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.
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
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.
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.
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.
What does Sweco’s security consultancy service cover?
Sweco provides integrated security consultancy, design and engineering services for physical and electronic security infrastructure across the built environment in the UK and internationally. The service covers everything from initial threat assessment through to security strategy, detailed design, installation oversight and compliance.
Sweco’s security consultants engage from the earliest project stages to embed proportionate, risk-based security measures that protect people, assets, operations and long-term business resilience.
What are the main areas of Sweco’s security consultancy?
Physical Security Design – the specification, design and installation witnessing of physical measures including vehicle and pedestrian gates, automatic rising bollards, hostile vehicle mitigation (HVM) systems, perimeter fencing, security-rated walls, façades, windows and doors, roller shutters, security portals, circle locks and security guard houses.
Electronic Security Systems – the specification, design and installation witnessing of electronic systems including video surveillance systems (VSS), access control systems (ACS), intruder detection systems (IDS), intercommunication systems, integrated security platforms (PSIM), perimeter intrusion detection systems (PIDS) and cyber security solutions.
Which sectors does Sweco provide security consultancy for?
Sweco’s security team has experience across a wide range of sectors including: mission critical infrastructure (data centres), Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), military, defence and government, energy generation (nuclear and renewable), power transmission, water and utilities, public and crowded spaces, leisure and hospitality (including stadia), transport and aviation (ports, airports, rail), finance and banking, residential, retail, workplace and mixed-use developments.
Does Sweco have specific expertise in data centre security?
Yes. Data centre security is a core specialism. Sweco integrates physical and electronic security into the data centre design process from the outset, covering access control, video surveillance, perimeter intrusion detection and alarm monitoring. The approach is designed to protect critical infrastructure and sensitive data while supporting uptime, regulatory compliance and long-term scalability.
What is Sweco’s approach to security consultancy?
Sweco takes a strategy-led approach, developing security strategies based on national and international experience across diverse sectors and operating environments. Security measures are tailored to each client’s specific threat profile, business needs and site requirements.
As a multi-disciplinary firm, Sweco draws on in-house expertise across structural and civil engineering, façade engineering, fire safety, operational technology asset management and building network infrastructure to deliver co-ordinated security solutions.
Does Sweco work on Critical National Infrastructure?
Yes. Sweco provides security consultancy to CNI operators including water utilities, energy generators, power transmission networks and transport operators. A documented example is a cyber-physical risk assessment and management programme for a UK water utility, carried out to meet the requirements of the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulation and assessed against the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF).
Is Sweco’s security service available internationally?
Yes. Sweco’s security consultancy team has delivered projects nationally across the UK and internationally, with experience across diverse cultures, sectors and threat environments.
Can Sweco act as a single security consultancy partner across a whole project?
Yes. Sweco offers a single point of engagement covering all aspects of the security consultancy service, from initial risk assessment through to design delivery and installation oversight.
Does Sweco carry out security risk assessments?
Yes. Security threat assessment and mitigation strategy is the starting point for most engagements, informing the security strategy and all subsequent design work.
Can Sweco support compliance with security regulations?
Yes. The team provides compliance audits and regulatory alignment support, including frameworks such as the NIS Regulation and Cyber Assessment Framework for CNI operators.
How do I contact Sweco about a security project?
Please submit an enquiry at the top of this page.
Water operations: Cyber-physical risk assessment & management
Sweco’s Client, a Water Utility company in the England, in order to comply with the requirements of the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulation, they have committed to its Competent Authority (the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI)) to embark on a programme of works so as to close the security gaps identified in the annual Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) return. This project was the culmination of that programme of works and is an important component of their regulatory commitment, building on earlier projects in the programme that documented the organisation’s cyber-physical assets and associated risk factors.
The project covered the risk assessment and high-level design of associated counter measures for the programmable endpoints and computer networks, directly involved in the control of the company’s physical clean and waste assets, at highly critical water and waste treatment works.
As part of the solution, the following two requirements under the NIS Regulation needed to be addressed:
• Implementation of an ongoing risk management process
• Application of that process to the cyber-physical assets used by the company to deliver its core, regulated business.
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.
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