<h2>About Arcadis</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Services</h2>
<h3>Design and Engineering</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Architecture and Urbanism</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Environmental Services</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Program Management</h3>
<p>Arcadis delivers project and programme management alongside cost and commercial management, supporting clients running large capital programmes.</p>
<h3>Advisory and Asset Management</h3>
<p>Strategic advisory work and whole-life asset management help owners extract more value and resilience from existing portfolios rather than only from new construction.</p>
<h2>Industries and Sectors Served</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Transportation</strong> &ndash; highways and roads, rail and transit, and ports and aviation, focused on network safety, resilience and reliable movement of people and goods.</li>
<li><strong>Energy and Water</strong> &ndash; water infrastructure, power, energy, and mining and metals, with an emphasis on modernising ageing critical assets.</li>
<li><strong>Real Estate and Development</strong> &ndash; property investors and occupiers, public and institutional buildings, and defence and security estates.</li>
<li><strong>Industrial Manufacturing and Life Sciences</strong> &ndash; general manufacturing plus life sciences and pharmaceutical facilities where compliance and operational resilience are decisive.</li>
<li><strong>Technology</strong> &ndash; data centres and digital infrastructure across telecommunications and media, semiconductors and hardware, and software and internet clients.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Sustainability and Resilience</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Recognition</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Why Arcadis Matters to the AEC Industry</h2>
<p>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.</p>

Arcadis is a global design and engineering consultancy with 34,000 experts across transport, water, energy, real estate and environmental projects.

Arcadis | Global Design, Engineering & Consultancy Firm

Arcadis

Arcadis is a global design, engineering and consultancy firm for natural and built assets. Founded in 1888 and headquartered in Amsterdam, its 34,000 specialists deliver architecture, civil and structural engineering, environmental remediation, asset management and programme management across transport, water, energy, real estate and industrial markets.

