GroupMapping guided the creation of a new sustainability reporting structure and brought the right people together, growing collaboration, ownership and leadership.
Royal BAM Group is a leading construction and property development company with a long history, operating in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Ireland. As a listed company, BAM focuses on sustainable buildings, housing and infrastructure for public and private clients. With over 13,000 employees, BAM is one of the largest construction companies in Europe. Their mission ‘Building a sustainable tomorrow’ forms the basis for the organisational strategy, focusing on sustainability, innovation and collaboration.
Royal BAM Group faced a complex organisational change: comply with the EU's tightened sustainability reporting requirements, including the CSRD and the EU Taxonomy. Although the organisation already had insight into performance in some key sustainability areas, these were not yet sufficiently developed to comply with the new regulations.
The deadline was tight and the task extensive. This called for clarity in organisational strategy - What needs to be done, who is responsible for what and what quality standards do we apply? And just as important: how do we organise all this without existing structures?
We started with a three-day session in which people from different disciplines worked together towards a shared understanding of the task. Challenges were identified, perspectives shared and roles clearly defined. This created the Lunteren Coalition: a powerful collaboration that provided the foundation for a new team focused on further developing BAM's sustainability reporting.
This team acts as a driving force within the organisation and encourages collaboration across departments, the core of effective change management. By embedding our GroupMapping way of working, we strengthen both the team force if it leadership within BAM. We provide long-term guidance to the team through team coaching and theme sessions, so that cooperation, ownership and structure grow permanently.
This is how BAM contributes step by step to a future-proof organisational strategy and a sustainable way of working, an inspiring example of organisational change in practice.
