Arcadis

About Arcadis

Arcadis is a global design, engineering and consultancy firm working on natural and built assets. The company traces its origins to 1888, when its founders began converting unusable Dutch wetlands into productive farmland, and it has since grown into an international business with more than 34,000 employees operating in over 30 countries. Arcadis N.V. is headquartered in Amsterdam and reported gross revenues of approximately EUR 4.87 billion in 2025.

The firm positions itself at the intersection of creativity and science, combining architects, analysts, designers, engineers, planners and sustainability specialists in multidisciplinary teams. Its stated purpose is improving quality of life, and its work spans everything from reducing catastrophic flood risk to designing net-zero data centres.

Services

Design and Engineering

Arcadis provides civil, structural, geotechnical, process, and mechanical and electrical engineering. This core technical capability underpins infrastructure, industrial and buildings work across all of its markets.

Architecture and Urbanism

The architecture practice covers building design, interior architecture, and planning, landscape and urban design, allowing Arcadis to take projects from masterplan through to fit-out.

Environmental Services

One of the firm's deepest specialisms. Services include contaminated land investigation and remediation, environmental health and safety compliance, ecological and sustainability consulting, environmental permitting and planning, and environmental construction, management and demolition.

Program Management

Arcadis delivers project and programme management alongside cost and commercial management, supporting clients running large capital programmes.

Advisory and Asset Management

Strategic advisory work and whole-life asset management help owners extract more value and resilience from existing portfolios rather than only from new construction.

Industries and Sectors Served

• Transportation – highways and roads, rail and transit, and ports and aviation, focused on network safety, resilience and reliable movement of people and goods.
• Energy and Water – water infrastructure, power, energy, and mining and metals, with an emphasis on modernising ageing critical assets.
• Real Estate and Development – property investors and occupiers, public and institutional buildings, and defence and security estates.
• Industrial Manufacturing and Life Sciences – general manufacturing plus life sciences and pharmaceutical facilities where compliance and operational resilience are decisive.
• Technology – data centres and digital infrastructure across telecommunications and media, semiconductors and hardware, and software and internet clients.

Sustainability and Resilience

Sustainability is embedded in how Arcadis describes its offer rather than treated as a separate service line. The company has set a target of becoming a net zero business by 2035 and delivers fossil-fuel-free project sites. Its long history in water management and flood risk gives it an unusually strong position in climate adaptation and resilience work, an area of growing demand for public infrastructure owners.

Recognition

Arcadis has been ranked among Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies for 2024, sits in the top two per cent of its industry for ESG performance according to Sustainalytics, and is recognised as a leading ambassador for LGBTIQ+ inclusion in the Workplace Pride Global Benchmark.

Why Arcadis Matters to the AEC Industry

Arcadis is one of the few consultancies that can carry a project from environmental due diligence and permitting, through architectural and engineering design, into cost management, construction-phase programme management and long-term asset management. For clients that means fewer handovers between advisors and a single accountable partner across the asset life cycle. For AEC professionals, the firm is a useful benchmark for how large multidisciplinary consultancies are integrating digital delivery, environmental science and traditional engineering, and for how climate resilience is moving from a specialist add-on to a central design requirement.