Recovery

In the wake of a natural or man-made disaster, both homes and businesses are affected—creating difficulties for employees and delays in getting back up and running. CTEH can provide direct housing support to employees following a disaster, freeing them from worry over where their families will sleep, and allowing them to return to work as quickly as possible.

An effective program starts with extensive planning ahead of time, so that policies are in place and contractors at the ready when the need arises. If it does, CTEH immediately begins documenting the damage and issuing work orders to get the houses safe, sanitary, and secure. We can manage the entire process so your key staff can focus on getting the business operational.

It takes a large, well-coordinated team to handle all of the tasks associated with a properly executed recovery effort. CTEH has a vast network of trained, experienced professionals who are able to reinforce your internal teams, so you can focus on day-to-day activities secure in the knowledge that recovery will proceed smoothly. Our experts are ready to hit the ground running, eliminating lengthy learning curves that can slow the entire operation. 

This can be particularly important for those projects that are highly technical in nature, such as public health projects, which often have time-limited funding and high costs for staff and execution. We can help take the pressure off your staff by leveraging our deep bench of multi-disciplined health scientists, industrial hygienists, epidemiologists, project managers, and other environmental and public health experts and support staff.

CTEH has wide-ranging experience developing and implementing IT solutions that can give your team greater visibility into programs, improve workflows and processes, and enable rapid, data-based decision-making even in difficult circumstances. When combined with our high performing management personnel with a wide breadth of experience managing processes and personnel during natural disasters and emergencies, CTEH can deliver in even the most complex scenarios.

We also have funding-specific policy subject matter expertise related to Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Broadband, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Community Development Blog Grants (GDBG) CDBG-DR/CDBG-MIT, American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), and Department of Transportation (DOT) funding. Our expertise includes everything from technical assistance, training, mitigation planning, and risk assessment to documentation management, procurement, construction management, data analytics, and reporting services. 

Epidemiology is the cornerstone of public health. CTEH brings extensive scientific and on-the-ground experience to collecting and analyzing data on determinants of health or potential impacts to a sensitive population, including public health claims related to a specific industrial source. 

We can assess the health and sociodemographics of populations, critically review literature, design detailed studies, and conduct both qualitative and quantitative epidemiological research to produce strong, accurate, and relevant results.

CTEH has decades of experience providing support to counsel, as well as strategic consulting services to clients in a variety of industries. Our experts can decipher complex documents, build compelling exhibits, and explain complicated scientific concepts to all involved parties.

CTEH’s building health support services are designed to handle disaster situations with speed and precision. Our scalable response force can manage projects of any size, from individual warehouse fires to widespread flooding.

Beyond emergency responses, our building sciences team also manages building health and assessment projects for a wide variety of commercial, hospitality, medical, and office properties. We can provide initial assessment or validate scopes of work from your preferred rebuild or remodel firms.

We streamline communication pathways to reduce transaction friction, allowing you to focus on restoration work. Our data-backed emergency response expertise ensures that your projects are completed faster, with prompt payments and undeniable documentation of your exceptional work.

Disaster recovery can span multiple government layers, each with its own set of agencies and regulations. At CTEH, we believe that bureaucratic processes should not impede a full and timely recovery – we can help you navigate all shades of red tape. With our extensive experience and a track record of success, we excel at evaluating situations and deciphering complex regulatory frameworks, including challenges like 2CFR. We advise clients on the most efficient strategies for collaborating with federal entities such as the USEPA, Department of Treasury, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Department of Justice, as well as state and local authorities. Our expert guidance ensures that you can efficiently navigate the regulatory maze, expediting your recovery and building back better.

With extreme weather on the rise, industries and municipalities face increased risks from increasingly common hazard phenomena, like hurricanes and floods, and longer-term climate-related issues.

Resiliency projects focus on planning, infrastructure, and recovery mechanisms to strengthen the flexibility and survivability of companies, communities, and programs. Strong resiliency work helps you bounce back faster and return to normal sooner following the next problem event.

Designing these projects and tackling these challenges requires innovative solutions, nimbleness, and crisis-tested experience. CTEH’s Resiliency and Recovery team, including epidemiologists and exposure health experts, can help you prepare for, respond to, and recover from climate-related incidents and their impact. We’ll help you design and pitch programs to maximize the likelihood of federal funding and stay by your side to continue hitting milestones during execution.

Disaster recovery is a complicated process severely compounded by uncertainty, time pressures, and concerns about the health of people and the environment.

Managing federally-funded recovery and resiliency projects can be a headache for groups and communities used to managing much smaller projects with smaller funding streams.

That’s why CTEH built a unique process management solution to help you manage it all – no matter how large or small the project.

Carbon is our customizable, user-friendly answer to the question of how to manage these complex, multifaceted projects, built by our own software engineers with a wealth of experience developing mission-critical, scalable, and intuitive digital solutions. It simplifies handling of all the details – from work flows to documentation, eliminating one of the biggest stumbling blocks in many recovery efforts.

CTEH’s automated tracking solutions can bring clarity into the chaos of response and recovery operations, enabling you to efficiently track personnel, contents, heavy machinery, equipment, costs, and much more. Whether it’s a large recovery effort with hundreds of contractors and resources or a multi-family complex where residential contents need to be packed out, inventoried, tracked, stored and distributed back to owners, we handle every step of these important but mundane workflows so you can focus on more pressing tasks during recovery.

With a fully integrated system that includes a web application, mobile technology, badge printers, and barcode scanners, we can track thousands of resources rapidly—eliminating time-consuming manual paper and spreadsheet processes.

Trust but verify! Resource tracking extends from your own personal logistics into those of your partners and contractors as well. Validating labor time, on-site equipment, and use case for both in the moment can save massive repayments during final audits for the government.