Course Overview
This training will provide two important sets of tools to RPMs to reduce the costs and improve the resilience of CERCLA remedies. Value Engineering (VE) is a structured process that can be used to reduce the costs of CERCLA remedies without sacrificing protectiveness or other functionality. This training will provide an introduction for EPA RPMs to VE federal policies, procedures, and best practices. The training will also explain how life cycle cost analysis and risk management can be used to evaluate and improve the resilience of a remedy, or its ability to adjust and remain capable of meeting remedial action objectives, despite challenges or changes that often arise. This will include Region 3 and Region 10 case studies, interactive sessions for participants, and reference material.
Audience
Primary Audience: RPMs and other staff involved in Superfund site clean up such as OSCs and Technical Support staff (as space permits). Priority registration will be given EPA Superfund RPMs. THIS COURSE IS NOT OPEN TO ACADEMIA, CONSULTANTS, CONTRACTORS OR ANY PRIVATE ENTITIES.
Instructors
Cannon Silver, P.E. has more than 30 years of experience leading site investigations, feasibility studies, technology evaluations, remedial design, construction oversight, remedial system operations and maintenance, and optimization under CERCLA Superfund, RCRA and state programs. He has extensive experience serving in engineering and project management roles, and in interacting effectively with regulators and the public. His areas of technical expertise include innovative groundwater, sediment, and vapor treatment technologies, sustainability, and remedy resiliency. He serves as CDM Smith’s Resilience Discipline Leader for remediation projects.
Jeff Bamer, P.E. is a senior environmental engineer with 23 years of experience in the planning, design and application of in situ and ex situ soil, groundwater and soil vapor treatment systems and remediation processes, and oversight of construction, and serves as CDM Smith’s Discipline Lead for Remedial Design. He has experience in evaluating site data, developing design alternatives and cost estimates, managing design development, integrating input from multi-disciplinary teams to create effective remedial designs, permitting the construction and discharges of these systems, implementing these designs via conventional (design/bid/build) and alternative (design/build) delivery means, implementing and overseeing operation and maintenance (O&M) activities, optimizing existing systems, and performing third-party reviews.
Marc Schlebusch, P.E. has more than 27 years of experience with environmental regulations to hazardous waste site characterization, remedy design, cost estimation, remedy construction, and operation and maintenance. He has prepared cost estimates with values from less than $1 million to more than $100 million. His experience with remediation projects includes preparing cost estimates during the CERLCA and RCRA feasibility study process and for selected remedy construction. His experience with civil works projects includes preparing cost estimates during the planning process for project authorization and for construction contract bidding. He has participated in value engineering studies for both remediation and civil works projects and independent external panel reviews of complex civil works projects.
Jacob Moersen has more than 20 years of experience supporting and leading CERCLA response actions including emergency responses, removal actions, and remedial actions. He is currently the senior remedial project manager for the Wyckoff/Eagle Harbor Superfund Site in Region 10, which is one of the largest EPA-directed, fund-lead cleanups in the country. In recent years, the Wyckoff Site RPM team has performed two value engineering screenings and three value engineering studies to support five remedial designs utilizing both the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Design and Engineering Services task order. His areas of expertise including acquisition, remedial design, value engineering, remedial action, and construction management.
Ian Stewart, P.E. is an environmental engineer with 22 years in the environmental field, seven of which with the federal government. Currently in his second year as an RPM in EPA Region 3 site remediation branch’s design and construction section. He is helping the district balance the onslaught of BiL funded CERCLA projects by providing a co-RPM role during the construction phase. Prior to the EPA he has experience as a project engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers managing EPA Region II CERCLA construction projects, and environmental consulting experience performing remedial investigation, design, and construction.
For general information contact Jean Balent
via e-mail at balent.jean@epa.gov
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