<h2>About ModCity</h2>
<p>Urban development is often biased towards either speed, costs or quality, seldom reaching an optimum. ModCity supports projects with a set of integral 3D tools that directly link a design or urban massing study to financial and other calculation models - without having to manually transfer data to spreadsheets.</p>
<p>This makes fast design cycles possible while keeping a grip on finance, quality and process, and can help fulfil the promise of inclusive and sustainable development.</p>
<p>ModCity B.V. is based in Heemstede, the Netherlands, and has been facilitating faster, better and more efficient urban design processes for over 16 years.</p>
<h2>Area Information Modelling and the Urban Toolbox</h2>
<p>ModCity's proprietary software, the Urban Toolbox, supports what the company calls Area Information Modelling - BIM thinking applied at neighbourhood, area or city scale rather than to a single building.</p>
<p>That shift in scale is the substance of the product. Building-level BIM is well established, but the decisions that determine whether an area development works financially are made at masterplan scale, where teams have typically fallen back on spreadsheets disconnected from the drawing.</p>
<p>The stated goal is to disrupt the traditionally linear and monodisciplinary decision-making process.</p>
<h2>Three-Step Workflow</h2>
<h3>1. Setting the Stage</h3>
<p>Every intervention in the urban environment should be based on a thorough analysis of the present situation. ModCity integrates GIS and other datasets from interdependent disciplines of area development - cadastral data, land use, mobility, environmental issues, water and urban density - and presents them in a single interface serving as an underlayer for 2D and 3D studies.</p>
<ul>
<li>GIS and CAD import / export</li>
<li>Calculation of financial and spatial constraints</li>
<li>Development of a database for the existing context</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. Developing Scenarios</h3>
<p>The Urban Toolbox combines the 3D modelling and visualisation potential of SketchUp with data capability, creating a common digital playground for architects, urban designers, developers, investors and policy-makers. The pipeline requires no training and can be implemented across building teams, so fast design cycles allow the solution space to be explored more broadly.</p>
<ul>
<li>Parametric modelling</li>
<li>Live sync with Excel spreadsheets</li>
<li>Comparison of multiple scenarios at the click of a button</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Optimising the Design</h3>
<p>With real-time monitoring and evaluation, teams can test multiple detailed design scenarios against design, legal compliance, financial viability and more. Clients can link their own database or parameters to the Toolbox, or use the extensive included defaults. All financial models are DCF-based and suitable for decision-making.</p>
<ul>
<li>Real-time financial models</li>
<li>Reports generated with chosen KPIs</li>
<li>Customisable models</li>
</ul>
<h2>ModCity for Municipalities</h2>
<p>A municipality's role can range from merely facilitating developments to active participation, and both are complex because each development must comply with local and national policy.</p>
<ul>
<li>Analyse and select suitable locations for new developments and transformations</li>
<li>Speed up internal planning processes</li>
<li>Assess development plans from project developers</li>
<li>Land development cash flow modelling</li>
<li>Assess land value using residual land value and other valuation methods</li>
</ul>
<h2>ModCity for Developers and Investors</h2>
<ul>
<li>Control cash flows, capital requirements and yield during each development phase</li>
<li>Quickly investigate different design concepts</li>
<li>Use existing Excel models linked to ModCity's calculation models</li>
<li>Support discussions with municipalities on land value and other issues</li>
</ul>
<h2>ModCity for Architects and Urbanists</h2>
<p>For designers the challenge is finding a solution where spatial quality, functionality and performance - financial, mobility, sustainability - are in balance. ModCity brings the tools to test multiple urban massing options into the SketchUp environment.</p>
<ul>
<li>Fast and intuitive parametric modelling</li>
<li>Rapid design generation and iteration</li>
<li>Direct feedback on urban density, land use, real estate programme, parking and traffic generation</li>
</ul>
<h2>ModCity-as-a-Service</h2>
<ul>
<li>Creation and assessment of 2D and 3D massing studies</li>
<li>Inventory, analysis and management of spatial and financial data during planning</li>
<li>DCF models and dashboarding for land development, real estate development and management, rent, land lease and public space</li>
<li>Calculation models for land use, real estate programme and diversity, parking, traffic generation, water use and management, energy and material use</li>
<li>Financial consultancy for urban development projects</li>
<li>Valuation of land and real estate development projects</li>
<li>Selection and comparison of potential development or transformation locations</li>
</ul>
<h2>Origins and Team</h2>
<p>ModCity was founded by LiPS life.people.space, Conix RDBM Architects, Big Picture and Robin Seijdel. Robin is the main face behind ModCity, with a background in Sustainable Urban Development and contributions to the development of several Decision Support Systems.</p>
<h2>Clients and Partners</h2>
<p>ModCity works with Dutch and Belgian municipalities including Amsterdam and Heemskerk, alongside partners such as Big Picture, Conix RDBM, LiPS, Breen Amsterdam and Coup Group.</p>

ModCity's Urban Toolbox links SketchUp urban massing studies to DCF financial models and GIS data for municipalities, developers, architects and investors.

ModCity | Urban Toolbox for Area Development Modelling

ModCity

ModCity is a Dutch urban development technology company whose Urban Toolbox links SketchUp massing studies directly to DCF financial models, GIS data and spatial calculations for municipalities, developers, investors, architects and urbanists.

