Chola MS partners with ARCADIS

CHENNAI: ARCADIS, a built asset design and consultancy firm, has signed a strategic alliance with Cholamandalam MS Risk Services (Chola MS).
This strategic alliance is expected to expand both firms’ network of specialist safety and risk management (SRM) experts and provide clients with a deeper pool of talent to help them minimize their exposure to operational risk in their industrial processes.
Through the strategic alliance, ARCADIS and Chola MS will collaborate on SRM and environmental projects primarily in the oil and gas and transportation industries across India and South East Asia.
With over 130 risk engineering experts, Chola MS Risk Services is one of the largest employers of environment, health and safety specialists in India and offers comprehensive risk management and engineering solutions.
“The ability to identify and minimize risk exposure is an ever increasing concern for our clients as they enter more difficult environments such as offshore production and transfer facilities. This alliance with Chola MS gives us access to specialist skills that will enable us to better serve our clients with these needs, particularly in Asia,” Mark Fenner, global director for environment solutions at ARCADIS, said.
“We are very excited about the opportunities this will bring for our clients and our people. We have worked on a number of projects within and outside India over the years, this will allow us to work with more clients,” MM Murugappan, chairman, Chola MS Risk Services, said.