By joining the Green Business Bureau, Maddox aims to gain a fuller understanding of their environmental impact, for continuous sustainable development. Their main focus has been to build a comprehensive recycling program and to reduce the company’s fossil fuel demand with effective energy management.
To drive these green changes, Maddox has given their employees a voice by creating a sustainability committee. This committee hosts a diverse range of opinions including those for and those against the suggested green changes. The aim is to establish a green culture and to build momentum for sustainable change internally.
Providing commercial and industrial sustainable electrical construction services
Maddox believes that construction is not just about having a good design, it’s about providing an experience, state-of-the-art management tools, adherence to the highest standards, having a strong commitment to research, and mastering cutting-edge technologies.
To fulfill these values, Maddox is run by teams of highly qualified personnel who are uniquely skilled in providing customers with exactly what they want. The aim at Maddox is to create a product that’s aesthetically pleasing, reliable, safe, incorporates the leading technology for the time, and is energy efficient to meet the organization’s sustainability targets.
With this in mind, Maddox’s main green goals have been to ensure 100% of recyclables are processed properly, and that the company is supporting a zero-carbon future by reducing their fossil-fuel energy demand through effective energy management.
- Recycling waster materials: Maddox is working with a local family-owned recycling business to ensure that 100% of their recyclables are processed properly.
- Effective energy management: Maddox has built a new state-of-the-art facility that meets all of the current building and energy codes. They are also looking to enter the renewable energy market and have since partnered with some specialty companies that focus on that.
For Maddox Electrical Company this has posed a challenge in the form of employee resistance to the sustainable changes made. That is, some employees have disagreed with the direction of the company.
Yet, Maddox has proactively addressed this challenge by recognizing sustainable design is an entire company decision that impacts everyone.
Maddox ran an initial buy-off meeting with all of the company’s leadership team. This meeting gave employees a voice and an opportunity to share their insights and opinions on the proposed business changes. The leadership team engaged in discussion and debated different ideas and challenges that they may all face.
Maddox also established a sustainability committee of proponents, neutrals, and opponents. This way, the company could utilize the differences in opinions to ensure every decision the company made considered voices from all sides.
– Randy Maddox, President of Maddox Electric Company
