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.