Solar Development on Brownfields & Landfills
About this course
With many states passing legislation for aggressive renewable energy development goals, several of the country’s brownfields and closed landfills are sitting ripe for redevelopment.
In this course, Lucia Woo, Darrell Thornock and Lauren Rodriquez will explain exactly what a landfill is and how to permit and site them for solar redevelopment. Specifically our team will review considerations for preparing a landfill or brownfield site from an environmental and civil engineering perspective. Our presenters will share considerations for permitting, designing, and constructing on these sites as well highlight recent project work, detailing lessons learned and key takeaways. Lucia, Darrell, and Lauren represent many years of combined industry experience and knowledge across many disciplines.
Course outline
Module 1 • 4 assignments
Solar Development on Brownfields & Landfills
- Solar Development on Brownfields & Landfills (36:43 minutes)
- Presentation Materials (.pdf)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) RE-Powering America's Land
- EPA - Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: A Historic Investment in Brownfields
Authors
At LaBella Associates, our job is to create – structures, plans, ideas, results. As a nationally recognized Design Professional Corporation, that’s a given, right? But here’s what really drives us: creating partnership between our team and our clients. So much so that we become one team, unified in the unrelenting pursuit of exceptional performance on each and every...
Lucia Woo
Lucia is the Environmental Renewables Manager at LaBella Associates, a full-service engineering firm with renewable energy service offerings from pre-development to post-construction phase. In support of environmental compliance and economic development, Lucia focuses on valuable resource identification and impact analysis for water bodies, wildlife, farmland, public...
Darrell Thornock, PE
Darrell joined LaBella Associates in 2008 as an Engineer Project Consultant. He is responsible for managing solid waste and stormwater engineering projects in order to meet or exceed our client’s expectations and regulatory guidelines. Darrell’s experience includes solid waste facility permitting issues such as permit application, amendment preparation, construction...
Lauren Rodriquez, PE
Lauren is a Civil Engineer with progressive experience in site design of public and private infrastructure. Her responsibilities include project management, conceptual site layouts, drainage analysis and report preparation, cost estimating, site inspections, feasibility assessments, 3D renderings and flythroughs, client design coordination, and municipal agency...
