Managing risks and making opportunities from environmental requirements 

 

Helping Clients Meet Environmental Improvement Goals 

Many owners are learning of the bottom-line benefits that can be achieved through environmental improvement. More efficient operation, reduced energy requirements, improved productivity and public relations benefits can all enhance the bottom-line. 

 

Operational Flexibility is the Key 

The environmental services team assists clients with the multi-faceted challenges owners and operators face from environmental requirements. We assist with meeting current environmental requirements while planning for future possibilities. Our experience spans a wide range of industrial, institutional and utility clients providing us the insight to minimize compliance costs and maximize operational flexibility. 

 

Areas of Expertise 

• Air Quality Permitting: Participate in design and craft pre-construction/operating permits which incorporate operational flexibility for major and minor sources. 

• Air Dispersion Modeling and Health Risk Analysis: Craft facility models to assess air quality impacts and available growth increments to assess health risk impacts. 

• Environmental Markets and Credit Trading: Determine whether existing or planned environmental credit markets provide opportunity for revenue. 

• Compliance with Specialized Requirements: Develop compliance strategies for special requirements under NSPS or MACT standards. 

• Renewable and Alternative Energy: Obtain permits, evaluate emissions and identify credits for renewable/alternative energy projects. 

• Environmental Master Planning: Analyze compliance status and allowable future growth increments for facility and utility master planning activities. 

• Pollution Control Design: Assess current and future pollution control requirements to meet long-term needs. 

• Environmental Site Assessments/Brownfield Assessment: Address environmental issues from the design phase through Phase I/II Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) investigations, clean-up and site closure. 

• Compliance Plans and Training: Prepare required plans and train operators on the work practice standards such as Shutdown/ Startup/Malfunction, Risk Management, Process Safety Management and Spill Prevention, Containment and Countermeasures. 

• Sustainable Design: Incorporate sustainable principles into design of new structures or within existing operations. Our staff can also manage the LEED® Certification process. 

• Water and Wastewater Treatment: Provide process design, construction document preparation, rate study and energy evaluations and permit negotiations through startup and commissioning services and post construction documentation.