Culture
CULTURE - Protection of Environment 

CES Engineering Ltd. believes that businesses are responsible for achieving good environmental practice and operating in a sustainable manner.  

We are therefore committed to reducing our environmental impact and continually improving our environmental performance as an integral and fundamental part of our business strategy and operating methods.  

It is our priority to encourage our customers, suppliers and all business associates to do the same. Not only is this sound commercial sense for all; it is also a matter of delivering on our duty of care towards future generations.

Our policy is to:

• Minimize energy and water usage in our buildings, vehicles and processes in order to conserve supplies, and minimize our consumption of natural resources, especially where they are non-renewable. 
• Operate and maintain company vehicles (where appropriate) with due regard to environmental issues as far as reasonably practical and encourage the use of alternative means of transport and car sharing as appropriate.
• Encourage flexible work schedule and telecommuting to minimizing reliance on motor vehicles.
• Minimize our waste and then reuse or recycle as much of it as possible. 
• As far as possible purchase products and services that do the least damage to the environment and encourage others to do the same.
• Assess the environmental impact of any new processes or products we intend to introduce in advance.

In pursuit of the above objectives, CES is actively engaged in the following practices:

• Several employees are regular commuter cyclists and make efforts to engage the rest of the company through promotion of Bike to Work Week team and other related events.
• CES head office in Vancouver, BC is part of a BOMA BESt facility. BOMA BESt® (Building Environmental Standards) is a national program launched in 2005 by BOMA Canada to address an industry need for realistic standards for energy and environmental performance of existing buildings based on accurate, independently verified information. 
• Use of Skype, Sharepoint and other office collaboration software to facilitate remote work
• CES head office in Vancouver, BC has active programs for composting of organics, recycling of daily paper, plastic, glass and metals; as well as collection of used batteries, and electronics for reuse and recycling through programs such as FreeGeek (www.freegeekvancouver.org)
• Employee-lead initiatives such as efforts to eliminate the use of wasteful single-use coffee maker systems such as Keurig.
• Use of paper-less (electronic) filing systems for project work, and electronic copies of report submissions whenever possible.  
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