Our Teams Go Above and Beyond to Provide Sustainability
“Our Power, Our Planet” is the theme for Earth Day 2025, which takes place on April 22. UG2 is taking this moment to shine a light on the ways our people act as a force for sustainability, caring not only for the facilities entrusted to us but for the wider world.
Across the country, UG2 teams are celebrating with a range of activities, such as participating in various earth day events with our customers and volunteers in New England will be planting trees to advance the health and resilience of the planet. When it comes to sustainability, as with everything we do, our people are the driving force behind our ability to elevate everyday practices.
That commitment to excellence benefits our customers directly. Just one example: During their rounds, our technicians collect electric, gas and water meter readings by scanning asset QR codes with smartphones. The data allows us to see usage levels, anticipate when repairs may be needed, take steps to proactively prevent equipment breakdowns, and help customers determine when run-to-fail makes more sense than repairs.
Our people tailor sustainability to meet different facility’s needs. Sustainability can become its own waste of resources if organizations take a cookie-cutter approach. To be successful with sustainability in the facility services industry, plans need to align to each specific building or organization, as each customer and setting brings its own unique goals, needs and obligations to fulfill.
As citizens of our customers’ industries, we work closely with our customers to identify what makes sense, and we continuously revisit and refine our approach to incorporate feedback and lessons learned and reflect evolving circumstances.
Our teams hold themselves and each other accountable. Our methodical and disciplined business approach centers the idea that short term actions have long term consequences, a concept at the heart of sustainability practices and environmental stewardship.
Maintaining that discipline as we engage with our work as citizens of our industry and our customers’ industries—all while investigating and adopting cutting-edge technology—is how we elevate facility services as a whole and sustainability practices specifically.
While they do this work quietly and without fanfare or fuss, our employees routinely earn accolades for their efforts. UG2’s approach and transparency, our deep bench of expertise and nimble approach to introducing change has won us the gratitude of countless customers and recognition in the form of awards from our customers and from the industry.
We have been honored time and again for achieving excellence, sustainability, safety, and quality as a facility services industry leader. That tells us our teams are doing right by our planet and by our customers, which makes us incredibly proud.
In partnership with our customers, UG2 integrates environmental stewardship practices into all we do. That commitment informs the products we use, guides the way we train our employees, shapes the promises we make to our customers, and—most importantly it influences the way we measure success.
How could your facility do better to advance sustainability while protecting your bottom line? We have ideas! Contact UG2 today.