Put People First and Do What is Right

Recently I wrote “Doing what is right — Timpson”, about a company in the UK I have admired from afar.

Today a story about the corporate purpose and values of a company that I have got to know first-hand and that continues to hugely impress me with the way they live their values and own who they are,

The picture above was taken in Edmonton, Alberta in summer 2018 as steelworkers worked on what is now the tallest building in Canada outside Toronto, the Stantec Tower.

The photo reminds one of this seminal image from 1932 atop the then unfinished Rockefeller Plaza in New York.

Now, as this article from CBC notes:

“The photos have some notable differences — the Manhattan steelworkers smoke cigarettes and eat lunch without the assurances of harnesses or hard hats, while the Edmonton crew opted for a simple pose with their mandatory safety equipment firmly attached.”

For the project, Stantec was the tower’s designer, engineer and project manager, and now occupy 19 floors of the building.

So, if you know Stantec, you would know that they absolutely insist on the…