Driving sustainability and efficiency for Arcadis with FCM Venue Finder
Arcadis, a global engineering consultancy’s meetings and events approach needed to balance sustainability goals with a distributed workforce. Learn how they got here with FCM Venue Finder.
A global team with local challenges
Arcadis, a global engineering consultancy, has always been future-focused. Innovation and sustainability are at the heart of its business. But with thousands of employees spread across multiple countries, bringing people together for meetings and events was a difficult contradiction to wrangle.
Challenge: Fragmented processes and tools
Like many businesses with distributed teams, Arcadis faced three major hurdles when it came to meetings and events:
Solution: Introducing FCM Venue Finder
To directly overcome these challenges, Arcadis partnered with FCM Meetings & Events to introduce our venue sourcing tool, FCM Venue Finder. The tool immediately solved two of the biggest challenges:
Sustainability integration
With FCM Venue Finder’s 'Where to Meet' function enabled, bookers can compare destinations and venues by carbon impact, not just cost. Making sustainability part of the decision-making process, rather than an afterthought.
Centralised booking platform
Venue Finder integrates into FCM Platform, meaning flights, hotels, and meeting and event spaces could all be booked in one spot.
The rollout of FCM Venue Finder began with priority regions and a select group of bookers to ensure a smooth transition, with a phased plan to expand globally.
Results: Streamlined reporting and integration
It’s still early days, but the results are already clear. Early outcomes have been:
- Clearer insights into the environmental impact of meetings and events, aligning with overall corporate sustainability goals.
- Cost and time savings from using one centralised booking and reporting platform.
- Less friction for Arcadis planners, with one straightforward tool that integrates directly into existing workflows.
By weaving sustainability into the planning stage, Arcadis has made meetings and events easier to organise, simpler to track, and is actively reducing its carbon footprint.
With FCM, our meetings and events are managed with a clear strategic lens that puts our employees and travellers first.
- Ian Spearing, Global Travel Director Arcadis.
Smart tech delivers greener, leaner events
Arcadis’ story shows how technology can support company goals. Reducing emissions, reducing costs, and just making life simpler for your teams.