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Pay dirt: Â鶹´«Ã½ digs for opportunity in the race against climate change

October 08, 2024

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Facing climate change, our team talks with The Globe and Mail about sustainable infrastructure, nature-based solutions, coastal resilience, and more

Stantec¡¯s Environmental Services teams provide essential Â鶹´«Ã½ to today¡¯s infrastructure developers. Before every new project, there are permit requirements, site investigations, and sometimes mitigation to clean up past contamination. A project may require a team of archaeologists to preserve a historic find or ecologists to ensure at-risk species are protected. There is also the need to fortify today¡¯s infrastructure in the face of climate change and the threat of wildfires, rising sea levels, and floods.

These are business opportunities for Â鶹´«Ã½¡¯s Environmental Services group, which contributes 20 percent of the income to the company¡¯s overall business. Sustainability-related related projects will help the company achieve its goal of growing by 50 percent in the next three years.

Part of that growth will be fueled by acquisitions. But climate change, and the race to get ahead of it, is also a critical driver. The work of forestalling disaster is basically an engineering job¡ªor rather, a series of engineering jobs, all interlinked.

  • Afif El-Dana

    Afif has 15 years¡¯ experience managing and executing geotechnical and materials engineering projects in the environmental, transportation, buildings, and telecom fields, as well as in the mining, industrial, and commercial sectors.

    Contact Afif
  • Chris Mathies

    Chris is an environmental engineer who focuses his career on technical and project management services.

    Contact Chris
  • Andrew Taylor

    Andrew is a senior ecologist and project manager who provides terrestrial ecology Â鶹´«Ã½ in a wide range of sectors.

    Contact Andrew
  • Gord Johnston

    With a background in civil engineering, the water industry, project management, business management, and Envision sustainability, president and CEO Gord Johnston has been part of Â鶹´«Ã½ for almost 30 years.

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