Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 28, 2025- Arcadis today announced that its recently acquired subsidiary KUA has secured four new data-centre project contracts in Germany, as demand for hyperscale and colocation capacity continues to climb across Europe’s largest digital markets.
The collective value of the new wins is EUR 8 million (~USD 9.2 million), with Arcadis and KUA engaged to deliver technical due diligence, zoning and permitting, tender preparation, and construction-monitoring services for all four developments. The projects are spread across the key German data-centre hubs of Frankfurt and Berlin, reflecting robust investor appetite for capacity growth in Germany’s maturing digital-infrastructure corridor.
With this flurry of contract awards, Arcadis’s global data-centre involvement expands to 229 projects, supporting a cumulative delivery capability of over 15 gigawatts, enough to power more than 11 million typical European households.
The firm says this scale matches “the new wind-energy capacity installed across Europe in 2024,” underscoring the environmental and infrastructure significance of the portfolio.
Arcadis detailed that its core contribution spans across critical early-stage functions; from feasibility-level “technical due diligence”, assessing site constraints, power availability, and regulatory compliance, to permit-application design, tender documentation and ongoing construction oversight.
This suite of services, the company argues, helps de-risk complex data-centre builds and accelerates deployment timelines for developers and operators riding the wave of increased cloud, AI and regulatory-driven demand.
The surge in project wins follows Arcadis’s acquisition of KUA earlier in 2025 for about EUR 70 million (~USD 81.0 million), a move that combined KUA’s deep data-centre-design and permitting experience with Arcadis’s global strength in site selection, cost management, and sustainability advisory. That merger significantly strengthened Arcadis’s footprint in Germany, now recognised as the second-largest data-centre market in Europe.
Alan Brookes, CEO of Arcadis, said, “These wins reflect the strength of our strategy in Europe and the value created by combining KUA’s specialist data-centre capabilities in architecture, design, engineering, and planning with Arcadis’ global expertise in site selection, program and cost management, and sustainability advisory. With the total data-centre market estimated at around EUR 300 billion (USD 347.1 billion), and design & engineering firms typically capturing 10-15%, this represents a multi-billion-euro opportunity for us and highlights the buoyancy of the sector and the bespoke solutions we can offer.”
As Europe braces for a wave of cloud, AI and regulatory-driven infrastructure demand, Arcadis appears well-positioned to capitalise on its expanded delivery capacity and integrated expertise, helping developers navigate the intricate permitting and engineering challenges that come with hyperscale data-centre construction.
