Environmental Compliance Tracking – An overview of the development and implementation of applications for tracking environmental compliance for owners and operators.

Ben Marrow & Billy Meredith

The constantly changing regulatory environment presents significant challenges for owner/operators to efficiently and effectively deliver projects on time and on budget while also maintaining compliance with all applicable environmental rules and regulations. This regulatory environment combined with the need to renew and upgrade aging infrastructure with limited funding opportunities often makes environmental compliance a challenge. Owner/Operators are faced with ever increasing attention focused on environmental compliance. A strong construction oversight environmental compliance program which include compliance tracking tools is needed as the pace of construction has escalated and compliance requirements evolved. This presentation will provide an overview of a successful "Environmental Compliance Program" tools that have been developed over the years for various industries and clients. Environmental Construction Oversight Program tracking tools create compliance assurance reporting mechanisms and provide the ability for the boots on the ground environmental monitoring staff to relay the myriad of environmental issues that can arise during construction. The presentation will go step by step through the process that was developed to integrate environmental monitoring tools and into environmental compliance construction programs. The presentation will demonstrate the tools that have been developed to maintain the required project documentation and compliance reporting. The ever increasing reporting requirements take significant time and present challenges for maintaining complete and organized records. A key component to the development of a successful Compliance Program is the development and utilization of a web-based multi-user Environmental Compliance Tracking Tools that are the central location of all environmental documentation, including inspection reports.

Billy Meredith



Ben Marrow

Co-Presented by Billy Meredith

Mr. Meredith is an application developer and database designer in McCormick Taylor’s Baltimore office with 19 years of experience. He has a B.S. in Information Science & Technology from Penn State University and has held several positions in the Information Technology sector prior to joining McCormick Taylor. Mr. Meredith has worked on projects across the state of Maryland as well as Ohio and Pennsylvania

Co-Presented by Ben Morrow

Mr. Morrow has over 18 years’ experience in the environmental/natural resource field with a specialization in environmental permitting and environmental compliance. He has a thorough understanding of environmental laws and regulations and how they pertain to all phases of project development. Mr. Morrow has extensive experience in the Energy industry as a Senior Environmental Project Manager for McCormick Taylor’s Energy Group for multiple clients. This role has him involved numerous individual tasks and involvement in all phases of project development; planning, permitting/licensing, constructability review, construction oversight, and post-construction monitoring