The Company remains committed to the outsourcing engineering, scientific and technical expertise that is required for the initial “waste to energy” installation. It is the Company’s opinion that it is much more cost effective to outsource the wide range of required expertise rather than creating a similar technical and scientific group within the Company’s management group.
We are pleased to announce that Resource International of Ashland, Virginia (www.resourceintl.com/index.htm) has been selected as the consulting engineers that will provide the overall project management for the Company’s initial “waste to energy” processing facility. Resource International will bring both project specific engineers and scientists into the Alliance team. This expertise is a welcomed addition to the management team responsible for the planning, design, fabrication, installation and operation of Alliance’s initial “waste to energy” installation.
Commencing work March 14, 2007, initially the Alliance engineering team headed up by Resource International and comprised of Alliance management, Resource consulting engineers, and fabrication experts, will begin by reviewing a contract that will provide for the scope of engineering activities necessary complete the entire facility. Resource International will be responsible for overall project management of the entire “waste to energy” installation.
Although process design parameters have been established previously, the engineering team will be working with pre-qualified suppliers to examine the possibility to enhance the commercially available process components to take advantage of the latest technological advances related to fabrication methods, materials and controls. All of the equipment that will be utilized in the Alliance process is currently in use in chemical processing and related industries.
The Alliance engineering team will be integrating existing equipment as the system’s components to obtain the desired results for the final Alliance process. As an example, the entire electrical generation system is purchased as a stand-alone system. It will be necessary to integrate the electrical generation system’s heat recover process into facility’s central heat recovery system.
Resource will also bring civil, mechanical, chemical and process engineers into the Alliance project management team. This group of engineers within Resource’s organization, has acquired specific knowledge pertaining the to the Alliance system as a result of working closely with Alliance management for several years. As the engineering team finalizes fabrication designs, or makes equipment modifications, develops control software, and/or makes any proprietary enhancements to the Company’s technology, they will seek various forms of additional intellectual property protection including patents and industrial designs that will be owned by Alliance.
The Company and Resource are also prepared to continue discussions with state and municipal officials in connection to final site selection. Several locations have been identified. Although some discussions with state and regulatory officials have already been initiated, the Company and their engineers will expand these discussions to include additional municipalities and continue to work through the assessment process prior to making a determination as to the best location for the initial Alliance “waste to energy” processing facility to operate.