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SUSTAINABILITY REPORT2017

KLEINFELDER SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

2017 Sustainability Report Table of Contents

Our Vision of Sustainability 01

Supporting Our Clients’ Sustainability Goals 02

Natural Resources

Resiliency

Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design

Waste Reduction

Sustainable & Green Operations

Sustainable Project Implementation

Corporate Sustainability Footprinting 07

Utility Management

Public Transit

Energy Consumption

Equipment Disposal

Materials Management

Looking Forward: Next Steps 11

CONTENTS

2017 Sustainability Report 1

Sustainability is the balance between the built and the natural worlds – where social, economic, and environmental considerations intersect and interact. Sustainability has become an organizing business principle in the past few years, with globalization of markets, increased demand for resources, and climate change creating new business risks. Kleinfelder combines our service offerings in new ways to identify and solve for these new risks.

Sustainability has been a core design principle for Kleinfelder since the founding of our company. We are an industry leader in the planning, design, construction and operation of facilities in which the principles of sustainability and environmental stewardship are integrally embedded. Sustainability is not just a part of

our services portfolio, however. Internally, we implement several sustainable initiatives aimed at reducing our environmental footprint. We take into account water consumption, energy use, carbon emissions, and waste generation to identify potential reduction measures throughout our offices, and provide a better work environment for our own staff.

The intent of this report is to share our corporate efforts towards internal sustainability goals and to highlight our work with clients to achieve similar goals.

OUR VISION OF SUSTAINABILITY


Kleinfelder has combined service offerings with varied projects for many of our clients. We are currently leading several cutting-edge projects for public and private clients, including Net Zero and Sustainability master plans, climate-change vulnerability assessments and resiliency plans, sea-level rise and inundation modeling, strategic carbon planning, energy management, water vulnerability planning and materials management projects.

SUPPORTING OUR CLIENTS’SUSTAINABILITY GOALS

NATURAL RESOURCESCity of San Diego Photovoltaic Generating SystemThe six-year, $115-million Miramar Clearwells Improvement Project involved the design of two modern clearwells totaling 58.3 million gallons of capacity, as well as specialized analysis to help meet permitting and environmental compliance for this major water treatment project. Kleinfelder delivered innovative solutions across the project’s multiple arenas—disinfection technologies, water-quality permitting, environmental issues, hydraulics, and a 215-MGD lift station.

By completing the photovoltaics at Miramar, all of the City’s water treatment plants are now equipped with solar technology. The City is committed to include renewable energy in their projects, and the clearwells provided a perfect opportunity with seven acres of unimpeded area for solar panels. In order to achieve the project’s overall sustainability goals, the team modeled the lift station per the Hydraulic Institutes’s requirements, then worked with the energy team to develop recommendations for a 1-MW photovoltaic solar generating system for the roof of the clearwells. Kleinfelder also created a 3D animation of the construction sequence to illustrate the improvements. Kleinfelder’s expert recommendations enabled optimized performance, cost-savings, and sustainability on this important and complex endeavor.


RESILIENCYMassachusetts Port Authority Coastal Flood Resiliency ProjectClimate change is increasing the likelihood that a major coastal flood will impact the City of Boston, MA. As a critical infrastructure owner, public transportation agency Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is working to become more resilient to this risk. The Coastal Flood Resiliency Project represents the implementation phase of Massport’s earlier climate assessments and planning. The project includes floodproofing of Massport’s ten most vulnerable critical assets and facility-wide Flood Operations Plans for four facilities, including Logan International Airport. Massport’s Sustainability Management Plan includes goals for both climate resiliency and greenhouse gas mitigation. Kleinfelder’s design solutions helped accomplish both. For example, Kleinfelder identified the need to elevate an emergency generator to prevent potential flood damage. Rather than simply raising the existing generator, which was at the end of its design life, we replaced it with an energy-efficient, ultra-low-sulfur diesel model. This design offers the dual benefits of increasing resiliency and reducing greenhouse gas and particulate matter emissions. More broadly, by preventing premature capital replacement, this project’s flood resilience efforts will reduce unnecessary energy and materials consumption.


LEADERSHIP IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN (LEED)Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) Women’s Correctional CenterKleinfelder was the prime consultant providing project management, architectural, structural, and civil design services for the Western Massachusetts Women’s Correctional Center in Chicopee, MA. This is a $14 million housing addition for an existing correctional center.

The design team incorporated LEED principles early in the design phase as a part of the collaborative process between Kleinfelder, its sub-consultants, and the project owner. DCAMM required the project receive a minimum LEED Silver Certification. The project team went above and beyond the client’s expectations by achieving LEED Gold—at no added cost to the construction budget or significant additional schedule.

