Black & Veatch Elevates Sustainability as Strategic Cornerstone of Company’s Purpose, Vision
16 Julio 2024 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Global critical infrastructure leader names Deepa Poduval to
lead global sustainability across enterprise
With sustainability evolving from a corporate responsibility to
a critical business imperative for Black & Veatch, Deepa
Poduval’s recent promotion to become the engineering and
construction company’s global sustainability leader is a natural
synergy, given how deeply sustainability has been engrained in her
since her upbringing in India.
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Deepa Poduval: “Sustainability is a value
that profoundly drives me in guiding how Black & Veatch
responsibly solves some of the world’s most challenging
infrastructure problems,” (Photo: Business Wire)
As a senior vice president and 19-year Black & Veatch
veteran, Poduval has been elevated to the company’s leadership team
with a singular focus on sustainability across the enterprise. She
will reinforce the company’s long-term commitment to net zero
carbon emissions both in its operations and in executing projects
for its clients as central to the company’s vision to be the leader
in sustainable infrastructure.
It’s as much a core value to Black & Veatch as it is to
Poduval personally, who since joining the company in 2005 has held
increasingly significant roles, most recently having guided what
now is the company’s strategic advisory practice supporting global
clients to tie business outcomes with sustainable development.
Poduval’s passion for sustainability began during her early years
in India, where she observed people queuing up for their daily
water delivered by trucks and energy suppliers regularly cutting
power to balance the load. For Poduval, it was an influential
culture that naturally embraces conservation and recycling, with
everything being creatively reused, repurposed and repaired.
“Sustainability is a value that profoundly drives me in guiding
how Black & Veatch responsibly solves some of the world’s most
challenging infrastructure problems,” Poduval said. “Sustainability
is not simply a buzzword. It’s about doing the smart thing, and our
clients, partners and all our employee-owners are aligned on
creating economic pathways that preserve and protect critical
resources and drive sustainable development for all.”
“Sustainability is core to our purpose and vision, and it’s a
foundational company-wide commitment in everything we do from how
we execute our projects to how we operate in the communities where
we live and work,” Black & Veatch Chairman and CEO Mario Azar
said. “As a seasoned sustainability leader, Deepa will be
instrumental in helping steer and advance our strategic vision by
leveraging the expertise of Black & Veatch in decarbonization
and other global megatrends driving the evolving needs of the
world’s critical infrastructure.”
In her previous role leading Black & Veatch’s global
strategic advisory practice, Poduval helped clients achieve
sustainability, growth and resiliency goals related to their
critical infrastructure investments. She will play a vital role in
advancing Black & Veatch’s reduction efforts to meet specific
emissions targets in its annual corporate sustainability report,
which comprehensively documents the systematic impact the company
is making regarding climate change, decarbonization, resource
depletion, water pollution, social issues and other pressing
humanity challenges.
Black & Veatch’s 2024 Sustainability Report will be released
later this year.
Editor’s Notes:
- For a high-resolution image of Deepa Poduval, click here.
- Deepa Poduval serves as board member at large, Committee on
Sustainability for ASME, as executive mentor for CEO Action and was
recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders of Houston for 2023
and 2024.
- To download Black & Veatch’s 2023 Sustainability Report,
click here.
About Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch is a 100-percent employee-owned global
engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company with
a more than 100-year track record of innovation in sustainable
infrastructure. Since 1915, we have helped our clients improve the
lives of people around the world by addressing the resilience and
reliability of our most important infrastructure assets. Follow us
on www.bv.com and on social media.
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