Handex Consulting & Remediation, LLC (HCR) and more notably our president, Irvin Heath, is pleased to share with you that the prestigious industry management firm of Zweig White has selected HCR for placement in their elite group as one of the HOTTEST FIRMS IN 2011! HCR was selected for inclusion into this elite group after they considered over 80-90,000 other industry architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting firms. Placement on this exclusive list was based on performance and four year revenue trends - even when confronted with today’s difficult economic times.

This is a tremendous accomplishment and we would invite you join us in thanking our HCR Team that works so hard to make all this possible. HCR continues to provide high quality professional Consulting, Remediation, Construction, Emergency Response, Drilling, Assessment, and Sludge Dewatering services as we have for over 40 years.

At HCR, we don’t overdo it – we just do it right the first time!

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Handex Consulting & Remediation – Southeast, LLC (HCR), more notably our Director, Irv Heath, has been diligently working with the Florida Petroleum Marketers Association (FPMA) and their attorneys, while serving as the FPMA Chair of the Environmental Committee. The long awaited Low Score Site Initiative (LSSI) was finally passed in the Florida Legislature on November 16, 2010.

Effective November 17, 2010, any site with a priority ranking score of 10 points or less may voluntarily participate in LSSI, whether or not the site is eligible for state restoration funding. The great news for business and property owners is that sites that are eligible for state restoration funding may receive payment of pre-approved costs, including 6 months of groundwater monitoring, not to exceed $30,000 for each site. Up to $10 million per fiscal year will be made available, on a first-come, first-serve basis. Through the assessment process, if the site meets the specified criteria, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) shall issue a determination of “No Further Action” acknowledging that minimal contamination is detected, the FDEP may issue a site rehabilitation completion order.

The intent of the LSSI program is to eliminate sites from the program; not fully assess the sites.  FDEP expects most sites to not require anywhere near $30,000 to get to closure.  Assessments will be streamlined to collect only enough data to determine if the site will qualify for Site Rehabilitation Completion Order (SRCO), No Further Action (NFA), or No Further Action with Conditions (NFAC). At the end of the first event the site owner will have an opportunity and be required to review the initial assessment data with the contractor and decide if they want to proceed toward an SRCO, NFA, or NFAC.  The interim deliverable will include a signed document by the property owner on which path they choose. If a site does not qualify for closure based on site conditions, then no deductibles will be collected and the site will go back onto the pre-approval list for future funding based on the score and funding thresholds.

The benefits for site and business owners that participate in the LSSI program include obtaining valuable information about the property for little to no cost to the site owner, potentially increasing the property’s value, as well as the closure from the site assessments that removes an “environmental cloud” from the property’s value.

LSSI is providing to be one more value added service for our clients here at HCR. For more information about LSSI, please do not hesitate to contact HCR with any questions.

Handex Consulting & Remediation, LLC

Corporate Office

Mike Scaringella

Director of Operations, SE

(321) 441-9801 ext. 1500

mscaringella@handexmail.com

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Join Handex Consulting & Remediation, LLC (HCR) at the 2011 Sunshine Food & Fuel Expo, one of the biggest and most exciting events of the summer! Come win a prize at the HCR booth #337! Get details on our new locations, our additional service capabilities, and catch up on industry news like coal ash regulations and LSRPs. We hope to see you there!

When: July 31^st - August 1^st 2011               

                Schedule of Events

                Floor Map of the Expo

Where: The Gaylord Palms Resort

                6000 West Osceola Parkway

                Kissimmee, FL 34746

                Gaylord Palms Website

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The Sunshine Food & Fuel Expo brings together over 1,000 attendees, representing over 5,000 convenience stores that include petroleum marketers, dealers, and non-petroleum marketers consisting of supermarkets and superettes.  Petroleum fuel suppliers, marketing personnel, and representatives from equipment and services companies also attend.

For more information on events being held at the Florida Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association’s annual Convention and Expo please see their website.

Handex Consulting & Remediation, LLC (HCR)

(321) 441-9801

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On May 9^th, 2011, Handex Consulting & Remediation - SE, LLC‘s Mount Dora Corporate Office, Operations and Southeast Construction will be moving to the following locations:

CORPORATE OFFICE

1350 Orange Avenue, Suite 101

Winter Park, FL 32789

Phone 321-441-9801

Fax 321-594-2710

*Extensions will remain the same

SOUTHEAST CONSTRUCTION & OPERATIONS

6756 Edgewater Commerce Parkway, Suite 200

Orlando, FL 32810

Phone 321-800-3951

Fax 321-800-3957

*Extensions will remain the same

See you there! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me.

