New England Biolabs: Our Commitment to Environmental Sustainability

Levi Rogers:
My thought around sustainability, it's really a decision-making concept, that interconnected concept to advance our work in life sciences with a conscience. As we think about how we're designing or building the company, we're also being mindful of our impact. We've been focused on sustainability for a long time, for decades, and we've been doing it for the right reasons, because it's the right thing to do, because it's just been who we are.

Donald G. Comb:
To preserve biodiversity, to preserve the environment, that's our main task here.

Pat Norton:
When you walk on campus, when you enter into the buildings, you feel that environment that's been established here.

Levi Rogers:
A lot of the sustainability initiatives have really been brought forward by employee ideas and it's ever-evolving.

Pat Norton:
We are out and looking for new creative ways to use technologies that haven't been used before. It was a five-year design period, the garden expansion facility. We planted over 1,000 shrubs and 175 trees, and every single one of those was selected very specifically for its function and relationship with everything else around it. Our campus here in Ipswich, we occupy about 170 acres. A hundred of those acres are under conservation, so they'll be preserved forever, and it was one of the first lab buildings to be LEED^® certified.

Levi Rogers:
LEED is leadership in energy and environmental design.

Pat Norton:
It provides a foundation for healthy and efficient buildings, from the start and design throughout the course of construction and eventually, throughout the lifetime of the operation of that facility. All the water and wastewater and sanitary water gets recharged back into the ground through the wastewater treatment facility.

Levi Rogers:
Mimicking natural systems.

Pat Norton:
Generating better-than-drinking quality water without the use of chemicals.

Lana Saleh:
I look outside my window, and it allows you to be creative, to be innovative, but also be genuinely happy. Seeing nature all around you, it brings you a peace of mind, in a way.

Levi Rogers:
People are looking to companies like NEB, for example. For us to be able to show how a company that's guided by authentic values can really move the needle on sustainability and shows what can be done and what's possible.

Pat Norton:
These investments and decisions, all very specific, mindful decisions will have an impact for decades.