At E&LP, we feel it is imperative that we not only look at our company's future within the sustainable space but the entire region and field in which we work. Everyone is in this together. Everyone’s sustainable future can be realized.
Climate Resiliency
Land development must adapt with the changing climate. Proactive engineering that plans for increased flood events, transition to renewable energy, and warming temperatures increases our capacity to meet future challenges.
Education
The next generation of engineers will decide what our future looks like. Through outreach, education, and mentorship, engineers can pass on the imperative to integrate sustainability into land development.
Land Revitalization
As developable land diminishes with population growth and industrialization, the need to revitalize previously developed land becomes more and more important. Engineers can bring new life to these properties through remediation, mitigation, and restoration.
Equitable Communities
The infrastructure engineers build creates the environments people inhabit. Engineers must implement more participatory land planning processes that listen to and work with the communities the projects will affect.
The “Our Sustainable Future” campaign embodies our multidisciplinary approach to sustainability through the four pillars of Climate Resiliency, Land Revitalization, Education, and Equitable Communities. As engineers, architects, and scientists, we will highlight work that inspires us—work that fortifies with flood control and fossil fuel reduction, improves with environmental remediation and habitat restoration, teaches with training and scholarship, and designs with public engagement and community visioning. Our Sustainable Future will feature E&LP posts, videos, articles, white papers, presentations, and events. Get a preview of our campaign in the trailer below and make sure to check our News, follow our LinkedIn, and subscribe to E&LP Associates YouTube Channel for new releases.
Climate Resiliency
Land development must adapt with the changing climate. Proactive engineering that plans for increased flood events, transition to renewable energy, and warming temperatures increases our capacity to meet future challenges.
RELATED VIDEOS
“Climate Resiliency: How the New Rule Helps” explains how as climate change creates harsher conditions and more frequent storm events, land development must adapt to become more resilient.
“Green versus Gray Infrastructure” explains how as New Jersey adopts regulations that support the use of green infrastructure systems, many may ask what “green infrastructure” means.
“Resiliency” describes the important steps New Jersey has taken to combat the effects of climate change by instituting statewide policy changes related to energy, sustainability, and stormwater management.
LAND REVITALIZATION
As developable land diminishes with population growth and industrialization, the need to revitalize previously developed land becomes more and more important. Engineers can bring new life to these properties through remediation, mitigation, and restoration.
RELATED VIDEOS
In this video, Eric Raes, PE, LSRP, President of E&LP, and Kerry Sublette, Ph.D., Chief Scientist for BioEnhance, explain the innovative treatment technology that is proving to be highly successful at remediating toxic chlorinated hydrocarbons. At a former chemical handling facility and the surrounding properties in northern New Jersey, E&LP has been managing the cleanup of a site contaminated with PCE, TCE, and other hazardous substances using BioEnhance’s In Situ Bioreactors (ISBR).
These bioaugmentation devices cultivate indigenous microbes that are already adapted to local environmental conditions to accelerate their breakdown of the contaminants. Despite levels of these compounds being at toxic levels typically inhibitive of bioremediation, E&LP’s innovative approach reduced PCE and TCE by 90% in less than one year.
Equitable Communities
The infrastructure engineers build creates the environments people inhabit. Engineers must implement more participatory land planning processes that listen to and work with the communities the projects will affect.
RELATED VIDEOS
“Green Infrastructure as Public Amenities” explains how municipalities gain a variety of benefits by incorporating green infrastructure into their public amenities, such as parks with rain gardens, streetscapes with curb bumpouts, and ball fields with stormwater retention systems underneath.
“Adapting to the New Stormwater Rule” explains how the new stormwater regulations will transform the way private and public sites are designed and introduce a new era of green infrastructure throughout the state.
Education
The next generation of engineers will decide what our future looks like. Through outreach, education, and mentorship, engineers can pass on the imperative to integrate sustainability into land development.
RELATED VIDEOS
Watch our one-hour webinar, “Shaping Public Space through Resiliency,” which is a multimedia presentation featuring E&LP resiliency, stormwater, and green infrastructure videos and slides delivered by E&LP’s Senior Program Manager of Resiliency, Ed Confair, PLA, PE, and Project Engineer, Megan Schmidt. Learn about resilient, sustainable, and effective stormwater management techniques that enhance social and ecological spaces while exceeding the increasing regulatory standards.