Jill Gaffigan, Sarah Gustitus-Graham, and Marc Rogoff will present at the Solid Waste Association of North America, Florida Branch (SWANA FL) 2022 Winter Conference at the Safety Harbor Resort and Spa in Safety Harbor, Florida on February 20 through 22, 2022.
Craig Browne is a Principal Engineer based in Florida with more than 19 years of experience in solid waste facility design, permitting, construction, and closure services. His solid waste design expertise includes settlement and slope stability evaluation, leachate management system design, stormwater management system design, and landfill gas management system design.
Geosyntec is pleased to announce the promotion of Chris Conkle, Christine LaPrade, Cindy Bartlett, Craig Browne, Doug Bielskis, Emmie Chen, Garry Stanley, Heather Rectanus, Herwig Goldemund, Jane Barnes, Jarad Champion, Jeff Thompson, Jessica Yeager, John Barrett, Lane Dorman, Maygan Cline, Nick Muenks, Teresa Fischer, Thom Amstadt, Wayne Amber, and Yonas Zemuy to the position of Principal within the Geosyntec family of companies.
Kwasi Badu-Tweneboah, Samir Ahmed, Craig Browne (Florida), and the Indian River County Managing Director of Solid Waste Disposal District, Himanshu Mehta authored an article published in the Newsletter of the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) Florida Sunshine Chapter Fall/Winter 2017 issue.
Government regulations for air quality and emissions continue to rapidly evolve. Companies must understand, plan for, and adhere to rapidly changing requirements including monitoring, testing, emissions control, recordkeeping, and reporting. Attaining and maintaining compliance while minimizing operational and financial impacts can be a challenge, particularly in today’s regulatory climate. Geosyntec's comprehensive understanding of air quality laws and regulations, along with our expertise in state-of-the-practice emissions control and monitoring technologies, equip us to provide our clients with innovative and cost-effective solutions for their air quality compliance challenges. Our practitioners offer clients a broad array of services, including permitting, compliance reporting, and air pollution control technology selection and optimization. Our projects routinely involve minor and major source air permitting, compliance assistance, and regulatory negotiations, as well as air pollution control equipment troubleshooting, optimization, and testing. Air Permitting On behalf of clients, we create unique solutions that often help them avoid major source permitting requirements, like Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) or nonattainment area New Source Review (NSR). Relying on our extensive knowledge of operating permit programs and our experience in a broad range of industries and emissions sources, we offer clients permitting assistance that aligns with federal, state, and local air jurisdictions. We craft strategic approaches to air quality challenges. When major source permitting cannot be avoided, our air dispersion modelers and control technology experts know how to respond to challenges associated with major source permitting requirements. Geosyntec’s experts address control technology evaluations, including Best Available Control Technology (BACT) and Lowest Achievable Emission Rate (LAER) evaluations. They are also adept at understanding and conducting ambient air impact analyses, like National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) increments, and state toxic air pollutant (TAP) demonstrations. Air Compliance and Reporting With federal, state, and local air quality regulations constantly in flux, maintaining compliance can be a burden on businesses. Our nuanced understanding of policies, regulations, and drivers empowers us to craft effective and efficient compliance solutions for our clients to help them address challenges and remain in compliance. Together, we develop frameworks for comprehensive environmental management strategies that help clients meet air compliance and reporting requirements. Some of the compliance programs we helped design include those governing emission inventory reporting; Title V annual and semiannual reporting; greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting; and deviation reporting. Evaluation and Optimization of Air Quality Control Devices Our practitioners evaluate air pollution control devices and advise clients to help them meet emission standards and minimize operational costs. Our project experience includes combustion management and tuning for boilers, thermal oxidizers, and other combustion devices. We also specialize in area and source measurement of complex pollutants such as mercury, sulfur trioxide (SO3) and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), Geosyntec has installed state-of-the-practice hardware and software using cross-duct lasers to continuously monitor ammonia (NH3) and SO3. In addition, we can assist clients with selection of continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS) and offer operational assistance, data management, and equipment maintenance. Continuous Emission Monitoring System Design and Ambient