Michael Parker

The 600-mile underground Atlantic Coast Pipeline will originate in Harrison County, WV, travel to Greensville County, VA, with a lateral extending to Chesapeake, VA, and then continue south into eastern North Carolina, ending in Robeson County. Two additional, shorter laterals will connect to two Dominion Energy electric generating facilities in Brunswick and Greensville Counties.

The proposed route was developed after more than two years of extensive study and meaningful engagement with… Show more

The 600-mile underground Atlantic Coast Pipeline will originate in Harrison County, WV, travel to Greensville County, VA, with a lateral extending to Chesapeake, VA, and then continue south into eastern North Carolina, ending in Robeson County. Two additional, shorter laterals will connect to two Dominion Energy electric generating facilities in Brunswick and Greensville Counties.

The proposed route was developed after more than two years of extensive study and meaningful engagement with landowners and communities - all with the goal of finding the best route with the least possible impact on landowners and the environment. More than 6,000 miles of potential routes were carefully studied before choosing the best 600-mile route with the least impact. After consulting with landowners and performing extensive field surveys, more than 300 additional route adjustments were made to avoid environmentally sensitive areas and address individual landowner concerns. This thorough and exhaustive process significantly reduced the environmental impacts of the project and minimized its impact on individual landowners.

In addition, three compressor stations have been planned as part of this project: one at the beginning of the pipeline in West Virginia (Lewis County), one in central Virginia (Buckingham County) and one near the Virginia-North Carolina state line (Northampton County, NC). Show less

The proposed Cameron Access Project represents a $300 million investment in Southwest Louisiana. Encompassing improvements to existing pipelines in the region, a new state-of-the-art compressor station and a new pipeline in Cameron Parish, the project will create well-paying construction jobs, contribute both state and local taxes and further cement the region as one of America’s leading centers of energy production and commerce.

The Eastern Panhandle Expansion Project is being developed to support economic growth in the Eastern Panhandle region of West Virginia. Once complete, this new pipeline will deliver new supplies of natural gas to Mountaineer Gas in Morgan County.

At approximately 3.5 miles 5.6 (km) in length, this eight-inch diameter pipeline will provide 47,500 Dth per day of clean burning natural gas to meet the current and future demands of homes and businesses in the region.

The Gulf XPress Project, a network of seven new compressor stations in Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi, will greatly broaden the reach of low-cost, U.S.-produced natural gas from the Appalachian Basin. Once completed, access to this domestic fuel source will help keep costs down for families and businesses in the region, while increasing reliability and access. The project will also create many new, well-paying jobs for workers in all three states.

The proposed Leach XPress Project includes a 160 mile (257 km) pipeline and compression facilities that will enable the transport of approximately 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas from the heart of the Appalachian supply basin to families and businesses in Ohio, West Virginia and other parts of the country.

Cutting south from Marshall County to Wayne County, West Virginia, Mountaineer XPress will add 165 miles (266 km) of natural gas pipeline to serve growing communities in the state. Once complete, the line will deliver clean, affordable, domestically produced natural gas, easing reliance on foreign fuels, and create hundreds of jobs for West Virginians.

The WB XPress Project will significantly improve the service and flexibility of natural gas delivery in Virginia and West Virginia. The project will see the construction of 2.9 miles (4.7 km) of new pipeline, two compressor stations and the replacement of 26 miles (41.8 km) of existing pipeline to increase capacity in the region by 1.3 billon cubic feet per day.

For communities in the region and beyond, this will mean a more stable supply of low-cost, domestically produced fuel.

