Sven Tyrén graduated from Chalmers Technological Collage in 1936.
He founded Tyréns AB in 1942 after acquiring John-Erik Ekström’s Consulting Engineering Firm. His goal was for Tyréns to be on the frontline of technology and saw it as his job to broaden and provide more depth to the traditional role of the consulting engineer.
Sven Tyren was a visionary and an entrepreneur who constantly strived for development and new ideas. He questioned working methods and initiated changes that brought his own company to the fore of the business, all the while further developing the construction methods, the materials and the accounting methods used in community planning, while keeping his focus on the business deal and increasing the profits of his company.
In the 1950s Sven Tyrén co-founded HALTH. HALTH was a group of construction engineers that dealt with the issue of ‘how practical building plans should be drawn up’. The analysis was performed at Tyréns for three years, financed by the government. The end result was a suggestion to standardise the symbols and expressions that engineers use.
The Sven Tyrén Trust was founded in 1976. Today the trust annually finances a number of projects and the research of aspiring PhDs and professors in the development of the sector.