Sustainability

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Shaping the future of communities

Communities are facing major challenges to their long-term sustainability. An increasingly changing climate. Pollution of the biosphere and oceans. Loss in biodiversity. At the same time, there are opportunities for positive change through new technologies, ecosystem regeneration, and holistic, unified planning by community leaders. An ecosystem infrastructure approach—integrating the natural and built environment—is key to transforming the future of our communities.

A company’s success is dependent on the health of the environment and communities it touches. Embracing strategies that help protect these connections furthers its competitive advantage.

Carrie Sabin Senior Vice President, Corporate Sustainability

See how we’re helping our clients and communities mitigate the effects of and adapt to climate change.

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I became a designer just because I think

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like all of us we want to change the

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world and we think that we are a riot

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and everyone else is less right and you

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know we have kind of ideas about how

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things should be and we'll never be

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satisfied and it keeps us interested and

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intrigued and I think that that's

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something that's kept me a designer and

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so sustainability was one of these

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things that from a sort of philosophical

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standpoint for me it became very

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interesting because suddenly it was not

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about you know what your design style is

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and what's fashionable right now but it

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was really an idea about we can all

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agree that philosophically clean air is

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better than polluted air and clean water

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is said of in polluted water and healthy

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buildings are better than non healthy

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buildings so if you could turn that into

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kind of an ethos and that would give you

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something to stand on that was sort of

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time I think that at the end of the day

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the thing that I'm trying to do is to

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make the building more sustainable more

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healthy and more resilient and so if I

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can accomplish any one of those three

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things or all of them that I feel like

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I've had a good day

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Climate solutions

Considering climate change is necessary to our project work. Our focus as design and consulting professionals is to help our clients see their projects through a climate lens—and then act on what they find. No matter your level of climate action maturity, our diverse services will help you adapt—and achieve your mitigation goals. Learn More

Supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

We support and measure our collective impact against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The UN’s blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, the SDGs address the global challenges of poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. Stantec is actively tracking how our work supports the intent and metrics/indicators of the SDGs. Read More

Sustainability isn’t just what we do.

It’s who we are. Sustainability is embedded in our people, projects, and direction. It guides a robust environmental, social, and governance strategy and empowers our people to rise to the world’s greatest challenges. Learn More

Stantec becomes a UN Decade partner

The United Nations (UN) believes it’s time to prioritize ecosystem restoration. With the world’s population growing, we have to provide more food, energy, and clean water to more people. This trend, combined with climate change and biodiversity loss, is driving the critical need for this work—which is why we’re partnering with the UN for the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). Like the UN, we believe healthy ecosystems enhance people’s livelihoods, counteract climate change, and stop the collapse of biodiversity. Read More
Building a sustainable future
#1
Corporate Knights Global 100
1,500+
Sustainable Buildings Projects
A-
CDP Score
40,000+
Acres Restored
Corporate Knights ranked Stantec the most sustainable corporation among its industry peers—our fifth year on the list.
We work with clients around the world to fuse sustainable thinking with building and systems design across multiple rating systems.
Stantec is rated as a climate leader with an A score by CDP, and we are the only firm in our space that has achieved that rating for the last six years.
We’ve worked on more than 40,000 acres of land restoration across the world.

Port Wing Estuary Restoration

At Stantec, working with nature is a habit. When community comes together to restore degraded ecosystems for the benefit of all living things, the community opens its arms to organisms big and small.

Our People

Natalie Muir, Regional Director, Environment & Geosciences - Climate Solutions Leader

Engineers and scientists are key to reaching sustainable development goals—I’m committed to embedding sustainability into everything we do.
Natalie Muir Regional Director, Environment & Geosciences - Climate Solutions Leader Read More

Natalie Muir

Regional Director, Environment & Geosciences - Climate Solutions Leader

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