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The Company We Keep

Dear Reader,
This blog is now an archive. John Abrams (Founder of South Mountain, author of this blog, and a book of the same name) retired on December 31, 2022. All posts published up until this date are preserved below.

For updates on John's next chapter, visit abramsangell.com.

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Tracking our Carbon Footprint

July 1, 2014 by John Abrams Leave a Comment

The piece below was written for and posted on the Green Building Advisor.  I thought I’d share it here too.

We like to measure how we’re doing in as many ways as possible.  Like other businesses, we have a collection of metrics for financial tracking: profit and loss, budget projections and actuals, job costing of each project, value of our several funds (pension, equity, and reserves) and more.

We also measure social factors:  employee education costs, compensation ratio top to bottom, length of employee tenure, average employee age, charitable contributions, and community service.

We consistently track (measure) our work backlog to help us plan for our immediate future.

We try to predict our longer-term future, too – through strategic planning, creating five year plans, projecting organizational charts, and making succession plans.

In design and project planning, we do extensive measuring (space planning, engineering) to ensure good building performance, structure, and utility.  On our completed projects, we monitor energy use and other factors (like relative humidity) to help us learn what works and what doesn’t.

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Filed Under: Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Martha's Vineyard, Small Business, South Mountain Company Tagged With: carbon footprint, Green Building Advisor, life cycle assessment

Measuring our Carbon Footprint

December 9, 2013 by John Abrams 4 Comments

Whenever possible at SMCo, we like to measure how we’re doing.  Like other businesses, we have a collection of ways to measure our financial progress – profit and loss, annual budget projections and actuals, cost tracking of each of our projects, value of our several funds (pension, equity, and reserves) and more.

We consistently track (measure) our work backlog to help us plan for our near-term future.

We also measure social factors:  employee education costs, compensation ratio top to bottom, length of employee tenure, average employee age, charitable contributions, and community service.

We try to predict our longer-term future, too – by doing strategic planning, creating five year plans, projecting organizational charts, and making succession plans.

Read More about Measuring our Carbon Footprint

Filed Under: Energy, Environment, Small Business, South Mountain Company Tagged With: carbon footprint, life cycle assessment, zero energy buildings

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