Project Engagement
Commitment to project success
Covanta offers a project implementation team with depth and diversity of disciplines and proven experience in successfully managing all key elements of project development from inception to project financing, to include:
- Procurement and market development
- Design and engineering management
- Construction management
- Financing
- Permitting
- Operations and maintenance
- Field maintenance support
- Coordination with community recycling and source reduction programs
- Energy and recovered materials marketing
- Community outreach, communication
- Federal/State Legislative coordination/outreach for policy support
- Project agreements (service/energy/financing) legal structuring/negotiations
- Community outreach/public relations
- Structuring local teaming agreements with stakeholders such as waste suppliers, equity investors, contractors/vendors, etc.
This team can also help communities interested in assessing EfW as a policy choice review the technical and economic feasibility of an EfW solution locally, to include assessing the relative advantages of either public or private ownership.
Community engagement
Covanta’s first development responsibility is to inform the community at large, particularly those closest to the proposed site, about the basic scope, objectives and operational aspects of the project. Such information includes architectural aesthetics, site considerations, project scope, waste sources, emissions controls, traffic impacts, energy types and economic benefits to the community. Covanta establishes a presence to respond to community questions and works with elected officials and economic development offices to create and activate information exchanges with leading local civic groups, homeowner groups and individuals long before procedurally mandated public hearings are required.
As part of this program, Covanta begins working immediately with community officials as well as citizens to assure that the proposed project will interface with and enhance existing and planned community waste reduction, diversion and recycling programs. Community representatives are invited to tour Covanta facilities. Other tools that have been used to facilitate dissemination of project information include advertising, print and online media, project specific websites and printed materials. These activities roll into on-going company sponsored community relations programs during construction that are sustained throughout the operating term. Covanta’s efforts to leverage the project to springboard into other more sustainable waste reduction and recycling programs are frequently recognized and acknowledged by client communities.