Arcadis Future IMPACT+ ™

Arcadis Future IMPACT+ ™ is a global data-driven action framework designed to integrate measurable sustainability performance throughout our global project portfolio, demonstrating our positive environmental, social, and financial impact on a global scale.

Many of the challenges we face in the world today are widely known in business, however, their true impact and relationship with each other often remains unknown or unquantified, and this is slowing industry progress. Climate change, biodiversity loss, freshwater depletion, supply chain disruption and social inequity are all interconnected. 

How Arcadis Future IMPACT+™ Creates Positive Impact

Guided by “what gets measured, gets managed - and improved,” our framework evaluates eligible projects across five macro-sustainability impact areas:

• Carbon: Accelerating deep decarbonization through whole life carbon measurement and reduction strategies. 
• Nature: Enhancing biodiversity and minimizing project impacts on natural systems. 
• Water: Promoting responsible water stewardship with measurable reductions and sustainable management. 
• Circularity: Driving resource efficiency by maximizing reuse, recycling, and material avoidance. 
• Social: Delivering tangible benefits for communities, including jobs, skills, health, and local economic growth.

By measuring and reporting on these impacts, Arcadis Future IMPACT+™ empowers informed decision-making and enables resilient, future-ready solutions that deliver lasting value for people, businesses, and the environment. 

Value for Clients  

• Significant lifecycle cost savings 
• Enhanced sustainability credentials and competitive advantage 
• Faster project approvals through stakeholder and regulator confidence 
• Greater benefits for surrounding communities and improved reputation

Carbon Impact is part of a global Arcadis framework designed to help our clients achieve their carbon reduction and sustainability goals.

By using a standardized methodology for measuring Whole Life Carbon (WLC), Carbon Impact collects consistent data supporting informed decision making, enhancing project value - environmentally and financially - while accelerating the journey to net zero through the deep decarbonization of assets.   

Arcadis is leading by example in the transition to a low-carbon future, committing to reduce our own organizational carbon footprint to net zero by 2035. We are taking decisive action across our operations - implementing energy efficiency measures, adopting renewable energy, and transforming our business travel and supply chain practices.  

This first-hand experience enhances our ability to support clients in achieving their own carbon reduction goals. Through Carbon Impact, we partner with clients to measure and manage WLC on their projects, identifying opportunities to reduce emissions from design through to operation. 

Nature Impact

Nature Impact is part of Arcadis’ global framework for supporting clients in reducing their environmental footprint at every stage of a project.   

Through a unified, evidence-based methodology, we measure and track the reduction of nature-related impacts across all eligible major projects worldwide. 

By applying Nature Impact, Arcadis demonstrates how we deliver enhanced value - environmental, social, and financial - to our clients and the communities they serve, helping them achieve their broader sustainability ambitions. 

Water Impact 

Water Impact is part of Arcadis’ global framework for helping clients assess impacts on water resources and move to implement sustainable water management solutions.   

Using a unified, evidence-based methodology, we systematically measure, track, and report on reductions in water-related impacts across major projects worldwide.   

By applying Water Impact, Arcadis delivers measurable environmental, social, and financial value to clients and the communities they serve - enabling them to achieve their broader sustainability goals. 

Circularity Impact

Circularity Impact is implementing a standardized approach for measuring material avoidance, reuse and recycling on key projects delivered to clients. It serves as an enabler for developing our capabilities and the systematic assessment and reduction in the amount of materials needed in constructing and operating clients’ assets, driving sustainable resource management across the asset lifecycle. 

Social Impact

Social Impact is implementing a standardized approach for measuring socio-economic impacts upon communities through the key projects we deliver to our clients. It serves as an enabler for developing our capabilities and the systematic assessment and promotion of community benefits such as jobs and skills creation, local economy, health, alleviating deprivation and enhancing townscapes.