Interconsult, two major Scandinavian consulting companies. These acquisitions doubled the number of staff, making COWI a leading consulting company in northern Europe and parts of Central and Eastern Europe.

COWI consolidated this position by acquiring Swedish company Flygfältsbyrån in 2009 and leading UK tunnel and underground engineering consultants Donaldson Associates Ltd in 2014.
Since the start of the millennium, COWI has engineered a long suite of projects within transportation, energy, waste management, water and construction In 2010, sustainability became an official part of our vision and, together with the interdisciplinary approach, an important focus area in our projects.

Within transportation COWI has designed the Tanzam Highway in Tanzania (2005), (2010) the Doha Metro in Qatar (2013), and renovated the Gardamoen airport in Norway in many turns since the first design in 1990. Energy-efficient solutions became cornerstones of the extension project with the ambition to build the world's greenest airport.

COWI designed the London Array wind farm in 2010, which kickstarted wind projects all over the world. With the expansion in North America, this business area grew with projects both there and in Asia.

The environment was still on the agenda throughout the decade, and COWI carried out waste projects in Africa and South-East Asia. Bridges were still an important part of COWI's business areas. A few of these were Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong (2009), Osman Gazi in Turkey (2016), Mersey Gateway in UK (2017) and Hålogaland in Norway (2018).

The variety of construction projects also included hospitals and urban development, where sustainability played an important role. Among these were The Danish Architecture Centre, BLOX, in Copenhagen (2018), Nordea Headquarters (2017) and the development of zero-emission retail store for Lidl in Sweden (2020).

In November 2018, COWI acquired Denmark's largest architectural practice, Arkitema - COWI's biggest ever acquisition. Arkitema is specialised in housing, urban design, office buildings, health and educational buildings. Amongst others it is known for the Sluseholmen, an artificial peninsula in the southern part of the Port of Copenhagen, Denmark.

At any given time, COWI is involved in approximately 9,000 projects across the globe.