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Shaping a sustainable future

We envision a world where infrastructure gives back, water is protected, and natural systems are valued. How do we get there? Prioritizing biodiversity, supporting circular economies, and delivering responsible development. Nothing should be wasted, everyone should have access to renewable energy, and society must be just. Grounded in these principles and goals, our sustainability-related services focus on opportunities to support positive change and tackle the world’s biggest challenges. Be it community resilience or using innovative solutions to support client goals, we integrate the natural and built environment, transforming the future and redefining what it means to be sustainable.

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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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Building a sustainable future
1,700+
Sustainable Buildings Projects
A-
CDP Score
70,000+
Acres Restored
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 eight years.
We’ve worked on more than 70,000 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.