Sustainability Assessments

Climate change and global environmental concerns have the potential to severely impact organizations’ operations, from increasing costs or risks to shifting demand and even making facilities less secure. Evaluating organizational exposure in terms of climate, energy, water, and waste can reduce risk and lead to improvements in outcomes or reductions in cost. Marstel-Day’s experience with sustainability assessments can help you examine facilities, product lifecycles, or other operations using rigorous analysis. We can help provide recommendations that reduce cost or risk and increase return on investment, improve security, or reach other goals and objectives critical to your organization. Our assessment methodologies scale to the level of investment you can make in sustainability, making them more flexible than high-cost certifications and procedures like ISO.

Marstel-Day achieved re-certification to NSF International’s P391, General Sustainability Assessment Criteria for Services and Service Providers, and has been awarded a platinum-level certification, which we have held since 2013. Each subsequent year, the company goes through a comprehensive audit of its internal and external sustainability practices, covering 16 mandatory practices, encompassing legal and regulatory, energy monitoring, hiring and compensation, health and welfare, employee training, ethics, and contractor compliance among others, across three categories: environmental, labor and social responsibility practices.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VA DEQ) - Virginia Environmental Excellence Program (VEEP) recognizes Marstel-Day as a Sustainability Partner for making environmental sustainability part of its culture through leadership, innovation, and continual improvement. Marstel-Day continues to demonstrate its commitment through continual, measurable, and verifiable conservation efforts, that have led to improvements in energy usage, water usage, waste generation, and other environmental benefits.

Marstel-Day has made an annual contribution to Carbonfund.org to offset the firm’s annual carbon emissions from business travel by air and personal vehicle use and for the footprints of our office space. Marstel-Day has been a partner with Carbonfund since 2010. Our contribution to Carbonfund has primarily been directed to small and medium scale reforestation projects throughout the United States. In 2015, the company offset 454 metric tons of CO2e, bringing our total offset to over 2,200 metric tons since 2010.

Modern organizations need high-quality applications and tools to track and maintain their sustainability. From gathering metrics to tracking issues, enterprise solutions and software services can help support your mission and goals. Marstel-Day offers a variety of technology tools for supporting sustainability, from a comprehensive sustainability tracking tool to stakeholder engagement to GIS services and applications. Marstel-Day’s free iOS application, the Green Traveler, helps showcase our ability to develop customized solutions that meet your needs. This application provides advice for sustainable travel as well as a tracking tool that helps users understand the impact of their actions. Download it today to see what we can do!

If you're inspired to reduce the environmental impact of your company, let Marstel-Day help you:

• Identify, adopt, and promote progressive environmental standards and practices
• Develop innovative solutions to integrate sustainability into your business strategies
• Assess and write a Corporate Sustainability Plan/Report
• Communicate and implement green practices across the workplace
• Identify and evaluate your carbon footprint
• Implement Sustainable Operations
• Reduce Energy and Waste
• Improve your Supplier and Product Sustainability Management
• Achieve recognition through various awards and certifications in the environmental industry
• Increase your bottom line