Title: FCM Sustainable Communities National Conference 2006
1Ann Duffy VP Sustainable Development
2My Premise
- Careers in municipal government are careers in
Sustainable Development - Cities, like living organisms, are systems-based
- planning and management is more integrated
- Canadian solutions are diverse and best practices
emerging
3As Individuals within Towns and Cities
- We have opportunities
- Take action from own sphere of influence
- Exercise aspirations and interests
- economic, ecological, social, political and
cultural! - Council
- Planning Departments
- Utilities
- Community Services
- Procurement
- Transportation
4My Talk Today
- Offer a lens to consider YOU and YOUR
organizations sphere of influence, present and
future - Provide practical examples over the past two
years to mark progress - including some FCM CH2M HILL Sustainable
Community Award Winners
5CH2M HILL Who We Are
- Company name derived from the founders names
- Holly Cornell, Jim Howland, Burke Hayes, Fred
Merryfield, and Clair Hill - Full-service project delivery
- We can take any environment or infrastructure -
or facility project - from concept to concrete,
objective to operation - 59 years in business as CH2M HILL (86 years in
Canada) - 100 employee-owned
- gt 200 permanent offices worldwide
- gt 15,000 professional staff worldwide, 600 in
Canada - gt 3.1B in 2004 revenues
6CH2M HILL Who We Are
- Responsible Solutions for a Sustainable Future
- Corporate Sustainability Policy endorsed by the
Board of Directors - Corporate Sustainability Report on
triple-bottom-line performance - ISO 14001 EMS for North American office
facilities - Enterprise-wide Sustainable Solutions expertise
- Member of WBCSD, FCM, UBCM, EPAs Climate Leaders
Program - Sponsor of the FCM CH2MHILL Sustainable Community
Awards
7Common Challenges Facing Municipalities
- Socially.
- Crime
- Education
- Health and well-being
- Cultural resources
- Population growth and aging
- Political timelines vs. planning and development
timelines
8Common Challenges Facing Municipalities
- Economically.
- Financial accountability
- Economy Swings
- Employment
- Provision of effective basic services and
infrastructure - Taxation
- Local Autonomy
9Common Challenges Facing Municipalities
- Environmentally
- Urbanization
- Water quality
- Climate change
- Natural disasters
- Conservation
10Strategic vs. Defensive Enterprise Approach
Decline in Living Systems
Consequences
Governments, standards, regulations
Competition, prices, shortages, insurance
Constrained natural resources
Employee recruiting, retention
Community expectations and relations
Defensive Enterprise
Strategic Enterprise
Time
Population and Demand
(Population x Affluence)
11Vision for the Future
- Strong economy
- Efficient social services
- Clean air, land, and water
- Livable cities
- Engaged citizens
- Effective transportation
- Cultural growth
- Transparency
- Accessibility
- Equality
- Diversity
- Innovation
Sustainable Community
12Meeting the Challenge by Integration
- Municipalities deal with complex and
inter-related issues - Integrated thinking and solutions are critical
- Sustainability is the integration of many
elements, each of which on their own is a
necessary but not a sufficient condition
13Sustainability?
