SCS professionals are active in, and leaders of industry and professional associations. We organize and participate in workshops and conferences, author and present technical papers, conduct research, and participate in national and state-level legislative and rule-making processes and regulatory policy. Our engineers, environmental consultants, and scientists work in close coordination on environmental solutions.
Bob Viers, P.E. is a Senior Vice President and a Project Director for our SCS Energy division. He is the Lead Design Engineer for many types of energy projects and supervises the design or design/construction of almost all of SCS Energy’s landfill gas power generation projects and renewable natural gas projects.
Bob Viers, P.E. is a Senior Vice President and a Project Director for our SCS Energy division. He is the Lead Design Engineer for many types of energy projects and supervises the design or design/construction of almost all of SCS Energy’s landfill gas power generation projects and renewable natural gas projects.
His experience includes designing, manufacturing, and maintaining customized mechanical skids and mechanical packages for a wide range of industries. His responsibilities include review of proposals from bidders and subcontractor’s submittals for compliance with project specifications, codes and regulations, and company standards; equipment inspections during fabrication; management of personnel; preparing project budgets; equipment commissioning; and technical support and specifications. Fabricated packages use positive displacement blowers, sliding vane compressors, multi-stage centrifugal blowers, pumps, liquid ring vacuum pumps, and other rotating equipment used in the environmental, power, water and wastewater treatment, flash-freezing, and commercial sectors. Bob is a Professional Engineer licensed in dozens of states.
Vidhya Viswanathan, PE, is a Senior Vice President with expertise in solid waste engineering, storm water, and water and sewer infrastructure design projects. She is the Director of Engineering of our Southwest Region where she leads our solid waste engineering operations in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in California, Arizona, and Oklahoma. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in California, Arizona, and Oklahoma.
Ms. Viswanathan is a Senior Vice President with expertise in solid waste engineering, storm water, and water and sewer infrastructure design projects. She is the Director of Engineering of our Southwest Region where she leads our solid waste engineering operations in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico. Her experience includes preparation of grading and drainage plans, design of erosion control best management practices, preparation of inspection reports and technical specifications, and providing construction support services on a variety of municipal projects, including landfills. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in California, Arizona, and Oklahoma.
Her work includes design and installation of LFG collection systems, landfill de-watering systems, LFG Blower-Flare Station (BFS) planning and site civil design, and construction oversight for LFG-related projects. She also has experience performing analysis of airspace consumption and remaining life assessments using AutoCAD Civil 3D, and in estimation of closure and post-closure care costs for various landfills. She has designed 5-year operational fill and gas collection and control system (GCCS) sequence plans, and prepared Joint Technical Document (JTD) updates for various landfills in California.
Ms. Viswanathan is a strong client manager with excellent GCCS design, construction quality assurance (CQA), and construction skills. She has a thorough understanding of all aspects of fill operations, construction, and OM&M, and has been an integral part of several site operations teams since joining SCS in 2012
During her tenure as a municipal engineer, Ms. Viswanathan was involved in the permitting, design, and construction of a variety of municipal projects, including landfill expansion and liner installation. Since joining SCS, she has been involved in the preparation of feasibility studies, and the permitting, design, and construction of various landfill and landfill gas (LFG) projects.
