Report 2015
The U.K.s greenest civic centre Expected to use 65 percent less Above: Brent Civic Centre,
energy and 45 percent less water
London, England. AECOMs
role: town planning, engineering
Incorporating a host of energy- and than a conventional building design, environmental and
water-saving ixtures, sensors and sustainability services.
gardens, the Brent Civic Centre in Consolidates functions from
London is the irst public building in 14 buildings, saving 2.5 million
Cover image: NASA Ames
Research Center, Mofett
the U.K. to receive an Outstanding (US$3.7 million) in annual operating Field, California, United States.
BREEAM rating for sustainability. costs AECOMs role: architect of record,
The combined oice building and
engineer of record and landscape
Cooling, heating and power run on
architect of record.
community space features a concrete
faade and lightweight roof that 11 diferent fuels, primarily waste
harness natural light and warmth, but ish oil, one of the least carbon-
limit excess heat and glare, while open intensive biofuels
windows and ventilators provide fresh
Sustainable Project of the Year,
air and natural cooling nearly year-
2014 Building Awards
round. AECOM delivered an array of
planning, design and sustainability
services for the project.
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Delivering impactful solutions
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AECOM is a company with a vision to Sustainability is also at the core of The greatest positive
build a better world. how we run our company. We take impact we can have
our responsibilities seriously, and globally is in the
Our projects transform communities, continue to deliver improvements transformational
improve lives and power growth by in our environmental performance outcomes we deliver.
designing, building, inancing and across key performance indicators
operating infrastructure assets including greenhouse gas emissions
around the world. (GHGs), water, waste and energy
and preparedness for the impacts
AECOMs 2015 sustainability report
of climate change. This year, we
is our irst since we completed the
committed to reducing AECOM
largest combination of irms in our
greenhouse gas emissions by the
industrys history. Within it, youll
year 2020, as further detailed ahead
ind work ranging from building
in this report.
energy eicient sports stadiums to
piloting a food warehousing system Our company is built around the
that supports food production power of connected expertise and
and revenues for small farmers in collaboration to reimagine and create
Mozambique and Zambia, as well new potential for built and natural
as public-private partnerships to environments. Together, we strive to
develop sustainable urban living make a lasting and positive impact
solutions and provide disaster on society and the environment
response and resilience planning. that will make a diference for future
These stories highlight our common generations.
purpose: to positively impact lives,
transform communities and make Best Regards,
the world a better place.
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Projects Community
Our involvement in these projects Our eforts to make a positive
showcase how innovation, passion, diference are led by many. This
and our global reach can help commitment to enriching local
deliver a better world. communities touches the lives of
millions.
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Environmental impact People
This year, we follow the lead of our The power of our people drives
biggest clients to take an important transformational outcome.
step forward on the path to
greening our operations.
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The steps we took in 2015 to
Partnerships continually improve and expand our
The world was not short on commitment to sustainability
challenges in 2015. Our collaboration reporting.
to develop solutions through
innovation is needed now more
than ever.
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Innovative solutions.
Positive impacts.
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Los Angeles International Airport
Central Utility Plant, California,
United States.
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2014 Project of the Supporting Denvers work to achieve This project supports Denvers
Year, Design-Build its 2020 Sustainability Goals, AECOM eforts to achieve its 2020
Institute of America helped transform an underused Sustainability Goals, which include
neighborhood into a new transit hub. reducing the number of single-
The Union Transit Station project in occupant vehicle commuting trips.
Denver, Colorado converted almost
20 acres of an abandoned rail yard The Union Station Bus Concourse
into a mixed-use development that has a LEED Gold rating for its use of
combines bus, light rail and passenger recycled materials in construction
rail facilities with 1.35 million square and the incorporation of skylights
feet of oice, retail and residential in its design to provide natural light,
property development and public among many other sustainability
space. AECOM coordinated all features in its design and
aspects of transportation planning operation.
and acted as lead designer for the
2014 Project of the Year, Design-
design-build team that delivered the
Build Institute of America.
