Triad - A Smarter Solution to Site Cleanup

The Triad approach can accelerate project schedules, reduce overall project costs, and improve project outcomes.

The application of a Triad approach to hazardous waste site characterization and remediation decision-making provides potentially several critical benefits to the overall cleanup process.
These include:

Reduced Data Collection Costs. The Triad recognizes that, with the right quality assurance and quality controls in place, collaborative data sets containing data produced by a mix of analytical methods can achieve decision quality objectives at often significantly reduced costs as compared to data sets derived solely from standard analytical methods employed by fixed laboratories.
Expedited Schedules. Timely site closure requires timely decisions. Timely decisions require timely supporting data. With its emphasis on real-time measurement technologies, one of the Triad's strengths is its ability to produce timely data to support hazardous waste site decision-making.
Improved Site Decision-Making. The ultimate goal of the Triad is improved decision quality. By focusing on reducing decision uncertainty, rather than simply analytical uncertainty, and making use of collaborative data sets combined with a weight of evidence approach to data evaluation, a Triad approach will typically result in much better decisions being made with the same resource investment.

View details of Columbia Technologies' SD Full Triad Implementation used as an example on the EPA's Triad Resource Center »

Triad Info Links

Overview and Key Concepts »
The Triad approach manages decision-making uncertainty through the use of innovative data collection technologies and systematic planning techniques, resulting in significant project benefits.

Real-Time Measurement
Systems »
Real-time measurement systems provide data quickly enough to affect the progress of field work.

Dynamic Work Strategies »
Dynamic work strategies allow project activities to adapt to unexpected site conditions and the results from real-time measurement systems.

Systematic Planning »
Systematic planning is the core of the Triad approach to managing decision-making uncertainty.