Our Initiatives

At Strategic Group, we recognize that we have a long-term responsibility to our customers and our communities. From ensuring that we follow green guidelines when developing or re-developing our properties to giving back to the communities where we live and work, our Strategic initiatives are vitally important to the way we do business.

  • Strategically Green

    Strategically Green

    We believe in providing healthy workplaces that embrace innovative environmental practices and energy efficiencies. Our Strategically Green initiative helps us identify building improvements, new technology, and social initiatives aimed at taking better care of our environment, the earth’s resources and each other.

    Putting Strategically Green into practice
    As part of Strategically Green we’ve implemented a number of green initiatives to help reduce our environmental impact.

    These include:

    Energy Reduction

    • We install occupancy sensors and timers in common areas such as stairwells and washrooms to switch lighting on and off.
    • Continuous monitoring and load-matching of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.
    • We maximize daylight and window views in occupied spaces.
    • In-house office appliances are energy star compliant.


    Water Conservation

    • We install automatic- flush urinals and faucets in bathrooms throughout our portfolio.
    • New renovations feature senor-based low-flow fixtures.

    Environmental

    • We use touch-free foam soap and hand sanitization dispensers.
    • We provide bicycle racks, bike storage units, locker rooms and shower facilities to encourage employees to bicycle to work.
    • We promote green housekeeping programs and implement sustainable cleaning procedures to reduce the amount of hazardous solutions used in our buildings.
    • We prohibit smoking in all our buildings.

    Recycling

    • We set up dedicated recycling rooms for office and retail generated waste.
    • Toner cartridges are returned for recycling.
  • Strategic Cares

    At Strategic Group, we are committed to giving back and improving where we live and work through our continued support of the arts, community programs and charitable organizations. Through our Strategic Cares initiative we support a number a charitable organizations and encourage our employees by matching their personal financial contributions.Corporate citizenship activities like these help instill the spirit of volunteerism in every Strategic Group employee.

    Strategic Group employees lend their time and support to a variety of deserving organizations, including:

    • Aga Khan Foundation
    • Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre
    • Alberta Champions
    • Alberta Children’s Hospital
    • Canadian Cancer Society
    • The Calgary Drop-in Centre
    • The Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank
    • The Calgary tour de nuit Societ
    • Habitat for Humanity
    • The Heart and Stroke Foundation
    • Inn from the Cold Society
    • The Kidney Foundation of Canada
    • Kids Cancer Care Foundation
    • Project Warmth
    • The Salvation Army Adopt-a-Family Christmas Program
    • Theatre Calgary
    • Tom Baker Cancer Centre
    • World Wildlife Fund

    Together, we have contributed millions of dollars to these, and other well deserving organizations.