The LEED-designed housing addition is beneficial for the inmates’ and employees’ well-being, providing a comfortable interior environment, access to natural daylight, and healthy indoor air quality. As a result of design focus on sustainability, the facility’s energy demand was reduced by 33% and water consumption was reduced by 42% resulting in lower utility costs throughout the life of the building.


WASTE REDUCTIONZero Waste Efforts in AustinSince 2011, the City of Austin has been actively promoting their Zero Waste by 2040 Plan (the Plan), which aims to keep at least 90 percent of discarded materials out of landfills by the year 2040. Kleinfelder has supported several of the City’s projects/initiatives related to further advancing the Plan by providing geotechnical engineering and materials testing and special inspection services for projects involving development of green campuses and resource recovery parks for zero waste infrastructure. The City’s plan also calls for partnering with regional landfills to evaluate and implement ways to influence flow control and enhance recycling efforts. Kleinfelder has a long history working with Texas Disposal Systems (TDS), including providing geotechnical engineering and materials testing and inspection services for the development of the TDS Travis County Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). The MRF, a major component of the City of Austin’s recycling plan, can process more than 25 tons of unseparated recyclables per hour and has created more than 80 green jobs.

San Diego International AirportKleinfelder provides geotechnical, environmental, and materials testing and special inspection services under an on-call contract at the San Diego International Airport (SDIA). Kleinfelder developed the soil cement and lime treatment specifications that are used on a majority of the paving projects at the airport. The soil cement and lime treatment methods eliminate aggregate base course for the pavement structural section, saving time, money, and the need to truck the base course to the site. It also reduces the amount of soil export, again saving time, money and export trucking. This approach reduces carbon emissions and the amount of waste being hauled to landfills. Additionally, SDIA’s agreement with the Regional Water Quality Control Board and Department of Toxic Substances Control allows on-site, low-level contaminated soils to be re-used as fill materials versus having to be hauled to a special landfill that handles contaminated soils. We typically recommend utilizing the on-site materials as structural fill soils within the site, reducing the amount of waste that gets hauled to landfills.


SUSTAINABLE AND GREEN OPERATIONS Upper Moreland-Hatboro Joint Sewer Authority Odor ControlThe Upper Moreland-Hatboro Joint Sewer Authority (UMHJSA) utilizes wet scrubber towers for odor control. While the existing scrubbers effectively control odors consistently resulting in no odor complaints from residents or commercial establishments, there are a number of concerns with the existing scrubber systems. These concerns include age (end of service life); greater than necessary air flow rates that result in excessive loss of conditioned air, and increased building heating costs and greenhouse gas generation by the electric power supplier; a less than optimal ventilation system that may contribute to excessive building heat loss; scrubbers that use hazardous chemicals; and technology that is not cost effective. Kleinfelder performed an odor control optimization evaluation that consisted of the following activities:

• Evaluation of the existing air permit and the existing ventilations systems and air flow rates

• Evaluation of odor data and identification of the optimum odor control alternative(s)

• Development of conceptual design concepts for the recommended odor control improvements

Kleinfelder evaluated five different odor control alternatives. Two alternatives were selected that achieved UMHJSA’s goal of more efficient and cost effective technology, as well as several other key factors relating to sustainable efforts such as eliminating the use of hazardous chemicals and reducing the amount of conditioned air extracted from the building to the scrubbers, thus reducing heated air loss and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

SUSTAINABLE PROJECT IMPLEMENTATIONDenver Regional Transportation District FasTracks Eagle P3 Commuter RailKleinfelder’s technical expertise and collaboration helped to streamline the environmental construction permitting process for the Eagle P3 portion of the Regional Transportation District’s FasTracks plan by ensuring environmental goals were met.

Our contributions to the project’s sustainability goals included water conservation and remediation, soil and waste reduction, air quality, and training on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise environmental awareness program.

Environmental concerns for the project included managing impacts to protected species and habitats, and management of known and unknown hazardous materials in the project corridor.

Kleinfelder trained project staff, observed all elements of construction, and resolved compliance issues. Kleinfelder assisted the project team in obtaining a LEED Gold certification for the Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility on the project. Another benefit: our custom electronic data collection system provided real-time information to project staff and regulatory agencies to significantly reduce paper use.


CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITYFOOTPRINTING

For Kleinfelder to meet our sustainability goals, we need to understand the resources that we consume. We strive to better manage our resource consumption by comparing data from selected office locations and evaluating our energy, water, carbon, and waste footprints. This data helps us to assess our own vulnerabilities and to implement changes within our operations to reduce consumption and risk.

