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    Caterpillar Highlights Company's Focus on Building Better and Making Sustainable Progress Possible Around the World Image

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    05-22-17

    Caterpillar Highlights Company's Focus on Building Better and Making Sustainable Progress Possible Around the World

    Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) has released its 2016 Sustainability Report, highlighting the company’s focus for more than 90 years on building better – better lives, better communities and, ultimately, a better world. Titled “Building Better,” the report showcases how Caterpillar customers use the...

    LafargeHolcim Publishes Its Sustainability Report 2016 Image

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    05-09-17

    LafargeHolcim Publishes Its Sustainability Report 2016

    LafargeHolcim has released its Sustainability Report 2016, which highlights its performance in the first full year of operation and the progress made against its main sustainability targets. Sustainability is one of LafargeHolcim’s core values and a key element of its strategy.

    The report ...

    Bechtel Launches Long-Term Sustainability Targets Image

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    04-28-17

    Bechtel Launches Long-Term Sustainability Targets

    Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, procurement, and construction, announced a set of ambitious long-term targets to increase the company’s contributions to global sustainability. The goals and targets are pa...

    CEMEX Publishes First Integrated Report Image

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    03-30-17

    CEMEX Publishes First Integrated Report

    Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. (“CEMEX”) (NYSE: CX) published today its first Integrated Report, with information covering year 2016. This evolution in CEMEX’s reporting is designed to provide a holistic analysis of the company’s strategic vision, performance, governance, and value creation.

    The 20...

    Microgrid Design to Boost Energy Resilience at Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Image

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    03-23-17

    Microgrid Design to Boost Energy Resilience at Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus

    Black & Veatch is partnering with the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus to design and assess the financial and energy efficiency impacts of a 

    Bechtel Applauds Employee Giving at U.S. Government Projects in 2016 Image

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    03-13-17

    Bechtel Applauds Employee Giving at U.S. Government Projects in 2016

    Bechtel thanked employees at the company's affiliated government and nuclear projects for donating more than $12 million in 2016 and for volunteering countless hours to support their surrounding communities across the United States. In one case, responding to a wild fire that destroyed more than ...

    Smart Grid Gains From New Black & Veatch EPC Program Management System Image

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    01-20-17

    Smart Grid Gains From New Black & Veatch EPC Program Management System

    Black & Veatch announced today a new tool aimed at helping utilities deploy large-scale grid modernization projects. The company’s cloud-based Spatial Engineering Knowledge Optimization Immersive Analysis system – SEKOIA – is a central hu...

    Black & Veatch: Technology Brings Risk, Reward, Uncertainty to Electric Industry Image

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    08-10-16

    Black & Veatch: Technology Brings Risk, Reward, Uncertainty to Electric Industry

    Distributed generation, the low price of natural gas and modern customer information systems (CIS) represent growth opportunities for the electric industry even as security concerns are on the rise and legacy power generation sources cede their prominence to new technology. Those are the top find...

    Owens Corning Shows Significant Progress with Reducing Footprint and Expanding Handprint Image

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    07-28-16

    Owens Corning Shows Significant Progress with Reducing Footprint and Expanding Handprint

    Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) announced significant progress in reducing its environmental footprint and increasing the handprint efforts that advance its positive impact around the world. The company released these results today in its tenth annual sustainability report.

    “‘Expanding our impact...

    Marshalls plc: 7th Annual UNGC Communications on Progress Report Image

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    07-14-16

    Marshalls plc: 7th Annual UNGC Communications on Progress Report

    Marshalls is the UK’s leading hard landscaping manufacturer supplying superior natural stone and innovative concrete products to the construction, home improvement and landscape markets since the 1890s.

    This latest UNGC Communication on Progress Report includes:

    • CEO statement o...

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