Sustainability & Energy Services
- What is our greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory/ carbon footprint?
- How can I reduce our GHG emissions?
- How can I reduce my energy costs?
- How can I incorporate sustainability into our corporate strategy in a cost-effective way?
- Should we be utilizing emissions trading schemes?
- What federal and state legislation is emerging?
- What legislation is impacting us around the world and how?
- Where could we cost-effectively integrate renewable power?
- How can I improve the energy performance of my building?
- How can I protect the value of my property?
- Can we utilize biomass fuel?
- Are there alternative methods to fund the capital expense of my energy savings projects?
Across the world we have some of the brightest thinkers in their fields of expertise. We have a strong and diverse team in North America, with access to a network of world-class global experts. We collaborate with our clients to shape their sustainability strategies, improve business performance and lower operating costs.
Our reputation is built on our commercial and pragmatic approach, underpinned by technical excellence. We have an established track record working with some of the world’s leading organizations. Our clients include Fortune 500 corporations, manufacturers, land and property developers, retailers, colleges and universities, state and federal governments and banks.
Some of the services we provide include:
- GHG inventories/Carbon footprinting
- Carbon management programs
- Carbon trading compliance advice and risk reduction
- Corporate energy and carbon reporting
- Energy management programs
- Energy and resource conservation assessments (audits)
- Energy metering and data collection
- Energy technology and installation management (performance contracting management)
- Renewable energy analysis and strategies
- Emissions trading regime advice
- Sustainability training, organizational change and communication programs
- Product and supply chain life cycle assessments.
Below is a snapshot of our four key service areas:
- Develop a comprehensive GHG inventory using appropriate software tools
- Develop an internal process in order to update their GHG inventory in the future
- Set goals to reduce their GHG emissions
- Identify, evaluate, and implement cost-effective opportunities to achieve their goals
- Understand how to participate in today’s largely voluntary GHG management and reporting programs
- Prepare for future mandatory GHG regulations
- Communicate GHG management efforts to stockholders and to the public
- Submit reports to mandatory and voluntary GHG programs, including the Carbon Disclosure Project and California’s AB32.
Our expertise includes alternative procurement strategies, which can source funding for capital programs and drive down operating costs. We also identify opportunities for waste minimization which include innovative solutions for turning waste streams into valuable resources.
Our goal is to make our clients more competitive by streamlining their business processes and lowering their operating expenditures. We also ensure that the advice we provide is aligned with our clients overarching sustainability goals. Our energy and resources management expertise includes:
- Managing third-party energy performance contracting
- Energy and resource conservation assessments (audits), which include waste and water
- Real-time energy monitoring and analysis.
We carry out technical and financial feasibility assessments of the full spectrum of sustainable energy technologies to help our clients make informed investment decisions. In particular we can:
- Assess sustainable energy resources in communities
- Develop cost-effective clean energy infrastructure master plans
- Conduct feasibility studies of sustainable energy solutions
- Perform technical and financial due diligence on prospective sustainable energy investments.
Specifically we help clients:
- Define the strategic business value from product-level LCAs
- Integrate this approach into product design and marketing
- Quantify energy, materials, carbon emissions and waste and water impacts for the entire life cycle of a product through detailed LCAs.
Our goal is to leverage product-level LCAs as a tool to drive business efficiency, cost reduction, and environmental performance improvements for our clients’ products. The result is that our clients can identify market opportunities and implement strategies to reduce product life cycle impacts and leverage competitive advantage.