Roux’s CSR Annual Report 2024
Roux is pleased to release our third annual CSR report. This report is designed to inform our clients, communities, and the public of Roux’s ongoing commitment to social, environmental, and charitable endeavors.
This report provides an overview of Roux’s growing set of services in the areas of environmental engineering and remediation, as well as an expansion of services in economics, ecological solutions, natural resource damages, and human health risk assessment. Additionally, the report highlights several Roux projects that have successfully created innovative, sustainable solutions for our clients.
Our ESG Report highlights for 2024 include:
- Emissions data from the majority of our offices have stayed mostly flat.
- Developing plans to further increase energy efficiency at both owned and leased office spaces and exploring ways to work with utilities to purchase more energy from renewable sources and/or purchase renewable energy credits.
- Continuing to be a leader in health and safety with an Experience Modification Rate (EMR) of 0.83 or less for the last five years.
- Reporting a total recordable incident rate below our industry average with zero OSHA recordable and lost-time injuries.
- Supporting the City College of New York (CCNY) Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative for environmental job training programs.
- Upholding an active Women’s Networking program with up to 100 attendees on each meeting, featuring Lunch with a Leader, the educational Roux Basics series, and topics on Allyship and Motherhood. These meetings are women-led by Roux Principals and corporate employees alike, including our CFO and General Counsel.
- Supporting The 11 Day Power Play out of our Buffalo, New York office, contributing to their $10+ million raised to fight cancer in Western New York.
- Engaging in fundraising activities and other charitable endeavors, including financial scholarship programs with select universities.
As a privately held environmental consulting firm, Roux has no formal or mandatory reporting requirements. However, in the interest of transparency to the public and our clients, we feel it is paramount to review our social and environmental performance each year and pave a path toward greater corporate sustainability.
We invite you to read the report below and learn about some of the challenges and successes the firm has encountered within the past year. We look forward to updating this report on an annual basis and sharing our progress with you.
