Social value and environmental justice
Social value and environmental justice are rising up the agenda. Maximizing the impact of your investment takes careful consideration and deep expertise.
We deliver technical services that apply a sustainability lens to the economic, social, and environmental benefits and risks that affect your project.
We’ll help you go beyond regulatory requirements to improve social outcomes for every member of your community.
In 2022, we delivered $141 million in High Equity Impact Projects in Baltimore, Maryland alone. Measured independently using the Equity-based Capital Planning Tool, this instrument incorporates social, environmental, economic, and operational criteria into its equity analyses.
We offer a full suite of social value and environmental justice services, so you can be more strategic about the interventions you make.
With enhanced public participation, community consultation and the promotion of local skills and employment, we’ll help you ensure every project increases social value and meaningfully improves society and the planet.
Objective policy, program and infrastructure solutions
We develop policy and infrastructure solutions that provide opportunities for all communities to thrive.
We’ve helped cities such as Los Angeles, London, and Atlanta guide funding, investment and programmatic initiatives to address socioeconomic disparities in the job market and assess broadband availability.
We develop policy and infrastructure solutions that provide opportunities for all communities to thrive.
We’ve helped cities such as Los Angeles, London, and Atlanta guide funding, investment and programmatic initiatives to address socioeconomic disparities in the job market and assess broadband availability.
Collaborative project approaches
We create culturally and contextually appropriate strategies, often in collaboration with local partners, to ensure decision-making processes and project solutions are robust.
By engaging a wide range of stakeholder groups and assigning community ambassadors to key project development roles, we’ve elevated the voices of communities.
We create culturally and contextually appropriate strategies, often in collaboration with local partners, to ensure decision-making processes and project solutions are robust.
By engaging a wide range of stakeholder groups and assigning community ambassadors to key project development roles, we’ve elevated the voices of communities.
Tools to measure social value
We leverage open-source data and develop custom methods and tools that quantify and evaluate the holistic impact of projects and help pave the way to improved outcomes.
The demographic, socioeconomic, environmental and climate change data we’ve synthesized through our work with public and private clients, including businesses in the technology and industrial sectors, is providing a complete picture of the communities in which our clients operate and wish to grow.
We leverage open-source data and develop custom methods and tools that quantify and evaluate the holistic impact of projects and help pave the way to improved outcomes.
The demographic, socioeconomic, environmental and climate change data we’ve synthesized through our work with public and private clients, including businesses in the technology and industrial sectors, is providing a complete picture of the communities in which our clients operate and wish to grow.
Funding optimization for social investments
We help clients navigate funding sources and opportunities to pay for infrastructure that offers social benefits and tailor projects to be eligible for federal funding sources like the Justice40 initiative. We use our in-house developed Fund Navigator tool to facilitate this process.
We help clients navigate funding sources and opportunities to pay for infrastructure that offers social benefits and tailor projects to be eligible for federal funding sources like the Justice40 initiative. We use our in-house developed Fund Navigator tool to facilitate this process.
Our activities around social value include:
- Community engagement frameworks
- Environmental justice
- Social value assessment
- Social value strategy
- Community-led stakeholder engagement strategy
- Human factors assessment
- Multi-socioeconomic benefits
- Safer streets audit
- Social value reporting
- Social value policy
Latest thinking on social value and environmental justice
Infrastructure’s role in encouraging economic growth is well documented, but when it comes to making the case for infrastructure, social and environmental benefits should not be a secondary consideration.
Infrastructure has the power to create opportunities, but historically the access it enables hasn’t been equal. Through lack of vision, accident and sometimes with intent, infrastructure has in some places contributed to systemic inequality by dividing people and creating barriers to opportunity. Going forward, AECOM’s Kelli Bernard says businesses will gain from doing more to ensure infrastructure is inclusive, not divisive.
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Social value and environmental justice in action
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