Company profile: White Young Green

Revenues

WYG is a UK-registered public limited company with both institutional and private shareholders, quoted on the London Stock Exchange. The market capitalization of the company is around €300 million, with revenues in 2005/2006 of some €250 million.

International offices

WYG currently employs around 2,600 staff based in 42 offices in the United Kingdom and 7 international offices principally in Eastern Europe. Within the UK, there are offices in all major centres and internationally, there are permanent offices in Ireland, Poland, Romania, Russia and Turkey.

Asset Life Cycle

WYG offers clients an increasingly broad spread of higher value non-design related management services including project management, property management, cost management, dispute resolution, health and safety management, security consultancy and socio-economic advisory services. These skills are at the heart of decision making and are essential to the effective control of investment at all stages of the asset life cycle. WYG offers these management services to clients across both the public and private sector either as a stand-alone service or in conjunction with the Group’s engineering and environmental skills.

Engineering Services

• Building & Development
• Transportation
• Industry & Communications

White Young Green engineering services are provided across a broad spectrum of transportation, buildings and industry sectors. We have dedicated teams specialising in highways, rail, ports, airports, and infrastructure and facilities for the Manufacturing & Processing, Oil, Gas, & Petrochemicals and Power Generation & Transmission industries.

Management Services

• Project Management
• Property Management
• Cost Consultancy
• Health, Safety & Security
• Dispute Resolution
• Management Consultancy
• Social & Economic Development White Young Green Management Services provides a broad range of skills. Based on a full understanding of client objectives, we can deliver holistic solutions and specific advice ranging from problem analysis through procurement to in-house evaluation.

Our social and economic development services are primarily delivered through our international development consultancy, WYG International.

The Environment

• Town Planning
• Environmental Management Systems
• Environmental Impact Assessments
• Sustainability Management
• Waste Management
• Contamination & Pollution Remediation
• Acoustics and vibration Analysis
• Geotechnics & Site Investigation

The White Young Green professional contribution to the protection and sustainability of our environment is provided through the expertise of our Town Planning and Environmental services.

Awareness of protecting the environment and the control of potential impacts on its future has increased in all areas through public pressure and the growth of significant legislation. As the responsibilities increase, businesses increasingly require professional and quality advice to ensure future operations prevent, control and minimise impact through effective management and sustainable technologies.

WYG provides a comprehensive service to clients who require professional expertise across a broad range of town planning and environmental issues, geotechnical engineering, ground investigations and environmental management and sustainability services. The wide range of skills and considerable expertise of our personnel form the nucleus of a dynamic consultancy able to address the full spectrum of environmental issues.

WYG International

• Government & Society Development
• Business & Industry Social Protection
• Training & Work
• Programme Management

White Young Green’s international subsidiary, WYG International, is a leading European social and economic development consultancy. Our work is to catalyze and support change in societies – changes that create wealth through economic reform, that improve the quality of life of the poorest and most marginalised, and that deepen democracy and the rule of law.

WYG International’s activities started in the late 1980s in response to the new opportunities and needs arising in Central and Eastern European countries. Working for national governments and the major development agencies, our first projects were concerned with economic reform. This focus quickly widened to address the range of concerns that arise in building modern democracies. Our geographic focus widened in parallel.

We have grown to become one of the largest and well known of European companies addressing these issues of societal transformation. We bring leading edge EU and international expertise but have always recognised the importance of the local environment. This is reflected today in our organisation which is built upon a number of geographic business areas generally represented by wholly owned but self managing subsidiary companies.

The process of diversifying WYG International to include the high level project management and delivery of more technically focused infrastructure and environmental projects gathered further pace in 2006. We are now actively engaged on technical projects covering subjects such as transport planning, solid waste management, water and wastewater, building conservation, building structures and utility pipelines.

Business Excellence

WYG operates in accordance with a Business Excellence Model which has seven key values: Teamwork, Integrity, Adaptability, Innovation, Quality, Client Focus and Caring. These values govern every aspect of how WYG conducts its business. We undertake constant performance measurement to ensure that these values are upheld. The success of the business, which has grown by 200% in the last 6 years, could not have been achieved without a high level of satisfaction with the services which we provide. Our feedback from clients supports this view.

Sustainability Bureau

Our Sustainability Bureau has been established to provide White Young Green’s clients with a single point of contact for the full range of our sustainability related services. These multi-disciplinary services cover a wide range of the social, economic and environmental issues that form part of the sustainability agenda.

The Sustainability Bureau allows White Young Green to provide a co-ordinated, in-house set of skills to enable our clients to optimise the sustainability performance of their projects and operations.

We believe that the Sustainability Bureau presents a distinctive service to clients – others may offer some of the sustainability skills, but White Young Green has co-ordinated these into a format that is easy to access and which provides tailored solutions.