<h2>About Hazenberg</h2>
<p>Hazenberg is a Dutch developing contractor - an <em>ontwikkelende bouwer</em> - and part of the TBI group, one of the Netherlands' major technical and construction groups. Rather than acting purely as a builder taking instructions from a developer, Hazenberg originates, develops, builds and upgrades homes and buildings itself. Its stated purpose is to create pleasant living environments that connect building, people and nature, and to raise the quality of life of the people who live in them.</p>
<h2>Three Core Activities</h2>
<h3>Development (Ontwikkelen)</h3>
<p>The company develops residential and mixed-use schemes from concept through to delivery, taking positions on land and shaping the brief rather than inheriting it. Projects such as Onze Tuinen in Roosendaal show this development-led model in practice.</p>
<h3>Construction (Bouwen)</h3>
<p>Hazenberg builds new apartments and buildings across the southern Netherlands, with recent projects including Arbor in Nijmegen and Poort van Stappegoor in Tilburg.</p>
<h3>Renovation and Sustainability Upgrades (Verduurzamen)</h3>
<p>A dedicated strand of work focuses on renovating and decarbonising existing housing stock - for example the Redemptoristenstraat project in Tilburg. In a country with an ageing housing stock and binding national climate targets, retrofit is now as commercially significant as new build.</p>
<h2>Sustainability Focus</h2>
<p>Sustainability sits at the centre of the business rather than at its margins. The company reports a very high proportion of sustainable concrete in its work - a meaningful commitment, since concrete accounts for a large share of the embodied carbon in Dutch residential construction. Alongside material choices, Hazenberg pursues future-proof buildings through construction innovation, aiming to contribute to a healthier world for present and future generations.</p>
<h2>Guiding Principles</h2>
<p>Four course-setting themes guide the practice, beginning with the idea of a strong society: communities are not built from bricks but from social structures and the connections between people and their surroundings. That framing explains the firm's emphasis on neighbourhood quality, shared space and long-term liveability rather than unit counts alone.</p>
<h2>Approach</h2>
<p>Hazenberg describes itself as creative, entrepreneurial and driven, drawing on proven natural principles where useful while remaining curious about new applications and innovations. Its stated greatest strength is looking beyond the client's immediate question to the underlying need - a consultative posture unusual among contractors.</p>
<h2>Part of TBI</h2>
<p>Membership of the TBI group gives Hazenberg access to sister companies across construction, installation technology and infrastructure, alongside the financial stability of a large parent. For clients, that means a regional builder's proximity combined with group-level technical resources.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Hazenberg competes in the Dutch residential and mixed-use market as an integrated developer-builder with genuine sustainability credentials. In a market where housing delivery targets and nitrogen and carbon regulation now shape what can be permitted, that combination of development capability and low-carbon construction expertise is a strong position.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Hazenberg</h2>
<p>For teams tracking European housing delivery, retrofit at scale or low-carbon concrete adoption, Hazenberg is a useful example of how a mid-sized contractor can integrate development, construction and decarbonisation across the built environment.</p>

Hazenberg, part of TBI, is a Dutch developing contractor delivering new homes, mixed-use buildings and sustainable renovation with low-carbon construction metho

Hazenberg (TBI) | Dutch Developing Contractor

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Hazenberg, part of TBI, is a Dutch developing contractor building and renovating homes and buildings, combining project development, construction and sustainable retrofit with a strong focus on low-carbon concrete and healthy living environments.

