Sustainability

The world is changing fast. Environmental social governance (ESG) requirements, shifting customer values, and investment considerations are upending the traditional ways that businesses differentiate themselves and evaluate their products. CDM Smith has decades of experience helping our clients navigate sustainability initiatives and goals through multidisciplinary expertise and sustainability analytics. We are driven to help our clients achieve success as measured by the "triple bottom line" of people, planet and profit.

See our work in sustainability

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Rehabilitating One of the Largest Ecosystems in Southern California

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Rehabilitating One of the Largest Ecosystems in Southern California

Faced with an increasingly intrusive number of water quality concerns, the city of Los Angeles sought to rehabilitate its largest freshwater ecosystem by implementing a sustainable, forward-thinking improvement plan.

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Moving Toward Microgrids

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Moving Toward Microgrids

By revitalizing and supplementing centralized systems with other sources, such as wind and solar, they become sustainable, easy to maintain, and more reliable with built in redundancies. This microgrid concept—interconnecting a variety of power sources for wide-spread neighborhood use—is gaining favor in North America.

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East Cherry Creek Valley's Sustainable Supply Solution

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East Cherry Creek Valley's Sustainable Supply Solution

Using reverse osmosis membranes, deep-well injection and creative thinking, CDM Smith worked with a Colorado utility to develop a new sustainable potable water supply, raising industry benchmarks for performance in the process.

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From Organic Waste to Energy Independence

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From Organic Waste to Energy Independence

A forward-thinking Massachusetts water reclamation utility is taking advantage of innovative technology and state regulatory changes to achieve the goal of net-zero operation.

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Steel Manufacturing at an ESG Gold Standard

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Steel Manufacturing at an ESG Gold Standard

When Big River Steel sought to become the first steel mill in North America to certify to a new sustainability-related standard, they turned to CDM Smith.

Our sustainability team is here to help you meet your infrastructure needs of the present while looking to the future. We prioritize the use of natural, financial, and societal resources while lessening project lifecycle impacts.

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