Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc.
GBB has been on the front lines as a solid waste management consulting firm since 1980, planning and implementing integrated waste management programs designed to provide cost-effective services, protect the environment, and sustain our natural resources. Using past projects as a guide, GBB carefully analyzes current and future demands to customize a solid waste management program that fits each client’s unique social, economic, environmental, and political context. While clients’ specific needs may vary, GBB typically designs integrated management systems that may include waste prevention, reuse, recycling, composting, waste-to-energy, and landfilling.
GBB’s commitment to excellence, the highest quality work products, and years of proven experience offer our clients the best results. When making recommendations, GBB maintains its objectivity by avoiding situations that could create a conflict of interest. GBB is independent of technology, financing, construction, and operational interests. We have earned our solid reputation by understanding our clients’ needs and working hard to achieve their goals.
Waste-to-Energy (WTE) / Conversion Technologies (CT) Projects
GBB has a significant amount of WTE and CT experience, having worked on more than 70 WTE projects, from the initial feasibility study and economic analysis to vendor negotiations, assisting in financing activities by coordinating the process as well as preparing the feasibility reports for the official statements, monitoring construction and commercial operations as well. Recently, GBB has worked on several projects addressing the economic feasibility, effectiveness and environmental issues of candidate waste processing technologies. GBB’s knowledge and experience enables the firm to evaluate technologies and operations, including the potential to use alternative fuels, and provide recommendations that not only take into account technical issues but also the evolving role of flow control. GBB recently provided due diligence for alternative technology facilities being developed in the U.S. Virgin Islands and is involved with the development of an energy park at the City of Annapolis, MD’s closed landfill. GBB also recently completed a planning effort for developing a WTE facility that would process both currently generated waste with burnable portions from mining an existing disposal area for the Grand Cayman Government. The firm is also very proud of past project assistance that resulted in successfully operating and sustainable facilities in Baltimore, MD; Babylon, NY; Springfield, MA; Harford County, MD; and Alexandria, VA, to name a few.
Past Plano and Texas Experience
In addition to its extensive national waste-to-energy and conversion technologies expertise, GBB is familiar with Plano and the waste management milieu in the area. In the past 10 years, GBB has provided consulting services to many cities in the Dallas/Fort-Worth Metroplex, including Plano, Arlington, Carrollton, Corpus Christi, Denton, Frisco, Fort Worth, the Town of Addison, and Lewisville.
GBB and the City have a joint success story as GBB helped the City realize increased commercial recycling with significant cost savings. Following GBB’s evaluation of the City’s commercial waste and recyclables collection system and rate structure, and subsequent negotiations of a new franchise agreement that added single-stream recyclables processing, Plano implemented new rates for recycling collection from commercial properties, encouraging diversion that resulted in an increase from 11% to 19% in five years.
For more information about GBB, visit www.gbbinc.com.
Gladstein, Neandross & Associates
Headquartered in Santa Monica and with offices in New York City and Phoenix, Arizona, Gladstein, Neandross & Associates (GNA) is one of the nation’s leading consulting firms in the natural gas vehicle and fuel infrastructure arena. In its 16-year history, GNA has:
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Assisted in the development and deployment of more natural gas fleet projects than any other single firm in the nation, including more than half of the LNG projects in the country.
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Securing more third-party grant funding for NGV projects than any other firm in the nation (> $230MM). |
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Developed and planned the most successful clean fuel corridor in the nation.
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Spearheaded many “first in the industry” light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicle operations, and off-road applications, including:
o The launch of the Honda GX natural gas vehicle platform in the late 1990s;
o The first commercial deployment of line-haul class-8 trucks;
o The development of the world’s fist natural gas powered marine port container terminal yard hostler;
o The world’s first project to use emission credits to finance a large-scale NGV project;
o The deployment of the first heavy-duty NGV products from Mack, Freightliner, Autocar, and Capacity.
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Developed many of the largest NGV deployment projects and NGV fuel stations in the nation. |
GNA maintains an impressive list of past and present natural gas vehicle industry clients, including: Chart, Applied LNG Technologies, Trillium, Daimler Trucks North America (which includes Freightliner, Freightliner Custom Chassis, and Thomas Built School Bus), Capacity Trucks, Honda, Linde, Mitsubishi, Shell, Westport, and Cummins Westport.
GNA has successfully completed projects and maintains connections with the nation’s largest natural gas fleet users, including:
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Refuse: Waste Management, City of Los Angeles, Burrtec Waste |
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Transit: Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, Los Angeles Department of Transportation, (City of) Phoenix Transit; and others. |
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Regional Delivery: Sysco Foods, Vons Groceries, Stater Bros. Markets, JB Hunt, Ryder Truck Rental & Leasing |
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Long Haul: United Parcel Service (UPS), Harris, Ranch, HayDay Farms, Border Valley Trading |
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Port Drayage: California Cartage Company |
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Yard Tractor: BNSF Railway, UPS, Cal Cartage, Yusen Terminals Inc., Long Beach Container Terminal |
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Taxi: Yellow Cab |
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Utility: Sempra Energy Utilities / SoCal Gas |
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Municipal: Cities of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Redlands, Barstow, Commerce; and the Counties of Los Angeles and Riverside |
For additional information, visit GNA’s website at www.gladstein.org.