Paul Favara has over 25 years of experience in the environmental field.  He received is BS in Business Oriented Chemistry at Western Michigan University and is MS in Environmental Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology.  He is a registered engineer in the State of Florida and leads the global sustainable remediation practice at CH2M HILL.

Presentation Description
How Sustainability Can Take Remediation Projects Past Environmental Compliance Toward Greater Social, Economic, and Environmental Benefit
Sustainable solutions provide an optimum balance among environmental, social, and economic factors. Although cleaning up contaminated waste sites seems like an inherently sustainable activity, many remediation projects fail to adequately address social, economic, and even environmental issues.  Sustainable solutions should address social issues like the impact of dump truck traffic through neighborhoods and economic issues such as the trade off between remedy cost and benefit.  Even environmental issues are often not comprehensively or optimally addressed (e.g., use of excessive non-renewable energy sources and emissions of green house gases). There is room to improve how we protect human health and the environment by better considering and integrating environmental, social, and economic issues over the life-cycle of the project; putting sustainability into remediation.

This presentation covers three case studies of how sustainability was integrated into decision making and optimization of projects to take the project from simple regulatory compliance toward greater sustainability.  The project examples will focus on site Brownfield redevelopment, cost- net environmental benefit analysis, and renewable energy and efficiency.