We at Golder Associates are devoted to identifying and understanding risks and to designing workable solutions that meet the unique needs of our clients. In this issue of Technically Speaking, the people who worked on the featured projects were interested in demonstrating our abilities to work with clients on all phases of a project, from inception (e.g., the 2006 Olympics in Italy), through the operational phase (e.g., water and air treatment in Brazil), and to closure (e.g., redevelopment of an explosives factory in Australia).

While preparing this message, it occurred to me that since our last issue of Technically Speaking, and during the course of preparing this one, the world was struck with one of the worst natural disasters during modern times – the Asian earthquake and tsunami that killed and displaced untold thousands of people. All of us at Golder were profoundly saddened and our employees and the company have since provided generous support to the relief efforts.

Our readers may also be interested to know that we were very fortunate in that our many people working in and visiting Southeast Asia at the time were unharmed and not terribly impacted by the tsunami.

In closing, I’d like to take the opportunity to thank our clients and business partners for their support and for their contribution to our continued success.

Rick Firlotte
President