Across industries, organizations are navigating complex environmental, health, safety, and sustainability (EHS&S) challenges, from evolving regulations and operational risks to circularity, workforce safety, and supply chain pressures. While those challenges vary by sector, one thing remains consistent: progress happens faster through collaboration.
For over 20 years, Antea Group has facilitated industry consortiums that foster open dialogue, peer benchmarking, and collective problem-solving in a trusted environment governed by the Chatham House rule and anti-trust measures. Beyond our role as facilitator, Antea Group leads the committees and advisory boards within each group, provides project management and support, coordinates in-person meetings, and looks for opportunities for each group to leverage their expertise to advance their respective missions. At their core, these groups help industry leaders learn from one another while advancing meaningful progress for common challenges within a sector.
“Industry consortiums create a powerful space for organizations to work together on shared challenges that are often too complex for any one company to solve alone,” said Angelique Dickson, EVP of Partnerships and Networks, Antea Group USA. “By bringing the right partners to the table, we can help turn collective knowledge into practical solutions that move entire industries forward.”
Today, these global consortiums support industries ranging from healthcare and beverage manufacturing to technology and the rapidly growing data center sector. Below is a look at the three consortiums we facilitate, and some of the recent work taking place across these groups.
Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER)
BIER is a coalition of global beverage companies working together to advance environmental sustainability through technical collaboration and shared industry action.
As BIER marks its 20th anniversary in 2026, the organization continues to expand its work across sustainability challenges affecting the beverage sector. Originally founded around water stewardship, BIER’s focus has evolved to include climate action, sustainable agriculture, circular packaging, sustainability reporting, and supply chain resilience.
In addition to facilitating collaboration among members, Antea Group provides technical support and subject matter expertise that helps advance BIER’s research initiatives, benchmarking programs, technical guidance, and collective action projects.
Initiatives and areas of focus include:
- Technical guidance and tools related to greenhouse gas emissions and water circularity
- Quarterly sustainability and environment, social, and governance (ESG) regulatory roundups
- Collective action initiatives focused on watershed collaboration and sustainable cooling solutions
- And more:
Industry Benchmarking
For nearly two decades, BIER’s benchmarking program has helped member companies and the larger beverage industry measure environmental performance and identify opportunities for improvement across water use, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions. By collecting and analyzing standardized data from beverage facilities around the world, the program provides the beverage industry with valuable insights into operational performance, emerging trends, and areas of potential risk.
The benchmarking initiative also supports peer learning by enabling companies to compare performance against industry averages, identify leading practices, and make more informed decisions around resource efficiency and sustainability investments. As environmental expectations continue to evolve, the program remains an important tool for tracking progress and driving continuous improvement across the beverage sector.
Charco Bendito Watershed Initiative
One example of BIER’s collective action approach is the Charco Bendito watershed initiative in Jalisco, Mexico. The project brings together companies that share reliance on the same watershed to support long-term water resilience through restoration activities, stakeholder engagement, and collaborative resource management.
By working together across organizations and sectors, participants are helping address shared water challenges that would be difficult for any one company to tackle independently. The initiative demonstrates how collective action can create meaningful environmental and community benefits while supporting the long-term sustainability of critical water resources. BIER continues to look for opportunities around the world to launch similar impactful initiatives.
Sustainable Coolers Coolition
BIER also continues to advance the Sustainable Coolers Coolition, a collaborative effort focused on reducing the environmental footprint of commercial beverage refrigeration equipment.
The initiative brings together beverage companies, equipment manufacturers, and technical partners to explore opportunities and innovations for improved energy efficiency, circularity, and lower-emission cooling technologies. Through shared research, industry engagement, and innovation-focused programs such as the Cool Challenge, participants are helping accelerate the development and adoption of more sustainable refrigeration solutions across the beverage sector. BIER continues to provide a trusted, non-competitive environment where beverage companies can collaborate on practical, science-based approaches to shared environmental challenges.
Find out more about BIER here.
