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ERG is a multidisciplinary consulting firm offering a broad range of professional services. From offices across the country, we serve a spectrum of public and private clients, including federal agencies, state governments, corporations, and universities. ERG was founded in 1984 by a small group of associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Markets
ERG's expertise focuses on 11 major markets, or topic areas. Our work in these markets helps to preserve the environment, improve worker protection, ensure the safety of food and drugs, plan sustainable facilities, and achieve other positive outcomes. Within each of these markets, we offer a diverse array ofservices, or skill sets.
Services
ERG offers multidisciplinary skills in more than 20 specialized service areas. We use our expertise in these areas to help clients plan, research, develop, implement, promote, and assess their programs and projects. Our skills are used by a broad spectrum of clients, including federal agencies, state governments, corporations, and universities. Our services support our work in 11 key markets , or topic areas. We also operate and maintain a fully accredited laboratory in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Contract Vehicles
At ERG, we take pride in our responsiveness to clients – from the moment you wish to access us. For maximum flexibility, we serve our clients through a variety of contract vehicles, including:
Commercial and Purchase Order Agreements: Particularly for private-sector, nonprofit, and nongovernmental organizations, a standard commercial or purchase order agreement is all it takes to begin work.
Agency and program contracts: ERG holds prime contracts with many federal, state, and local agencies. Agency task managers can access us simply by issuing a work assignment or task order through one of these contracts.
General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedules: ERG holds several GSA schedules, providing quick access to the full array of services available throughout our company. Our GSA schedules are available to U.S. federal agencies and other eligible organizations.
SeaPort: ERG holds a SeaPort contract, an e-procurement mechanism that makes our services available to U.S. Navy offices in a timely, cost-effective manner.
Commitment to Community
ERG strives to improve the local and global community—not only through the work we do, but through our own actions. The following are some of the partnerships and programs in which we participate.
Partnerships
ERG's Arlington and Boston offices have been recognized as two of the Best Workplaces for CommutersSM, a program ERG helped develop. To qualify for this distinction, ERG offers superior commuter benefits to employees, including a transit subsidy, telework options, and flexible schedules.
www.bestworkplaces.org
ERG offsets the environmental impacts of our electric power use from nonrenewable sources by purchasing Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). RECs represent the environmental attributes of electricity generated from renewable sources. In 2007, ERG purchased more than 1.5 million kilowatt-hours of RECs for the next two years, covering 100 percent of our corporate electricity use at our 13 offices. ERG is also a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Green Power Leadership Club and 100 Percent Purchasers List.
www.epa.gov/grnpower/
As part of our commitment to EPA’s WasteWise program, which we helped implement for more than a decade, we became a partner in 1995. Over the years, we have dramatically decreased the amount of waste we generate, greatly expanded the number of materials we collect for recycling, and educated employees on reusing packaging materials, office supplies, and paper. We also expanded our purchase of environmentally preferable office supplies.
www.epa.gov/wastewise/
In 2008, ERG became the official environmental consulting advisor for the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge Series. The Corporate Challenge is a road race that educates participants about best environmental practices, while also striving to be the “greenest” road race in the world. ERG calculates the final environmental savings of sustainable race day supplies, proper recycling and trash removal, waste prevention, and other efforts.
A Better City’s Challenge for Sustainability
ERG’s Boston and Lexington offices joined approximately 50 participants, including tenants, building owners, institutions, restaurants, retail stores, and hotels in the Boston area, as members of the 2011 Challenge for Sustainability. As part of the challenge, ERG used data and practices from 2010 to develop a sustainability baseline, and has developed an action plan to increase our sustainability score in the areas of energy efficiency, water efficiency, transportation, waste reduction & management, cleaning & toxics, program implementation & policies, purchasing, and renewable energy.
Green Buildings
In 2007, our Arlington (VA) office relocated to a newly constructed “green” building, certified by the U.S. Green Building Council through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program at the “silver” level. In a recent renovation, our Chantilly (VA) office followed the criteria for many of the LEED credits to “green” the space.
The Green Team
Since 1995, a "Green Team" of ERG-Arlington employees has ensured that we reduce solid waste, recycle, and buy recycled products for the office. The Green Team also implements environmental programs, such as offering a composting worm bin for food scraps, and conducts employee education activities such as brownbag lunches or tips on being green in the home or office. In our Lexington (MA) and Nashua (NH) offices, volunteers take recyclables to a recycling center.
Environmental Management System
After assisting EPA with its agencywide Environmental Management System (EMS), we began developing our own EMS. Our team has investigated electricity use, water use, paper consumption, material recycling, and chemical use. Progress to date includes:
Community Service
We believe in giving back to the communities in which we work in various ways, such as the activities described below:
Memberships
ERG is an active member of ACT, a nationwide organization for professionals that seeks to create commuter options and foster more workable transportation systems throughout North America.
ERG has been a corporate sustaining member of SAME since 1999. SAME promotes and facilitates engineering support for national security by building relationships among, and competencies of, engineering professionals in the uniformed services and private industry.
ERG joins other businesses located within the Chesapeake Bay watershed to improve the bay's water quality by implementing pollution prevention measures in our daily operations.
