How Stantec Are Powering Sustainable Change with APM
Why It Matters
By embedding APM standards, Stantec enhances project reliability and accelerates sustainable infrastructure, delivering measurable community benefits and setting a benchmark for industry best practices.
Key Takeaways
- •Stantec leverages APM training to boost project delivery confidence
- •Hydropower pump storage projects aim to power over one million homes
- •Former military personnel find APM qualifications accelerate civilian engineering careers
- •APM templates streamline documentation, enhancing daily project management efficiency
- •Stantec’s sustainable engineering supports community water and infrastructure improvements
Summary
The video showcases how Stantec, a global sustainable‑engineering firm, is integrating the Association for Project Management (APM) framework to drive its water‑power and dam projects, including ambitious pump‑storage hydro schemes that could supply electricity to more than a million households.
Key insights include the company’s systematic rollout of APM qualifications—PMF, PMQ, and the Chartered Professional Qualification—to all project managers, the use of APM templates for daily documentation, and the tangible societal benefits of cleaner water and resilient infrastructure.
Leaders such as Operations Director David Sheer and project manager Leon Fairbank cite personal stories: a former army officer who leveraged the PMQ to transition into civil engineering, and the corporate advisory group that collaborates across professions to shape industry standards.
These practices give Stantec, its clients, and the broader market confidence in project delivery, while reinforcing the role of professional certification in scaling sustainable infrastructure worldwide.
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