Security Consultancy Services

Sweco provides integrated security consultancy, design and engineering services for physical and electronic infrastructure across the built environment. We are specialists in securing mission critical data centre facilities, and provide similar expert security consultancy support to for workplace, mixed use, residential, retail, leisure, public space and Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) sectors.

Engaging with clients from the earliest project stages, we embed best practice, strategic thinking and proportionate security solutions from Day One – helping you reduce risk, improve resilience and support the long‑term safety or your people and business.

Our security experts provide trusted security consultancy support to help organisations identify vulnerabilities, reduce risks, and protect employees, occupants, visitors, assets and data from wide-ranging physical and cyber terrorism and crime threats.

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Bringing together many of our Sweco colleagues from a diverse range of disciplines, we can offer a truly unique and market-leading security consultancy service. We can lead or support projects, and help mitigate the wide-ranging security threats that your businesses and people face daily with real world experience and pragmatic advice.

Darren Wood Security Operations Director

Sweco’s core security consultancy services

Our security consultancy team engages on projects from early risk identification through to integrated security design and delivery, including.

Security threat assessment and mitigation strategies
Security strategy, planning and concept development
Integrated physical and electronic security design
Installation witnessing and system commissioning support
Compliance audits and regulatory alignment
Incident response and operational procedures and frameworks
Penetration testing and vulnerability assessments

Physical Security Design

We design physical security solutions to mitigate security risks while maintaining safe, efficient, and accessible environments. This includes (but is not limited to) the specification, design development and installation witnessing of:

Pedestrian and vehicle gates
Automatic rising and fixed bollards / HVM systems
Perimeter security fencing
Pedestrian turnstiles and speed lanes
Security rated walls, facades windows and doors
Roller shutters
Security portals and circle locks
Security guard houses

Electronic Security Systems

Our electronic security designs deliver intelligent, interoperable protection using proven and emerging technologies. This includes (but is not limited to) the specification, design development and installation witnessing of:

Video Surveillance Systems (VSS)
Access Control Systems (ACS)
Intruder Detection Systems (IDS)
Intercommunication Systems (INT)
Integrated Security Platforms / PSIM
Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems (PIDS)
Cyber security solutions

Our strategy-led approach

Drawing on national and international experience across diverse cultures, sectors and operating environments, we develop security strategies that are appropriate, adaptable, and aligned to any global, country, regional or local threat profile – tailored to your specific business profile, and your business needs or site demands.

As a multi-disciplinary team of teams, we bring together a range of skills across built environment design and engineering – including structural and civil engineering, facades, fire safety, operational technology asset management and buildings network infrastructure specialisms. We combine insight, innovation and approachable guidance to deliver risk mitigation and security measures that are practical, compliant and future‑proof.

We work collaboratively with all stakeholders, taking the time to understand operational needs and project vision before translating requirements into clear, deliverable security risk management strategies.

Security project snapshot

Electronic & physical security for Colechurch House, London.

Electronic security for One Exchange Square, London.

Electronic security for Chapter London Bridge.

Our security consultancy team has the knowledge and experience of delivering projects across many different sectors both nationally and internationally – from initial security risk assessments, security strategy development, detailed design and support through system deployment. We see this end-to-end presence as critically important to our clients, ensuring that we can support all their project requirements under a single banner.

Dan Watts Security Consultancy Lead

Cross sector security expertise

We support a diverse range of organisations operating across many sectors, including.

Mission Critical (data centres)
Critical National Infrastructure (CNI)
Military, defence and government
Energy generation (nuclear, renewable)
Power transmission
Water and utilities
Public and crowded spaces
Leisure and hospitality (inc. stadia)
Transport and aviation (ports, airports, rail)
Finance and banking
Residential
Retail
Workspace
Mixed use (combining all of the above and public space)

SECTOR FOCUS:

Data centres

Security consultants play a critical role in successful data centre delivery, where resilience, availability, and trust are paramount. Well‑designed physical and electronic security systems protect critical infrastructure, sensitive data, and operational continuity against evolving threats, from unauthorised access and insider risk to cyber‑physical attacks.

Integrating security early in the design process ensures that measures such as access control, video surveillance, perimeter intrusion detection and alarm monitoring, are proportionate, compliant, and aligned with operational needs and client baseline standards. A robust security strategy not only safeguards assets and people, but also supports uptime, regulatory compliance, and long‑term scalability – making it a fundamental enabler of safe, reliable, and future‑proof data centre operations.

Data centre design & engineering

The value of a single trusted security partner

Engaging Sweco as your single security consultancy partner gives you a co-ordinated, efficient and resilient approach to security design and advisory services:

End-to-end expertise from threat assessments to implementation oversight

Single point of engagement for our clients, with Sweco managing all aspects of the security consultancy offer

Team experience across all sectors, both national and international

Support of Sweco colleagues to deliver the complete security consultancy offering

Why Sweco?

The security landscape has shifted fundamentally in recent years. Threats are no longer limited in scale or type. They are broader, more frequent and increasingly complex – spanning terrorism, espionage, cyber intrusion and state‑linked activity.

The modus operandi for these attacks now use digital platforms, emerging technologies, and artificial intelligence (AI) for planning and execution. Security threats are continually evolving, meaning proactive security strategies and coordinated crime prevention efforts are critically important in people and business safety.

At Sweco, you will be connected not just to technical expertise, but strategic and ‘lived’ insight and accountable security project management – helping you take practical, effective steps to protect people, assets, operations and long-term resilience.

By leveraging the cross-team support of Sweco colleagues we can support the majority of the security consultancy offering in house, to deliver a best-in-class service of expertise and experience across all sectors, both nationally and internationally.

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Together with our clients and the collective knowledge of our engineers, consultants and other specialists, we co-create solutions to address urbanisation, capture the power of digitalisation, and make our societies more sustainable. With international multi-disciplinary teams, we can call on the right insight and technical capability at the right time from across Buildings, Infrastructure, Advisory & Planning and Compliance.

Security Consultancy Services

Sweco’s core security consultancy services

Physical Security Design