The Fransen Sustainability Group is committed to developing Sustainable work practices at the office.  We believe our slogan ‘Think Long Term’, means more than developing deep relationships with our clients, but also ‘thinking long term’ about how we operate our business.

Our clients are starting to expect us to have a Sustainability Plan in place and in most cases, when taking account all the factors, sustainable practices often lead to cost-savings and hence it just makes good business sense.

Our group meets monthly, usually during the last week of the month to discuss initiatives implemented over the past month and to plan out future activities.  We encourage you to get involved and even share ideas by emailing sustainability@fransenengineering.com.

The Spring wellness program kicked off in March with a pilot version of the “Moving into Wellness” assessment and life-balance program facilitated by Maxine Lowe.  Twelve adventurous participants responded to the call for wellness and stuck it out for 12 consecutive weeks!

Each person was required to do an online assessment in 12 key lifestyle areas: Self Responsibility & Love, Breathing, Sensing, Eating, Moving, Feeling, Thinking, Playing & Working, Communicating, Intimacy, Finding Meaning and Transcending to identify their areas of strength, satisfaction and the specific areas they were most motivated to change.

This was followed by personal coaching sessions to help them understand their assessment results and explore their “change readiness” in key areas, in addition to gaining personal insight into their state of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness.  Based on Dr. John Travis’ Wellness Energy System detailed in The Wellness Workbook, 12 interactive lunch ‘n’ learns were conducted at Fransen to educate, motivate and provide accountability for high levels of wellness.

SunRun 2009 was a great success.  We ran, jogged, walked and sprinted our way along the beautiful 10km course.  It took us through Downtown Vancouver, over the Burrard Bridge to Kitsilano, along False Creek and over the Cambie Bridge to the end (finally…) at BC Place Stadium where we found lots of water and snacks waiting for us! 

Once the dust settled, the Fransen SunRunners placed 13th in the Engineering Division coming in ahead of 47 other teams in the category! Also we improved on our average time by one minute from 2008.  Way to go everyone! Thank you to our Captain, Bindy Grewal for getting our registrations and shirts organized.

Results

Fransen Engineering Ltd - 13th Place Engineering Division

37:47 - Mike Elsinga

40:42 - Robert Thompson

44:28 - Mark Abbott

46:04 - Jordan Hewer

49:20 - Jason Meyer

51:24 - Soheyl Soltani

53:54 - Harish Raisinghani

101:58 - Darren Brown

103:38 - George Mitchell

103:58 - Ian Cook

105:27 - George Coelho

114:47 - Richard Hernandez

137:27 - Marlena Mason-Brown