What Emch Berger AG Solothurn does

Emch+Berger AG Solothurn is a subsidiary of the Emch+Berger Group, a privately held Swiss engineering and planning consultancy founded in 1953 and headquartered in Solothurn, Switzerland. The company delivers integrated planning, consulting, and management services across the construction sector, organized into seven core service divisions: infrastructure, real estate, structural engineering, energy and environment, mobility and traffic, surveying, and BIM. With more than 30 offices throughout Switzerland and 501–1,000 employees group-wide, it serves public-sector clients — including federal agencies (notably SBB and BLS Netz AG), cantonal governments, and municipal administrations — alongside private real estate developers, housing cooperatives, energy utilities, and insurance-owned property companies through custom, project-based engagements.

The firm's service offering spans all SIA project phases from concept through completion and is supported by BIM, 3D modelling, drone-based surveying, and geoinformatics. Proprietary tooling includes a mobile app for protection-structure inspections designed for offline field data capture in municipal natural-hazard workflows. Revenue is generated through fee-based professional services contracts across three primary streams: engineering planning and project management consulting, property and facility management mandates, and surveying/geoinformatics engagements. Projects are procured primarily via public tenders or direct client commissions with individually negotiated fee structures; no published pricing tiers exist.

The group operates through 14 wholly-owned subsidiaries (Emch+Berger AG Bern, Emch+Berger ImmoConsult AG, Emch+Berger WSB AG, Emch+Berger AG Vermessungen, Emch+Berger SA Lausanne, Emch+Berger Graubünden AG, HKP Bauingenieure AG, Emch+Berger Revelio AG, Atease GmbH, Büro für Bauökonomie AG, Emch+Berger AG Zofingen, PlaniBIM SA, Steiger Baucontrol AG, and the Solothurn entity itself). No external institutional or private-equity ownership is disclosed; the group remains in founding/management hands under a Board of Directors reconstituted in 2026. Recent strategic emphasis has been on renewable-energy planning (Windpark Montagne de Buttes, PV mandates), rail-systems OT-security advisory through Atease, and German-market expansion via the 2025 Frankfurt am Main hub.

Name

Emch Berger AG Solothurn

Legal name

Emch+Berger AG

Website

https://emchberger.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1953

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Emch+Berger AG Solothurn is a Swiss engineering and planning consultancy providing integrated infrastructure, real estate, structural, energy, mobility, surveying and BIM services to public-sector clients and private developers across Switzerland via 30+ local offices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Solothurn

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Engineering planning and project management consulting: Fee-based professional services for infrastructure, real estate, structural engineering, energy and environment, and mobility projects across all SIA project phases from concept through completion.
2. Property and facility management services: Ongoing fiduciary and management mandates for real estate assets.
3. Surveying and geoinformatics services: Cadastral surveying, construction surveying, laser scanning, photogrammetry, and geomonitoring engagements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Emch+Berger AG Solothurn, as part of the Emch+Berger Group, is a Swiss engineering and planning consulting firm providing integrated planning, consulting, and management services for the construction sector. Its service portfolio spans Infrastructure, Real Estate, Structural Engineering, Energy and Environment, Mobility and Traffic, Surveying, and BIM, delivered across all SIA project phases from concept through completion to public-sector clients and private developers throughout Switzerland.

Product overview

Emch+Berger Group is a Swiss engineering and consulting firm providing integrated planning, consulting, and management services for the construction sector. The company operates as a multi-disciplinary engineering group organized into seven core service divisions: Infrastructure, Real Estate, Structural Engineering, Energy and Environment, Mobility and Traffic, Surveying, and BIM. Within these divisions, the company offers specialized services such as photovoltaic planning, natural hazard assessment, geomonitoring, and 3D laser scanning. The portfolio includes specialized subsidiary companies such as Emch+Berger Revelio AG (focused on real estate analysis and PV consulting), PlaniBIM SA, and Atease GmbH (railway system expertise). Projects span infrastructure construction, renewable energy installations, urban development, railway systems, and environmental engineering.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Infrastructure Services Planning and consulting for civil engineering structures and bridges, rail infrastructure, road engineering, underground construction and geotechnics, telecommunications, and supply and waste management for public-sector and private infrastructure clients across Switzerland.
• Real Estate Services
• Structural Engineering
• Energy and Environment
• Mobility and Traffic
• Surveying
• BIM (Building Information Modeling)
• Photovoltaic (PV) Planning Services
• Natural Hazard Assessment Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Quartierentwicklung Viererfeld/Mittelfeld: 190,000 m2 area development for ~3,000 residents over 15 years, construction summe of 16 Mio. CHF for infrastructure phase.
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 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

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Holinger AG: Swiss engineering consultancy focused on water, environment, energy and infrastructure planning — overlapping with Emch+Berger's Energy & Environment and Water/River engineering practices.
• Basler & Hofmann AG: Swiss engineering consultancy of comparable size (~600+ employees) offering infrastructure, structural, environmental, and energy planning — the closest head-to-head peer for Emch+Berger in the Swiss public-tender market.
• F. Preisig AG: Swiss engineering firm offering tunneling, infrastructure and structural engineering services — competes with Emch+Berger on rail, bridge, and underground construction mandates.
• Burckhardt+Partner AG: Swiss architecture, engineering and general-planning firm active in infrastructure, mobility, and structural engineering — direct competitor for public-sector general-planner mandates.
• Amstein + Walthert AG: Swiss engineering group (~1,000+ employees) providing building-services, energy, structural and sustainability consulting; competes directly with Emch+Berger's Real Estate, Energy/Environment, and Structural Engineering divisions.

Broad incumbents

• AFRY AB: Large European engineering consultancy with Swiss operations, providing infrastructure, energy, and industrial engineering — broader portfolio but directly contests large Swiss public tenders.
• Ramboll Group A/S: Global engineering, architecture and consulting firm with Swiss offices; competing for large public infrastructure, energy-transition and mobility mandates.
• Arcadis NV: Global design and engineering consultancy active in Swiss infrastructure, mobility, and sustainability projects — a broader incumbent competing for the same public-sector and developer mandates.
• Sweco AB: European engineering and architecture consultancy with growing Swiss presence; competes across infrastructure, water, environment, and mobility — same services, much larger geographic footprint.

Others

• Emch+Berger ImmoConsult AG: Wholly-owned subsidiary of Emch+Berger focused on real-estate consulting; included as an internal group-affiliated entity that illustrates how the firm packages specialized service lines, relevant as a peer benchmark for the group's own consulting offerings.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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