2 Worlds Collide

The most interesting part of my quest to Bangalore is the difference in the outside and the inside.  Every place is outside is busy, filthy, and unwelcoming.  But it can’t be further from the opposite inside the office here.  The office is meticulously clean, and although it is full and everyone is busy, it is a quiet hum of collaboration rather than the chaos of outside.  And the team has been very welcoming.  Ashish has been a great host.  We have had time discuss many things on my list of objectives, but he has also taken time to introduce me to as many people as possible.   The kitchen staff bring me coffee and water to my desk without me even having to ask.  And they also have food catered for lunch every day, and yesterday’s curry dal was fantastic. I cannot wait to see what today brings.

Selected for GS2015: Katrijn Dirix

The last applicant to be nominated for the Application Battle is… Katrijn Dirix (ARCADIS Continental Europe)! Katrijn, welcome to Global Shapers: Generation 2015! Katrijn submitted a visual, she created a comic! Please find here application here: If you browser doesn’t support the … Continue reading

Challenge yourself – Quantity Surveying in the UK

I am Craig Kecheran and I joined ARCADIS in August 2007 (merging with EC Harris in January 2013). I’m a Graduate Cost Consultant based in the Edinburgh, UK office, working within the Property sector. Following on from high school, my aim was to combine work experience with academic studies by attending university – I’m a firm […]

One Week in Cincinnati – A Landfill Closure Experience

As an environmental engineer, I believe that we can work in a balance between the economic development and sustainable environmental development. Working on landfill projects  is a market that is growing in Brazil and Latin American to help improve the balance between development and the environment. This will decrease groundwater contamination within neighborhood areas near industrial and […]

E-Factory 2014: First Edition Experience

The first time I had heard of the E-Factory was when I received an email in my inbox congratulating me on being selected as a participant. What is it all about I hear you ask? As ARCADIS presented its strategy 2014-2016, the company expressed the ambition to ‘be truly collaborative’. The E-Factory is endorsed by […]