Kleinfelder Receives 2020 EBJ Business Achievement Awards
Environmental Business Journal Recognizes Environmental Industry Firms for 2020 Performance and Innovation
Environmental Business Journal (EBJ), a business research publication which has provided strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry since 1988, has honored Kleinfelder with two 2020 EBJ Business Achievement Awards.
“2020 was certainly an exceptional year for our society, the economy and the environmental industry,” said Grant Ferrier, president of Environmental Business International Inc. (EBI, Inc.), and editor of Environmental Business Journal. “Unique enough that we added two major categories to the EBJ Awards: COVID Resilience that recognizes companies that adapted to work-at-home, travel, field services and other restrictions, as well as rapidly changing client needs; and COVID Response that recognizes companies that developed or accelerated new business initiatives, innovations and entire business units to support the environment, health and safety needs of their diverse client sectors.”
The EBJ Business Achievement Awards customarily recognize business performance in conventional metrics like revenue growth, M&A, exceptional projects, technology development and deployment in the field, and advances in information and digital technology, and these categories are well represented in 2020.
Kleinfelder was recognized for Technology Merit, for our staff’s development of an application that monitors and forecasts drainage and wastewater system hydraulic conditions, as well as Mergers and Acquisitions, acknowledging our three strategic acquisitions last year that added more than 600 employees and expansion in key markets and geographies.
A congratulations to Kleinfelder staff Dingfang Liu, John Rahill, Kenneth Yu, and the entire Boston Water and Sewer Commission project team on their work on the app that earned the Technology Merit recognition.
2020 was also a unique year in that it represented what EBJ determined was the 50th Anniversary of the Environmental Industry as a collection of 13 increasingly integrated segments in a $401-billion industry in the United States. Historical relics show active waste management practices in Native American communities, and water and wastewater systems date back to pre-Roman history, but the environmental industry as we know it dates back to the foundation of EPA, and many of the companies that make up the Environmental Consulting & Engineering segment in 1970.
The year 2020 was the 50th anniversary of United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the institution of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the President’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and other environmental protection initiatives at state and federal level that endure today. The year 1970 also represents the foundation of a number of companies that still flourish today, and EBJ recognizes many of these companies in a 50-Year Recognition awards for companies founded in 1970 or thereabouts.
The 2020 EBJ awards will be presented at a virtual Zoom ceremony on February 11 and 12, 2021.
