Arcadis has appointed two senior industry figures to strengthen its architecture and urbanism capabilities across the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe.
The architecture firm has appointed Rory O’Hagan to lead Arcadis’ residential and hospitality design work and Simon Carter as an associate principal to advance Arcadis’ work and innovation in life sciences.
O’Hagan’s work will include the design and delivery of more than 3,500 Build to Rent homes and schemes including Station Hill in Reading, Corkfield in Birmingham, City Suites II and Lampwick Quay in Manchester.
He will bring together the Build to Rent (BTR), Co-living, Senior Living, Student Living and Hotel portfolios.
He previously held the position of board director at AJ100 London practice Assael Architecture and has more than two decades of experience.
Meanwhile, Carter will draw on the group’s work in the allied health and education sectors, and explore new opportunities for private and public sectors with clients including the NHS and major healthcare investors.
The pair join a leadership team and over 100 registered architects across the UK from Arcadis’ design hubs in London, Manchester, Brighton, and Cardiff.
Arcadis is now recognised as the second largest architecture firm in the world.
the company recently reported steady revenue growth and a strong order intake in its latest financial results driven by strong UK data centre demand.
The business posted six per cent organic growth for net revenue of €991 million in the second quarter of 2024, compared with €945 million in the previous period.
Simon Bimpson, country director at Arcadis UK and Ireland, said: “Arcadis has formed one of the most dynamic and diverse design firms in the world. Here in the United Kingdom, the expansion of our architecture and urbanism expertise means we are now able to add value to every stage of a project’s lifecycle and imbed sustainability best practice in from the outset.”
“With Rory O’Hagan and Simon Carter joining our architecture and urbanism leadership team, we deepen the subject matter expertise of a highly skilled group who are proving the power of design in solving some of the most pressing challenges facing our cities and communities when it comes to accessibility, affordability, housing, healthcare, education and wellbeing.”
Rory O’Hagan, Principal – Living at Arcadis Architecture and Urbanism, said: “At the intersection of architecture, engineering, and construction, Arcadis is uniquely positioned to deliver insights, efficiencies, and innovations in ways other firms can’t because we provide services across all three pillars not just one or two.
“We see the full picture and are able to zoom in on the minutiae of every stage of the development lifecycle, with 3D, model-based workflows and digital tools that enable us to generate new efficiencies and design safe, sustainable and deliverable buildings for our clients.”
“We also unlock a great deal of cross-sector learnings from our work across placemaking, residential, healthcare, hospitality, education, industrial, retail, life sciences, and workplace around the world.
“This is what I am most excited about, the opportunity to champion hybrid solutions borne off the overlap between these sectors, for instance our healthcare design work in pediatrics informing pedagogy and our K-12 education design philosophy, so too our work on luxury hotels around the world which we’ve applied with our healthcare expertise to create new senior living concepts.”
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