Ecology Brasil

What Ecology Brasil does

Ecology Brasil is a Brazilian environmental services and consulting firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. The company provides social and environmental risk analysis, selective cutting modeling, and integrated environmental assessment services, and operates as part of the broader WSP Global Latin America engineering and consulting platform that delivers professional services to enterprise clients across the region. The firm's service portfolio spans six core verticals — Property and Buildings, Transport and Infrastructure, Earth and Environment, Mining, Oil & Gas and Energy Transition, and Energy and Resources — covering planning, design, project delivery, environmental science, sustainability consulting, and engineering advisory.

Its technology footprint centers on the PAAR (Plataforma de Análisis Ambiental y de Riesgos) digital innovation platform for socio-environmental assessment, complemented by specialized methodologies such as Life Cycle Assessment for Data Centers and a Data Center Water Stewardship framework. These tools represent the firm's attempt to standardize and digitize environmental consulting workflows that historically have been delivered as bespoke manual analyses.

The business model is professional services-based. Revenue is generated through project-specific engagements delivered via direct enterprise sales, proposal-based contracts, and ongoing client partnerships. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Customer concentration sits across multiple sectors including mining (Teck QB2), astronomy/research (Giant Magellan Telescope), and energy transmission (Colectora 500KV in Colombia), with regional delivery supported by offices in São Paulo, Bogotá, and Santiago. The firm targets enterprise clients across 100+ sectors and activities within Latin America, leveraging its affiliation with the broader WSP Global platform to access multi-disciplinary talent and global technical resources.

Name

Ecology Brasil

Legal name

WSP Global Inc.

Website

https://ecologybrasil.com.br

Company type

Public

Founded year

1959

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Ecology Brasil, founded in 1997 in Rio de Janeiro, provides social and environmental risk analysis, selective cutting modeling, and integrated environmental assessment services as part of the WSP Global Latin America engineering and consulting platform serving enterprise clients across mining, energy, infrastructure, and built environment sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Consulting Services

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (54162)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) & Due Diligence (BPAHAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Nature, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Conservation (BPADALAE), Forest Health Management (Pest, Disease & Invasive Species Control) (AFAMAAAE)

Keywords

• Environmental consulting services
• Environmental risk analysis
• Selective cutting modeling
• Environmental impact assessment
• Socio-environmental consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Rio De Janeiro

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Services Revenue: Revenue generated from providing engineering, consulting, and environmental science professional services to clients across various sectors including buildings, transportation, environment, mining, oil & gas, and energy. Services include planning, designing, creating and delivering innovative projects for clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Ecology Brasil provides social and environmental risk analysis, selective cutting modeling, and integrated environmental assessment services for clients with environmentally sensitive operations. The firm is positioned as an environmental consulting specialist serving Brazilian enterprise customers, with delivery supported by specialist teams and digital innovation tools for socio-environmental evaluation.

Product overview

WSP is a global professional services and engineering firm offering a unified portfolio of specialized consulting and engineering services across six core sectors: Buildings (Edificações), Transport and Infrastructure, Earth and Environment, Mining, Oil, Gas and Energy Transition, and Energy and Resources. The company also demonstrates digital innovation capabilities through initiatives like PAAR (Plataforma de Análise Ambiental), a digital platform for enhanced socio-environmental assessment. WSP's services are delivered through a 'Future Ready' approach, combining technical expertise with forward-looking innovation to serve clients across more than 100 sectors worldwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Future Ready: Strategic initiative focused on future-oriented planning and innovation in engineering solutions.

Products and services

• Social and Environmental Risk Analysis Risk analysis services evaluating social and environmental factors for clients with operations in environmentally sensitive contexts; delivered to enterprise customers in Brazil.
• Selective Cutting Modeling Forestry modeling service focused on selective cutting scenarios, used to support environmental planning, impact assessment, and regulatory submissions.
• Integrated Environmental Assessment Integrated environmental assessment service combining multiple environmental and social dimensions into a single evaluation for client projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• Future Ready initiative challenges teams globally to design for the future and present

Named customers3 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Arcadis: Arcadis is a global design and consultancy firm providing environmental impact assessment, sustainability consulting, and engineering services across buildings, infrastructure, and natural resources — highly comparable to Ecology Brasil's integrated environmental assessment practice.
• Ramboll: Ramboll is an engineering, architecture, and consulting company with strong environmental and sustainability practices — including EIA and socio-environmental risk assessment — making it a strong functional peer for Ecology Brasil's integrated environmental services.
• ERM (Environmental Resources Management): ERM is a specialist global environmental, health, safety, and sustainability consultancy with deep expertise in socio-environmental risk assessment and EIA, directly overlapping with Ecology Brasil's risk analysis and integrated assessment offerings.
• Tetra Tech: Tetra Tech is a leading global consulting and engineering firm specializing in water, environment, and sustainable infrastructure, with strong EIA and environmental assessment practices that closely mirror Ecology Brasil's core service offering.
• SLR Consulting: SLR Consulting is a global environmental and advisory firm offering EIA, environmental and social impact assessment, and sustainability services to mining, infrastructure, and energy clients — directly comparable to Ecology Brasil's core integrated environmental assessment offering.
• WSP Global Inc. Global parent and most directly comparable peer — WSP Global Inc. is the international engineering and environmental consultancy to which Ecology Brasil belongs, operating across the same six sectors (environment, mining, transport, energy, buildings, O&G) with the PAAR platform and Future Ready initiative rolled out across all geographies.

Regional players

• Carbonext: Carbonext is a Brazilian environmental services and carbon credits company focused on forest conservation, reforestation, and sustainable land-use projects — a regional peer whose forestry and biodiversity expertise overlaps with Ecology Brasil's selective cutting modeling and socio-environmental analysis work in the Amazon biome.

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: AECOM is a global engineering and environmental services firm with deep environmental consulting, EIA, and sustainability capabilities across mining, transport, and energy — directly comparable to Ecology Brasil in service mix and enterprise client base, though much larger and more diversified geographically.
• Stantec: Stantec is a global engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting firm serving infrastructure, water, mining, and energy clients with environmental assessment and permitting capabilities that overlap Ecology Brasil's mining and infrastructure portfolio.
• Jacobs Solutions: Jacobs Solutions is a global professional services firm providing environmental consulting, engineering, and project delivery across infrastructure, water, mining, and energy transition — overlapping with Ecology Brasil's environmental assessment and infrastructure design capabilities, with broader global scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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