HPC

What HPC does

HPC AG is a German engineering and environmental consulting firm founded in 1948 and headquartered in Harburg, Germany. The company delivers specialized services in land recycling (Flächenrecycling), contaminated site assessment and remediation, geotechnical engineering, groundwater management, building demolition oversight, and infrastructure planning, serving industrial companies, municipalities, real estate developers, and construction firms. Notable enterprise and government clients include Roche Pharma AG (Kesslergrube remediation), Vattenfall (Wedel heating power plant investigation), HOLBORN Europa Raffinerie GmbH (planning for an approximately €475 million renewable fuels facility at Hamburg-Harburg), ROCKWOOL, SAGA Unternehmensgruppe (Moosrosenquartier Nord), and the Cities of Freiburg (Silbergrube sanitation since 2003) and Elmshorn.

The company operates through a network of 19+ offices across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Kosovo, and Hungary, with approximately 588 employees. Its proprietary digital portfolio includes the EU-patented HPC-Gebäudeschadstoff-Datenbank (Building Pollutant Database, granted February 2023), an ESG Pre-Screening Tool for corporate sustainability assessment, and ISO/IEC 17025:2018 accredited laboratory services at 14 locations. HPC also acts as a general contractor (Generalunternehmer) for remediation projects, providing end-to-end delivery from site investigation through remediation execution with guarantees. The company is a founding member of the Inogen Alliance global environmental consulting network.

HPC generates revenue through project-based professional services fees and general contractor arrangements for remediation and infrastructure mandates. Following its March 2025 acquisition by the French Ginger-Gruppe, HPC operates as a subsidiary within a diversified engineering conglomerate while maintaining its established brand, operational structure, and customer relationships. The company has received consecutive EcoVadis Silver Medals (2024, 2025, 2026) placing it in the top 15% of rated companies, holds climate-neutral certification, and has published its first Group Sustainability Report in 2023.

Name

HPC

Legal name

HPC AG

Website

https://hpc.ag

Company type

Private

Founded year

1948

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

HPC AG is a German environmental and infrastructure engineering consulting firm founded in 1948, serving industrial companies, municipalities, real estate developers, and construction firms across 19+ European offices with contaminated site remediation, geotechnical, and infrastructure planning services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Engineering Consulting

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Testing Laboratories and Services (54138)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Sustainability & ESG Consulting (BPAHACAK)

Keywords

• Environmental engineering consulting
• Contaminated site remediation
• Geotechnical engineering services
• Infrastructure planning services
• Land recycling consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Harburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices20 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Engineering and Environmental Consulting Services: Project-based professional services including site assessments, environmental remediation planning, geotechnical consulting, and infrastructure planning for industrial and municipal clients.
2. General Contractor Services: As general contractor (Generalunternehmer), provides complete remediation services including planning, execution, and guarantees for pollutant remediation projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

HPC AG is a German engineering firm providing environmental, geotechnical, and infrastructure consulting services. Core offerings cover three service lines: Flächenrecycling (land recycling and contaminated site remediation including Altlasten, building pollutants, and waste management), Umwelt und Sicherheit (site assessment, occupational safety, sustainability, and permit management), and Infrastruktur (civil engineering, renewable energies, geotechnics, soil protection, urban water management, groundwater management, and mining). It also delivers proprietary digital tools for ESG assessment and building pollutant data management.

Product overview

HPC AG operates as a specialized environmental and infrastructure engineering consulting firm offering comprehensive services across three core areas: Flächenrecycling (land/area recycling and contaminated site remediation), Umwelt und Sicherheit (environmental consulting, site assessment, occupational safety, sustainability, and permit management), and Infrastruktur (infrastructure planning including geotechnics, water management, renewable energy, and civil engineering). The company provides a portfolio of specialized digital tools including the ESG Pre-Screening Tool and ESG Vorbewertungs-Tool for sustainability assessment, as well as the patented HPC-Gebäudeschadstoff-Datenbank for building contaminant management. Services span site investigation, remediation planning, geotechnical consulting, groundwater management, waste disposal, building demolition oversight, and renewable energy project support, delivered through interdisciplinary teams across Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Poland, and Spain.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HPC INTERNATIONAL: International operations division handling projects outside Germany
• HPC IBK
• INOGEN ALLIANCE

