Vision, Mission & Values

Vision, Mission & Values

Vision

Black & Veatch leads our industry in value creation for each of our stakeholders — clients, professionals, shareholders and business partners.

Mission

Black & Veatch is Building a World of Difference®. By advancing the frontiers of knowledge, we provide our clients with reliable solutions to their most complex challenges, thereby helping improve and sustain the quality of life around the world.

Black & Veatch Core Values

At Black & Veatch, we build strong relationships with each other, our clients and our business partners based on seven fundamental values:

Integrity –  As we operate in an intensely competitive environment, we compete fairly, conducting our business in a professional manner that reflects favorably on our company and on each of us. We hold ourselves to the Black & Veatch code of conduct no matter where we operate.

Shared Ownership –  We build value for our shareholders and we share the results of the company's success with those who produce it.

Common Purpose –  We operate from a common purpose and the broad view, doing what is best for the company as a whole, working with mutual trust and collaboration.

Stewardship –  In keeping with our founding principles, we honor other Black & Veatch professionals — past, present and future — by striving to grow the company's value and vitality during our temporary stewardship.

Respect –  We are sincere, fair and forthright, treating others with dignity and respecting their individual differences, feelings and contributions.

Accountability –  We set high performance expectations and hold ourselves accountable for the quality of our work and the results we achieve as individuals, as team members and as a company.

Entrepreneurship –  We encourage nontraditional thinking and appropriate risk-taking, which provide opportunities to learn and grow as individuals and as businesses.