Corporate Sustainability

Our Sustainability Commitment, We’re in This Together

As an employee-owned firm, we strive toward an inclusive, sustainable future and elevate our communities, industry and professions through human-inspired technical and creative solutions.

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Lisa Fewins

Corporate Sustainability Director

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Environment, Social and Governance Report, 2023

What do we owe the future? That is a question we often ask ourselves as employee-owners at HDR. While we are proud of our rich history and the great things we make possible for our employees, clients and communities, we are aware we have an opportunity to impact future generations with our professional services.

Our ESG Report continues our tradition of working to align our reporting with the Global Reporting Initiative.

ESG Report
ESG Report, Appendix 1: GRI Index & Data, fill out the form to download →

Our Culture of Sustainability

Employee Ownership

Sustainability & Resiliency

HDR employees collaborating in the San Francisco office

Inclusion, Diversity & Equity

HDR Foundation

With every action, we ask the same question: what’s our impact on the world?

From designing a road that improves mobility to a hospital that heals, we take to heart our role in making the world a better, smarter, safer place. We think globally and act locally to improve the places where we live and work.

It begins by working together, with our clients and communities, ending each time with collaborations that add meaning and value. We know every small action yields great results. We take responsibility through:

Community Involvement & Support

Both as individuals and as a company, we take pride in supporting efforts to better our communities — not just financially, but also with our time. Whether it’s providing basic needs, beautifying a public place or leading enriching activities, we are passionate about being engaged.

Many of our team members also volunteer with aid organisations such as Bridges to Prosperity and Engineers without Borders, giving their time and sharing their professional talents to provide communities around the world access to healthcare, clean water and modern energy grids. And through Design 4 Others, more than 200 of our employees have provided architecture, engineering and planning services to communities in need. Recent projects have included a new school in Kenya to expand capacity and increase the number of students who have access to education and a new outpatient clinic in rural Malawi that provides community-based care to more than 20,000 residents.

In addition, in 2012 we created the HDR Foundation. Fueled by donations from our employees, the Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations in the communities in which we live and work. Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded over $9 million in grants.