SCS Engineers announces expanded odor consulting and laboratory capabilities to help clients continue receiving specialized odor evaluation, monitoring, analysis, and control services as Odor Science & Engineering, Inc. prepares to close. Odor Science & Engineering has recommended SCS Engineers to carry forward services many industrial and municipal clients have relied on for odor problem definition, odor sampling and analysis, ambient monitoring, staff training, and cost-effective odor control planning.
“Our clients have trusted Odor Science & Engineering for many years to provide objective, technically sound answers to challenging odor problems. It is important to me that, as OS&E winds down its operations, our clients have access to a team that understands the science of odor and shares our commitment to practical, defensible solutions. I am confident that SCS Engineers is the right organization to carry this work forward, and I am pleased to recommend SCS to our clients and colleagues.” OS&E President, Martha O’Brien.
Both firms are recognized leaders in specialized odor consulting, whose work has helped clients define odor issues, establish control requirements, design control systems, conduct odor emission sampling, complete odor panel analysis, monitor ambient odors, and train client staff in odor investigation and monitoring procedures.
SCS Engineers’ expanded services will support both existing and new facilities. For existing operations, SCS helps diagnose and solve odor issues by identifying contributing sources, determining the level of control needed, and developing practical, cost-effective control strategies. For new facilities, SCS supports the design of ventilation and odor-control systems to help prevent odor impacts once operations begin.
The transition strengthens SCS’s existing capabilities in odor management, ambient air monitoring, air quality, and environmental compliance. SCS applies field, laboratory, and modeling methods to detect, measure, and predict fugitive chemical and odor impacts. The team supports clients with odor assessments, odor dispersion modeling, complaint data analysis, smoke release studies, field and laboratory olfactometry, tracer studies, source sampling, air monitoring, and mitigation planning.
“Odor issues are highly site-specific, often technically complex, and important to communities, facility owners, and regulators,” said SCS Vice President and National Expert on Ambient Air Monitoring and Odor Impact Assessment, Paul Schafer. “By expanding our odor laboratory and consulting capabilities, SCS is positioned to provide continuity for OS&E clients while offering the national reach and multidisciplinary environmental expertise our clients need.”
SCS’s odor work serves a broad range of industrial and municipal settings, including landfills, composting facilities, wastewater treatment plants, food processing operations, manufacturing facilities, oil and gas operations, cannabis cultivation facilities, and other industrial sites where odor emissions, nuisance concerns, regulatory requirements, or public complaints require objective investigation and defensible solutions.
Current and prospective clients seeking odor consulting support can contact SCS Engineers to discuss service continuity, project transition needs, laboratory analysis, field investigations, odor control planning, or staff training.
