CH2M Hill, a global consulting, design, construction and operations firm, was ranked the No. 1 U.S. environmental firm by the Engineering News-Record’s Top 200 Environmental Firms list.URS and Veolia Environment North America retained their 2012 spots after being ranked the No. 2 and No. 3 companies, respectively. The remaining top 10 included Tetra Tech, Bechtel, Energy Solutions, AECOM Technology, MWH Global, Golder Associates and Clean Harbors.
CH2M Hill, a global consulting, design, construction and operations firm, was ranked the No. 1 U.S. environmental firm by the Engineering News-Record’s Top 200 Environmental Firms list.
URS and Veolia Environment North America retained their 2012 spots after being ranked the No. 2 and No. 3 companies, respectively. The remaining top 10 included Tetra Tech, Bechtel, Energy Solutions, AECOM Technology, MWH Global, Golder Associates and Clean Harbors.
According to ENR, in 2013 global market forces caught up with the Top 200 Environmental Firms, with total revenue in the surveyed categories unable to sustain the 5 percent gain that last year’s participants reported. But the $51.7 billion in environmental-services revenue reported for 2012, off 4.5 percent from last year’s total, still exceeds the 2011 figure of $51.3 billion. It was buoyed by a 7.1 percent one-year rise in international work and a 19% boost since 2010 in private-sector client work.
ENR says that although revenues were down for several of the Top 200, CH2M Hill grew its total to around $4.3 billion, up about 5 percent from 2012. The company’s environmental revenue outside the U.S. also rose to 42 percent of the overall numbers.
CH2M Hill also recently won a three-year master services agreement to support BP’s environmental efforts outside of North America in the areas of remediation, environmental compliance assurance and auditing, modeling, environmental permitting, waste management, water and wastewater management, impact assessment, environmental due diligence and mergers and acquisitions support, natural resource management, social and sustainability reporting and environmental project oversight.
CHRM Hill released a white paper earlier this month that claims companies that set tangible sustainability goals do a better job of improving both their financial and environmental performance. Sustainability Goals That Make an Impact focuses on the link between sustainability goal-setting, environmental and financial performance, and stakeholder recognition, making the case for setting more tangible goals
Published Aug 19, 2013 2am EDT / 11pm PDT / 7am BST / 8am CEST
Managing Director, Sustainability & Social Impact
Deutsche Bank
Mike Hower is a sustainability communicator and connector committed to helping purpose-driven businesses and people unlock their full potential for positive impact. As founder and principal consultant at Hower Impact, he works with companies to translate sustainability strategy into stories that inform, engage and inspire investors, customers, employees, regulators and other stakeholders in the service of social, environmental and business goals. Through his Impact Hired initiative, he works to connect and engage corporate sustainability professionals at all stages of their careers.
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