Going Green

Corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability awareness has become a supplier requirement and a corporate practice for many of Arrowhead’s clients. Accordingly, Arrowhead has responded in kind and recognizes the value of managing construction sites in a socially responsible, environmentally sustainable or “green” manner. We have provided for “green” onsite construction practices and included recommendations for “green” remedial and operational alternatives on many sites. In addition, Arrowhead maintains multiple, collaborative relationships with firms specializing in United States Green Building Council, and employing experienced LEED certified architects and engineers.

Even before the “green” groundswell, Arrowhead has been practicing “green remediation strategies” in the form of cost avoidance practices and beneficial use alternatives for onsite contaminated and non-contaminated materials, for many years. For example, in its effort to work efficiently and reduce client costs, Arrowhead regularly utilizes pre-excavation sampling and “hot-loading” of contaminated materials to eliminate double handling by excavation equipment, needless transportation of roll-off containers or stockpiling. By eliminating re-handling of materials, multiple trips to the site by multiple parties, construction of onsite stockpile facilities, Arrowhead minimizes the carbon footprint of a remediation effort. Arrowhead also recommends recycling demolition debris/concrete for erosion control structures, backfill and other civil construction uses.

Arrowhead’s innovative, “green remediation” practices include the use of cleaned, formerly contaminated groundwater for geothermal heating/cooling of remediation and adjacent facilities prior to discharge or, ideally, re-injection to the groundwater aquifer.