In professional and financial services, high quality office environments are an important key to productivity. And looks count too! Making an authoritative impression helps to instill trust in clients and trust is a key asset when it comes to building long-lasting client relationships. We have supported our clients' corporate strategies by designing headquarters, data processing centers, and administration buildings that accomplish key business objectives. Using a five-step programming process to define, verify, and document client requirements, we work closely with client representatives to ascertain goals and objectives for the facility, space requirements, and functional and communication relationships among departments. These qualitative data can then be translated into quantifiable criteria to assist in preliminary design.

Our office facilities are designed to be sensitive to our client's corporate image, whether that image is glittering or conservative or a combination of both. Our master plans accommodate future growth without major redesign of existing elements. Our interiors are planned for technology—to accommodate computer networks, fiber–optic cable, and future technological improvements. We have the knowledge needed to design buildings using "green" building material and to ensure optimum indoor air quality for worker productivity.

In addition, we partner with professional services firms in many other areas, providing them support to achieve their business goals in other areas and building on strategic advances for both. For law firms, for example, we provide environmental due diligence and expert witness services. With banks, we work on identifying attractive investment opportunities in projects. With IT firms we cooperate on building geographical information systems, while for insurance companies we provide real estate valuations. Just a few examples of the many ways in which ARCADIS can assist in providing services that help you meet your business objectives.