Strategic focus
Sylvo Thijsen, CEO Grontmij: ‘Key to our enhanced strategy is a restructuring of our business from separate geographical regions to three business lines: Planning & Design, Transportation & Mobility and Water & Energy. These business lines reflect the long-term external market drivers that Grontmij can benefit from during the next five years, such as climate change, population growth and urbanisation and the development of the European Union. By focusing on core competences, Grontmij will be positioned to pursue organic growth in the most profitable and fastest growing markets.’
CSR
Grontmij has stepped up its initiative on CSR reporting. The company continues to build on expertise gained from its initial CSR Report to GRI standards from last year. With its GRI based report Grontmij further underlines its commitment to CSR as a company philosophy and a way of doing business.
Sylvo Thijsen, CEO Grontmij: ‘Grontmij is one of the few European engineering consultancy firms that reports its sustainability and CSR performance to GRI standards. With the launch of a detailed CSR Report we are not only making a further step in our reporting, but also a firm commitment with regard to our engagement in creating a sustainable living and working environment.’
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Notes to the Editor
Grontmij’s Annual Report can be found on our corporate website. The Annual report is available in Dutch and English.
In the Annual Report a shortened version of the CSR report is included. The full version of the CSR Report can be found on www.grontmij.com/csr.
Grontmij is a leading sustainable design, engineering and management consultancy active in the growth markets of water, energy, transportation and sustainable planning and design. At the core of our business is the principle of sustainability by design which is a leading value proposition for our customers. Grontmij is the fourth largest design and management consultancy in Europe with over 150 offices across Europe and a fur-ther 20 offices globally. We employ over 8,000 professionals across the world.
Our value chain of services stretches from major renewable water and energy infrastruc-ture through designing efficient and environmentally-sensitive mobility and transportation networks to shaping our urban and green living spaces.
Although we can build on nearly a century of experience, we prefer to look to the future to enhance the world we live in. By applying sustainability considerations to all our de-sign, consultancy and management services right across the value chain, our highly-skilled, expert people are able to create lasting solutions that plan for, connect and re-spect the future.
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