Environmental changes significantly increase infrastructure risks. Damage from extreme weather events like flooding, heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and coastal erosion impacts transportation systems, e.g., roads, bridges, and airports, as well as coastal infrastructure due to rising sea levels.
These adverse impacts can potentially lead to disruptions in services, increased maintenance costs, and safety hazards. Existing infrastructure is often not designed to withstand these new weather patterns and extreme events. New infrastructure must be able to withstand the storms of tomorrow. Understanding how potential environmental hazards may change is key to reducing liability and costs of 1 ) existing infrastructure, and 2) building new infrastructure for economic development, such as data centers.
Infrastructure Reliability Under Changing Environmental Conditions
Why Choose TBEC?
TBEC stands at the forefront of addressing these challenges by providing hazard risk assessments to evaluate existing infrastructure reliability, identify effective methods for decreasing operational risks, and informing engineering criteria for developing robust infrastructure under future conditions.
We specialize in Infrastructure Reliability Under Changing Environmental Conditions, incorporating access loss forecasting, slow onset trends and extreme weather events, and compound and cascading risk impacts in our Infrastructure Risk Services:
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Targeted environmental risk atlases provides an evaluation of current and potential risks for a region.
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Staged Adaptation: Risks are monitored - when acceptable risks move to unacceptable risks, infrastructure is adapted without the need to retrofit or rebuild existing structures.
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“What fails first” analyses for critical areas such as: homes, business, runways, ports, supply chain, transport, and other related concerns
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Threshold Monitoring and Analysis to detect risks and hazards in real time using in-situ data monitors to identify changes in Client identified thresholds.
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Feasibility Studies for energy development (e.g., geothermal, wind, solar and tidal) and the construction and power needs of data centers
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Evaluate risks of permafrost thaw on oil and gas infrastructure integrity
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Assess ecosystem needs (e.g., water availability) for extractives, such as mining and oil & gas development
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Environmental stress testing for energy generation and transmission
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Water balance and drought-informed energy planning
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Regulatory-ready documentation
Core Services
Targeted Risk Impact Statements
Ideal for smaller communities and organizations with limited budgets, TRIS delivers fast turnaround times, enabling you to quickly incorporate findings into your planning and decision-making processes.
Community Impact Statements (CIS)
Addresses the gaps between changing conditions, available data, and infrastructure risks. The CIS generates actionable data to support risk assessment of current and proposed infrastructure, including disasters from slow-onset and extreme events across various environments. A CIS addresses the impact of the environment and changing conditions on existing or new developments, assets, or infrastructure, including energy, hydrology, homes, businesses, and ecosystem services.
Integrated Community Adaptation and Risk Impact Statements (ICARIS)
Fit-for-purpose, addressing the infrastructure concerns for a specific area. ICARIS incorporates local data and knowledge to generate a decision support framework that provides actionable, forward-looking intelligence on environmental risks to supply routes, transportation, energy, homes, business, hospitals, utilities, and other critical infrastructure. ICARIS also identifies and evaluates potential management options and evaluates the success of the selected actions in increasing resilience and sustainability while reducing future monetary and social losses while maintaining critical infrastructure.
Geographic Information Systems & Visualization
Customized geospatial solutions that help agencies interpret complex data through interactive visualizations., dynamic dashboards, detailed maps, analytical reports, or immersive StoryMaps.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle & Data Collection
Data collection with centimeter-level positional accuracy, processed to produce orthomosaics, elevation models, and detailed 3D surface visualizations suitable for analysis and integration with larger datasets.
“TBEC completes impressive state-of-the-art risk assessments that are at the leading edge of such work for Alaska."
Dr. John Walsh, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Sole Source / Non-Compete Privileges
TBEC can receive direct awards and grants without additional Federal procurement through the following mechanisms:
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TBEC is an 8(a) certified company that has an approved Federal General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule contract (contract # 47QRAA26D000E). Under this contract, we have been approved for sole-source contracts. Our GSA labor categories are 541370GIS, 541611, 541620, and 541715.
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TBEC also non-compete privileges due to our National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I & II awards pursuant to FAR 6.302-5, and authorized under 10 U.S.C. 2304(b)(2) or 41 U.S.C. 3303(b). The competition for SBIR Phase I and Phase II awards satisfies any competition requirement of the Armed Services Procurement Act, the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, and the Competition in Contracting Act.