Natural Resources

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International WELL Building Institute (IWBI)
Innovation Features: How to Shape a Proposal—and the Future of the Healthy Building Movement
Innovation has long been the driver behind WELL. That’s why we aim to recognize projects that go above and beyond to implement strategies that address human health in a novel way. WELL Innovations can set your project apart and give you the opportunity to pioneer creative solutions that can advance and evolve healthy building.
Energy & Infrastructure
International WELL Building Institute (IWBI)
Design for Wellness: Strategies to Unite Health & Design
Design can be about many things: beauty, symmetry, color - but one of the most powerful elements of building and space design is the opportunity to impact and improve the health and well-being of people. Through thoughtful design choices like strategic placement of drinking water stations, selection of non-toxic materials and lighting that aligns with the body’s circadian rhythms, designers can be ambassadors for public health, a mission that we wholeheartedly believe in.
Health & Healthcare
Black & Veatch
Elevating Water Services and Achieving Compliance through Integrated Planning
This year’s Strategic Directions: Water Industry Report survey shows that while early adopters are making progress with implementing an “Integrated Planning Approach,” opportunity exists to implement this approach on a larger scale, across the board.
Environment
Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar Inc | Doing More To Restore Natural Resources
Caterpillar is working actively with stakeholders to find collaborative and innovative solutions to restoring our planet’s natural resources. One of these collaborations, a summit of experts and leaders in engineering, construction, finance and environmentalism, resulted in a white paper on natural infrastructure restoration and ways to catalyze its development and expansion.
Research & Reports
Ecolab
Ecolab Helped Businesses Conserve 161 Billion Gallons of Water in 2016
In 2016, Ecolab Inc., the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services, helped customers save 161 billion gallons of water at more than one million locations around the world. These savings, equivalent to the annual drinking water needs of more than 558 million people, are highlighted in the company’s 2016 Corporate Sustainability Report, available at www.ecolab.com.
Responsible Production & the Circular Economy
Ray C. Anderson Foundation
Ecocentricity Blog: Front 4 - Closed Loop Manufacturing
As Amory Lovins says, “if it exists, it must be possible.” Nutrient cycling exists. That means it must be possible for mankind to create a manufacturing system that works just as well.
Responsible Production & the Circular Economy
Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch: Water Utility Leaders Driving Toward Sustainability
Customer education, infrastructure modernization and the use of data analytics will be key tools to overcoming the water industry’s perennial challenges posed by aging infrastructure, according to Black & Veatch's 2017 Strategic Directions: Water Industry Report. A combination of investment and new business process approaches will also be critical to closing the gap between costs and consumer expectation.
Research & Reports
Ingersoll Rand
Commitment to Climate Action: Message from Michael W. Lamach, Chairman and CEO of Ingersoll Rand
I’ve received many questions over the past few months about Ingersoll Rand’s commitment to reducing energy demand and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Those questions intensified this week with news of the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Environment
SCS Global Services
84 Lumber’s Longstanding FSC® Certification Typifies the Company’s Commitment to Sustainability
Customers no longer view sustainable building materials as a specialty option. Rather, for many builders and homeowners, they’ve become mandatory.
Responsible Production & the Circular Economy
Black & Veatch
Colorado Dam Expansion to Substantially Improve Water Supply, Reliability
Black & Veatch has been selected to provide program management services to Denver Water on the Gross Reservoir Expansion Project.

The project is a major component of the utility’s comprehensive strategy to deliver safe, reliable water service and provide resilience to its system in the face of future threats including floods, wildfires and the potential impacts of climate change. The expansion will more than double current reservoir capacity and improve water supply dependability for the 1.4 million people Denver Water serves in the metro area.
Energy & Infrastructure

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