Since 1994, the Greenland Group of Companies (GREENLAND®) has efficiently provided its clients and customers with integrated professional engineering and landscape architecture services. Our successful business model, brand and accomplishments continue to grow because of the Board of Directors and employee commitments to innovation; attention to detail; and, “personality of a small business with a greater good and global impact”.
Our organization also offers exceptional service in developing intelligent (Internet-of-Things) decision support systems and water sector related products. This allows us to maintain our competitive edge and entrepreneurial integrity with our clients, customers and strategic business partners around the world.
Employment and Supplier Diversity Commitments and Accessibility Policy
Every day, we strive to create an inclusive workplace, where diverse perspectives are respected and all opinions matter. Our core principles include:
GREENLAND® Customer Service Policy - Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
All of our suppliers, vendors, sub-consultants and sub-contractors that are located and operate in the Province of Ontario must be compliant with the “Accessible Customer Service Standard – Ontario Regulation 429/07”made under the “Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) – 2005” and to provide us any goods and services. Proof of training and related policies shall also be provided to GREENLAND® upon request.
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Sustainability Commitment and Environmental Policy
To be exemplary global citizens, the Greenland Group of Companies strives for leadership by addressing areas most critical to its employees, its clients and customers, other stakeholders and the business community.
Our reputation is paramount because:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
In March of 2013, Greenland International Consulting Ltd. completed a study for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to estimate nutrient loading in small catchment of about 177 square kilometers in the La Salle River watershed in southern Manitoba using the CANWET 4 model. Given uncertainties in some input data and model parameters, the preliminary results using the CANWET 4 model for baseline conditions of stream discharge, nutrient concentrations and loads were satisfactory in our project team as simulated values were within the range of observed values during the validation period.
This study suggests the CANWET 4 modeling approach could be used to predict changes to nutrient loads from changing land use scenarios in watersheds of this region.
Jason Vanrobaeys
Senior Land Resource Specialist
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Muskoka Watershed Council
The Muskoka Watershed Council’s mission is to champion watershed health in those watersheds that flow into and through the District Municipality of Muskoka. There is no conservation authority in Muskoka, instead the Council is a volunteer-based organization supported by the District of Muskoka, local consulting firms, and local Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry and Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change offices.
The Muskoka Watershed Council is currently undertaking a project to understand the potential impact of climate change in Muskoka to the year 2050. In working with our municipal partners, decision support tools such as Greenland’s new CANWET-5 model could be useful in informing our watershed management planning decisions in relation to policy development, stewardship priorities and education and communication programs.
Peter Sale
Chair
Muskoka Watershed Council
November 17, 2014
University of Guelph
The reappearance of excessive nutrient loading in Lake Erie and the subsequent algae blooms is an extremely complex issue and is quite different in nature than the previous phosphorous loadings in the 1970s. Unlike the issue in the 1970s, there are far more sources adding nutrients to the late and these sources are diverse in nature ranging from rural to urban. In order to understand the nutrient loading, both in the temporal and spatial domains, more complex analytic and predictive tools are required in order to help policy make sound, science based, and defendable solutions.
The University of Guelph is uniquely positioned to help address the issues around Lake Erie with long standing core strengths in both the agricultural sector and the environmental field. In conjunction with our partner, Greenland Consulting Engineers, and their watershed evaluation tool (CANWETTM), we believe that we have the engineering and technology to extrapolate CANWETTM from the watershed level up to the lake basin level and provide decision-making support for the entire Lake Erie basin.
Hussein Abdullah, Ph.D., P. Eng.
Director, School of Engineering
University of Guelph
January, 26 2015
