Strategy
Ballast Nedam Infra is moving further away from its role as a traditional contractor. Apart from accepting and undertaking projects, we are concentrating increasingly on concept-based thinking and the provision of overall solutions for (complex) infrastructural challenges. Our main concern here is to solve problems or to meet a need in the form of products and services. This therefore means that we no longer regard the completion of projects or subprojects as a goal in its own right.
 Ballast Nedam Infra’s strength lies in its knowledge and expertise that enable it to manage the entire chain: from initiative and feasibility studies (i.e. plan development) via design, acquisition, raw materials extraction, production and construction up to and including maintenance and recycling, where appropriate including financing and operation. An important precondition for managing the building chain is the availability of specialist knowledge and expertise. Ballast Nedam Infra promotes its particular areas of specialisation in order to generate a distinctive profile and hence a better competitive position in the market, from where it can deliver added financial value. In areas where players in the market are able to offer better price or quality, Ballast Nedam Infra makes use of reliable (strategic) partners. Chain-thinking forms an important element of the strategy for the next few years.
The knowledge and experience held by Ballast Nedam Infra are exported, which offers opportunities. International activities are carried out by the International Projects business unit. In doing so we make use of the widespread international knowledge and experience available within Ballast Nedam. Ballast Nedam Infra concentrates primarily on project management and engineering, as well as on the specialist activities for which the company has a particular reputation in the Netherlands.
Both nationally and internationally Ballast Nedam Infra markets a number of specific infrastructure-related products. These are the Telecom, PetrolStations, Environment, Alternative Fuels, Facility Management and Train Wash Utilities products. The latter product is offered by our wholly-owned subsidiary ETW (European Traffic Wash). With various initiatives in respect of cleaner alternative fuels, such as hydrogen, LNG and CNG, Ballast Nedam Infra is anticipating an increase in shortage of fossil fuels.
Ballast Nedam Infra provides its services from its head office in Nieuwegein, from the five regional Ballast Nedam Houses (Zaanstad, Groningen, Arnhem, Eindhoven and Capelle aan den IJssel), from the offices of the specialist business units (Kootstertille, Klazienaveen, Leerdam, Nieuwegein, Soest, Zaanstad, Almere, Dordrecht and Bergen op Zoom) and from the offices of the raw materials companies in the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway.
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