Manufacturing
Building and Construction
Research
Manufacturing
- Caterpillar Inc. Peoria, IL: Delivered integrated software tools
and database solutions for product / process Life Cycle Assessment and
economic/environmental Design for Environment. Trained staff in LCA.
Retained as consultant to support on-going corporate initiatives in
Green Design.
- Confidential Client: Peer review of multiple Life Cycle Assessments of packaging systems
- VAEC, Williston, VT: Provided total cost assessment analysis of a biodiesel refinery and a cellulosic ethanol facility.
- Confidential Client: total cost assessment of a major investment reducing both environmental and societal impacts.
- USGBC: Evaluation of PVC and alternative building materials using LCA and risk analysis
Building & Construction
- Athena Sustainable Materials Institute: Development of Life Cycle Assessment data for selected building materials.
- Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, Austin, TX: Adopted
models and databases from regional economic modeling for use in
region-specific LCA and materials flow modeling with application to
life cycle evaluation of alternative building designs; developed
region-specific environment/resource indicators for benchmarking
building and construction.
- USGBC: Evaluation of PVC and alternative building materials using LCA and risk analysis
- North American Insulation Manufacturer's Association (NAIMA):
Public health costs benefits analysis of increasing insulation in
single-family homes in the US.
Research
- National Institute of Standards and Technology / US EPA: Evaluation
of life cycle upstream environmental burdens of Federal purchasing;
prioritization for Environmentally Preferable Purchasing.
- US Department of Energy, Computational Industrial Ecology research,
including comparisons of embodied greenhouse gas emissions and
environmental burdens of 500 different sectors of the economy.
- US EPA/ORD: Advancement of Life Cycle Impact Assessment
methodologies for Acid Deposition, Eutrophication, and Tropospheric
Ozone.
- US EPA/OPPE: Analysis of economic and environmental impacts of
alternative recycling and disposal options for construction and
demolition waste; local/regional case studies; development of decision
support software tool and guidance documents for municipalities on
C&D waste.
- US EPA Risk Reduction Laboratory: Building Environmental and
Economic Sustainability project: developed risk-based approach to life
cycle inventory analysis and impact assessment.
- US EPA/ ICF Consulting: Development of TRACI life cycle impact factors for criteria pollutants and smog formation.
- Logistics Management Institute, McLean, VA: development of
environmental impact assessment module within a system dynamics
national policy modeling framework.
- New Hampshire Governor's Energy Office: Developed energy policy
assessment model, integrating econometric & dynamic simulations of
economic, energy & environmental impacts.
- Audubon Society of New Hampshire: Concord, NH: development of
community energy planning software using Census and DOE databases;
application to town & regional energy planning.
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