BHP Raumplan

What BHP Raumplan does

BHP Raumplan AG is a privately held Swiss spatial planning consultancy headquartered at Güterstrasse 22a in Bern, owned equally by six partners (Thomas Berz, Philipp Hubacher, Bernhard Leder, Martin Lutz, Heinz Müller, Georg Tobler) and operating with a team of approximately 20 interdisciplinary professionals spanning spatial planning, architecture, geography, traffic planning, agronomy, political science, geoinformatics, engineering, and law. The firm delivers five integrated service lines: area development and quality-assuring procedures, municipal and urban development, regional development (including operational management of the seeland.biel/bienne regional office since 2005 and the RVK 1 transport conference office since 2019), federal and cantonal consulting, and process accompaniment.

The firm's client base spans all three levels of the Swiss state — federal agencies (ARE, SECO, BAFU), cantonal authorities (notably Bern, with presence also in Thurgau, St. Gallen, Graubünden, Basel-Landschaft, and Wallis), and municipalities (Stadt Bern, Stadt Biel, plus regional organizations such as Verein seeland.biel/bienne and Verein Agglo Basel) — alongside a smaller set of private developers, architectural offices, and housing cooperatives. Bilingual coverage is delivered through wholly-owned subsidiary Archam et Partenaires SA in Fribourg, extending service reach into Western Switzerland and enabling French-language project execution.

BHP Raumplan generates revenue through project-based professional services fees, with relationships established via direct engagement and public-sector procurement processes. The firm operates without external capital, holds no disclosed patents or software products, aligns quality management with ISO 9001:2000 standards, and differentiates primarily on the breadth of in-house disciplinary expertise and long-standing institutional relationships across federal, cantonal, and municipal levels rather than on proprietary technology.

Name

BHP Raumplan

Legal name

BHP RAUMPLAN AG

Website

https://raumplan.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

BHP Raumplan AG is a Bern-headquartered, partner-owned Swiss spatial planning consultancy of ~20 interdisciplinary professionals serving federal, cantonal, and municipal public-sector clients across the German-speaking arc and into Western Switzerland via subsidiary Archam et Partenaires SA.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Urban and Spatial Planning Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Regional & Land Use Planning (BPAHAKAE)

Keywords

• Spatial planning consultancy
• Regional development services
• Municipal planning consulting
• Urban development advisory
• Process moderation planning

Headquarters

HQ city

Bern

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services Revenue: Project-based consulting fees for spatial planning services to public and private sector clients, including municipalities, cantons, federal agencies, regions, and private developers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

BHP Raumplan is a Swiss professional spatial planning consultancy delivering project-based advisory services to public sector clients (municipalities, cantons, federal government, regional organizations) and private clients (developers, architectural offices, housing cooperatives). The firm provides interdisciplinary planning services across five competency areas: area development and quality-assuring procedures, municipal and urban development, regional development, federal and cantonal consulting, and process accompaniment. It also operates the regional management office for seeland.biel/bienne.

Product overview

BHP Raumplan offers a unified portfolio of spatial planning and consulting services rather than a software platform. The core offerings include five interconnected service areas: Gebietsentwicklung und qualitätssichernde Verfahren (area development and quality-assuring procedures), Gemeinde- und Stadtentwicklung (municipal and urban development), Regionalentwicklung (regional development with office management for seeland.biel/bienne), Beratungen für Bund und Kantone (federal and cantonal consultations), and Prozessbegleitung (process accompaniment). These services are delivered through interdisciplinary teams and complement each other to provide comprehensive solutions for spatial development across settlements, transportation, landscape, and environment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Gebietsentwicklung und qualitätssichernde Verfahren (Area Development and Quality-Assuring Procedures)

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

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Archam et Partenaires SAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSubsidiary company located in Fribourg that bridges to Western Switzerland and enables project execution in both national languages (German and French). Archam specializes in regional planning and development alongside BHP Raumplan.
• URB ON GmbHsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-located office (same building) with close professional collaboration. URB ON specializes in spatial strategies and public management, complementing BHP Raumplan's competencies in spatial development and process support.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Basler & Hofmann: Established Swiss engineering and planning firm with municipality and cantonal clients. Overlaps with BHP in spatial and infrastructure planning but operates as a broader technical consultancy.
• Holinger: Swiss engineering and consulting firm with significant public-sector and cantonal work in water, environment, and infrastructure planning. Comparable to BHP’s environmental and BAFU-related mandates.
• EBP Schweiz: Larger Swiss consulting firm covering mobility, environment, and spatial planning. Comparable offering but at significantly greater scale and broader portfolio than BHP.

Direct peers

• Metron: Swiss spatial planning consultancy operating across cantons. Similar in service portfolio (settlement, regional, and transport planning) and customer mix (municipalities, cantons, federal).
• INFRAS: Bern-based consultancy focused on transport, environment, and spatial policy for Swiss federal and cantonal clients. Closely comparable to BHP’s Verkehrsplanung and federal advisory mandates.
• Flury & Giuliani: Davos/Zurich-based planning consultancy (Öffentlicher Raum, Regionalentwicklung). Comparable Swiss regional and settlement planning work for public clients.
• Ecoplan: Bern-based research and consulting firm serving Swiss federal, cantonal, and municipal clients on economic, spatial, and environmental policy. Highly comparable to BHP’s public-sector advisory work and federal customer base.
• Planteam: Swiss planning consultancy providing municipal, regional, and cantonal planning services. Direct competitor in BHP’s core public-sector planning categories.
• Suter von Känel Wild — Partner: Swiss spatial planning and landscape architecture firm serving municipal and cantonal clients. Comparable in offering (Siedlungsentwicklung, Regionalplanung) and public-sector orientation.
• Hager Partner: Bern/Zurich-based landscape architecture and planning consultancy. Comparable scope (Öffentlicher Raum, Siedlungsentwicklung) and Swiss public-sector client base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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