Liveable cities

A healthy and resilient city or town

We are committed to creating cities, towns and village centres which are future proof. Our experts are involved in ambitious urban and village core renovations, which are a response to the needs of tomorrow. Key to this is a balanced mix of living, working, and relaxation, with inclusive and affordable housing, high-quality facilities, and vibrant areas in which to interact.

We also design climate-adaptive, traffic-calmed and high-quality public spaces, featuring plenty of greenery. We use well-thought-out design to encourage movement and social interaction, provide cooling, enhance biodiversity, and offer watercourse management solutions which are based on integrated water management. This allows us to jointly build resilient cities, towns, and villages, where everyone can live pleasantly and comfortably.

Regenerative, high-performance and forward-looking

Our cities, towns, and village centres are where things happen. They are where ideas and initiatives are developed to improve the neighbourhood and the world and we are actively working on building a future-proof urban metabolism.

Our mobility experts are helping to improve multimodal accessibility, with cycling comfort and road safety being treated as a high priority. We use targeted measures to manage traffic circulation, provide creative parking solutions and build high-performance mobility hubs.

We can also advise you on how to strengthen the local economy by using strategies for enhanced trade and smart city logistics. We encourage interconnected business activities and we update business parks in a way that enables them to become engines for a circular urban ecosystem.

Each environment has its own challenges and opportunities. Based on an ambitious long-term perspective, we consequently develop neighbourhood energy strategies for the step-by-step conversion to renewable energy systems, tailored to each city, town, or village centre. More generally we provide guidance to government organisations as they develop a climate action plan that puts the authorities, residents, and businesses on the path to a fossil-free future.

Making and realising plans together

If you would like to make your town or municipality more resilient and sustainable, our multidisciplinary experts can be at your side to support you from planning to realisation and, together with you, they will coordinate the entire process.

We can help you draw up policy plans on spatial planning, housing, the economy, climate, energy, mobility, public domain, greenery, and water. We can set up coalitions and programmes to implement plans effectively, both at cross-border level and also targeted at neighbourhoods.

Our teams act as a bridge between local authorities and private actors and we allow social interests and economic objectives to reinforce each other in forward-looking projects which serve as catalysts for their wider environment.

Our expertise in transition management means we know how to coordinate resident participation and stakeholder consultation through co-creative processes which increase the level of support for your project. We also support local authorities with the development of a high-quality policy on spatial issues and permits. By using advanced data analysis and tools such as a GIS and FME we are able to explore different scenarios and offer informed insights.