US$489 million transit component of
this public-private partnership.
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Warehouse Receipts System
project, Zambia and Mozambique.
The twin target of reducing its carbon The measures identiied potential
footprint while also saving money was savings across the ive sites
the challenge set by global acrylics of over US$20 million and more
manufacturer Lucite International. than 140,000 metric tons of
Its goal was to achieve 20-percent carbon dioxide.
savings in energy costs and reduce
Energy audits for Lucite
carbon below 2010 levels by 2020. Many of the measures focused
International, North America,
Europe and Asia. AECOM performed audits on ive of on improvements at the Sulphuric
Lucites global sites, including those Acid Recovery unit (SAR) which
in the United Kingdom, United States, consumes more than 60 percent of
China and Taiwan. Beating Lucites the energy at each plant.
targets, our team of engineering and
Opportunities for on-site power
sustainability professionals identiied
generation were also identiied,
energy eiciency measures that
with some sites having the
could reduce 30 percent of total
potential to become self-suicient
carbon emissions and 20 percent of
in power, signiicantly reducing
total energy consumption at these
costs and also improving business
facilities.
resilience to external factors such
as unplanned outages.
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Halley VI, Brunt Ice Shelf, Caird
Coast, Antarctica.
The worlds irst-ever permanently (31.7 gallons) per person per day at aerospace industry that ofer high
manned, fully relocatable polar Halley V to just 20 liters (5 gallons) per levels of thermal insulation and
research station, Halley VI, is a person per day. light transmittance.
record breaker in many ways. It was
created for the British Antarctic Sewage is irst treated in a bioreactor The modular design and large
Survey (BAS) with AECOM as before being incinerated. This means steel skis on each foot enable the
multidisciplinary engineer and lead when the station moves, nothing is station to be relocated, adapting to
consultant and Hugh Broughton left behind except clean water. changes in the ice shelf upon which
Architects as designer. The project it sits.
Highly energy eicient, Halley VI
won the 2015 American Society of
uses 7 percent less fuel
Civil Engineerings Outstanding Civil
than the previous BAS station.
Engineering Achievement Award.
Its cladding incorporates
The stations design was developed polyisocyanurate foam, a high-
to minimize environmental impact. A performance insulator, and
vacuum drainage system has helped translucent glazing using nanogel
to reduce water usage from 120 liters technologies developed in the
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Environmental
impact
Smart water saving Chelsea Burkett, local sustainability
committee leader at AECOMs
Austin, Texas, oice, demonstrates
new moisture sensors that are one
of several water savings projects on
campus.
In Austin, Texas, AECOMs campus than 14.3 million gallons since 2011.
consists of ive buildings that span 24 To increase savings further, the
acres with landscaped areas. Water committee is evaluating additional
conservation initiatives, introduced by measures including rainwater
the local sustainability committee, harvesting and inclusion of low-water-
have reduced water usage by 32 use plants, known as xeriscaping.
percent in 2015 (based on a 2011
baseline). Although the majority of our oices
do not have the ability to track water
Solutions, such as installing an consumption, several oices in our
automated system to prevent Greater China/Southeast Asia region
irrigation system leaks and moisture also track their water use, reporting a
sensors that adjust the watering 17 percent reduction on a per capita
schedule based on rainfall, have basis from FY2014 to FY2015.
generated a water savings of more
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Doing more with less
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129,381 130,014
We regularly measure and report
on the volume of greenhouse gas 67,200
(GHG) emissions resulting from our
operations. With the acquisition
of URS Corporation and Hunt
Construction in 2014, the magnitude
and relative mix of AECOMs GHG
emissions have changed signiicantly.
