DISASTER RECOVERY

Disaster recovery is often a long-term effort. It involves conventional services such as replacing damaged power supplies and water treatment plants, constructing new roads and bridges, restoring schools and health care facilities, and repairing the infrastructure the made up the community before the disaster. It can involve special expertise that addresses residual special hazards from nuclear, chemical, biological, and weapons sources.

Parsons provides comprehensive recovery services honed on some of the world's most damaging disasters, such as:

• 1996 - Over 1,000 major reconstruction projects in Bosnia and Kosovo
• 1997 - Reconstruction in U.S. Virgin Islands after Hurricane Marilyn
• 1997 - Conversion of damaged Chernobyl reactor
• 1997 - FEMA Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Plan
• 2001 - Flood damage assessments and reconnaissance studies, design of flood damage reduction measures, and flood-proofing plans for the states of Ohio, Michican, Kentucky and Illinois
• 2003 - Iraq reconstruction, including education and health care facilities, prisons, courthouses, water and wastewater treatment plants, and oil and gas facilities
• 2004 - Florida's I-10 bridge reconstruction following Hurricane Ivan
• 2005 - Restoration of New Orleans main postal facility following Hurricane Katrina

Services

• On-call response management teams
• Damage assessment
• Recovery program management
• Construction management
• Logistical support
• Claims preparation
• Environmental compliance assessment
• Code clarification, upgrade
• Debris removal and emergency repairs
• Population relocation
• Hazardous waste management
• Communications support
• Cost control and resource allocation
• Design-build services