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David Evans and Associates, Inc.
Location	Portland, OR
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Company Description David Evans and Associates, Inc. (DEA) is a multidisciplinary consulting company doing business in the energy, transportation, water, and land development markets. DEA employs more than 800 professional engineers, surveyors, planners, architects, landscape architects, natural resources scientists, and construction managers. DEA was founded as an infrastructure planning and design firm in 1976. It is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and has offices across the western United States. "DEA has had a very long-standing commitment to sustainable resource management. Our new strategic direction statement specifies that DEA will be "leaders in sustainable resource management and carbon reduction solutions by 2013. Joining EPA Climate Leaders will help us meet that goal." -Paul Horton, Director of Sustainability
Reasons for Joining Climate Leaders DEA's Core Purpose statement is, "To improve the quality of life while demonstrating stewardship of the built and natural environments." This commitment means individually and collectively taking responsibility for the economic, environmental, and social consequences of our actions. Carbon reduction and other sustainability practices and programs are the vehicles through which DEA demonstrates stewardship.
GHG Reductions Before Joining Climate Leaders - In 2007, sustainability committees were established in each of DEA's over 20 offices to focus on making a variety of environmental improvements. - In 2008, a full-time, senior corporate-level director of sustainability was hired. This position reports to the CEO - DEA Purchases Renewable Energy Credits from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation for 100 percent of the firm's electricity purchases.
Approach to GHG Management A 2009 key result for the firm's internal practices is 10 percent carbon reduction firm-wide (no long-term reduction targets have been made at this time). As a first step, DEA underwent its first carbon footprint analysis in 2008. Though imperfect, this first footprint analysis has increased our knowledge of the process and will allow the company to more strategically identify and prioritize opportunities for carbon reduction in 2009 and 2010. We focus on direct and indirect emissions (including Scope 3 emission reductions from employee commuting and solid waste). We are targeting both large and small reduction opportunities (recently invested in video teleconferencing technology and advancing alternative work schedules to reduce employee computing and other work-related energy usage).

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