As such, we have chosen to use
this years 2015 GHG inventory,
Oice heating Electricity Fleet fuel
which includes all major sources of
emissions for the combined company,
as our new baseline year for reporting 2015 performance indicators
purposes. Scope 3 (metric tons CO2e)
8% 10%
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Setting targets GHGs reduction target
Metric tons C02e / $USMillion
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Partnerships
The Kuala Lumpur Centre for entrepreneurs and innovators to We hope to open
Sustainable Innovation (KLCSI) is a share knowledge and technology. the door for bigger
joint venture between AECOM and impactful schemes
Malaysias Ministry for Federal Initial projects include a bike sharing
that AECOM can
Territories. It focuses on public and initiative aimed at reducing the citys
deliver by leveraging
private sector engagement to develop traic volume, a community food-
on our own innovative
innovative and sustainable solutions waste-to-compost recycling network
practices worldwide.
for improving the citys livability. to support urban gardens and a
Dr. Thomas Tang,
community center to encourage
director, KLCSI
Launched in 2015, the KLCSI provides intergenerational connectivity
a collaborative hub to encourage pilot between the elderly and youth.
projects for the built environment, as
well as city management, urban
mobility, information and
communications technology, public
safety, waste and water management
and clean energy. It provides a space
for international experts, local
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Stronger together
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Urban SOS: All Systems Go
AECOMs Urban SOS, sponsored in become self-suicient in its food We believe that
2015 by the Van Alen Institute and 100 production. The team received a tomorrows cities will
Resilient Cities pioneered by the US$7,500 prize and up to US$25,000 require holistic,
Rockefeller Foundation, is a global of in-kind staf time to support integrated thinking
student design competition. In the advancing their project. like that advanced by
awards sixth installment, university Urban SOS participants
teams were asked to identify risks The runner-up teams were from the in this competition
facing urban food, energy and water Massachusetts Institute of to prepare for the
systems and to ofer strategies that Technology, Berkeley City College, challenges ahead and
make these systems more eicient, Louisiana State University and the to prioritize the long-
equitable and accessible. University of the Aegean, Greece. term projects they
pursue, develop and
Judges awarded the top prize to a fund.
team of graduate students from the Mike Burke
University of Pennsylvania who Chairman and CEO
ofered an ambitious new urban
landscape plan to help Singapore
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Measuring resilience
Meiwan Kartiwa
Since 2012, AECOM has partnered combat climate change. More than
with CDPs Global Cities program, 500 cities use CDPs platform to
providing data analysis and report on their climate change-related
information design for its annual data every year. CDP and AECOM use
global reports. Cities are hubs of this large data set to produce analysis
innovation, growth, urbanization and and reports relating to how cities are
economic activities, but they also tackling these challenges.
consume signiicant amounts of
To learn about CDPs Global Cities
energy and contribute to carbon
Report 2015 click here.
dioxide emissions. This presents
cities with a major opportunity to
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AECOMs Michael Whitworth, senior engineering
2015
geologist, in Nepal with the Institution of
Structural Engineers Earthquake Engineering
Field Investigation team.
Community
In the aftermath of Nepals massive Authority, to ensure everyone on the Earthquake Engineering Field
earthquake in April 2015, our project was accounted for and safe. Investigation team. Michael and his
employees rallied to assist in the team went to Nepal to provide
disaster relief and recovery eforts in Their colleagues in our corporate, technical evaluation of Nepals
one of Asias most disadvantaged regional and local oices donated infrastructure and to collect scientiic
countries. more than US$95,000 to international and engineering facts that will help
aid organizations, such as the identify the causes of building failures,
AECOMs Guillaume Prudent-Richard International Red Cross and RedR, in landslides and other issues.
and Amit Prothi were on assignment in the months following the event.
Kathmandu, Nepals capital, when the
quake struck. They were there to help AECOM also assisted employees who
run a disaster-risk management wanted to provide on-the-ground
workshop, but what was only a support in Nepal. One employee,
scenario model for the two planning Michael Whitworth, a senior
experts suddenly became very real. engineering geologist, participated
They worked with the client, in a scientiic and engineering
Kathmandu Valley Development fact-inding mission with the
Institution of Structural Engineers
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Building a better world
with volunteerism
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Canada
Employees helped raise
C$235,877 (US$181,374)
for the United Way
nonproit organization by
enrolling in the voluntary
payroll deduction
contribution program and
hosting a range of creative
fundraising activities
including bake sales,
Halloween parties, silent
auctions, marshmallow
towers and eBingo. AECOM
in Canada matched 50
percent of all employee
donations.
