Have you ever struggled to lead a technical workshop and be an active participant at the same time? Or you recognized you couldn’t do both and hired a facilitator only to find that you spent half the time trying to explain the technical jargon and bringing the facilitator up to speed? Smith Culp Consulting saves you that time and effort because their facilitators have the combined technical background and facilitation skills to hit the ground running and make the process seamless. Some of the technical workshops and panels that demonstrate this expertise include:
- Designed, facilitated and documented a Nutrient Removal Challenge Research Workshop with 90 stakeholders and a consultant team for the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF).
- Designed and facilitated an Asset Management Research Workshop with 60 stakeholders and a consultant team for the American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AwwaRF).
- Facilitated a workshop for the City of Henderson, NV, involving over 100 city staff and managers to define priorities for the proposed city-wide asset management program including the wastewater facilities.
- Designed and facilitated a technical workshop for San Jose Water Company and customer agencies to evaluate recycled water alternative project delivery methods.
- Facilitated technical review workshops for Clean Water Coalition, Las Vegas, NV for the SCOP wastewater project.
- Facilitated an expert panel workshop for the City of Las Vegas to gain consensus on odor mitigation for the Water Pollution Control Facility
- Facilitated a two pre-design charrettes for Clark County Water Reclamation District. The Phase 1 workshop evaluated location, type and phasing of membrane filtration and effluent disinfection/oxidation facilities. The Phase 2 workshop evaluated project delivery methods for the new facilities.
- Facilitated an expert panel workshop to review proposed hydropower project for the City of Aspen, CO.
- Facilitated peer review expert team workshops for Capital Regional Wastewater District, Victoria, BC, to evaluate options and alternate project delivery methods for a Regional Wastewater Plan.
- Facilitated process of selecting and implementing an alternate delivery method for the new Spokane County Wastewater Reclamation Facility that involved legal and technical consultants.