Aubree Rider

407-440-5433

arider@handexmail.com

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Sludge & Dewatering

Dewatering is the removal of water from solid material or soil by wet classification, centrifugation, filtration, or similar solid-liquid separation processes, such as removal of residual liquid from a filter cake by a filter press as part of various industrial processes. Sludge refers to the residual, semi-solid material left from industrial wastewater, or sewage treatment processes. It can also refer to the settled suspension obtained from conventional drinking water treatment, and numerous other industrial processes.

HCR’s Dewatering Services

Handex Industrial Services, LLC (HIS) is a nationwide provider of Pumping, Dredging, Sludge Dewatering and Treatment for industrial and process wastes. This operation includes a HAZWOPER trained and OSHA certified staff of experienced Project Managers, Operators, Technicians and Mechanics.

HIS specializes in the removal and pumping of sludge from lagoons, basins and tanks, utilizing Hydraulic Submersible Pumps, Pontoon Pumps and Floating Dredges.

Handex Industrial Services process over 40 million gallons of sludge annually, achieving volume reductions of up to 80%. The proprietary High Pressure Plate and Frame Filter Press treatment solutions HIS utilizes are widely regarded as the most cost effective for many RCRA Hazardous Waste Streams. This liquid/solid separation technology yields the greatest volume reduction, while generating the minimum quantity of waste residue. It returns recyclable sludge byproducts, including oils or metals that can be further reclaimed, refined or recycled. In many cases, HIS clients find that the value of the raw materials to the plant pays for the cost of the sludge dewatering service.

Waste Minimization

Handex Industrial Services utilization can increase waste minimization savings from less offsite transfer, which is about 80% volume reduction. Savings may also occur from reduced sludge removal and pre-treatment solutions, completely mobile and self-contained equipment for remote locations, treat-ability testing to achieve optimum process choice and filter acids and reduced disposal filtrate costs.

Tank Sludge Removal & Demotion

HIS performs specialized services that include the removal and processing of tank bottoms at oil refineries and industrial plants. Tank sludges processed by HIS include Crude Oil Tank sludge, F-037; API Separator sludge-048-K-052, Benzene contaminated sludges, DAF sludge storage, and mixed sludges.

In addition, HIS has extensive experience in safely managing tank dismantling, demolition and decommissioning for both Aboveground Storage Tanks (ASTs) and Underground Storage Tanks (USTs).

For more information on HCR’s Dewatering Services, please contact HCR at:

General Manager, Ted Orndorff

(609)409-6999 ext 1204

torndorff@handexmail.com

Corporate Office

(352)735-1800

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One of HCR’s main goals is to make the world a cleaner and safer place, by cleaning up one site at a time. To better facilitate this goal, HCR has expanded its services to include Drilling & Direct Push Services. In most environmentally impacted sites, HCR recommends and utilizes cutting edge drilling technologies acceptable to regulatory agencies for deploying the appropriate technical environmental application for significant improvements in site characterization and remediation. HCR’s 40 years of field proven drilling experience coupled with a wide range of site-specific equipment provide performance that results in a timely, efficient, and cost-effective manner.

HCR realizes that the correct drilling and direct push tools aren’t just necessary, they’re paramount. The professional equipment HCR utilizes provide utmost versatility and the convenience of limited to no drill cuttings. The Geoprobe 6610DT is designed to operate in rough terrain, soft sand, mud and shallow water.

Let HCR know how we can add value to your assets.

Contact Greg Maxon

352.348.1962

gmaxon@handexmail.com

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For salespeople, the current economy and the rise of the Internet pose a gritty one-two punch. If you work on commission, the Great Recession is more than likely a body blow to your paycheck. Meantime, technology is transforming the sales environment, delivering more product knowledge than ever to consumers – providing much of the pre-sale value that sales pros used to deliver. While that doesn’t herald the end of the sales profession, according to Wharton faculty member Linda Richardson, it suggests that companies need to do things differently than before.

“Salespeople are not needed for product knowledge anymore, so they need to be more prepared for strategic discussion,” says Richardson, who is also founder and executive chairwoman of Richardson, a global sales performance firm, and author of The New York Times bestseller, Perfect Selling(McGraw-Hill, 2008). “Salespeople are facing a sales environment that none of us ever faced before. And it’s taking a toll on morale.”

Salespeople realize that what it took to sell pre-recession is not going to cut it post-recession, she says. “So their organizations are giving them better technology and data. They can share information about clients. They can talk with people within their organization and get information about customers in seconds. They’re leveraging technology like never before. Managers can look at salespeople’s pipelines. They can see into pipelines. They can give salespeople more support in the form of coaching.”

