Press Release
Bocci Engineering, LLC Pioneers Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Projects That Pay for Themselves
HOUSTON, Jan 03, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Bocci Engineering, LLC has been named to receive the nation's premier 2012 award for excellence by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) as it completes its first decade providing sustainable energy and environmental engineering solutions..."Bocci Engineering is a valued partner in achieving our goals of improving human and ecosystem well-being through application of sustainability science and principles of sustainable development," says Dan Bullock, Principal Investigator, of Houston Advanced Research Center. [read more]

Houston Chronicle
Houston moving forward with longtime Luce Bayou project
Critics say the state plan promotes more pumps, pipes, dams and canals ahead of saving existing water. Although the plan calls for 12 percent of the supply in 2060 to come from conservation, they say more could be done. With Luce Bayou, "we will have capacity well into the future," said Jim Lester, a water policy expert at the Houston Advanced Research Center. "My fundamental problem with this is, we are doing so little on conservation." [read more]

State Impact Texas
Dallas Wastewater Keeps Trinity Flowing, Houston Drinking
Once called the “River of Death” because it was so polluted with sewage and waste from slaughterhouses, the Trinity River has defied the great drought and helped maintain one of Houston’s critical supplies of water. And much of the credit goes to what a century ago made the river so polluted: the wastewater from Dallas-Fort Worth... [read more]

Rigzone
First Movers in Eco-Drilling: Greener Results to be Clicks Away
The Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) and Petris Technology of Houston will be teaming together to commercialize a geographic information system (GIS) that will help predict and prevent ecological harm from drilling operations. The technology initially will be developed in the Eagle Ford shale play area. The work will complement prototype efforts underway by the University of Arkansas for the Haynesville and Fayetteville shale plays... [read more]

Midland Reporter-Telegram
Producers find environmentally-friendly technology can boost bottom line
From the sand, chemicals and water used in hydraulic fracturing to capturing the emissions from wellheads and storage tanks, the oil and gas industry is focusing on environmentally-friendly technology. Rich Haut, senior research scientist and principal investigator, environmentally-friendly drilling program at the Houston Advanced Research Center, attributed the focus on environmentally-friendly technology to three primary influences. [read more]

InsideClimate News
New Waterless Fracking Method Avoids Pollution Problems, But Drillers Slow to Embrace It
David Burnett, a professor of petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University, one of the nation's premier petroleum engineering schools, said fracking with propane makes sense. "From a reservoir engineering perspective, there is no reason this would not be effective," said Burnett, who runs the Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems Program, a project of the university and the Houston Advanced Research Center, a not-for-profit academic and business consortium. Supported by some of the nation's largest energy companies, as well as by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the drilling program seeks new technologies that develop gas and oil in a safe and environmentally friendly manner. [read more]

Culture Map
As prices drop 50 percent & red tape disappears, H-Town looks to become the Solar American City
Houston was designated a “Solar American City” by the Department of Energy in 2008 and recently applied with the Houston Advanced Research Center and the city of San Antonio for another grant to help streamline the approval process even more. [read more]