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Consulting Firms Expand Their Horizons

Consulting Firms Expand Their Horizons. Robert B. Sheh, ALTA Group, LLC and C. Joseph Touhill, Ph.D., P.E., DEE Presented at the Colloquium to Celebrate Fifty Years of Environmental Engineering, March 29, 2005, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Evolution - States.

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Consulting Firms Expand Their Horizons

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  1. Consulting Firms ExpandTheir Horizons Robert B. Sheh, ALTA Group, LLC and C. Joseph Touhill, Ph.D., P.E., DEE Presented at the Colloquium to Celebrate Fifty Years of Environmental Engineering, March 29, 2005, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

  2. Evolution - States • Departments of Health cede responsibilities to “environmental or ecology” agencies • New state agencies shift from “reviewers of plans” to “enforcers of regulations” • State agencies defer to federal direction and standard setting

  3. Evolution - Federal • U.S. Public Health Service • Federal Water Pollution Control Administration • Federal Water Quality Administration • Environmental Protection Agency

  4. Major Initiatives • Effluent standards replace stream standards • Federal grants for wastewater treatment • Federal grants for area wide planning • More aggressive enforcement • Attack new problem areas, e.g. air pollution and hazardous wastes

  5. Public Awareness • Torrey Canyon oil spill • Santa Barbara oil spill • Love Canal • DDT – “Silent Spring”

  6. EXPANSION DIVERSIFICATION CONSOLIDATION

  7. Participants in the 2004 EFCG Survey *Includes primarily Environmental, Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering & Consulting (“E/C”) Revenues

  8. EXPANSION DIVERSIFICATION CONSOLIDATION

  9. Expansion • Regional Expansion • Bigger projects • More engineering and scientific staff • Federal contracts - EPA - DOE - DOD • New problem areas

  10. Seven-Year Change in Revenue Breakout

  11. EXPANSION DIVERSIFICATION CONSOLIDATION

  12. Diversification • Broader practice areas - Planning - Feasibility studies - Design - Construction management - Design/Build - Waste disposal - Own and operate • International perspective

  13. 2004 Gross Revenues:by Functional Distribution

  14. 2004 Gross Revenues:by Business Distribution

  15. 2004 Gross Revenues:by Customer Sector

  16. 2004 Gross Revenues:by Geographic Sector

  17. EXPANSION DIVERSIFICATION CONSOLIDATION

  18. Consolidation • Mergers and acquisitions • Team contracting • International companies

  19. GROWTH

  20. Drivers • Information Technology • Globalization • Consolidation • People • Natural Resource Limitations

  21. Drivers • Information Technology • Globalization • Consolidation • People • Natural Resource Limitations

  22. Definition of the Concept At their January 1955 meeting, Kilcawley, Pincus and Burden agree upon the following definition: “Environmental Engineering is that portion of the science of environmental control in which engineering is used to conserve and develop world’s resources for the general well-being of man as measured by such indices as the absence of disease, comfort, convenience and productivity.”

  23. Summary • Few specialty firms survived • Field dominated by “Jumbo” companies • Business driven by federal regulations • Range of projects far broader than water and wastewater • Impact of large federal contracts is immense

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