The University of Wisconsin’s IceCube Project is a next-generation subatomic particle detector designed to be implanted deep in ice in the South Pole. The system will measure and chart the path of neutrinos, the smallest particles of matter, as they pass from space through the earth. Made up of 4,800 glass optical modules on 80 strings buried .8 to 1.5 miles below the ice, the Ice Cube telescope will effectively convert a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into the world's largest scientific… Show more

The University of Wisconsin’s IceCube Project is a next-generation subatomic particle detector designed to be implanted deep in ice in the South Pole. The system will measure and chart the path of neutrinos, the smallest particles of matter, as they pass from space through the earth. Made up of 4,800 glass optical modules on 80 strings buried .8 to 1.5 miles below the ice, the Ice Cube telescope will effectively convert a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into the world's largest scientific instrument. Show less

ITER is a joint international research and development project located in Cadarache, France that aims to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility of fusion power. The aim of ITER is to demonstrate how fusion can be used to generate electrical power to design and operate the first electricity-producing fusion plant.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an 8.4 meter ground-based optical telescope that will provide digital imaging of astronomical objects.

LSST is anticipated to cost roughly $300 million dollars. Through its Partner Institutions, LSST has engaged more than one hundred astronomers, physicists, and engineers through out the country who see LSST as the next big leap in charting the heavens.

Initially, a new LIGO management team needed to re-baseline the cost estimate and schedule for the project for NSF review. Following approval, the LIGO team needed to quickly deploy staff with highly specialized scientific and engineering talent in order to achieve the projects’ aggressive schedule goals.

Triad quickly brought in a cost estimating team to develop a “bottoms up” re-estimate of the project for the new LIGO management. This was completed in an aggressive four month period… Show more

Initially, a new LIGO management team needed to re-baseline the cost estimate and schedule for the project for NSF review. Following approval, the LIGO team needed to quickly deploy staff with highly specialized scientific and engineering talent in order to achieve the projects’ aggressive schedule goals.

Triad quickly brought in a cost estimating team to develop a “bottoms up” re-estimate of the project for the new LIGO management. This was completed in an aggressive four month period. Following the re-estimate, TRIAD developed and fully integrated a cost and schedule control system for LIGO to meet the needs of both internal management and NSF requirements. To meet the rigorous staff requirements, TRIAD deployed some of the most specialized and difficult to find technical talent in the U.S. including an expert opto-mechanical engineer, several scientific software engineers and others. Show less

A collaboration of over 15 universities and the American Institute of Biological Sciences needed to compete for an award to create the Coordinating Consortium and Project Office for the NSF’s NEON initiative. NEON will be a continental scale research instrument consisting of geographically distributed infrastructure, networked via state-of-the-art communications. Cutting-edge lab and field instrumentation, site-based experimental infrastructure, natural history archive facilities and/or… Show more

A collaboration of over 15 universities and the American Institute of Biological Sciences needed to compete for an award to create the Coordinating Consortium and Project Office for the NSF’s NEON initiative. NEON will be a continental scale research instrument consisting of geographically distributed infrastructure, networked via state-of-the-art communications. Cutting-edge lab and field instrumentation, site-based experimental infrastructure, natural history archive facilities and/or computational, analytical and modeling capabilities, linked via a computational network will comprise NEON. NEON will transform ecological research by enabling studies on major environmental challenges at regional to continental scales. Show less

The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory will be an advanced, highly optimized, third generation, medium energy storage ring. The NSLS-II will replace the current NSLS facility, which will be 30 years old when the proposed NSLS-II becomes operational. The X-ray brightness and the flux of the NSLS-II will be world leading, exceeding that of any other synchrotron light source currently existing or under construction. It will be 10,000 times brighter and… Show more

The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory will be an advanced, highly optimized, third generation, medium energy storage ring. The NSLS-II will replace the current NSLS facility, which will be 30 years old when the proposed NSLS-II becomes operational. The X-ray brightness and the flux of the NSLS-II will be world leading, exceeding that of any other synchrotron light source currently existing or under construction. It will be 10,000 times brighter and have 10 times higher flux than the present NSLS. Show less

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project is a public-private partnership formalized in 2003 to develop and build the world largest ground based optical telescope. TMT is anticipated to cost roughly $800 million dollars. The telescope mirrors will be a total of 30 meters (98.5 feet) in diameter with over 700 individual mirror segments.