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Urbanization

Maximizing

Impact

It’s about how we focus, where we operate and what we deliver. It’s about how we leverage our global expertise, together.

What we can do:

Our contribution by 2023

Urbanization

Climate change

Digitalization

Societal expectations

Sustainable solutions

Focus and scale

Arcadians

Technology & Innovation

Digital leadership

Improving Quality of Life

Resilience

How we use, renew and protect the resources we need

Where we live, work and play

Why

Megatrends

How

What

How we move people and goods

Places

Mobility

2021-2023 Strategy Presentation

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2021-2023 Sustainability Strategy

Replay Capital Markets Day 2020

What our clients say about us

Maximizing impact. Find out how.

Growth strategy for a changing world

Arcadians share a call to action: We want to better the communities we live in, and improve the quality of life for everyone we reach.

70% of the population will live in cities by 2050. Increased urbanization means more pressure on urban infrastructure (some of it aging). There’s a strong citizen voice that calls on us to re-think mobility.

How we plan to do it

10%

Financial

Societal

Financial

Societal

Maximizing

It’s about accelerating towards our purpose to Improve Quality of Life, with our clients, without compromise.

Impact

Organization

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Strategy update press release

Done right

Diverse

Excellent

Relevant

“Arcadis looks for ways to earn the next project, not ask for it. You’re good at listening to our challenges and then bringing relevant solutions.”

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Resilience / Places / Mobility

The figure the US will require in the next 20 years to protect coastal communities and infrastructure. This global imperative is driving investment by governments and industry to mitigate and adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change.

The amount of sustainable investment needed by the European Green Deal in the next decade. Stakeholders are demanding that companies and governments act with integrity to create a resilient, sustainable, and inclusive future.

5 of the top 7 global market cap companies are now tech companies. We will use data and digital solutions to ensure we protect our planet and communities while rapidly exceeding our clients’ expectations.

70%

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Climate change

Digitalization

Societal expectations

Arcadis developed a holistic strategy leveraging digital design solutions to mitigate flood risk in New York City, while also creating spaces that encourage active street life.

A digital solution to protecting NYC from floods

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At the University of Manchester, Arcadis used building life cycle analysis to model optimum design criteria and improve sustainability impact, cost and end user experience.

Improving the lifecycle of aging buildings

Resilience / Places / Mobility

Arcadis developed the Amaze project, an application that combines shared mobility options with public transport to create bespoke commuting recommendations, negating the need for private vehicles.

Tackling traffic congestion in Amsterdam

Global reach

Opportunity

Greater purpose

Data-driven

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Global megatrends affecting our markets

Continue to lead ESG risk rankings in our industry

Equality More than 40% women in the workforce

Path to net-zero Reduce emissions aligned with a science-based target

Relevant

“Our managers know that if they call Arcadis, it’s going to get done, it’s going to get done right away, and it’s going to get done right.”

“There’s a whole opportunity here to connect sustainability and digital that we haven’t even touched on yet.”

“Being excellent at engineering and helping us work through all of these technical infrastructure challenges is super important but it’s not the only piece of why we work with you. You understand our business, you understand our customers, you have people who live here.”

“Companies that share the same view of how we affect the environment are attractive, but it has to be paired with how they deliver a greater purpose.”

“Arcadis’ ability to bring diverse teams and diverse thoughts is very important to us.”

“I’m a fan of Arcadis. Your global reach gives you strength because we can tap into a pool of knowledge second to none.”

“We are data-driven. Knowledge is power. It’s our first and biggest focus, so anyone that can pull up those stats at the touch of a button when we call and help us make an on-the-spot decision is invaluable.”

Done right

Opportunity

Excellent

Diverse

Global reach

Data-driven

Mid-single digit Organic net revenue growth

More than 10% Operating EBITA margin

Less than 75 days Days sales outstanding

“We put sustainability and people-centered design at the heart of everything we do.”

Peter Oosterveer, Arcadis CEO

Digital leadership

Resilience / Places / Mobility

With a single system responsible for optimizing management of every single asset on the Transport for London (TfL) network (nine London Underground lines and London Tramlink), we help offer more frequent and reliable journeys for commuters.

Improving safety on the London Underground

Resilience / Places / Mobility

To help improve the sustainability of a residential tall building in San Francisco, Arcadis reduced construction waste to landfill by 75% and harnessed solar thermal and grey water technologies to improve energy efficiency.

Reducing carbon impact in San Francisco

Arcadis is developing a complex strategy and implementation program to transition Amsterdam from natural gas to renewables safely and affordably by 2040.

Helping Amsterdam transition to a natural gas free city

Resilience / Places / Mobility

We will embed sustainability across everything we do and apply our wealth of expertise and skills to deliver competitive, resilient and effective solutions for our clients within planetary boundaries.

Resilience / Places / Mobility

An aviation client had a large release of a firefighting substrate that contained the emerging contaminant PFAS into a sewer system and surface water. Arcadis leveraged our global network of expertise to evaluate technologies and implement full-scale treatment.

Remediating a chemical spill

Focus and scale

$400B

€1 trillion

Sustainable solutions

We will build on our existing digital platforms and capabilities while heavily investing in new areas and cultivating the skills of Arcadians, empowering them to create enduring digital solutions that meet our client's greatest challenges.

We will focus on markets and business areas where we are strongest and leverage the global scale of our expertise and knowledge assets.

Greater purpose

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Resilience / Places / Mobility

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“Sustainability is now more important than ever. We must stay ahead of where our investors want to go. Climate change and circularity are prominent concerns right now, but we need to start talking about our next challenge around water and biodiversity.”

Sustainability

Develop together

Sustainability

“Construction is labor-intensive, and we’re looking for tools that might help us do a lot with a little. So if you’ve been working on a tool that might be of some benefit, bring it to the table. Introduce us to other partners you work with. Or let’s develop together.”

Develop together

less than 1.5°C

Arcadis developed a methodology to assess current conditions for cycling in busy metropolitan areas, leveraging big data (GPS, land use data, travel demand models) to improve and expand low-stress cycle networks across cities. This reduced each city’s greenhouse gas footprint, increased property value around cycle lanes and maximized investments for the Department of Transportation Los Angeles.

Building cycling networks in congested cities

Arcadis deployed digital Programme and Cost Management solutions to provide an integrated, real-time data platform on Costa Coffee’s ambitious 1000-store refurbishment program, reducing risk and timescales and improving cost certainty.

Real-time data to reduce risk

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