Recollective Consulting
British Columbia, Canada
May 2013
Architecture design & planning
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
Canada
Recollective is a values-based green building consulting firm focused on integrated design process facilitation, LEED, Passive House, Living Building Challenge and advanced building simulations. They have successfully completed over 60 LEED certifications, over 150 energy models and are currently consulting on over 100 active LEED projects, amounting to over 25 million square feet of development. Their projects represent a wide range of building types and scales from both private and public sectors, including schools, community centres, market residential buildings, social housing, sport facilities, district energy centres, libraries, and heritage buildings. As a certified Passive House Consultant, they are working on two Passive House projects in early stages. Furthermore, they have developed relationships with local Passive House experts who can support them if necessary. Recollective and its affiliates are recognized by the industry as experts in building simulations. Recollective has developed a strategic alliance with Focal Engineering to provide LEED and energy modelling services under a single contract.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 16.3
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 30.2
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 16.4
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 36.6
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Customers 0.8
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.