BIER contact: Celine Morris
Data Center Safety Council (DCSC)
This collaborative industry group is focused on improving health, safety, and workforce wellbeing across data center operations through shared best practices, training, and alignment.
DCSC continues to expand its collaborative efforts across workforce development, operational safety, and industry alignment. During a recent in-person steering committee meeting, members identified several potential new workstreams for 2026 and beyond, including Benchmarking and Metrics Harmonization and the Standardization of Qualified Electrical Worker Requirements. Discussions also explored the potential development of a broader Data Center Construction Coalition to further extend collaboration across the industry ecosystem.
One of DCSC’s major ongoing initiatives is the Data Center Safety Awareness Certificate, developed in partnership with Certus to establish a consistent baseline of safety awareness for personnel working in live data center environments. The training focuses on common operational risks including electrical hazards, fire and heat exposure, and access control while helping create more consistent onboarding and shared safety language across multi-employer sites.
Additional 2026 priorities include expansion of the High-Risk Activities (HRA) Resource Library, and continued DCSC Exchange bi-monthly forums for data center hyperscalers, owners, and operators. Together, these initiatives support DCSC’s broader mission of advancing holistic health and safety across the data center lifecycle through collaboration, knowledge sharing, workforce development, and practical industry guidance.
DCSC also recently released a new video featuring steering committee members reflecting on the mission, growth, and impact of the organization, and how collaboration across the industry is helping advance consistent safety practices, address shared risks, and improve worker wellbeing throughout the data center lifecycle.
DCSC contact: Tracy Taszarek
Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC)
HPRC is a cross-sector coalition of globally recognized organizations working to improve the recyclability of plastics and packaging used throughout healthcare environments. With active initiatives across the United States and Europe, HPRC brings together stakeholders from across the healthcare plastics value chain to develop practical, scalable recycling solutions.
At HPRC’s Spring 2026 Full Council Meeting, collaboration across the healthcare plastics value chain remained a central theme, with discussions focused on how manufacturers, healthcare systems, recyclers, and suppliers, can work together to address persistent recycling barriers.
HPRC’s 2026 roadmap includes several ongoing and new initiatives designed to improve healthcare plastics recycling infrastructure and implementation, including:
Houston Regional Healthcare Plastics Recycling Playbook
Building on work from previous years, HPRC is helping advance a regional healthcare plastics recycling model in Houston, Texas, in collaboration with the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW), the Vinyl Institute, and the Houston Methodist healthcare network. The initiative aims to develop a playbook that will allow other healthcare systems across the US to implement practical, economically viable programs for healthcare plastics recycling.
Hospicycle Resource Refresh
Working alongside the Healthcare Facility Advisory Board (HFAB), HPRC is updating and expanding Hospicycle tools and resources to better support healthcare facilities that are implementing plastics recycling programs.
Recycling Infrastructure Mapping
This initiative is focused on understanding barriers and opportunities for recycle-ready healthcare packaging and materials selection while developing a publicly available map of participating hospital recycling programs and infrastructure.
Standardized Packaging Labeling
HPRC is working to improve end-of-life material identification by exploring more standardized labeling approaches for flexible and rigid medical packaging.
Volume and Value Tool Development
Building on data gathered during previous project work, HPRC aims to develop a predictive tool that helps healthcare facilities better understand recyclable material volumes and how purchasing decisions influence recycling outcomes.
HPRC contact: Tracy Taszarek
Looking Ahead: The Future of Industry Consortiums
From advancing beverage sustainability and healthcare plastics recycling to improving data center safety, each of these consortiums demonstrates the value of bringing industry peers together to address shared challenges. Through benchmarking, technical collaboration, knowledge sharing, and collective action, these groups help organizations move beyond individual efforts and make meaningful progress on issues that affect entire industries.
As environmental, health, safety, and sustainability priorities continue to evolve, the consortiums facilitated by Antea Group will continue providing trusted forums where organizations can exchange ideas, develop practical solutions, and help shape the future of their industries.
If you’re interested in learning more about any of these consortiums or exploring opportunities to participate, please reach out today.