O'Brien & Gere

Project Lifecycle Services
O’Brien & Gere delivers full-project lifecycle services in line with its three business units — Environmental Solutions, Total Water Solutions and Capital & Facilities Programs. In addition, the firm provides incremental and/or full-service project delivery approaches to assist clients in reaching their project goals and objectives, while tailoring contracting arrangements to meet specific business needs and/or procurement strategies. Services offered include: conceptual design/study; fabrication; construction; system integration; commissioning; and operations and maintenance.

3E Company

Chemical Approval module
For use with the two latest versions of this company’s material safety data sheet (MSDS) management systems, the Chemical Approval module streamlines chemical requests and approvals for customers using and storing chemicals. Managers can perform a hazard assessment of their MSDSs and review main hazard information and fire code along with other environmental safety and health regulatory reports necessary to safely use and store hazardous materials onsite. The customer can also evaluate this data to determine if there is an opportunity to substitute a safer alternative or reduce the number of items in their chemical inventory. The module works with the company’s Online MSDS Standard Edition and Online-MSDS Expert Edition.

Ansys, Inc.

Icewave Version 1.1
 Having acquired Fluent, a provider of computational fluid dynamics, and its Icewave and Icepack technologies, this company has released Version 1.1 of Icewave. For analysis of electromagnetic compatibility and interference (EMC/EMI) in electronic systems, the new version features a 64-bit solver that allows users to solve complex systems without being restricted by memory limitations of 32-bit operating systems. Through seamless sharing of the model geometry with Icepak thermal design software, EM-thermal co-simulation can be set up in several minutes, making engineering workflows that require thermal and EM analyses easier. This capability allows system designers of high-performance electronics systems to dramatically reduce time from concept to market by simulating electronic design in a single CAD environment. The shielding effectiveness of the investigated models may be calculated on demand. The introduction of surface impedance boundary conditions for coatings and resistive wires allows users to model finite-thickness conductor losses in high-frequency simulations.

Environmental Data Resources, Inc.

OnDemand online subscription service
 When law firms and corporations have to conduct environmental research for due diligence in the acquisition of new assets, new construction projects, environmental audits, background research for litigation and, increasingly, for compliance purposes and environmental financial reporting, these firms would manually search relevant local databases, which has traditionally been a time-intensive, inexact and costly process. OnDemand is an online, subscription service that allows realtime aggregation and access to environmental information from more than 800 federal, state, local and tribal sources. Subscribers pay an annual fee to secure unlimited access to research. Through an easy-to-use, Web-based application, users can perform the research they need from any location with Internet access.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Compliance Assistance Center
 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is establishing a compliance assistance center to help colleges and universities understand and comply with environmental laws. Harnessing the power of the Internet, this center will provide tools and information for improving environmental management on campuses. It will also offer a virtual campus tour online that will enable users to quickly and easily target priority issues. Like many corporations and manufacturing plants, colleges and universities maintain many types of operations, including laboratories, utility generation and transmission plants, food-processing operations and water-distribution systems. Similarly, they face a range of environmental management challenges.

Moore Industries-International, Inc.

Special Needs And Products (SNAP)
Special Needs And Products (SNAP) is a new service that provides access to a team of applications engineers who develop customized solutions to meet unusual signal-interface needs in industrial process control, systems integration and factory automation applications. When an off-the-shelf replacement instrument is not suitable, the SNAP team performs updates on instruments by modifying functions, including: non-standard power ranges, non-standard signal inputs and outputs, computing and math functions, and alarm trips, among others. These engineers also develop special and original equipment manufacturer instrument housings and enclosures, custom mountings and connectors, and application-specific temperature sensors and thermowells