Construction Today Vol 23 Issue 1 | Page 174

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redirecting attention back to other offerings such as engineering design, environmental planning and permitting, digital solutions, and multimedia compliance.”
Weston offers comprehensive support to a range of facilities, including military bases, college campuses, and manufacturing facilities. The company’ s strategy is rooted in providing clients with a full life cycle approach.“ The common thread between those is that they all have complex environmental and infrastructure challenges, including planning, compliance, and safety issues they must address. Weston is focused on supporting our clients in the development of appropriate strategic, effective, and efficient solutions to managing those sites,” explains Jon.“ Every facility goes through a life cycle: planning and permitting, design, bid, build, operation and maintenance, and eventually decommissioning. Weston condenses and optimizes the stages we can support most effectively, giving clients continuity and expertise throughout the process.”
Weston’ s transformation is already visible in major initiatives. Recently, Weston hired a large environmental health and safety team on the West Coast.“ We have just onboarded 20 people for that initiative, which will spur a lot of new developments for us, so it’ s very exciting,” Jon continues.
Another milestone was a critical power stabilization project in Puerto Rico.“ The US Army Corps of Engineers approached us to help restore grid reliability following Hurricane Fiona. Under FEMA’ s emergency mission, Weston installed temporary dualfuel generation systems, adding 200 MW at San Juan and 150 MW at Palo Seco to help stabilize the grid. This was one of the fastest deployments of its kind, completed in under six months and providing reliable
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