While these challenges vary, common ones include the inability to get the energy they need from the grid and inadequate supplies of raw materials and water. Economic challenges often include the high costs of wastewater treatment and solid-waste disposal and taxes on greenhouse gas emissions.

To address these challenges, Geosyntec helps clients develop and implement affordable, and sustainable sources of energy, water, and other resources using a model called industrial symbiosis.

Upgrade Infrastructure, Achieve Cost Savings, Embrace the Circular Economy

Using this strategic planning and infrastructure model, Geosyntec helps businesses and other entities work together to develop, invest, and build needed infrastructure at a shared campus and develop pathways for the exchange and reuse of products.

Because these entities either already operate in industrial areas or have the opportunity to create a shared campus, they can use by-products created nearby, turning them into resources that fuel another colocated entity. By employing industrial symbiosis, entities can also increase resilience by shortening supply chains.

Choose Industrial Symbiosis Consultants with Wide-Ranging Technical Expertise

Geosyntec’s interdisciplinary practitioners take a symbiotic approach to evaluate local resources and waste streams, identifying siting and technology solutions, finding opportunities for resource and fuels conservation and generation, and planning for and attracting complementary industries.

To accomplish this, we assemble project-specific teams that include practitioners with knowledge and experience tailored to the specific collection of entities. This often means employing our in-house experts in sustainability, water and wastewater, industrial due diligence, financial and economic analysis, solid waste advisory, air quality, energy and decarbonization, and infrastructure planning and development.

Working together, Geosyntec practitioners can help the clients of a shared industrial campus lower energy costs, reduce waste, strengthen self-reliance, and welcome new business opportunities, while meeting their mission and business goals.