B Impact Report

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Signal Works

Architectural Design of Urban Revitalization and Mission-Aligned Workplaces
Certified Since: November, 2020
Location: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Sector: Service with Minor Environmental Footprint

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

101.0

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

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Signal Works is a mission-driven Providence-based architecture firm based. Their work on Broken Buildings into Purposeful Places through their specializations in Innovative Schools, Urban Rehabilitations and Values-Aligned Work Environments. Their efforts have been recognized by Grow Smart Rhode Island, Providence Business News and others with distinctions ranging from Historic Preservation to Restaurant Interiors. Many are already familiar with the work for AAA Northeast, the Providence G and Trinity Academy of Performing Arts.

Signal Works apply their values of “People-Focused, Place-Based and Purpose Driven” to design projects, operate and care for their team. Signal Works became the first certified B-Corp Architect in Southern New England to measure their social impact. They put our best ideas into practice in their own space, converting an 1850s gasometer in Olneyville—the Atlantic Design Works-- into a breathtaking office, and a business hub for early stage creative food entrepreneurs.
Their in-house “Care Team” is creating a culture they can be proud of, and are part of a select group of companies that have achieved B Corp certification, which independently measures their social and environmental impact.

Impact Area Scoresinfo_outline

info_outlineOverall B Impact Score

To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

info_outlineImpact Area Scores

The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

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info_outlineBest for the World Honoree

Each year, B Lab releases lists honoring the top-performing Certified B Corps in each Impact Area and overall, broken down by size, on the annual Best for the World lists.

info_outlineAdditional Documentation

B Lab may determine that a company should make additional material beyond their B Impact Report transparent in order for the public to be able to evaluate the company’s overall impact. This additional transparency may cover participation in a controversial industry, information shared on the company’s Disclosure Questionnaire, or simply a company’s relationship to a larger complex entity. Public companies and wholly-owned subsidiaries are required to make their full B Impact Assessments transparent to achieve B Corp Certification.