Air Monitoring Geosyntec has supported clients with development of comprehensive environmental management strategies, optimization of plant operations, and increasing efficiency of their air emissions control systems. This has included installation, evaluation, and enhancement of CEMS at point sources and ambient air monitoring systems for fence line or offsite monitoring. Air Litigation Support Leading law firms throughout the United States seek technical support from Geosyntec due to our expertise and credibility providing litigation support. Geosyntec provides resources for attorneys to advocate for their clients’ interests on a myriad of air subjects related to business transactions, environmental management, compliance and enforcement, toxic tort, and general litigation topics. Geosyntec’s team of senior air professionals frequently provide expert witness testimony opinion reports, claims assessments, and agency negotiations and settlement support. Advancing the State of the Practice Experts in process and air pollution control technology design, we help clients develop strategic approaches to complex, multipollutant emission issues and provide clients with a balanced approach to plant operations. In the electric power industry, Geosyntec practitioners design strategies that reduce the amount of coal required to produce energy through improvements in fuel use, waste generation systems, and air pollution controls. Optimal air pollution controls, such as selective catalytic reduction (SCR, or thermal oxidizers), can result in substantial fuel savings and decrease emissions through improved performance of control devices. Geosyntec practitioners frequently collaborate with colleagues and industry peers at the USEPA, the US Department of Energy (DOE), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA), and other organizations on new strategies for reducing air quality impacts. These collaborate strategies involve NOx control, mercury capture, scrubber optimization for heavy metals, catalyst selection and optimization, and plume opacity mitigation. In addition, our experts have developed methods to measure emissions of specific pollutants under complex operating conditions which have been accepted by air agencies across the country. Representative Services Air Permitting for New Facilities and Facility Expansions Air Pollution Control Engineering Ambient Air Monitoring and Source Testing Program Support Air Dispersion Modeling, Accidental Release, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling Carbon Management and Greenhouse Gas Inventories Compliance Reporting and Auditing Services Capital Project Permitting Assessments Emission Inventories and Mobile Source Studies Feedstock Testing Analyses to maximize Air Pollution Source Control Health Risk Assessments Indoor Air Quality Monitoring and Management Litigation Support and Expert Witness Testimony Odor and Noise Modeling, Monitoring, and Control Operator and Employee Training Process Engineering and Controls Optimization Regulatory Strategy and Compliance Management Strategic Technical Support to Trade Associations
Across industries and project types, delivery is increasingly shaped by regulatory complexity, environmental constraints, stakeholder expectations, and the need to accelerate schedules while managing costs.
Clients turn to Geosyntec's nationally recognized geotechnical and geological engineers to develop projects and services that efficiently use geotechnically challenging sites. We apply advanced technologies and leverage our proven practice leadership to provide clients with dependable, cost-effective solutions and customized services while meeting aggressive construction schedules.
Geosyntec helps clients determine performance and the cost of air pollution control techniques. These techniques are designed to reduce or eliminate emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) and regulated air toxics from industrial and commercial sources. Our air practitioners offer decades of experience measuring and mitigating adverse environmental and health effects caused by HAPs regulated under the Clean Air Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Toxic Substances Control Act in the United States. We address client challenges at major and area sources across the country involving air toxics such as benzene, perchloroethylene, methylene chloride, ethylene oxide, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Geosyntec's scientists and engineers employ advanced solutions to identify emission stream characteristics from sources located at a variety of industries. We assist clients with selection and implementation of the best mitigation and control systems for their facilities, and we provide permitting assistance under federal, state, and local air construction and operating permit programs. Geosyntec practitioners specialize in process design and air pollution control technology design that helps us develop strategic approaches to complex, multipollutant emission issues. Our process engineering and air pollution control experts provide clients with a balanced approach to their plant operations.