- Part of the global and economic lexicon
- A shared value system
- A focal point for any given venture to work
within - An adaptable process to realize a global,
regional, or local benefit for nature and
humanity - Meeting the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs
14Sustainability Value Lens
INTERNAL TOMORROW Innovation and
Repositioning Clean Technologies Creative
Destruction
EXTERNAL TOMORROW Growth Path Trajectory Meet
Unmet Needs Raise the Bottom
INTERNAL TODAY Cost and Risk Reduction Footprint
Reduction Resource Productivity
EXTERNAL TODAY Reputation and Legitimacy Right to
Operate Stakeholder Engagement
Hart and Milstein, 2003 Creating Sustainable
Value
15Sustainability Value Lens
2020
INTERNAL TOMORROW Innovation and
Repositioning Clean Technologies Creative
Destruction
EXTERNAL TOMORROW Growth Path Trajectory Meet
Unmet Needs Raise the Bottom
2006
EXTERNAL TODAY Reputation and Legitimacy Right
to Operate Stakeholder Engagement
INTERNAL TODAY Cost and Risk Reduction Footprint
Reduction Resource Productivity
16Sustainability Value Lens
INTERNAL TOMORROW Innovation and
Repositioning Clean Technologies Creative
Destruction
EXTERNAL TOMORROW Growth Path Trajectory Meet
Unmet Needs Raise the Bottom
INTERNAL TODAY Cost and Risk Reduction Footprint
Reduction Resource Productivity
EXTERNAL TODAY Reputation and Legitimacy Right to
Operate Stakeholder Engagement
Hart and Milstein, 2003 Creating Sustainable
Value
17Internal Today
- Environmental Management Systems
- Environmental Management Plans
- Pollution Prevention Plans
- Key drivers
- Improved performance and operations
- Due diligence/legal compliance
- Environmental policy/responsibility
- Reduce risk/liability
- Early adopters
- Water, wastewater and waste management
departments - New developments
- Emergency Response Resiliency Plans
18Four Outcomes of an EMS
Product and Service Quality
Regulatory Compliance
Risk Reduction and Preparedness
Governance Credibility with Stakeholders
Result
Improved Environmental/Sustainability Performance
19Municipal EMS Activity in Canada
EMS Status Registered to ISO 14001 (9)
In Progress (10) Planning Stage - no area
of implementation identified (11)
Area of Implementation ALL City-wide
CORP Corporate FAC Facilities
FL Fleet PLAN Planning SW Solid
Waste TRANS Transit WWW
Water/wastewater
Montreal (SW)
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
York Region (WWW)
Quebec City (WWW)
Edmonton (WWW)
Barrie
Sault St. Marie (WWW)
Peel Region (WWW)
Red Deer
Collingwood (WWW)
Halifax (WWW)
Whistler
Ottawa (SW, WWW)
Halton Region (WWW)
Vancouver Region (WWW)
Saskatoon
Kingston
Durham Region (WWW)
Waterloo Region (SW) (WWW in Progress)
Winnipeg (WWW)
Delta
Banff (ALL)
Toronto (WWW planning, SW, FL part implemented.
Transit mostly done)
Kamloops(SW, WWW)
Calgary (ALL)
Hamilton (CORP, FAC, FL, PLAN, SW, TRANS, WWW )
London (WWW)
City of Waterloo
Niagara Region
Notes 1. A 2205 Ontario law requires a basic
management system approach for all municipal
water supply utilities. 2.
Approximately 100 municipalities in U.S.A. are
active with EMS.
20Internal Today
- Project Guelph, Ontarios 1994 Green Plan
grows to a Sustainable Community Plan - Continual improvement leads to
- 14 percent increase in municipal waste diversion
- 10.6 percent decrease in per capita wastewater
generation - 25 percent rise in transit ridership
- Meeting or exceeding GHG reduction targets
21Sustainability Value Lens
INTERNAL TOMORROW Innovation and
Repositioning Clean Technologies Creative
Destruction
EXTERNAL TOMORROW Growth Path Trajectory Meet
Unmet Needs Raise the Bottom
INTERNAL TODAY Cost and Risk Reduction Footprint
Reduction Resource Productivity
EXTERNAL TODAY Reputation and Legitimacy Right to
Operate Stakeholder Engagement
22External/Today
- What gets measured gets managed
- Systematically track progress
- Shared input on metrics/verification of results
- Project City of Calgary
- Sustainability Report with triple-bottom line
indicators - Project City of Seattle
- Balanced Score Card on sustainability performance
23Sustainability Value Lens
INTERNAL TOMORROW Innovation, Repositioning Clean
Technologies Creative Destruction
EXTERNAL TOMORROW Growth Path Trajectory Meet
Unmet Needs Raise the Bottom
INTERNAL TODAY Cost and Risk Reduction Footprint
Reduction Resource Productivity
EXTERNAL TODAY Reputation and Legitimacy Right to
Operate Stakeholder Engagement
24Internal Tomorrow
- Project Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM),
Climate SMART - A planning partnership between all levels of
government and the private sector - Addresses the impacts of climate change
- Includes emissions inventories, models, plans,
