ISI extends Sustaining Membership to engineering, planning, construction, design firms

June 4, 2015
The Institute of Sustainable Infrastructure announced that it has opened its Sustaining Memberships to private sector firms in engineering, planning, design, and construction organizations.

WASHINGTON, DC, June 4, 2015 -- Today, the Institute of Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) announced that it has opened its Sustaining Memberships to private sector firms in engineering, planning, design, and construction organizations. The ISI Sustaining Membership is designed for companies to be recognized publicly for their competency and experience in the development of sustainable infrastructure projects.

The ISI is a not-for-profit organization that, in partnership with the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure at Harvard University, has developed a tool to help public and private sector decision makers create sustainable infrastructure projects. The tool, called the Envision® sustainable infrastructure rating system, is web-based and available in the public domain at no charge to the user (see: "Rating System Helps Infrastructure Projects Meet Long-Term Sustainability Goals").

Originally designed specifically for civil infrastructure, the Envision tool can help decision makers develop nationally recognized sustainable projects for all types of infrastructure, other than habitable buildings. It can also be used for industrial infrastructure, which has a significant effect on the sustainability of the communities in which they are sited.

The ISI Annual Sustaining Memberships are inexpensive and include a complementary training as part of the credentialing program for the first employee from a new member and will provide a listing on the ISI website for Sustaining Members as an Envision Qualified Company (EQC). The EQC listing can be an asset for firms that want to be recognized for sustainable infrastructure of all kinds.

Envision is currently being used on hundreds of projects in North America by public sector organizations such as the City and County of Los Angeles, New York City DEP, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, San Diego Airport, Port of Long Beach, Cape Cod Planning Authority, California Water Authority, and cities such as Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Atlanta, Chicago and more. Over 3,000 professionals have been credentialed as Envision Sustainability Professionals.

See also:

"Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure announces new Envision Review Board"

"ISI announces first government agency to credential 100 Sustainability Professionals"


About ISI Envision


Envision is the product of a joint collaboration between ISI, which was founded by three national engineering associations: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), and American Public Works Association (APWA), and the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. For more information, visit www.sustainableinfrastructure.org.

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