Products and services

• Flächenrecycling (Land Recycling and Contaminated Site Remediation) End-to-end brownfield redevelopment services including contaminated site investigation, building pollutant assessment, remediation planning, waste disposal management, and acting as general contractor for full remediation execution with guarantees. Serves industrial firms, municipalities, and real estate developers.
• Umwelt und Sicherheit (Environmental and Safety Consulting)

Quantifiable outcome

• Top 15% ranking among all EcoVadis-rated companies in sustainability (78/100 points in 2026)
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Ginger GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 March 2025HPC became part of the French Ginger Group in March 2025. The partnership is expected to strengthen both companies, with HPC's established structure and personal contacts remaining unchanged.
• Inogen AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHPC is a founding member of Inogen Alliance, a global network of environmental consulting companies. The alliance enables HPC to work on international projects and provides access to local experts worldwide.
• IBK Ingenieurbüro Kronawetter GmbHminorOthersAcquisition in 2024 of IBK, a company with approximately 65 employees in Austria specializing in transportation planning, municipal engineering, and water supply infrastructure planning.
• AfB gGmbHminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with AfB gGmbH, Europe's largest non-profit IT company, to responsibly recycle end-of-life IT hardware.
• Uhl Windkraft Projektierung GmbH & Co. KGminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOver 20-year partnership for wind energy planning, integrating nature conservation into project planning from the outset.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Arcadis NV: Global design, engineering, and environmental consulting firm with a strong German and broader European practice in site assessment, remediation, and water management. Direct competitor for HPC's contaminated-site, ESG, and infrastructure planning work, though materially larger and more globally diversified.
• Ginger Groupe (parent subsidiaries, e.g., Ginger Burgeap): Other operating subsidiaries of the French Ginger Group to which HPC now belongs, such as Ginger Burgeap, provide the same environmental, geotechnical, and infrastructure consulting services in France. As sibling entities within a shared parent, they are the most structurally aligned peers for cross-border coordination and benchmarking.
• Tauw Group: Dutch environmental and infrastructure consulting firm focused on soil, water, and sustainability advisory across Northwestern Europe. Closely matches HPC's site investigation, brownfield, and ESG service profile at a comparable mid-market European scale.
• Ramboll Group: Danish-headquartered engineering, architecture, and environmental consultancy with deep European coverage in environmental assessment, geotechnics, and infrastructure. Closely comparable to HPC in service mix and client profile, though significantly larger and Nordic-anchored.
• Environmental Resources Management (ERM): World's largest pure-play environmental, health, safety, and sustainability consultancy, providing site investigation, remediation, ESG advisory, and EHS compliance — directly comparable to HPC's environmental and ESG practices, though at materially larger global scale.
• Sweco AB: Swedish engineering, design, and environmental consultancy with broad European coverage including environmental assessment, geotechnics, water, and infrastructure. Comparable in multi-disciplinary service profile, though anchored in the Nordics and operating at significantly larger scale.
• Antea Group: Dutch-headquartered international engineering and environmental consulting firm with strong European presence in site assessment, remediation, and water/environmental services. Closely comparable mid-market European peer to HPC in service mix and client types.
• Royal HaskoningDHV: Dutch engineering consultancy with comparable offerings in environmental consulting, geotechnical engineering, water management, and infrastructure planning. Direct overlap with HPC's service portfolio, particularly in DACH-adjacent and Benelux markets.

Broad incumbents

• Bureau Veritas: Global testing, inspection, and certification giant with an environmental and ESG services practice (including Bureau Veritas Solutions). Competes with HPC on environmental due diligence, ESG assessment, and site compliance work, but as part of a much broader TIC portfolio rather than a dedicated environmental consultancy.
• WSP Global: Global professional services firm (including the acquired Golder and Wood E&I practices) offering environmental site assessment, remediation, geotechnics, and infrastructure planning. Competes with HPC on enterprise mandates but as part of a much broader multi-disciplinary portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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