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United Arab Emirates China
AECOM Unity Walk for Nature is the
representatives collected World Wildlife Fund
cash donations from staf (WWF)-Hong Kongs
in response to a powerful largest annual fundraising
snowstorm that swept event and highlights the
across Lebanon and need for environmental
Jordan. The donations conservation by increasing
were given to the UAE public awareness and
Red Crescent to help buy appreciation of nature.
blankets, winter clothes
and food supplies for
people living in refugee
camps.
AECOM was the Sunbird
Sponsor and a group
of 30 people including
employees, friends
and family members
478
Number of charitable
organizations
participated in the walk. supported globally
in 2015
India Australia
Several employees The kitchen at social housing
participated in a two- complex 100 Hampton
week trip to Hyderabad in Road in Perth provides
support of Pollinate Energy, residents the skills to obtain
a not-for-proit organization employment in the food
committed to supporting and hospitality industry. In a
the next generation of social pro-bono partnership with
entrepreneurs by providing community organizations,
access to sustainable and AECOM helped build the
afordable technologies. thriving community asset.
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People
Safety
AECOMs culture of caring sets an our safety performance goal legacy AECOM operations; 2015 data
expectation for each employee, coming in at 7.5 percent under our relects the combined companys
contractor and business partner to targeted corporate recordable operations.
take personal responsibility for incident rate. Similarly, our corporate
protecting the safety of our colleagues lost workday case rate has reduced The true mark of our
and others associated with our work. by 11 percent*. This number success lies in keeping
Whether located on a project site, in represents a signiicant decrease our employees and
the oice or at home, we embrace in both the number and severity of the end users of our
safety as a lifestyle choice by serious injuries globally. projects safe each day.
maintaining essential safety procedures Andy Peters
and behaviors everywhere we go. *To account for AECOMs integration
Senior Vice President,
with legacy URS, this percentage is
Chief Safety Oicer
As highlighted in our recently released the average improvement from 2010
2015 safety report, we have exceeded to 2015. 2010 to 2014 data relects
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Making amazing happen
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Ethics
We have succeeded in AECOMs Ethics & Compliance program Hotline: We maintain a 24-hour,
earning our clients is an integral part of our companys seven-day-per-week hotline with
trust by delivering culture. It encompasses the key extensive language capabilities open to
outstanding customer elements of ethics and compliance all employees, contractors and third
service and fully best practices, including policies and parties.
committing to acting procedures, training and assurance.
Governance: AECOMs leadership
ethically in all that we
Training: AECOMs mandatory Code of communicates regularly about the
do. Integrity guides us
Conduct online training is available in 15 importance of integrity to all employees.
as we conduct our
languages. In addition, employees are Each geography and business line has
business around the
assigned training on evolving areas of an ethics and compliance committee
world.
compliance on a regular basis. that reports quarterly to the Global
AECOM Chairman and
Ethics & Compliance Committee.
CEO, Mike Burke
Professional development
We want our people to reach their full Our career planning program is a
potential. To meet these goals we partnership between employees,
provide a supportive professional managers and the company that
environment full of opportunity helps both personal goals and
whether it is participating in one of business needs. It allows employees
the more than 10,000 courses ofered to take ownership and initiative for
by AECOM University, being their own careers, supported by
recognized in our awards programs, managers who serve as catalysts,
taking part in our career planning coaches and supporters.
program or working on some of the
Lac-Mgantic train derailment worlds most exciting projects.
disaster cleanup, Quebec, Canada.
