Our commitment to effect positive change on the environment and become one of the top green contractors in the nation is paying off. We recently advanced to 30th from 46th on the Engineering News-Record Top 100 Green Contractors list and to 26th from 40th on Building Design + Construction’s Green Building Giants list.
A few of our sustainable projects this year include the LEED Silver certified University of Arizona Old Main Building renovation in Tucson, Ariz.; the LEED Platinum certified University of California, Davis Tercero Student Housing Phase III complex in Davis, Calif.; and the LEED Gold certified Butler Elementary/Puentes Middle School in El Paso, Texas. We are also completing construction of the Sellwood Bridge over the Willamette River in Portland, Ore., which is being built in accordance with the Greenroads International sustainability rating system for transportation projects.
“Our renewed corporate commitment has paid off, due largely to the efforts of the Sundt Sustainability Mentor Group, which includes representatives from all of Sundt’s business units,” said Dan Osterman, Sundt sustainability champion. “One area where our team has instituted significant change is in our reduction of generated waste at project sites. This year alone, our corporate standard of waste diversion increased to 75 percent, up from 50 percent on all Sundt projects.”
The Sundt Sustainability Mentor Group is a team of employees that promotes environmentally responsible practices at the company’s offices and jobsites. In addition to implementing green standards within our company, the mentorship program has increased Sundt’s involvement in sustainable organizations like the U.S. Green Building Council and Greenroads.
The group has also helped cultivate green expertise among our employee-owners, expanded our national profile as a green leader and focused our sustainability goals to achieve greater results and effect positive change in the environment.