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How we see the future

Predicting how the environment will impact markets and how best we should align our business interests to these markets, is how we have built our business. Here are some perspectives on how we might see our world change and where WSP will be in the future.

The future for WSP - Stuart McLachlan, Global Managing Director

"We have world leading expertise in core environmental disciplines. This has positioned us at the forefront of delivering commercial solutions to environmental problems and helping clients see related business opportunities. Going forward, awareness of our environment as a natural asset will grow and we will grow with it. Cleaning up the world's historical legacy will be balanced with preparing our clients for the low carbon economy that we will all face within the not so distant future.

This also means change for us. We will get bigger. We will expand to have permanent offices in new locations. We will continue to broaden our expertise to cover all facets of environmental protection and climate change. We will constantly strive to deepen our technical understanding and how this can be applied commercially to provide balanced solutions. And we will increasingly provide global solutions to more globally orientated businesses. Over the next few decades the environment, and in particular climate change, will require the world to think strategically. We are as well placed as anyone to play an integral role in shaping the future and deliver the future that will sustain."

Transforming expectations - Bob Kloepfer, Global Director, Environmental 

"We don't really know what the post-recession world will look like - but it's a fairly safe bet that it won't look like the world that preceded it. What we do know is that some of the new realities our clients face will likely be lasting; and the financial, regulatory and relational rules of the game that effect business priorities and decisions will be changed in both obvious and subtle ways. At the same time, trends towards globalization, outsourcing the means of production, energy and water cost and availability, and concerns about climate change will likely pick-up where they left off - if they ever in fact abated.

More than ever, firms like WSP will be counted on to provide solutions to our client's sustainability challenges - both globally and in the local communities where they operate. Beyond controlling risk and meeting expectations, leaders will increasingly be called on to provide support directed at integrated business outcomes that support their company's critical success factors. Issues surrounding product design and life cycle as well as questions that go beyond carbon to total ecosystem footprinting will likely transform many of our client's responsibilities from a focus on compliance to the challenges of true business integration. As a firm that possesses not only the understanding to process the sustainability challenges facing our clients, but also the ability to help our clients implement the technical and structural changes necessary to succeed, WSP is exceptionally well positioned for the future."