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Diversity and Inclusion
Supplier diversity
2015 Small business Supplier diversity is an important part Champion of Veteran Enterprise,
accomplishment summary of the way we do business. We National Veteran Small Business
Includes US federal government recognize small business concerns to Coalition (NVSBC)
contracts and EIC business group ensure that small, women-owned,
HUBZone, veteran-owned and Top Military Friendly Supplier
service-disabled veteran-owned Diversity Programs, National
businesses have the maximum Veteranowned Business
practicable opportunity to compete Association (NaVOBA)
for the procurement of goods and
Americas Top Corporations for
services. We are committed to an
Womens Business Enterprise,
efective supplier diversity program
Womens Business Enterprise
that demonstrates measurable
National Council (WBENC)
improvement from year to year and is
consistent with recognized industry
objectives, applications and
contractual expectations of our
clients. This corporate commitment
extends to the procurement of all
goods and services, whether the
Large business Small business purchases support federal, state or
57.73% 42.27%
US$1,060.4M US$776.3M local governments, commercial
clients, or in-house needs.
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About AECOM
Our clients face tough challenges, 7 continents Our success only comes when we
and we work to understand and hold true to our shared purpose and
solve them better than anyone else.
92,000 employees core values:
We match the complexity of these 150+ countries
challenges with the diversity of our People
expertise, spanning all phases of the ~US$18B revenue The expertise, passion and thought
development life cycle design, leadership of our talented people
build, inance, operate and manage. around the world make our success
This experience delivers innovative
Fast Facts possible. We respect and encourage
solutions that transform communities our peoples ideas, diversity and
Global Headquarters: Los Angeles,
and improve lives. The result of our cultures.
California, United States
work is not just a single solution but an
Clients
outcome in which circumstances are Ranked #1 in Engineering News-
We are committed to our clients
dramatically changed for the better. Records Top Green Design Firms
and to setting industry standards
The revitalization of a neighborhood.
Ranked #1 in Engineering News- for service and delivery. We take
The next generation of a business.
Records Top 500 Design Firms ownership for solving our clients
The growth of an economy. The
problems and anticipating new
stabilization of a country. The health
Named one of Fortune magazines opportunities.
of the planet. This is how we are built
Worlds Most Admired Companies
to deliver a better world. Excellence
Diversity/Careers Magazine: Best We believe in delivering unequivocal
AECOM is publicly listed (New
Diversity Company excellence in everything that we do.
York Stock Exchange: ACM) and is
governed by a 12-member Board of Integrity
Directors which ensures the company We must always maintain our
maintains its position and reputation commitment to acting ethically and
as an ethical leader. with integrity in all that we do, every
day of the year.
Safety
We are a company that puts safety
irst. We are all accountable for
keeping ourselves and our colleagues
safe, and for delivering work safely to
our clients.
Innovation
We diferentiate our company by
challenging ourselves to look for
new and better ways to deliver
our expertise through innovative
solutions that enable each client to
realize its vision.
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AECOM provided construction management
for One World Trade Center which is seeking
LEED Gold certiication through the use
of renewable energy sources, low-energy
HVAC solutions, high-performance faades,
non-ozone-depleting chemicals, sustainable
materials, and rainwater collection and
recycling systems.
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Award-winning conservation sustainability awards for innovation
and excellence. The award was for the
The Lawrence Livermore National labs multifaceted approach to water
Laboratory, California, United conservation in drought-stricken
States, to which AECOM is a California. Through implementation
contributing partner with leadership of its water conservation plan, which
responsibilities for Facilities, targets water consumption in cooling
Infrastructure, and Environmental, towers, domestic use and irrigation,
Safety & Health, was recognized the lab cut its water use by more than
for its eforts in water conservation 10 percent of its 240 million gallon
by the National Nuclear Security annual total.
Administration (NNSA), which
selected the lab for one of its 2015
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About AECOM
AECOM is built to deliver a better world. We design, build,
inance and operate infrastructure assets for governments,
businesses and organizations in more than 150 countries. As
a fully integrated irm, we connect knowledge and experience
across our global network of experts to help clients solve their
most complex challenges. From high-performance buildings
and infrastructure, to resilient communities and environments,
to stable and secure nations, our work is transformative,
diferentiated and vital. A Fortune 500 irm, AECOM had revenue
of approximately US$18 billion during iscal year 2015.
See how we deliver what others can only imagine at aecom.com
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