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WSP Environment & Energy in the USA

Innovative solutions to environment and energy related business issues

INTRODUCING WSP ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY

In a business climate where the environment, energy agenda and corporate reputation represent both a business threat and a potential competitive opportunity, WSP is recognized as one of the world’s leading and most innovative advisers on environment and energy issues. Across North America, we are helping our clients put together strategies to enable them to manage risk, enhance management systems and make sustainable improvements in their business operations.

REPUTATION & EXPERIENCE

Our reputation is based on highly experienced people delivering technical excellence, with an eye for practical, innovative and commercial solutions. Our staff and client retention are high. We are proud to have consultants who have worked together in our evolved North American business for over 20 years, and have relationships with clients that stretch to that timeframe too. As a global business, developing solutions that push boundaries for our clients is an important part of our philosophy. We are at the forefront of shaping sustainable futures for our clients and, where appropriate, we will introduce world class experts from across our global network to contribute to your projects and enhance the value we deliver.

From sustainable remediation technologies, to ecological restoration, and from leading-edge master planning to future-proofing product development - we are confident in our reputation and the experience we offer.

WSP – OUR BACKGROUND

We want to assure you that WSP is an organization to offer you attention to your needs, professionalism, a track record and security. So, let’s set out where we have come from, and where we are.

·          WSP Environment & Energy is a global business with over 1,000 people operating from over 65 offices worldwide.

·          In 2007, we were voted Environmental Advisor of the Year at a leading UK awards event, supported by the private equity, financial and legal community.

·          Clients include major national and international organizations, many of whom are Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies.

·          Our growth in North America was enhanced by a successful merger with Environmental Strategies Consulting LLC in 2006; a consultancy with a 20-year track record of successful business solutions.

·          Our Environment & Energy business is part of WSP Group plc, a FTSE 250 listed management and consulting group focused on the built and natural environment. WSP Group employs over 9,000 people across a network in excess of 100 offices.

·          In North America, WSP Group’s business includes world class structural and mechanical engineering and design organizations, WSP Cantor Seinuk and Flack & Kurtz. Following acquisitions in 2007, WSP Group in North America also includes, Chas H. Sells, Inc., transportation and infrastructure specialists, and SEi Engineering, Inc., engineering design experts. Our track record includes the Hearst Tower and the Freedom Tower in New York.

OUR COMMITMENT TO CLIENTS

Pride in delivery is the core of our business ethos. Our approach is to dedicate time to understanding the challenges and opportunities that face our clients in their business. We believe it is important to work collaboratively with our clients - to support their goals and ambitions. We have a passion to achieve results and, through success, enhance our clients’ competitive position.

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·          Investigation, engineering and remediation

·          Due diligence to support real estate and corporate transactions

·          Environmental, health and safety compliance, management systems and auditing

·          Sustainability services, including energy management, carbon footprinting and master-planning

·          Online management systems that manage and report on business critical data

·          Environmental insurance support services

·          Corporate / social responsibility services, including reporting and auditing

·          Liability transfer and risk management

·          Ecosystem assessment, restoration and management

·          Natural resource damage assessments

·          Human health and ecological risk assessments

·          Industrial hygiene, safety and risk management

·          Product environmental compliance, including design for the environment

·          Supply chain management

·          Acoustics

Connected - Fully conversant with federal, state and local regulations.

OUR EXPERTISE

From our network of offices throughout North America, we deliver a comprehensive range of environmental, sustainability and energy management services for clients across all sectors.

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·          Environmental Liability Solutions - A long track record in the U.S. in unlocking real estate transactions with liability transfers, and now responsible for enabling the first major transaction to occur in the UK. We are supported by a network of insurance professionals, developers and legal counsel, ensuring we can remove uncertainty and risk for clients.

·          Sustainable Remediation - Delivering responsible cleanup programs for major industrial organizations. We lead the field in the application of sustainable techniques that embrace in situ bioremediation, chemical oxidation and monitored natural attenuation, resulting in substantial cost savings.

·          Due Diligence and Compliance - Delivering true value in a commoditized market. We go further than just a ‘Phase I Assessment’. WSP provides the depth of analysis required to estimate liabilities and incorporate the cost of environmental management into business plans.

·          Energy & Climate Change - Globally, our experts advise on all aspects of sustainability and energy efficiency, issues driven by the low carbon economy that we are now moving towards. This includes strategies for sustainable masterplanning, incorporating advice on appropriate renewable technologies and analysis of the impacts of climate change. This broad area of our expertise also includes energy efficiency audits and advice to organizations on the implementation of sustainability programs, including product and service design and cost-effective regulatory compliance.

·          Ecosystem Restoration – Our team of scientists and engineers design, permit and build projects that focus on ecosystem restoration, rehabilitation and enhancement. The team specializes in the restoration of all types of waters and wetlands, and also has extensive experience in habitat restoration for rare, threatened or endangered species. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, our team strives to utilize the best available science to restore self-sustaining ecosystems around the globe.

·          Online Management Systems - We design, build and host certified web-solutions to reflect different clients’ requirements to track and manage essential environmental data relating to compliance, permits, real estate, liabilities and investigation data. This flexible system - www.erims.com - also supports Phase I and due diligence efforts enabling parties to view, analyze and report results in real-time.

LEADING-EDGE THINKING

We pride ourselves on keeping our clients ahead of the market by delivering leading-edge thinking in our fields of expertise. Clear, practical and incisive advice is critical to this. Here are just 6 examples where the breadth of our expertise enables our clients to assert positions of competitive edge in their market space: 6 Introducing WSP Environment & Energy Introducing WSP Environment & Energy 7