and campaigns. - First of its kind at the municipal level
- Others City of Barrie and other FCM Partners for
Climate Protection
25Internal Tomorrow
- Project City of Kamloops Water Treatment
Facility - Opened in February 2005 at a cost of 48.5
million - Largest membrane treatment facility in North
America - First LEED Silver certified water treatment
facility - 43 more efficient than National Energy Code for
Buildings - Includes Centre for Safe Water Excellence UBCs
Kamloops campus and two-year Water Treatment
Technology associated degree program
26Internal Tomorrow
- Project Ride the Wind Renewable Energy Transit
Initiative City of Calgary - 100 emissions free transit system
- ENMAX Energy Corporation and Vision Quest
- Wind-generated electricity
- CO2 emissions reduced by 26,000 tonnes every year
27Internal Tomorrow
- Project City of North Vancouver District
Heating - Planning for 3 million sq.ft. new development
over 10 years - Five district mini-plants replace large central
boiler - 95 efficient
- Adaptable to fuel cell technology
- Partially funded through Federal Green Municipal
Fund - Others Town of Markham and Markham District
Heating
28Internal Tomorrow
- Project Landfill Gas Power, Waterloo Region
- Working in partnership with Toromont Energy and
Ontario Hydro - Collects gas to produce electricity
- Reduces odours to eliminate methane releases
- Supplies gas to the electrical generating station
in exchange for a royalty of 500K/yr. - No financial cost or risk
- City of Vancouver Landfill Gas to Energy City of
Kelowna Landfill Gas to Energy
29Internal Today / Tomorrow
- Project Newcastle, UK goes Carbon Neutral
- Campaign launched in 2002
- Now the worlds first carbon-neutral town
- In partnership local companies and organizations
- GHG Reduction and Offset investments
- Others
- Rolling Stones, Conferences, VanCity Credit
Union, TransAlta, VANOC 2010 Winter Olympic
Games - www.theclimategroup.org
30Internal Tomorrow
- Project Sandy Springs, Georgia outsources
comprehensive municipal services for CH2M
HILL-OMI - Community of 90,000 near Atlanta
- After a 35-year struggle to become a city, 94
approved a referendum in June 2005 in favour of
city-hood, now Georgia's seventh largest city - Striving to create the most efficient,
responsive, and cost-effective city possible - Governor's Commission outsource all municipal
services except police, fire, and 911 emergency
call services - CH2M HILL-OMI manages public works,
transportation, parks and recreation, and
planning and zoning - Award 2005 Environmental Business Journal (EBJ)
Achievement Awards Honorable Mention
31Sustainability Value Lens
INTERNAL TOMORROW Innovation and
Repositioning Clean Technologies Creative
Destruction
EXTERNAL TOMORROW Growth Path Trajectory Meet
Unmet Needs Raise the Bottom
INTERNAL TODAY Cost and Risk Reduction Footprint
Reduction Resource Productivity
EXTERNAL TODAY Reputation and Legitimacy Right to
Operate Stakeholder Engagement
32External/Tomorrow
- Project Tillsonburg, Ontario Introduction of
Broadband Internet Connectivity - After first year of implementation
- Cost benefit of 873,162
- 100,000 in new revenues
- 58 increase in customer service hours
- No new taxes
- 89 of residents 80 of businesses believe
Tillsonburg is a better place to live - Others Teleworking Programs beginning in
Canada changes view of sourcing professional
resources, transportation demand, office
footprint reduction
33External Tomorrow
Project Asian Tsunami, CH2M HILL Emergency
Response
- Partnered with GE to provide mobile water
treatment operating services and training of
local staff - Participated in water and sanitation planning and
coordination effort through UNICEF
34External Tomorrow
Project Asian Tsunami, CH2M HILL Emergency
Response
- Produced and distributed water 18 hours per day
- Trained local operators for long-term OM
- Provided toys and water to orphanages
- All pro bono! 600,000 of company money
35External Tomorrow
Project Hurricane Katrina, CH2M HILL Emergency
Response
- Working with FEMA, Army Corps of Engineers and
EPA - Establishing 1,300 temporary housing trailers and
300 schools and municipal buildings - Assessing damage to Superfund sites
- Providing 122 quality assurance inspectors for
debris removal and temporary roofing
36External Tomorrow
Hurricane Katrina CH2M HILL Emergency Response
- Establishing remediation cost estimates
- Repairing damage to roads, seawalls and sand
dunes - Building communication networks for emergency
management facilities
37All Integrated
INTERNAL TOMORROW Innovation and
Repositioning Clean Technologies Creative
Destruction
EXTERNAL TOMORROW Growth Path Trajectory Meet