Geosyntec is a recognized leader in helping our clients achieve safe, secure containment of their regulated wastes requiring land disposal. We provide engineering and related services for siting, permitting, design, construction management/quality assurance, environmental monitoring, and closure/post-closure care. We are experienced in the design of: Municipal solid waste and construction and demolition debris disposal facilities Coal combustion residuals disposal facilities Industrial waste disposal facilities Hazardous waste disposal facilities The applied research of our leading practitioners for U.S. EPA, DOE, and industry associations has defined the state-of-the-practice for more than 30 years. As a result, Geosyntec is often first-to-field with emerging technologies related to the secure, safe containment of our nation’s solid, industrial, and hazardous wastes. Many of the waste containment system design methodologies that we pioneered in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s are today the standards of practice in the field. Using experience gained on projects at more than 400 facilities nationwide, we develop practical approaches to design and construction challenges associated with liner and cover systems, leachate and gas management, construction/waste filling/closure sequencing, and geotechnical and earthquake stability. We apply advanced concepts in geotechnical engineering and ground improvement methods to design foundations for sites that have poor structural characteristics or significant geological hazards. We have also pioneered the use of earth retention systems in the design of landfills to maximize airspace volume within limited property boundaries. We are working with our clients to develop approaches for the next generation of integrated waste management practices. Emerging processes that take advantage of currently available technologies include renewable energy development, enhanced waste separation and processing, enhanced waste degradation through active biological processes, and resource recovery. Integration of conventional and emerging practices is often necessary to meet the complex demands of a community. We work with clients to develop strategic and tactical plans to solve their future MSW management challenges and meet cost, compliance, and service objectives.
Geosyntec provides nationally recognized expertise and specialized geotechnical and geological engineering (geoengineering) services to evaluate and improve the design and construction engineering properties of soil and rock foundations. Our geoengineering specialists form one of the leading practices in the world. They are recognized for their ability to develop practical guidance, and efficient designs conducive to aggressive construction schedules commonly imposed by project economics. Our geoengineering practice focuses on difficult and challenging sites where the development of dependable, cost-effective foundations, and other geostructural solutions are critical to the success of the project. Our practitioners accomplish this by establishing a thorough understanding of the project site, developing a technical framework for the project, and incorporating the critical, non-engineering drivers such as schedule and project economics into the early stages of our planning. Our geoengineering professionals have responded to the challenges of increasingly unfavorable site conditions by developing and applying sophisticated approaches to investigate and characterize sites; analyzing foundation behavior; altering the engineering characteristics of the soil and rock at a specific site through soil and rock improvement; and environmentally remediating sites. We implement these approaches so foundations and other subsurface structures can be constructed safely, adequately support the built environment, and withstand potential geohazards. Our geotechnical practitioners are fully familiar and experienced with the practical application of these tools. For example, when a client needed to develop a critical structure near Wilmington Harbor in Delaware, the client turned to Geosyntec to geotechnically engineer a practical, cost-effective solution. Our team developed an innovative foundation design and construction methodology for very soft and compressible foundation materials that included wick drains, embankment pre-loading, and mechanically stabilized earthen walls. Our design saved the client nearly $100 million when compared to more traditional approaches proposed by others. Our geoengineering practitioners distinguish themselves by rapid development of an appropriate understanding of the geologic and environmental history of a site, and using this knowledge to screen potential ground improvement and foundation technologies (wick drains, deep soil mixing, deep dynamic compaction, vibro-replacement, and surcharging) to identify the more dependable and cost-effective approaches. These screening-level studies become a basis for gathering optimized geotechnical information based on carefully considered analyses tempered with practical, hands-on experience sufficient to not only characterize the site, but also design dependable foundations. These attributes have been particularly beneficial to our petroleum and chemical industry clients who are currently undertaking large-scale capital projects in undeveloped areas. For example, Geosyntec is working with oil and gas interests on foundation design, offshore reclamation, and underwater slope stability issues related to the development of a liquefied natural gas trans-shipment facility on the coast of southwestern Africa. Our senior practitioners have authored technical design and construction manuals for the Federal Highway Administration focusing on foundation support systems, earth retaining systems, and earthquake engineering. Geosyntec provides lead, geotechnical training instructors for the National Highway Institute and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). We also provide training to state departments of transportation, contractors, and consultants for state-of-the-practice design applications. Our staff members are active contributors and developers of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Load and Resistance Factor Design Specifications for bridge substructures including foundations and retaining wall systems. Several of our practitioners have received ASCE's highest awards for advancing the state of the practice in geoengineering.
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