Delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions

Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering intelligence-driven sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 architects, data analysts, designers, engineers, project planners, water management and sustainability experts, all driven by our passion for improving quality of life.

Our mission: improving quality of life

We exist to find solutions to today’s most pressing challenges, from the impact of climate change to increasing urbanization and digital transformation – all with the ultimate goal of improving quality of life for people around the world. You can see this in the work we do for our clients, the opportunities we create for our people, and in our efforts to enhance the communities in which we live and work. We bring together world-class resources and the latest innovative technologies to help define the cities and experiences of tomorrow.

This has been our mission since 1888, when we were founded to transform unusable wetlands in the Netherlands into prosperous land for people to farm. And it continues today.

How we help our clients

We help create and manage sustainable places where people can live, work, and thrive, such as our work transforming a former military barracks in the Netherlands into one of the healthiest university buildings in Europe. And we develop sustainable and innovative mobility solutions to transform the way we move around and between cities, like the support we provided for the transformation of the Sydney Metro in Australia. We also safeguard the natural world and its resources and enhance the resilience of citizens and cities, for example designing and managing projects to build storm and flood defences for New York City.

But is it our people who set us apart from the competition. They are passionate and bring a unique combination of capabilities covering the entire asset lifecycle, with deep market sector insights, and an ability to seamlessly integrate health and safety, sustainability, and digital components into the design of our solutions. 

Our purpose is improving quality of life by creating liveable places where people and communities thrive. We enhance mobility, so that we can move sustainably in and between our cities. And we work to protect the environment and natural resources for future generations. We focus on finding innovative and lasting solutions to the world’s biggest challenges, while making a difference to everyone’s lives, now and in the future.

New Mobility
 
As society increasingly demands digitally connected, inclusive, autonomous and sustainable transport solutions, mobility is changing. We’re partnering with clients across the globe to modernize the way people move—we call this New Mobility.

Rapidly evolving technology, digitalization and shifts in the way people access transportation is changing the mobility ecosystem. Increasingly we’re experiencing demand for our expertise in new mobility, including autonomous vehicles and urban cable cars, advanced air mobility (AAM), mobility hubs, alternative fuels such as hydrogen, electric vehicles (EVs) and EV charging infrastructure (EVCI), micro-mobility, shared mobility, mobility on demand and people-oriented development. These solutions are vital to creating sustainable, equitable and connected mobility systems.