Brightworks

About Brightworks

Brightworks helps their clients capture and create lasting value by aligning their efforts with basic principles of ecological, social and economic sustainability. They provide comprehensive sustainability planning and facilitation services, helping their clients increase asset value, reduce operating costs, manage risk and enhance their brand, while helping address pressing global ecological challenges.

We became a B Corp to join a community of entrepreneurs who look beyond the bottom line, living the values they preach.

With over 120 projects active or completed, their team has the diverse professional background, depth of experience and unwavering commitment to excellent client service to ensure your success. Quite simply, they make sustainability systematic and cost effective for clients and projects of all types.

The Change We Seek™

They offer

• Built Environment Sustainability Services 

Brightworks is widely recognized as a premier provider of LEED services of all types, with over 70 projects certified to date;

Providing full sustainability planning services for academic campuses, master plan and infrastructure scale projects worldwide

The unique “Beyond LEED” True Sustainability programs for buildings and communities.

• Organizational Sustainability Services

Helping corporations, public agencies and universities integrate sustainability deeply into strategic and operational planning, using practical strategies to achieve visionary goals.

• Sustainability Training

Teaching public and private trainings on green building and sustainability that add value to your career and our planet.

Brightworks

  • Industry: Sustainability Consulting
  • Product/Services: Sustainability Advisory Services, LEED Consulting, Sustainability Education and Training
  • Location: Portland, OR
  • Ownership: Private
  • http://www.brightworks.net

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Summary:

Certified: September 2010
  Points Earned % Points Available
Accountability » 10.2 68%
Employees » 31.3 52%
Consumers » 35 100%
Community » 11.3 25%
Environment » 13 67%
Composite B Score 100.8
  • >80 out of 200 is eligible for certification
  • >60% points available = Area of excellence

Highlights:

From B Impact Assessment

Community: >40% local suppliers

Consumers: 100% products/service provide environmental benefits

Employees: 100% paid a living wage; >80% health insurance premiums covered; >50% internal promotion

Environment: >50% office supplies sourced recycled; >75% print materials on recycled paper; >50% renewable energy use; >50% carbon inventory offset