Black & Veatch Sustainability Policy

I joined Black & Veatch almost 18 months ago and immediately joined the corporate sustainability committee and its subcommittee charged with developing a corporate sustainability policy. While we were challenged at times to come up with the right policy and the right justification consistent with the company's culture, the executive committee approved today a policy statement that should provide a firm foundation for futue endeavors. That policy is provided below.

BLACK & VEATCH SUSTAINABILITY POLICY

Policy 8.01 – Sustainability.

Since its inception in 1915, the Company has lived by the value of stewardship. We continue today to recognize this core value in all that the Company does and include it as one of the elements we annually use in performance discussions with our professionals. In today’s vernacular, stewardship and sustainability are very interchangeable. This policy covers sustainability in direct support of the company’s core value of stewardship.

The Company is committed to sustainability -- meeting the needs of the present generation while improving the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable solutions build value through services, products, and operations that integrate economic, community and environmental needs. Our overall focus is on what best serves our client’s needs. To that end we, continuously improve our related sustainability services, provide thought leadership and practice good stewardship of the company’s operations, the environment, and the communities in which we work.

Sustainable Solutions.
The Company is a market leader in delivering solutions that integrate economic, community and environmental considerations to accommodate client specific needs. Implementation of the following supporting objectives is tailored to each client’s sustainability perspective.
a) The Company offers solutions that consider life cycle of facilities, services, and materials, and conserve resources through prudent and economic use, reuse, and waste minimization.
b) The Company seeks to avoid unnecessary environmental impacts by complying with legal requirements and offering environmental engineering and permitting services to integrate clients’ environmental objectives.
c) The Company helps clients integrate sustainable community development and environmental impact considerations with client project financial goals.
d) The Company supports clients in engaging stakeholders who are affected by the clients’ projects.
e) The Company encourages its professionals to cultivate awareness of and consider the sustainable aspects of the Company’s activities and services and their individual personal actions.
f) Corporate Procurement encourages project suppliers and subcontractors to adopt sustainable practices that support client needs.
g) Divisions provide communication, training and professional development necessary for professionals to understand and implement policy and practices that facilitate delivering sustainable solutions.

Sustainable Operations & Community Outreach.
The Company believes that there is a direct tie between efficient operation of the business and sustainability. The Company implements the following objectives as an active leader in developing sustainable internal operations and community outreach.
a) Divisions develop and implement management systems to identify practices and set goals to achieve continuous improvement.
b) The Company conserves resources needed for internal operations through prudent and economic use, reuse and waste minimization in concert with the local community.
c) The Company manages facilities and operations to safeguard the environment.
d) Corporate Procurement will show preference for vendors and suppliers who adopt sustainable practices.
e) The Company promotes health, safety and security in the workplace as described in Corporate Policies 3.13 and 3.16.
f) The Company protects rights of its professionals to equal opportunity regarding all employment matters, promotes practices that reinforce inclusion and diversity management, complies with all laws and regulations, and follows fair employment practices in our operations as set forth in the Company’s Code of Conduct and corporate policies.
g) The Company’s facility planning considers sustainable community development.
h) The Company participates in community outreach programs to help improve and sustain the quality of life in communities touched by Black & Veatch.
i) The Company promotes stakeholder awareness of the B&V policies, practices and performance that facilitate sustainable internal operations and community outreach.