Sustainability services
Every day our people and projects interact with a complex web of stakeholders and face highly demanding technical, commercial and environmental challenges.
Everything we do is imbued with sustainability principles. Our commitment to environmental stewardship stands on our track record of responsible operation, and our successes helping customers see and realize sustainability goals.
Our services cover a wide range of activities that directly impact the progress towards sustainability goals of our customers’ operations and projects. These projects range from the development of alternative fuel production, wind power generation and carbon capture efforts to environmental services aimed at reducing impacts or achieving LEED certification at customer facilities.
WATERFRONToronto
WATERFRONToronto selected AMEC to provide professional advice and assistance on preparing sustainable environmental designs for spaces, buildings and districts including ‘green’ building designs. The team will also perform specifications for ‘green’ buildings and coordinate specialist consultants. Two initial projects that AMEC began include the development of Sustainability Criteria for ‘Carbon Analysis’ and also for ‘Parks and Open Spaces’.
CFB Gagetown LEED certification
AMEC designed a 20,000 square meter building to meet silver level LEED certification upon construction, helping the Canadian Federal Government meet its sustainability initiatives through work for the Department of National Defense. Built on an existing brownfield area, the facility will feature a rain water collection system to service non-potable water needs, as well as other water and energy saving features. The result will be a reduction of several tonnes of GHG emissions and operation cost savings over the life of the building.
Landfill Gas to Energy
AMEC completed a project in New Zealand to design a landfill gas to energy project. The premise of the project is the sale of carbon credits associated with the destruction of collected landfill gas to generate electrical power and heat nearby swimming pools – all fully auditable to meet the monitoring requirements of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Recycling Fly-ash
AMEC has been working to support efforts of a customer to develop novel and beneficial uses for a wide range of industrial by-products, including fly ash. This teamwork recently led to the development of two novel alternative uses for fly ash that are technically and economically feasible. Based on work conducted in an AMEC materials laboratory, two US patents were filed for separate technologies that use coal fly ash as a mineral filler in asphalt shingles and for polymer composites such as carpet backing.
Great Lakes Project – Climate change and adaptation
The Coastal Zone Climate Change and Adaptation Project identified coastal features and processes on the Great Lakes, which are likely to be affected by climate change and to determine sustainable management practices that will reduce the vulnerability of these features and processes. AMEC studied 12 sites on the Great Lakes and assessed potential impacts and adaptation strategies.
Mackenzie Valley Gas Pipeline EIA
AMEC provided the Project Manager, Lead Facilitator and plenary moderator for a national consultation that included 65 representatives from Canadian ENGOs and representatives from communities in the Northwest Territories. Held in Yellowknife, the workshop was designed to introduce the Mackenzie Gas Producers consortium and the Mackenzie Gas Project, scope socio-economic and biophysical issues and develop culturally and geographically appropriate mitigation measures.