But there’s a rub: Are sales managers typically effective at coaching? Richardson believes that for many organizations, the answer is “No…. Most sales managers were promoted from sales because they were successful at selling,” she says. “But they might not be strong at coaching. A lot are super salespeople. But they need to know that coaching is the job, not being the super salesperson.” That’s why a key priority within any sales organization should be training sales managers how to be effective coaches.

Based on Richardson’s experience, this training can lead to dramatic outcomes.

At one major tech company, she says, “We trained 400 front-line managers to be coaches.” The six-month training began with a one-week intensive course. “Then our trainers worked with each sales manager once a month on a 40-minute phone call to help them carry out coaching plans and to embed coaching into the culture.” The results were impressive: Job satisfaction improved as well as the retention rate of salespeople and managers. The company saw a 17 percent increase in sales year over year, and a 29 percent increase in earnings per share.

Richardson recently worked with a professional services firm where, she says, there are fewer deals than there were before the recession, and longer times to close. After training sales managers how to coach their sales teams, she says, “opportunities within the pipeline grew 195 percent. Targeted sales approach accounts have added $140 million in the pipeline in one year. They spent $1.4 million on the training and were able to attribute $23.7 million in new business to it.”

At another large tech company, after sales managers learned to be more effective coaches, salesperson retention improved by 51 percent, manager retention by 86 percent, and overall sales volume by 18 percent.

Richardson’s data suggests that companies should invest in teaching front-line sales managers how to be world-class coaches. “If you can’t afford a training course, do e-learning, or buy books,” she says. “There are many free resources on the Internet. Even the smallest companies can and should develop their sales managers.”

http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/managing/article/the-data-reveals-great-coaching-dramatically-improves-sales-knowledgewharton

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What is Vapor Intrusion?

Vapor intrusion is the migration of vapors from below ground petroleum or chemical spills into overlying buildings, creating a health hazard for building occupants.  The problem is not confined to industrial or petroleum facilities – it extends to commercial and residential buildings which may be a significant distance from the source of contamination.

Concerned residents, industry leaders, and regulators are quickly becoming aware of the risks associated with vapor intrusion.  In many parts of the country, new regulations have sprung up, directing swift action to identify and address the problem, particularly at “sensitive receptor” sites such as daycare centers and schools.

Comprehensive, Cost Effective, and Swift Solutions

HCR has the expertise to help you understand if your facility, building or residence is at risk.  We provide reliable solutions that will allow you to fully comply with recent regulatory changes and keep occupants healthy and safe.

We test for, evaluate and mitigate vapor intrusion – quickly and cost-effectively.  Our scientists and engineers have years of experience conducting vapor intrusion risk assessments and investigations.  If we find a problem, we can design and install immediate response measures and permanent solutions.

HCR’s vapor intrusion services include:

• Risk assessment and preliminary investigations
• Indoor air and sub-slab vapor testing
• Design and installation of residential and commercial mitigation systems
• Source investigation
• Design and installation of soil and groundwater remediation solutions

Industrial and Petroleum Facilities

Where required, HCR has designed and installed large scale sub-slab depressurization systems for industrial, petroleum and large commercial facilities to immediately prevent the migration of vapors from the subsurface.  We can quickly identify the source of the problem and devise permanent solutions at even the largest sites.

Commercial, Residential and Brownfield Sites

Spills from gasoline stations or industrial facilities can spread via soil and groundwater beneath neighboring buildings and adjacent homes, with substantial risk of impacting indoor air.   HCR can quickly provide field testing services to identify vapor concentrations, and respond immediately to eliminate potential health or explosion hazards.  

HCR installs a vapor mitigation system at a site in New Jersey.

A History of Dependability

Due to the attention this issue has generated, and regulatory changes in many communities, there are a wide range of consultants and contractors offering services to address Vapor Intrusion issues.

With a 40-year history providing environmental consulting, engineering, and contracting, HCR is one of the oldest and most trusted names in the industry.  We work closely with state and local regulators, and our clients trust us to help them comply with the changing regulatory landscape.  We are certified to offer a full range of services in-house, with our own testing and construction equipment to complete any size project.

For more information please contact:

Steven Marsich, P.E.

Business Development Manager

Handex Consulting & Remediation - NE, LLC. 

24 Abeel Road, Monroe, NJ 08831

(609) 409-6999 ext. 1228 (Office)

(609) 409-7453 (Fax)

(609) 235 5769 (Cell)

E-mail: smarsich@handexmail.com

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