Locus Technologies services

Manage All Your Environmental Information in a Single Solution. Every environmental manager knows that managing vast amounts of environmental information associated with environmental investigation, cleanup, and emissions tracking and monitoring is a never-ending repetitive task. All too frequently, several separate databases, spreadsheets or specialty software programs are used, creating a huge management problem and expense.

Manage Emerging Sustainability Reporting Requirements Sustainability and greenhouse gas tracking are the hottest topics in environmental and energy management. Every consultant and environmental software company will tell you they have a solution to address corporate sustainability tracking and carbon footprint estimation. But do they have the knowledge to make it work?

Environmental Compliance — a Business Necessity. Environmental requirements compliance in the U.S. and abroad is a corporate necessity both in terms of risk and cost avoidance but also in terms of corporate survival in a `green world`. Federal, State, Local and European Union requirements touch almost every aspect of business from the products you select to the tools you use to monitor your environmental impacts. Air, water, waste, recycling, water and energy use, permits, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, audits, environmental score cards, etc. are a few of the myriad of environmental compliance metrics that need to be managed and reported.

EH&S - Tracking and Improving Company Performance. EH&S management is the cornerstone of successful risk management and especially challenging for firms with multiple locations, often in multiple countries. Tracking, monitoring, and improving EH&S performance worldwide becomes a challenge that companies as they scale their operations must address; picking the right software is the first step. Locus` environmental health and safety products provide state-of-the-art technical features on an easy to implement on-demand web platform.

Environmental Health and Safety and Compliance Information Across Your Business. Environmental executives face many challenges in today`s business environment including: Controlling environmental spending costs, Tracking sustainability, Designing `green` initiatives, Reacting to legal issues, Estimating and tracking environmental liability reserve, Cleaning contaminated sites, Managing corporate climate change strategy, Reacting and complying with emerging local and global environmental requirements, Managing stakeholder relationships, Monitoring and improving health and safety KPI, Briefing corporate officers and shareholders on environmental matters, Designing effective environmental business processes that use less and produce more.

Proper management of environmental issues can often be a determining factor for the success or failure of a property transaction. Locus has experience with both the technical (site investigation and cleanup) and legal (regulatory involvement and buyer/seller communications) aspects of real estate transactions involving environmentally impacted properties.

Locus has developed some unique approaches for identifying, quantifying, and cleaning up contaminants at environmental sites. Using our customized technologies, we can quickly and efficiently complete most investigation and remediation tasks, whether they are initiated for regulatory compliance or a property transaction.

Many environmental and compliance issues are directly related to hazardous waste storage, transportation, and disposal. Locus has extensive experience working on sites where hazardous materials have been used or stored.

The field of sustainability and climate change is evolving rapidly, and Locus has a team dedicated to remaining up-to-date on applicable regulations and reporting frameworks. Locus is an accredited greenhouse gas verification body through the California Air Resources Board, and has a staff that thoroughly understands how to maintain compliance and accuracy in a greenhouse gas reporting program. For more information on specific sustainability and climate change services provided by Locus, access the subsections on the right.

Locus is one of few environmental consulting firms that maintains a full-service field staff in-house, along with sampling rigs and the equipment needed for most environmental work. Direct interaction between technical staff and field staff enables quick decision making and rapid resolution of issues that can arise on-site.