IPS Announces Winners Of "What A Waste" Contest

LAFAYETTE HILL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Integrated Project Services (IPS), a leading, full-service engineering, construction, validation, and compliance company dedicated to assisting pharmaceutical and biotech companies improve operations, today announced the winners of the company's "What a Waste" Contest. Sponsored by the IPS Sustainable Leadership Team, the contest was developed to collect ideas for practical conservation and sustainability, material and waste reduction, and recycling or alternate uses of spent resources. After the submissions were compiled, a panel of judges selected first, second and third place winners, along with three Honorable Mention winners. Entries were judged on creativity, ease and practicability of implementing the idea and how well the idea serves the goal of conserving energy and promoting sustainability. The winners are:

1st Place: Josh Capparella, LEED(R) AP Honorable Mention:
2nd Place: Harry Koons, III, CxA Anthony Fasano
3rd Place: James Schwed Nicole Figlarz
Timothy Repetz, PE

The IPS Sustainable Leadership Team was developed in 2007 to facilitate and promote the integration of sustainable and green business practices within IPS and develop promote sustainable and green business practices for IPS clients. The program has raised general awareness of the impact IPS designs have on the environment and offers clients a new way of looking at hi-tech, high performance facilities and systems. Through facility design, procurement, engineering and operations the Team has set goals to lower facility lifecycle costs, reduce the impact on the environment, and ultimately, help clients improve their bottom line on fiscal, environmental and social levels.

About IPS

Integrated Project Services (IPS), www.ipsdb.com, is a full-service, engineering firm servicing the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries as well as medical device, diagnostics and specialty chemical. IPS services include technical consulting, engineering and design, design/build, construction management, commissioning and compliance. Located in Lafayette Hill, Pa., IPS has full service branch offices in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New Jersey, California, Indiana and Puerto Rico.

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