WSP Receives Two Prestigious Industry Awards

Environmental and engineering consultancy, WSP is pleased to announce it has received the highest honor, a Gold Award in the Business Achievement: Mergers & Acquisitions category from the Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) and the Project Merit award for Smart Grid & Energy Management from the Climate Change Business Journal (CCBJ). The EBJ and CCBJ, published by EBI Inc., are distinguished business research publications which provide high value strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry and the climate change industry, respectively. The awards will be presented at the Business Achievement Awards banquet on March 6, 2013 which will kick off the 11th Annual Environmental Industry Summit, in Coronado, California. The annual event is hosted by EBI and runs three days.

The Gold Award for Mergers & Acquisitions showcases the exceptional opportunity for WSP and Canadian consultancy, GENIVAR, to achieve the strategic ambition for global, diversified growth. The combined organizations have an enhanced platform to compete with the leading businesses in our sector. Our history validates the strong capabilities of each business in the environmental practices and our ability to offer fully integrated solutions to clients. President and CEO of the combined entity, Pierre Shoiry, recently stated "The combination of WSP and GENIVAR is compelling and results in a company with aligned strategic ambitions, a shared entrepreneurial spirit and a resolute focus on clients.

WSP will be honored at the Environmental Industry Summit X with the Project Merit Award for Smart Grid & Energy Management from the CCBJ. The award recognizes WSPs role in completing a study and publishing the results, in partnership with the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), which focused on the impact of cloud computing on the environment to identify the most energy and carbon efficient IT solutions for small- and medium-sized organizations (SMOs). The analysis used for the study breaks new ground in identifying how best practice, average, and worst-case scenarios impact environmental performance when modeled across a variety of application and deployment types.

Commenting on the awards, Director of Environmental, Jan Chizzonite, said: The awards recognize the efforts of our talented staff and our organizations commitment to environmental and sustainability practices. We are thrilled to be recognized for the quality and depth of services that we provide to our clients. I am proud to lead this group of skilled and knowledgeable individuals that day-in and day-out show their commitment to our clients and directly contribute to overall success of our organization.

Please visit the 2012 EBJ Business Achievement Award (http://ebionline.org/2012-ebj-business-achievement-awards) and the 2012 CCBJ Business Achievement Awards (http://ebionline.org/2012-ccbj-business-achievement-awards)websites to read the complete award achievement write-ups.

About WSP
The Environmental team at WSP helps organizations manage risks and maximize opportunities related to sustainability, climate change, environment, energy and health & safety. Whether its managing risks through our EHS services; formulating robust strategies to shape sustainability programs, assessing environmental impacts and permitting requirements; or remediating contaminated land, we help create competitive advantages for our clients. As a part of WSP, through its combination with GENIVAR, we are one of the worlds leading professional services firms with nearly 15,000 employees, based in more than 300 offices, across 35 countries. Visit www.wspenvironmental.com/usa.

About EBI
Founded in 1988, Environmental Business International Inc. (EBI, San Diego, Calif.) is a research, publishing and consulting company that specializes in defining emerging markets and generating strategic market intelligence for companies, investors and policymakers. EBI publishes Climate Change Business Journal, which covers nine segments of the Climate Change Industry, and Environmental Business Journal, the leading provider of strategic information for the environmental industry. EBI also performs contract research for the government and private sector and founded the Environmental Industry Summit, an annual three-day event for executives in the environmental industry. http://ebionline.org/about-ebi

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Mothers who are exposed to particulate air pollution of the type emitted by vehicles, urban heating and coal power plants are significantly more likely to bear children of low birth weight, according to an international study led by co-principal investigator Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, MPH, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive sciences at UC San Francisco along with Jennifer Parker, PhD, of the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The study, the largest of its kind ever performed, analyzed data collected from more than three million births in nine nations at 14 sites in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

The researchers found that at sites worldwide, the higher the pollution rate, the greater the rate of low birth weight.

Low birth weight (a weight below 2500 grams or 5.5 pounds) is associated with serious health consequences, including increased risk of postnatal morbidity and mortality and chronic health problems in later life, noted lead author Payam Dadvand, MD, PhD, of the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) in Barcelona, Spain.

In the study, published on February 6th, 2013 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, the team assessed data collected from research centers in the International Collaboration on Air Pollution and Pregnancy Outcomes, an international research collaborative established in 2007 to study the effects of pollution on pregnancy outcomes. Most of the data assessed was collected during the mid-1990s to the late 2000s, and in some cases, earlier.

Whats significant is that these are air pollution levels to which practically everyone in the world is commonly exposed, said Woodruff. These microscopic particles, which are smaller than the width of a human hair, are in the air that we all breathe.

Woodruff noted that nations with tighter regulations on particulate air pollution have lower levels of these air pollutants. In the United States, we have shown over the last several decades that the benefits to health and wellbeing from reducing air pollution are far greater than the costs, said Woodruff. This is a lesson that all nations can learn from.

Particulate air pollution is measured in size (microns) and weight (micrograms per cubic meter). In the United States, federal regulations require that the yearly average concentration in the air to be no more than 12 g/m3 of particles measuring less than 2.5 microns. In the European Union, the limit is 25 g/m3, and regulatory agencies there are currently debating whether to lower it.

This study comes at the right time to bring the issue to the attention of policy makers, said study co-author Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, PhD, of CREAL.

Nieuwenhuijsen observed that particulate air pollution in Beijing, China has recently been measured higher than 700 g/m3.

From the perspective of world health, levels like this are obviously completely unsustainable, he said.

Whether these pregnancy exposures can have effects later in life, currently is under investigation through an epidemiological follow-up of some of the children included in these studies.

Co-authors of the paper are Michelle L. Bell of Yale University; Matteo Bonzini of the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy; Michael Brauer of the University of British Columbia; Lyndsey Darrow of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Ulrike Gehring of Utrecht University, the Netherlands; Svetlana V. Glinianaia of Newcastle University, United Kingdom; Nelson Gouveia of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Eunhee Ha of Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Jong Han Leem of Inha University, Inchon, Republic of Korea; Edith H. van den Hooven of Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam the Netherlands; Bin Jalaludin of the University of New South Wales, Australia; Bill M. Jesdale of UC Berkeley; Johanna Lepeule of Harvard University and INSERM, Grenoble, France; Rachel Morello-Frosch of UC Berkeley; Geoffrey G. Morgan of the University of Sydney, Australia; Angela Cecilia Pesatori of Universit di Milano, Milan, Italy; Frank H. Pierik of Urban Environment and Safety, TNO, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Tanja Pless-Mulloli of Newcastle University; David Q. Rich of the University of Rochester, New York; Sheela Sathyanarayana of the University of Washington; Juhee Seo of Ewha Womans University; Rmy Slama of INSERM, Grenoble, France; Matthew Strickland of Emory University; Lillian Tamburic of the University of British Columbia;and Daniel Wartenberg of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

The study was supported by funds from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institute for Environmental Sciences in the United States; the Wellcome Fund in the United Kingdom; and the Ministry of Science and Innovation in Spain. In Vancouver, British Columbia, the BC Ministry of Health, the BC Vital Statistics Agency and the BC Reproductive Care Program approved access to and use of data facilitated by Population Data BC.

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