Engineering, project management and consulting services for infrastructure, energy and industry
AFRY Schweiz AG
Winterthur · Basel · Bellinzona · Brig · Brunnen · Chur · Delémont · Fribourg · Geneva · Lausanne · Neuchâtel · Rapperswil · ZurichNew on Amplifa
About AFRY Switzerland
AFRY Schweiz AG is an engineering, architecture and consulting services provider that manages projects across the entire life cycle in the fields of infrastructure, energy, industry and management consulting. The offering includes technical consulting, engineering design, project management, construction management, environmental planning and construction supervision, geology and geotechnics, structural engineering as well as engineering simulation and data analysis (CFD, FEM, process simulation, machine learning). In the field of asset management, AFRY supports operators of infrastructure-intensive assets with maturity assessments according to ISO 55001, network condition reports and its own MIAM software. Further competencies lie in product development, testing and verification as well as compliance and quality management. The company is represented with 13 branches in all four language regions of Switzerland and draws on around 1'000 national experts with more than 50 competencies. As part of the Swedish AFRY Group with 18'000 employees worldwide and a net revenue of 27 Mrd. SEK, AFRY has been realising projects in Switzerland since 1895, including the Sihl-Zürichsee relief tunnel and the alpine Duragno solar park.
- Site
- Winterthur
- Processes
- Engineering and consulting services (technical consulting, engineering design,, Transport infrastructure: railway installations, bridge and road construction, civil engineering, Urban civil engineering, special civil engineering, structural engineering, foundations, Geothermal energy, groundwater, geology, geotechnics, expert mandates, environmental construction, Environmental planning, environmental construction supervision, environmental management,, Management Consulting (market analyses, strategic consulting, M&A, due diligence,, Engineering Simulation & Data Analysis (CFD, FEM, process simulation, machine learning), Infrastructure Asset Management (strategy consulting, ISO 55001 maturity assessment,
- Materials
- Wood, Plastics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element Method, Building Information Modeling, Mobility Infrastructure Asset Management
- Certificates
- ISO 9001
- Founded
- 1895
- Employees
- 18000
- Industries
- Transport Infrastructure, Energy, Infrastructure, Industry, Environment, Real Estate
- 01
Consulting and Management Consulting
- 02
Engineering Design and Simulation
- 03
Project Management
- 04
Construction Management
- 05
Operations, Asset Management and Digital Solutions
Fields of Work and Methods
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Numerical flow simulation for water, energy, wastewater, fire protection and building analysis.
Finite Element Method
Structural and process simulation for validating concepts and optimising designs.
Building Information Modeling
BIM project management, among others, for school and educational facilities.
Mobility Infrastructure Asset Management
In-house developed software for data-driven strategic asset management.
Locations
Winterthur
CHBranch focused on transport infrastructure, civil engineering and environment
- Railway Construction/Civil Engineering
- Structural Engineering
- Geology and Geotechnics
- Environmental Construction Consulting
Industries
Processes & technical limits
| Processes | Tolerance | Max. part | Weight | Lot size | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering and consulting services (technical consulting, engineering design,Engineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Transport infrastructure: railway installations, bridge and road construction, civil engineeringEngineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Urban civil engineering, special civil engineering, structural engineering, foundationsEngineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Geothermal energy, groundwater, geology, geotechnics, expert mandates, environmental constructionEngineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Environmental planning, environmental construction supervision, environmental management,Engineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Management Consulting (market analyses, strategic consulting, M&A, due diligence,Engineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Engineering Simulation & Data Analysis (CFD, FEM, process simulation, machine learning)Engineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Infrastructure Asset Management (strategy consulting, ISO 55001 maturity assessment,Engineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Project management incl. AFRY RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety)Engineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Planning and optimisation of school and educational facilities incl. BIM project managementEngineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Product development and design (R&D, agile teams, PLM, prototypes, POC, production incl. ownEngineering | – | – | – | – | Plastics |
| Compliance and Quality Management (REACH, RoHS, ISO 9001/13485/14001/45001/27001, audits, SixTesting | – | – | – | – | – |
| Test & Verification for products (test management, test automation, CI/CD, test systems, testTesting | – | – | – | – | – |
| Development of medical technology products (hardware, software, electronics development,Engineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Construction management for large civil engineering/tunnel construction project (Sihl-ZürichseeEngineering | – | – | – | – | – |
| Project planning and civil/electrical planning for solar park (Duragno solar park, generalEngineering | – | – | – | – | – |
Additional services
Quality
AFRY offers compliance and quality management services, including ISO 9001/13485/14001/45001/27001, REACH and RoHS, Six Sigma and Lean. The Group management in Switzerland additionally uses established project management methods including AFRY RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety).
| Evidence | Winterthur |
|---|---|
| ISO 9001 |
History
- 1895
Foundation of Motor Columbus and Electrowatt, start of project activity in Switzerland
- 1959
Foundation of Edy Toscano
- 1992
First office in Winterthur under the name Edy Toscano AG
- 1996
Electrowatt acquired by the Pöyry Group
- 2008
Motor Columbus (later Colenco Power Engineering) acquired by ÅF
- 2016
Edy Toscano acquired by ÅF
- 2017
Winterthur office joined the Swedish ÅF Group
- 2019
Merger of ÅF and Pöyry, brand presence as AFRY
- 2025
IFEC ingegneria AG became part of AFRY Schweiz AG; acquisition of Grünenfelder + Keller Winterthur AG