Integrated Environmental Services (IES) is a full service environmental consulting company. Major clients include Fortune 200 companies and federal government agencies, with projects located throughout North America, South America, European Union, India, Pakistan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim.
Our success in closing numerous high profile projects stems in part from our technical expertise; our experience in understanding the dynamics of competing factors in site investigation, cleanup and closure (e.g. technology, regulations, politics and project management); and our ability to balance these factors to our client’s advantage. Our success also comes from our relentless pursuit of innovation and improvement. That pursuit has led to the development of web-based, user friendly, powerful computer applications that streamline environmental investigation and cleanup operations, build rapport among competing stakeholders, and expedite site cleanup and closure, thus saving our clients time and money. |
We started our practice 11 years ago using old fashioned methods: searching through client files, interviewing project staffs, struggling to extract data from databases in various formats. We found that due to the frequent long life of cleanup projects with associated changes of client personnel, project consultants, and regulatory agencies, many hard-earned site studies and/or reports were not easily accessible or usable by the project team. Moreover, the data was very often in incompatible formats, making the use of such data time consuming and expensive.
After struggling through time-consuming, ineffective and frequently unscientific practices, IES initiated a R&D program to methodically automate the Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study (RI/FS) process into a single seamlessly integrated application. The result is web-based Environmental Data Management System (webEDMS, U.S. Patent 7,031,838 B1). WebEDMS has been chosen for use at 3 major DOE sites (Hanford site in Washington state, the largest environmental cleanup project in the world; Fernald site in Ohio, and Naval Petroleum Reserves in California) and many other commercial sites. |