UTILITY MANAGEMENT Kleinfelder is embarking on a long-term initiative to reduce the average physical footprint of our offices, which will in turn reduce our overall resource footprint. Our goal is to use more flexible and shared workspaces that facilitate greater collaboration and use of electronic documents, also reducing our paper consumption. The graph below demonstrates the reduction in our utilities costs in the US from 2015-2017.

In addition, we are implementing a real-estate and facility management software to capture abstract critical components of our utility performance based on our specific facilities across North America and Australia. Tracking of resource usage including water, electricity and gas will allow us to manage them much more effectively in the future. The implementation will commence in 2018.


PUBLIC TRANSITWe believe that use of public transportation can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by providing a low-emissions alternative to driving, and minimizing the carbon footprint of our operations. At our offices in major metropolitan areas, our employees are offered incentives to take advantage of public transportation options.

Vehicle Usage and Fuel EfficienciesWe monitor our vehicle fleet and maintenance needs on an ongoing basis. The CO2 emissions from our vehicle fleet have been reduced by 20% since 2014. This is, by in large, due to our strong preference towards vehicles with better fuel economies and CO2 output. While the majority of our vehicles are still traditional gasoline pickup trucks, we have increased the usage of vehicles with better fuel economies and CO2 output throughout our operations. This has resulted in an 18% reduction in the mileage driven by trucks and almost 50,000 fewer gallons of gas being needed since 2014.


ENERGY CONSUMPTIONServersKleinfelder is in the midst of a long-term transition from onsite hardware servers for every system, to a 100% cloud infrastructure as our goal by 2020. We have taken a phased approach to this, by first migrating some of our most heavily used systems including email and collaboration to Microsoft’s hosted offering now called Office 365. Our two data centers, which house other enterprise systems, have been using virtual servers for almost 10 years, which dramatically reduce both the hardware and the energy needed to run and cool the systems. The two data centers will essentially be eliminated by 2018, with our most aggressive move to Microsoft’s cloud services happening this year.

According to Microsoft, “[We] have been 100% powered by renewable energy since 2014. We do so by procuring renewable electricity, both directly through power purchase agreements and through the purchase of renewable energy certificates and offsets. We’re exploring future opportunities to increase our purchase of renewable electricity and support the construction of new renewable electricity projects near our data centers and facilities.”

Information technology systems that are housed in our offices also use virtual server technologies, and are EnergyStar compliant. All of our reprographics systems, managed by ARC, are also EnergyStar compliant.

Our print volume and paper use has declined by an average of almost 14% year over year since implementing ARC Document Solutions’ “on-demand” printing system.


EQUIPMENT DISPOSALKleinfelder gives back to our communities by donating most outdated IT equipment through Human-I-T, a non-profit organization which provides refurbished technology, digital literacy and vocational training to low-income people and other non-profits in need of technology resources. This keeps old equipment out of landfills longer, and provides both resources and jobs to the less fortunate in our communities.

MATERIALS MANAGEMENTOn every project, Kleinfelder looks for opportunities to reduce the environmental footprint. For construction projects, this often means finding ways to reuse demolition materials and reduce the amount of materials imported and exported to and from the project. Many Kleinfelder laboratories recycle lab samples after completion. The material—including soil, aggregate, concrete, masonry, reinforcing steel and asphalt—is collected in separate bins and transported to a crushing contractor for reuse in roadway materials. Since 2009, our laboratories have recycled several tons of discarded samples. Kleinfelder also recycles plastic cylinder molds, paper, steel and reinforcing samples. The majority of our laboratories also use concrete cylinder molds that are biodegradable. Additionally, our Sacramento, CA, laboratory donates proceeds from the recycling of metals to the local Ronald McDonald House.


We believe there is always room for improvement, thus, we are committed to continual analysis of our firm’s resource consumption data in order to identify new ways to minimize our environmental footprint. This annual analysis allows us to acknowledge our achievements, identify areas for improvement, and develop new strategies to further our progress toward a more sustainable company. With sustainability at the forefront of our corporate culture, it has become a framework for decision making in all aspects of our business, from our policies and programs to our operations and projects. It is this culture that allows us to grow and improve every year, ultimately contributing to our goal of positively impacting and improving the natural, built, and social environment.

LOOKING FORWARD:NEXT STEPS

Analyze yearly sustainability data to assess what works and

areas for improvement

Develop and implementnew strategies to furtherprogress toward a more

sustainable company

Incorporate sustainable bestpractices into businessoperations and projects

Kleinfelder is committed to creating a safer and more sustainable environment for our clients, employees, and communities.

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