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Baker Announces Inaugural Corporate Sustainability Report

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Baker Announces Inaugural Corporate Sustainability Report

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Michael Baker Corporation (NYSE Amex: BKR) announced today that it has released its first Corporate Sustainability Report, demonstrating its commitment to investors, customers, business partners and employees in protecting and preserving the environment and the communities it serves.

“We consider it our responsibility to foster a strong corporate environment of respect and equilibrium when it comes to achieving sustainability within our Company, among our clients, and in the wider scope of society”

“We consider it our responsibility to foster a strong corporate environment of respect and equilibrium when it comes to achieving sustainability within our Company, among our clients, and in the wider scope of society,” said Bradley L. Malloy, Baker president and chief executive officer. “We achieve that through innovation, technology, and a legacy of delivering superior solutions.”

The report defines sustainability at Baker and details what the Company has achieved internally, as well as on behalf of clients, by demonstrating a strong commitment through action.

Among the report’s highlights:

• Defining Sustainability: incorporates Baker’s purpose statement, “Creating value by delivering innovative and sustainable solutions for infrastructure and the environment,” and briefly describes how this statement helps drive operating decisions.
• Reducing Baker’s Internal Footprint: highlights Baker’s recycling efforts, business practices, and provides a preliminary baseline measurement of carbon emissions data.
• Extending Sustainability to Clients: illustrates a number of real-world solutions Baker has delivered in an environmentally responsible manner on behalf of clients.
• Getting Involved with Local Community Groups/Engineers Without Borders: recognizes many Baker employees who have applied their passion for environmental stewardship to the communities and causes which they serve.

Baker’s Corporate Sustainability Report is available online at: http://ebook.mbakercorp.com/CSR/.

Michael Baker Corporation (www.mbakercorp.com) provides engineering, design, planning and construction services for its clients’ most complex challenges worldwide. The firm's primary business areas are architecture, aviation, defense, environmental, geospatial, homeland security, municipal & civil, pipelines & utilities, rail & transit, transportation and water. With more than 2,900 employees in nearly 90 offices across the United States, Baker is focused on creating value by delivering innovative and sustainable solutions for infrastructure and the environment.