• Specialty

  Air Quality
  

• SECTOR

  Public Health
  

• TYPE

  Environmental Study
  

• CLIENTELE

  State Government
  

• TIMESPAN

  2009

• LOCATION

  Boston, MA

Massachusetts Greenhouse Gas Policy and Practice

SERVICE:

Professional Training Course for Civil Engineers

DESCRIPTION:

As part of a one-day training course on Project Permitting in Massachusetts for the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Massachusetts Association of Land Surveyors & Civil Engineers, Tech Environmental gave a lecture on the State's Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Policy and Practice.

The course syllabus included: explaining the GHG Policy and Protocol, Techniques for Energy and CO2 Emissions Modeling, Mitigation Analysis Required by MEPA, and Self-Certification of GHG Mitigation. A similar course is being given by Tech in 2010 through Lorman Education Services, and includes instruction on eQUEST energy modeling.

 

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Key Points

• Civil engineers needed a training course so that they could understand new greenhouse gas regulations in Massachusetts.
• Tech provided a one-day professional seminar that explained the regulations and detailed techniques to model and mitigate GHG emissions.