Environmental Journal Recognizes Firms for Business Achievement in Growth, M&A, IT, D&I, Technology, Project Merit, Industry Leadership, and Social Contribution
San Diego, CA – FEB 24, 2025 — Arcadis, a global leader in intelligence-driven sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions, today announced that it has been honored with a Business Achievement Award for Technology Merit in 2024 by the Environmental Business Journal®* (EBJ), an independent business research publication that has provided strategic market intelligence to the environmental industry* since 1988.
EBJ recognized Arcadis for developing and extensively validating the Sentinel™ passive sampler for PFAS. This innovative, cost-effective solution simplifies PFAS sampling in environmental waters, addressing inefficiencies of current methods that require handling and shipping large water volumes for labor-intensive lab processing. Sentinel uses a specialized sorbent (Osorb®) to passively measure PFAS in groundwater, surface water, stormwater, porewater, and wastewater, providing time-averaged concentrations over deployment periods. It is compatible with standard lab analysis (e.g., USEPA Method 1633) with low detection limits (<1 ng/L). Backed by peer-reviewed publications and U.S. patents (pending internationally), Sentinel became commercially available in 2024 and is already deployed at 300 sites across the U.S., Australia, Germany, and the U.K.
Craig Divine, senior vice president at Arcadis, said: “We’re pleased that Sentinel received this recognition from EBJ. This sampler represents a breakthrough in PFAS monitoring, offering a cost-efficient and reliable solution for environmental sampling with the ability to provide accurate, time-average data while reducing waste and logistical challenges.”
Grant Ferrier, editor of Environmental Business Journal and chair of the EBJ Business Achievement Award selection committee, said: “In another year of strong growth for the environmental industry in 2024, a number of companies set themselves apart with their growth, innovation, M&A, or signature projects that merit the special recognition of an EBJ award. With traditional environmental markets in infrastructure, air quality, remediation, water and wastewater, as well as energy transition and climate resilience, it is understandable that companies report growing demand for environmental technology and services. Pivoting with political change and overcoming the multiple challenges of inflation, supply chains, wage increases, labor shortages, and changing markets has almost become routine for the resilient leaders in the environmental industry.”
The 2024 EBJ awards will be presented live and in-person at the EBJ Business Achievement Awards banquet at Environmental Industry Summit XXIII on April 02-04, 2025, in San Diego, along with CCBJ Business Achievement, Lifetime Achievement and 50-Year Company anniversary awards.
About Environmental Business Journal
Environmental Business Journal has been published since 1988 by Environmental Business International Inc., an independent research and publishing company focused on the environmental and climate change industries.
*Environmental Business Journal® provides strategic market intelligence to executives and investors in 13 business segments of the environmental industry including environmental consulting & engineering, remediation & industrial services, water & wastewater equipment, air quality & pollution control equipment, hazardous waste management, resource recovery, solid waste management, water/wastewater infrastructure, renewable energy and environmental instrumentation & information systems.
