Interested in incorporating sustainability best management practices into the design and construction of your next infrastructure project? Looking to ensure that your project integrates with and enhances the local community and ecosystems? Want to demonstrate your project’s leadership to the professional community and active stakeholders?

Over the years, Good Company has assessed, planned, managed and communicated the implementation of sustainability best management practices into infrastructure development projects ranging from interstate bridges to biomass power plants to solar generation facilities.

Sustainability best management practices implemented have included analysis of life-cycle carbon emissions reduction opportunities in major materials and design alternatives, market research and  specifications for environmentally preferred inputs, diesel emissions reduction plans, feasibility studies for onsite renewables, contracting with local watershed councils to revegetate riparian areas, highest and best use determinations for deconstructed materials, securing project enhancement funding and engaging stakeholders to solve environmental justice concerns.

Our approach is focused on the practical and the high leverage activities that make projects move forward with community approval and stay on budget and on schedule. Our approach is focused on the practical and the high-leverage activities that make projects move forward with not just support but enthusiasm – from public agencies, communities and design-build professionals – and stay on budget and on schedule.

Highlighted Projects:

Good Company completed the life-cycle greenhouse gas inventory of the Oregon Department of Transportation Solar Highway Program’s proposed design concept of the 3MW West Linn solar facility, the largest solar facility developed in the highway right of way. Emissions sources considered included embodied emissions from the production of the PV panels, other construction and maintenance materials and engineering services; tailpipe emissions from construction and ongoing maintenance actvities; displaced grid electricity generation emissions from the project’s solar power generation over 30 years; grid electricity emissions from onsite use by lights and security cameras; and recycling of PV panels and construction materials at the decommissioning of the project. View the project-based inventory and other project materials.

Good Company, in partnership with Felsburg, Holt & Ullevig and CH2M HILL, provided a series of workshops for the Colorado Department of Transportation and 20 other partner agencies to facilitate the evolution of their sustainability principles into a workable cross-agency sustainability framework and performance metrics for agency-wide management and capital projects that can provide a point of shared thinking between the 20 agencies. View the project-based sustainability evaluation tool and other sustainability materials.