FCM Sustainable Communities National Conference 2006

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Ann Duffy VP Sustainable Development
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My 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

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As 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

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My 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

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CH2M 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

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CH2M 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

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Common Challenges Facing Municipalities

• Socially.
• Crime
• Education
• Health and well-being
• Cultural resources
• Population growth and aging
• Political timelines vs. planning and development
  timelines

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Common Challenges Facing Municipalities

• Economically.
• Financial accountability
• Economy Swings
• Employment
• Provision of effective basic services and
  infrastructure
• Taxation
• Local Autonomy

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Common Challenges Facing Municipalities

• Environmentally
• Urbanization
• Water quality
• Climate change
• Natural disasters
• Conservation

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Strategic 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)
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Vision 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

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Meeting 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

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Sustainability?

• 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

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Sustainability 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
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Sustainability 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
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Sustainability 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
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Internal 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

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Four Outcomes of an EMS
Product and Service Quality
Regulatory Compliance
Risk Reduction and Preparedness
Governance Credibility with Stakeholders
Result
Improved Environmental/Sustainability Performance
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Municipal 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.
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Internal 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

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Sustainability 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
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External/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

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Sustainability 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
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Internal 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

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Internal 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

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Internal 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

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Internal 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

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Internal 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

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Internal 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

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Internal 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

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Sustainability 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
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External/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

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External 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

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External 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

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External 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

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External 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

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All 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
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Internal 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

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All 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

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All 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.)

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Toronto
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All 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

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All 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

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All 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

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Imagine 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

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Potential 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

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Progress 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

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Dr. 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

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• Thank You
• Ann Duffy
• ann.duffy_at_ch2m.com
• Vancouver