Drees & Sommer is the innovative partner for consulting, planning, building and operating. As a leading European consulting, planning and project management company, Drees & Sommer has been supporting private and public clients and investors for over 50 years in all matters relating to real estate and infrastructure - both analogue and digital.

Through forward-looking consulting, the company offers solutions for successful buildings, high-yield portfolios, efficient infrastructure and liveable cities. In interdisciplinary teams, over 5,100 employees at 59 locations worldwide support clients from a wide range of sectors. The partner-managed company provides all services under the premise of combining economy and ecology. This holistic approach is called "the blue way" at Drees & Sommer.

People and goods will continue to be transported by air - especially when long distances need to be covered. At the same time, airports are evolving from pure passenger handling to a customer-centred experience. Together with innovations from the aerospace industry, the aviation and aerospace sector offers a great deal of potential. At the same time, changes in travel behaviour and the need to reduce CO2 emissions are creating new challenges. Against this backdrop, we develop and realise real estate strategies and change processes with our clients - airports, airlines, aircraft manufacturers and aerospace companies.

We support companies in production, processes and supply chains on their way to CO2 neutrality or becoming a Beneficial Company. We design urban development visions for the new role of the airport that combine economy, ecology and technology. We develop and plan the entire technical, innovative infrastructure for the newly emerging airport cities.

To enable our clients to focus on their core business, we rely on EPCM (Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management) to reduce the complexity of interfaces during building development and completion. At the same time, we use LCM (Lean Construction Management) to increase efficiency in projects and processes, which leads to an acceleration of up to 30 per cent on construction sites without additional costs.

Our way of thinking extends from the product through the manufacturing and assembly process to the production facilities. Through integrated factory planning, we transfer requirements from production to the building interfaces and realise needs-based buildings for our customers.

A unique feature of our concepts is the positive balancing of building materials, which turns every new building into a real asset on the balance sheet. We play a central role in product development by supporting our customers in successfully applying the cradle-to-cradle sustainability concept and thus promoting the core of value creation.