Sustainability & Climate Change

Capabilities

• Product Stewardship

  For businesses navigating complex product and packaging lifecycles, managing environmental sustainability, health, and safety efforts can be a challenge. Exponent's product stewardship services can help you overcome business and regulatory challenges at every stage, from research and design to disposal and recycling.

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• Renewable Energy

  Exponent's expertise in the technical and business facets of energy production, transmission, and storage provides a one-stop shop for support at every phase of your renewable energy projects. We offer multidisciplinary renewable energy consulting services and stewardship to address your complex project challenges, from assessment and implementation to execution.

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• Asset Management for Extreme Weather Risks

  Exponent's quantitative risk assessment helps utilities improve asset management for repairs, replacements, and upgrades as well as operating decisions. Exponent's multidisciplinary asset management teams, including scientists and engineers with expertise in over 90 disciplines, are uniquely qualified to evaluate and analyze your infrastructure so you can quantify risk and make informed decisions regarding maintenance and power shutoffs.

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• Hydrology & Hydraulics

  In this era of climate change and shifting rainfall patterns, water resources planning has become critically important to businesses and governments looking to safeguard water availability, protect human life and infrastructure, and maintain vital habitats. Exponent provides expert hydrologic and hydraulic analyses and water consulting services, so you can identify and address hazards and plan for appropriate water supply.

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• Environmental Data & Analytics

  Environmental data analysis poses many complex challenges, from defining the parameters of data collection to integration to quality management. With years of environmental sustainability and data sciences expertise, Exponent provides end-to-end data management, risk-and-failure analysis, data visualization, and more to support your scientific, business, and litigation needs.

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• Soil Health

  Atmospheric carbon plays a key role in global warming and climate change, but a lesser-known fact is that organic matter in soil contains at least three times as much carbon as the atmosphere and more carbon than all the vegetation on Earth. Exponent helps clients improve soil health, carbon content, and soil water availability by analyzing complex ecological and chemical data sets using multivariate statistics, machine learning techniques, and more.

• Wildfires

  Wildfires, particularly in the western United States, have become more widespread and catastrophic in recent years and can lead to devastating post-fire events such as flooding, landslides, hazardous material exposures, and water quality threats. Exponent has the experience and expertise to evaluate wildfire hazards, assist with localized mitigation strategies, and provide remedial recommendations tailored to specific site conditions after fires occur.

  Industry Analysis

  How Does Pink Fire Retardant Affect the Environment?

  Mitigating the impacts of fire retardants used in wildfires to ecosystems and drinking water through risk assessments

  

• Hydroelectric Power

  Hydroelectric power is a key component of a successful sustainable energy transition strategy — but one that can be challenging to implement. Exponent supports complex hydropower projects with multidisciplinary expertise in hydrology, water quality and water rights, energy economics, regulatory compliance, asset condition assessment and monitoring, climate change evaluations, and more.

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