What Grontmij does every day in many countries around the world can have a fundamental effect on the environment. We advise our clients how to shape the places where we live, work, use to generate power, travel through and build on have to have a deeper understanding of how these actions affect our surroundings. And, at Grontmij, we believe that we have that understanding and with it comes an even greater responsibility in protecting the environment. We call that ‘sustainability by design’.
It forms the basis of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

What is sustainability by design?
We have a clear CSR strategy. The long-term goal is the achievement of our stated ambition to: play an active part in the sustainable development of the societies where we operate by acting responsibly with respect to:

• the environment at large, including mitigating and adapting the effects of climate change;
• our workplace and the employment of people;
• the market, our customers and our delivery of services;
• our business partners and suppliers of goods and services.

Although an organisation of approximately 10,000 people, Grontmij has a relatively limited impact on the environment. Potentially, however, the work we do can and often does have major effects. This is why our sustainability by design concept is, we believe, so important. We want to lead the industry by playing a major part in addressing environmental concerns, developing sustainable and workable solutions to a wide variety of challenges and working effectively on climate change. So we are in the process of embedding sustainability thinking into the whole of our project lifecycles from bid through concept design and project planning and delivery.