Consulting Engineers Salzgitter

Name

Consulting Engineers Salzgitter

Legal name

CES Consulting Engineers Salzgitter GmbH

Website

https://ces.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1950

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Engineering Consulting Services

NAICS

Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Environmental Consulting Services (54162)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Water, Wastewater & Hydraulics Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Sustainability & ESG Consulting (BPAHACAK)

Keywords

• Engineering consulting services
• Water supply infrastructure
• Wastewater management
• Hydraulic engineering
• Development cooperation projects

Headquarters

HQ city

Braunschweig

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Consulting and Engineering Services: CES provides civil engineering, architecture, and consultancy services on a project basis. Revenue is generated through fees for feasibility studies, detailed designs, construction supervision, technical assistance, and program management for water and infrastructure projects. Projects are typically funded by international development finance institutions and government programs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CES Consulting Engineers Salzgitter is an independent privately-owned engineering consultancy providing civil engineering, architecture, and consultancy services for water supply, wastewater, hydraulic engineering, and public infrastructure projects. Services cover feasibility studies, detailed designs, procurement and tendering, construction supervision, technical assistance, and program management, typically funded by international development finance institutions and executed for government and public-sector clients. The firm also developed the proprietary Remote Project Management Information System (RPIMS) for remote monitoring of donor-financed projects.

Product overview

Consulting Engineers Salzgitter (CES) is an independent privately-owned consulting and engineering company providing civil engineering, architecture, and consultancy services for over 70 years. The company offers four core sector-specific service areas—Water Supply, Wastewater, Hydraulic Engineering, and Public Infrastructure—supported by four cross-cutting service modules: Engineering Architecture, Program Management, Climate Resilience, and Digital Transition. CES delivers project services spanning feasibility studies, detailed designs, procurement and tendering, construction supervision, impact assessments, and technical assistance. The company also developed a proprietary Remote Project Management Information System (RPIMS) for donor-funded international development projects. Operating worldwide through branch offices in Latin America (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador) and Egypt, CES serves both private and public clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Water Supply Services Engineering and consultancy services for water supply infrastructure, including groundwater development, distribution networks, treatment facilities, and pumping stations, delivered to government and public-sector clients.
• Wastewater Management Services Engineering solutions for wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal systems, including integral sludge management and environmental protection measures, for municipal and public-sector clients.
• Hydraulic Engineering Services Engineering services for irrigation systems, flood protection infrastructure, coastal protection, reservoirs, dams, and water resource management for public-sector clients.
• Public Infrastructure Development Engineering and architecture solutions for public infrastructure including education facilities, urban development, municipal services, and solid waste management, delivered to public-sector clients.
• Remote Project Management Information System (RPIMS) Cloud-based project management information system for remote monitoring, onsite construction supervision, real-time progress monitoring, compliance monitoring, and health and safety assurance on complex international donor-financed projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• 350,000 beneficiaries sustainably improved living conditions through access to clean drinking water from 165 boreholes in Côte d'Ivoire.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• PLANCOcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 November 2025Cooperation partner with CES on the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies at Kumasi Technical Institute (KTI) project in Ghana. Project includes architectural design and construction supervision.
• Novobit Group GmbHcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2021CES acquired 33.33% of German IT company Novobit Group GmbH and its Tunisian subsidiary Novobit Tunisia SRL. Joint development of Remote Project Management Information System (RPIMS) - a cloud-based project monitoring tool for international donor-financed projects.
• Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerGerman development agency working as implementing partner on projects including Capacity Building of DAWSSA in Syria.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Arcadis NV: Arcadis is a global design and engineering consultancy with a substantial water and resilience practice that increasingly pursues development-bank and emerging-market projects, putting it in competitive overlap with CES on major water mandates.
• Sweco AB: Sweco is a large European engineering consultancy with significant water, environment and public-infrastructure practices; while much larger and Northern European in orientation, it competes for DFI water and climate-resilience assignments.
• WSP Global Inc. WSP is a global engineering consultancy with strong water, environment and infrastructure capabilities pursuing development-bank frameworks in emerging markets, comparable in service scope to CES but operating at significantly larger scale.
• Royal HaskoningDHV: Royal HaskoningDHV is a larger European engineering consultancy with established water, delta and resilience practices competing for the same DFI and emerging-market infrastructure tenders as CES, but with a broader multidisciplinary portfolio.
• Stantec Inc. Stantec (including legacy MWH Global) operates a large international water practice serving multilateral lenders, utilities and governments — directly comparable to CES in donor-funded water and wastewater engineering, but at much greater scale.

Direct peers

• AFRY (formerly Pöyry): AFRY is a European engineering and design consultancy with deep water, hydropower and infrastructure practices serving both private utilities and development-finance clients globally, overlapping with CES in hydraulic engineering and donor-funded water mandates.
• Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG: Fichtner is a Stuttgart-based independent engineering consultancy with global project execution in water, energy and infrastructure, heavily active in development-bank financed projects across emerging markets — closely matching CES's DFI-funded, water-and-infrastructure mandate.
• Dorsch Gruppe (Dorsch Global): Dorsch is a German-headquartered engineering consultancy active in water, environment and infrastructure for public and donor clients worldwide, sharing CES's German origin, project-based consulting model and emerging-market footprint.
• ILF Consulting Engineers: ILF is a Munich-headquartered engineering consultancy specializing in water, hydraulic and infrastructure projects for international clients and development banks, making it a near-direct counterpart to CES in scale, sector mix and donor-financed project model.
• Lahmeyer International (Tractebel / ENGIE): Historically the most direct German competitor to CES in DFI-funded water and power projects; Lahmeyer was acquired by Tractebel (ENGIE) but its project portfolio, German engineering heritage and emerging-market focus remain directly comparable to CES.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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