Environmental Challenges and Innovations Conference:
Gulf Coast 2010

The Texas Association of Environmental Professionals is pleased to announce that the Fourth Annual Environmental Challenges and Innovations Conference: Gulf Coast 2010 will take place on Thursday, February 11, 2010, at the newly renovated Crowne Plaza Houston Medical Center in Houston, Texas.  This one-day event will provide a local forum for environmental professionals in industry, government agencies, and consulting/service companies, as well as university students in the greater Houston area to share technical presentations with their peers.  After the success of the third annual event with more than 300 registered attendees, we anticipate that this conference will again be well-attended by the professional environmental community that it is designed to benefit. 


The ECIC10 online invitation is available here.

 

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE! Please click here and follow the prompts to register for ECIC10!

 

Topics

The event will again feature concurrent sessions with speakers organized by subject matter such as:

• Air

• Surface Water / Groundwater

• Soil 

• Sediment
• Waste Handling

• Water / Wastewater Treatment

• Site Investigation / Environmental Due Diligence

• Environmental Risk Assessment

• Remediation

• Environmental Innovations and Technology

• Wetlands

• NEPA

• Environmental Sustainability

 

These Special Sessions are scheduled:

• Environmental Ethics

• From Optimization to Sustainability – Evolution of Better Management Practices for Effective Environmental Remediations

• Indoor Vapor Intrusion

• TRRP Release Determination Workshop: Do I Have Affected Property? Understanding Release Determination Under the Texas Risk Reduction Program

• NEPA 101 – Understanding the Basics

• Environmental Sustainability: Making your Business Sustainable – A Roadmap to Get you There

TCEQ:  Pollution Prevention Clean Texas Style: Methods to Improve Environmental Compliance, Reduce Costs and Get Recognition for Your Efforts

 

More information is available here.

 

Schedule of Events

The event will run all day beginning with registration at 7:30 a.m. and ending when the entertainment is over at 8:00 p.m.  In between, we'll have morning and afternoon snack breaks, a lunchtime keynote presentation by TCEQ Commissioner Carlos Rubinstein, and an evening social.

 

A detailed Schedule of Events is available here.

 

Other Conference Highlights

• Presentation of the Environmental Professional of the Year, Regulator of the Year, and TAEP Member of the Year awards

• Up to eight (8) hours of Continuing Education credits for the P.E. and P.G. requirements

• Vendor exhibits

• Poster session

• Silent Auction

• Entertainment by Scott Sileo - Guitarboy during cash bar following the conference

 

Underwriter Opportunities

Planning and executing an event of this size requires diligence and hard work by all of our volunteers as well as financial assistance from the environmental community.  The TAEP is therefore asking its industrial partners and service providers to help underwrite this event. 

 

Underwriter - Exhibitor Benefits Summary

 

Underwriters and Exhibitors Information

 

These organizations are supporting ECIC10 as underwriters!

  - USA Environment (Gold)

  - Perennial Environmental Services (Gold)

  - ALS Laboratory Group (Silver)

  - Alamo 1 (Silver)

  - MWH Americas, Inc. (Silver)

  - Brown and Caldwell (Bronze)

  - PBS&J (Bronze)

 

 Who is Coming?

TAEP will provide a conference program and attendee list on the day of the conference. The program will contain detailed information on participating underwriters, session chairs, presenters, presentations, and exhibitors.

   

   

   

TAEP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.