Business View Magazine | June 2019

270 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 Concord Engineering Group has been a leader in energy infrastructure and sustainable facility design for 30-years. We have pioneered solutions like combined heat & power (CHP), solar PV, biogas power plants energy efficiency and “supply side” energy procurement. Our experience in the planning and implementation of Microgrids, for communities, healthcare and the military has allowed us to provide a broad range of services from utility interconnection standards and energy policies to straight-out design and construction. Our growing portfolio of Clients include municipalities, hospitals, prisons, data centers, manufacturing, commercial real estate, multi-family and wastewater treatment plants along with commercial, industrial and educational facilities. Concord is proud to be a partner with the City of Hoboken on sustainability and resiliency solutions for the future. After the City was severely impacted by power outages because of Superstorm Sandy, Concord Engineering was tasked with completing a microgrid feasibility study focused on energy cost reductions, improvement of local energy delivery and reliability should the electric grid fail again in order to provide services and shelter to the community. In addition, our energy services division, Concord Energy Services (CES), is currently the City of Hoboken’s energy agent. CES is assisting the City with its sustainability initiatives by helping them purchase 100% renewable energy and developing a Community Energy Aggregation Program The Concord Engineering Group is building your tomorrow! Whether it’s a preliminary feasibility analysis, serving as engineer of record, construction management, start-up support, commissioning or strategic energy procurement of renewable energy initiatives, we are your trusted energy partner and cutting-edge industry leader. Our team of experienced energy professionals are laser focused on developing sustainable, resilient and cost reduction solutions for commercial and industrial customers in private and government sectors. ...... For more information, please visit our website www.concord-engineering.com we reach the construction phase later this year, we’ll be dismantling and dispersing the pop-up park to other parts of the city, so we can use the investment we made in that temporary park in future years.” BVM: What valuable partnerships and relationships are important to Hoboken’s success? Mayor Bhalla: “I have the best team in City Hall; consummate professionals in my administration that I inherited from my predecessor. That group, and the staff, are taking proactive measures to keep Hoboken ahead of the curve in all these important areas.” Caleb Stratton, Chief Resiliency Officer adds: “Concord Engineering is a firm we’ve been working with since Hurricane Sandy. Going back to 2012, they act as our owner’s agent as we worked through a Dept. of Energy grant with Sandia National Labs and we’re proud to have just finished a second round of engineering funded by the NJBPU (New Jersey Board of Public Utilities) Concord’s role has been to do a baseline analysis understanding the current electrical system, and also proposing where we need to put generation or distribution infrastructure to support those critical facilities.” Jennifer Gonzalez, Director of Environmental Services and Chief Sustainability Office adds: “The other arm of Concord is our energy agent