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2007-09-09: Tech Environmental Welcomes Dr. Howard Quin, INCE

Tech Environmental is pleased to­ welcome Dr. Howard Quin, INCE to our team as a Senior Scientist. Dr. Quin is a sound and vibration consultant with over two decades of professional experience in energy, fake swiss watches industrial and transportation noise and vibration studies.

Dr. Quin has performed noise measurement and acoustic modeling impact assessments for transit, power plant, wind turbine, highway, airport, harbor, construction and stationary source facilities in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions. He has worked on a variety of complex projects, including several on-going wind turbine projects in New England; the construction of new tunnels and platforms at Grand Central and Penn Stations in New York City; Boston mass transit projects like the Urban Ring and Blue Line Extension; and a massive General Electric remediation project to remove PCBs from the Hudson River.

Dr. Quin has performed noise measurement and acoustic modeling impact assessments for projects including the high-profile commercial South Station Development and Bullfinch Triangle Redevelopment in Boston; impacts from a municipal wastewater facility, the MWRA Union Park facility in Boston; a harbor configured for offloading liquefied natural gas, the Weaver's Cove LNG Facility in Fall River, MA; and blast monitoring projects at mines in Reading, PA and Hazleton, PA.

Dr. Quin also has extensive experience on transportation projects, performing noise and vibration analysis, computer modeling, and design recommendations on projects like the Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit line in Washington D.C. Dr. Quin is not only highly conversant with a number of contemporary software programs, including Cadna/A, SoundPlan, TNM, WindPro, and INM, but he understands the programming logic used as a­ basis for each software package. As a result, he has developed customized software on occasions when a project's needs require it. Dr. Quin wrote transit noise modeling software to model noise from commuter trains, buses and transit lines using algorithms developed by the FTA; this code was used on several transit noise projects, such as the New Jersey Transit ARC and the MBTA North Shore and Urban Ring Projects.

Dr. Quin obtained a B.S. in Physics and a M.S. in Geophysics from Stanford University, and a PhD. in Geophysics from Columbia University.

You can contact Dr. Quin at HQuin@techenv.com or at ext. 102.

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