<h2>About Joris Laarman Lab</h2>
<p>Joris Laarman Lab is a Dutch experimental design studio based at Draaibank in Zaandam, near Amsterdam. Founded by designer Joris Laarman, it operates less like a conventional design practice and more like a research laboratory, describing itself as an experimental playground where ideas are tested and developed physically in high-quality materials.</p>
<p>The Lab sits at the meeting point of craftsmanship and emerging technology, and its output spans furniture, sculpture, digital fabrication research and applied engineering. Its work is represented commercially by Friedman Benda Gallery in New York, and pieces are held in major museum collections internationally.</p>
<h2>Philosophy</h2>
<p>The studio's stated position is that we are children of a time of transition, with one foot in the industrial era and one in the digital era. That framing drives a specific working method: rather than treating digital tools as a way to generate more imagery, the Lab insists that ideas be built.</p>
<p>Laarman argues that in a digital era producing unprecedented volumes of material, the value of purely visual output is subject to inflation. Making physical objects requires skill that cannot be substituted by computation, because the physical world is unruly and its limitations force genuine experimentation. The studio's view of craftsmanship is explicitly non-nostalgic: it should be understood as continually evolving and, aided by high-tech tools, central to society rather than a heritage activity.</p>
<h2>Digital Fabrication Research</h2>
<p>The Lab's most influential contribution has been in robotic additive manufacturing. Its research into printing metal in mid-air using multi-axis robotic arms led to the founding of MX3D, now an independent company based on Dynamostraat in Amsterdam that commercialises wire arc additive manufacturing for industrial and structural applications.</p>
<p>That technology produced one of the most widely discussed objects in recent construction research: a 3D-printed stainless steel pedestrian bridge, fabricated by robots and installed in Amsterdam, which demonstrated that additive manufacturing could produce a load-bearing public structure rather than only prototypes and components.</p>
<h2>Approach to Making</h2>
<p>The studio describes its process as endlessly trying, refining and improving until something emerges that looks like magic to anyone who did not witness the iterations behind it, comparing the method to evolution. In practice this means long development cycles on individual pieces, close collaboration with fabricators and material specialists, and a willingness to develop new production techniques when existing ones cannot deliver the intended result.</p>
<h2>Why Joris Laarman Lab Matters to the AEC Industry</h2>
<p>For architects and engineers, the Lab is significant less for its furniture than for what it proved about fabrication. Wire arc additive manufacturing, developed from its research and commercialised through MX3D, offers a route to producing complex structural steel geometries without moulds or formwork, which has direct implications for nodes, connections and bespoke structural elements that are prohibitively expensive to fabricate conventionally.</p>
<p>More broadly, the studio is a useful counterweight to purely computational design culture. Its insistence that concepts be physically realised, and its treatment of craft skill as something that evolves alongside technology rather than being replaced by it, speaks directly to a construction industry weighing automation against the practical knowledge held by skilled trades.</p>

Joris Laarman Lab is a Dutch experimental design studio pioneering robotic 3D metal printing and digital fabrication, and the origin of MX3D.

Joris Laarman Lab | Design & Digital Fabrication Studio

Joris Laarman Lab

Joris Laarman Lab is a Dutch experimental design studio based in Zaandam, working at the intersection of craftsmanship, digital fabrication and emerging technology. Its research into robotic 3D metal printing led to the spin-off MX3D, which printed the first 3D-printed steel pedestrian bridge.

<p>Pellikaan is delivering one of the largest wellness complexes in the Netherlands in Zoetermeer, combining a 9,500 m&sup2; main building with sixteen pavilions across a 2.5-hectare site. The project includes pools, saunas, relaxation spaces, smaller structures, varied ground conditions, and a high level of architectural and technical complexity. To maintain control across this scope, Pellikaan structured the project around digital quality assurance, model-based coordination, and practical BIM workflows. The project team divided the main building into ten zones and segmented the wider development into sixteen subprojects, each with its own team, schedule, site access, models, and coordination process. This reduced complexity and allowed the project to progress in parallel without changes in one area disrupting the entire delivery. Solibri was used to support model checking, clash detection, Information Takeoff, and change detection between model versions. Weekly model updates created a consistent review rhythm, allowing design and construction teams to identify deviations early, validate quantities, and make decisions based on current project information. Instead of relying on assumptions or manual comparison, the team could see changes such as added steel, reduced concrete, or modified installations directly in the model. The result was a more controlled delivery process, with faster decisions, fewer late-stage corrections, and greater confidence in project information. For Pellikaan, the Zoetermeer wellness complex has become a blueprint for applying digitalization in a practical, quality-driven way across future projects in the Netherlands and internationally.</p>

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OMRT was founded in Amsterdam in 2018 and has been accelerating ever since. Our vision is to create an all-knowing computational brain that facilitates the full design process towards the most optimal built environment on all technical levels. We have developed two major technologies: Olysis and Ostate.<br /><br />Optimizing the built environment by digital solutions. OMRT stands for shorter design times, optimal building performances and a sustainable environment. We created major generative design and parametric technologies to accelerate building teams.

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