Unmet Needs Raise the Bottom
INTERNAL TODAY Cost and Risk Reduction Footprint
Reduction Resource Productivity
EXTERNAL TODAY Reputation and Legitimacy Right to
Operate Stakeholder Engagement
Hart and Milstein, 2003 Creating Sustainable
Value
38Internal Tomorrow/All Integrated
- Project Burnaby Mountain Community, BC
Stormwater Management Plan - Integrated stormwater management plan with
transportation and site design - Source control on individual sites integrated
with the landscape design - Source control and infiltration on the road
system to promote runoff volume reduction - Stormwater quality and quantity control
- Riparian corridor management
- Monitoring and reporting on performance
39All Integrated
- Town of Markham Sustainable Community Planning
- Created the Performance Measures Document
- Introduced into the town's Official Plan in the
spring of 2003 - Determined that all new development proposals
must meet sustainable performance measures - Prepared in consultation with the public
40All Integrated
- Project City of Toronto, Sustainable planning
framework - Redevelopment of more than 1,000 acres
- Former industrial lands impacted by historical
uses - VALUE Return land to productive use and
revitalize this area of Toronto - SUSTAINABLE COMPONENTS
- Bolsters planning policies, complements master
development schemes, and provides guidance for
development proposals - Provides sustainability framework with goals,
objectives, targets, actions for a variety of
media (i.e. water, transportation, soil, etc.)
41Toronto
42All Integrated
- Project Cities PLUS Vancouver Region 100-year
sustainability plan - Two years, 500 experts, 20 Canadian
municipalities - Awarded Grand Prix at the international
Sustainable Urban Systems Design competition in
Tokyo, June 2003 - Lives on within GVRDs Sustainable Region
Initiative - 30 Network attracts domestic and international
cities for showcasing at UN WUF June 2006
43All Integrated
- Project Resort Municipality of Whistler, BC
- Whistler 2020
- Built on The Natural Step Framework
- Alignment of stakeholders through a common
language and shared vision of success for
sustainability in the community - Caps hospitality growth addresses employment
and housing for locals and transient workforce - Features specifications for future plans,
expansions and upgrades - 2005 Whistler wins Planning for the Future
category of the International Awards for Livable
Communities 2005La Coruna, Spain - Others Town of Canmore, City of Halifax
44All Integrated
- Project City of Calgary, Alberta, Imagine
Calgary 100-Year Plan - Visioning
- A long-range vision of a sustainable Calgary that
captures the values of today's citizens and
inspires action - Strategies and Targets
- 30-year strategies and targets developed through
systems based methodology - Legacy
- A strategy that achieves widespread community
ownership of, and action toward, the
ImagineCALGARY vision and strategies
45Imagine Sustainability through Public Art
- Project City of Calgary, Utilities and
Environmental Protection Department (UEP) Public
Art Master Plan - CH2M HILL with VIA Partnership, Cliff Garten
Studio - Public Art as a vehicle to express key services
and programs of the UEP funded through capital
projects of the UEP - Unique approach sustainability education and
environmental stewardship - Bow and Elbow Rivers as focal points for
projectWatershed as an essential component of
the City
46Potential future integration
- With current major Urban Design initiatives
- Centre City and Beltline Planning
- Science Centre Nose Creek
- Eau Claire Market Master Planning
- Pine Creek WWTP
- UEP Water Centre
- Memorial Drive Landscape of Memory
- Calgary Parks Legacy Project for Imagine Calgary
47Progress toward Integration
- Engage at community and strategic level
- Take broad and long-term perspective
- Focus on vision and flexibility
- Internal Today
- Build on risk reduction programs, continual
improvement - External Today
- Build on governance, stakeholder engagement,
legitimacy - Accountability, tracking, reporting
- External Today
- Invest and partner on new and break-through
innovations to support step changes - External Tomorrow
- tap into community, volunteer, internal capacity
for local/global community prosperity and meeting
basic needs - new market development
48Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt
- "The perfect scale for the creation of socially
and ecologically sustainable role models is at
the municipality level - close to people as it is... Municipalities
hold the key to a sustainable world in their
hands. - The Natural Step Founder
49- Thank You
- Ann Duffy
- ann.duffy_at_ch2m.com
- Vancouver