Hugo Neu Corporation Sustainability Seminar Series: Understanding the Environmental Footprint: Planning and Tracking for Project Success
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering
Speaker: Howard Nichols, PE, Principal Engineer, TRC Environmental
ABSTRACT
Several states have incorporated Green and Sustainable Remediation requirements into lay and guidance, requiring practitioners to not only implement green and sustainable activities, but to also quantify and understand the environmental footprint of a project. Additionally, many corporations have environmental and sustainability goals (ESG) established as a metric for quarterly success. This presentation will review the fundamentals of an environmental footprint, how to estimate the project’s footprint, identifying major components of on- and off-site contributions and how this information can be used to update the project approach. The presentation will also review ways to track footprints on routine operations, and will discuss a portfolio of projects that TRC routinely tracks.
BIOGRAPHY
Howard Nichols, PE, has over 25 years of experience in soil and groundwater remediation with a proven record of remediating complex contaminated sites in state and federal regulatory programs. He has designed and implemented many remediation technologies including soil vapor extraction, air sparging, biosparging, in-well air stripping, thermal remediation, aerobic and anaerobic bioremediation, in-situ chemical oxidation and reduction, surfactant flushing, product recovery, stabilization and solidification, and pump and treat. He also has experience in landfill investigations, closure and landfill gas management, collection, and treatment, as well as investigating and mitigating vapor intrusion. His experience includes work on residential, commercial, industrial, rail, and Department of Defense facilities. Implementing innovative technologies to achieve the remediation goals has been a focus of his career, often resulting in cost savings for his clients. Howard has taken his decades of remediation experience and focused that wealth of knowledge towards green and sustainable remediation programs and projects. He co-leads TRCs sustainable remediation program where he not only identifies and implements sustainable remediation projects, but he is also adept at using the tools that are available to quantify the environmental and social benefits of these approaches. Howard has Bachelor of Engineering and Masters of Engineering degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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