ABOUT OUR REPORT
SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY
The scope of this report is Fiscal Year 2020 , covering July 1 , 2019 through June 30 , 2020 . Our most recent report was published in February 2020 . We intend to report on an annual basis in the future .
The report has been prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards : Core Option . We have chosen to not externally assure this report but may elect to do so in the future . We chose ‘ operational control ’ as the emissions consolidation approach using World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative-A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard ( Revised Edition , 2015 ) as guidance .
For estimating our fleet vehicle emissions , TRC uses the mileage tracked for each vehicle in conjunction with standard emissions factors provided by FuelEconomy . gov , which is maintained by the U . S . Department of Energy ’ s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy , with data provided by the U . S . Environmental Protection Agency . This data considers each vehicle ’ s make , model and production year .
MATERIAL CHANGES IN REPORTING
Restatements or significant changes from our prior report are addressed in their respective areas of the report and include the following :
■ COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption to companies and communities around the globe . We have integrated information on our response to the pandemic throughout this report .
■ Within this report we have shared our new 2025 Sustainability Commitments that we rolled out this year as our 2020 Targets expired . We will report on our progress against these new commitments in future reports .
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■ As access to our offices ’ utility data increases , we are better able to estimate energy use for those offices where data is unavailable . Beginning with FY20 , we updated the way we calculate estimated energy use by substituting the Source Energy Use Intensity figure from the U . S . Department of Energy ’ s ( DOE ’ s ) Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey ( CBECS ), with a TRC-specific EUI derived from our available utility data .
■ Acquisitions are incorporated into our environmental footprint metrics one year later . Footprint metrics from the IJUS , Spida and MasTec acquisitions were incorporated in this report for the first time . Footprint metrics from the DES and EPI acquisitions will be incorporated in our 2021 report for the first time .
• On September 28 , 2018 , TRC Companies , Inc . acquired all of the outstanding membership interests of IJUS LLC (“ IJUS ”) and SPIDA Web LLC . (“ SPIDA ”), Ohio limited liability companies , based in Gahanna , Ohio . IJUS provides engineering design , joint use , field services , and project management for the telecommunication and electric utility industries . SPIDA provides software for utilities to better design , manage , and track their physical assets .
• On June 28 , 2019 , TRC Companies , Inc . acquired certain assets and liabilities of the transmission line and substation construction business of EC Source Services , LLC . (“ MasTec ”), based in Houston , Texas . MasTec provides testing and commissioning field services for extra high voltage and substation systems .