a s the niras group type private held in trust for the benefit of the group and its employees industry consulting engineering founded 1956 founder j rgen kristian nielsen and konrad rauschenberger headquarters aller d denmark key people carsten toft boesen ceo clas nylandsted andersen chairman kresten kloch cfo revenue dkk 1 255 million 2014 1 net income dkk 33.2 million 2013 1 number of employees 1 400 2014 1 website www.niras.com niras gruppen a s the niras group suggested new title for this article niras a s is an international consulting group with 38 offices in 26 countries in europe asia and africa specialising in engineering and professional services headquartered in alleroed denmark . niras provides engineering planning project management and other services for all aspects of the built environment focusing on traditional construction projects like railroads harbours complex buildings such as large hospitals as well as environment climate and energy traditional energy as well as renewable and green energy and sustainable development consulting . niras more than 1 400 employees includes engineers anthropologists economists architects management consultants and many other professions . the company is a member of the danish association of consulting engineers fri and the international federation of consulting engineers fidic . history niras was founded as a joint stock company in 1956 by graduate engineers j rgen kristian nielsen born 1924 and konrad rauschenberger 1924 2015 . rauschenberg originally from hungary fled to denmark under dramatic circumstances as a blind passenger on a transport train for troops during ww2 . in 1956 he now a danish citizen together with danish engineer j rgen kristian nielsen founded the consulting engineering firm nielsen and rauschenberger . later it was renamed n & r gruppen a s now niras . ownership niras is a private limited group with niras fonden the niras trust as majority shareholder 73 percent in the operational group holding company niras gruppen a s which holds shares in all other niras companies . the rest of the shares in niras gruppen a s are owned by employees . activities on an annual basis niras are involved in thousands of projects all over the world . nirastakes pride in transforming clients visions or challenges into sustainable solutions . niras has been involved in renewable and green energy e.g. more than 70 wind energy projects since 1986 in northern europe and asia . most projects offshore improving public utilities and water network management systems and improvement of water supply and sanitation services in europe middle east asia and africa helping more than 150 companies in different parts of the world to identify their potential for industrial symbioses and improved utilization of resources climateadaption projects in cities such as copenhagen stavanger city of beira and vinh yen city . harbors e.g. in kenya ghana togo taiwan sri lanka uk scotland and cyprus railroads e.g. in lithuania malaysia and russia planning creation and completion of the largest hospitals in denmark . references edit a b c fremgang og skandinavisk samarbejde i niras . niras . retrieved 2031 04 14 . check date values in access date help external links edit danish website internationel website norwegian website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title niras & oldid 685755847 categories consulting firmsconstruction and civil engineering companies of denmarkcompanies based in aller d municipalitycompanies established in 1956hidden categories cs1 errors dates navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages dansk edit links this page was last modified on 14 october 2015 at 20 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view