Engineers and Consultants
in Resource Management

• University of Michigan
Both RRSI principals, James Frey 
and JD Lindeberg, have been 
visiting lecturers for the University 
of Michigan School of Business and
Public Policy, respectively. Their
courses have focused on green
business, environmental
sustainability, and the relationship
of business and the environment.

• Current Practice Analysis
• Best Practice Assessment
• Regulatory Compliance
• Technology Assessment
• Market Evaluation

• Material Specification
• Low impact site plan development
• Planning approval 
• Grant funding procurement      
• Construction Engineering 
• Energy Star Certification 
• “Healthy House” Certification

• Stakeholder Involvement
• Focus Groups and Surveys
• Press Release and Article Preparation
• Workshop Planning and Execution

• “Life-Cycle” Cost Analysis
• Financial “Pro-forma” Preparation
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Discounted Cash Flow Analysis

Sustainability Leadership

Measure Up
The business successes of 21st Century organizations are increasingly
being evaluated against three key sustainability measures – economic,
environmental, and social. Businesses that incorporate these three
measures into organization and capital planning achieve financial goals,
while protecting the environment and making decisions that positively
affect the well being of their employees and communities in which they
operate. How does your organization measure up?

Sustainable Solutions
With our wide range of cross disciplinary skills, RRSI can meet your needs for integrated organizational sustainability assessments. We can assist you in measuring your current practices, assessing opportunities for change, choosing appropriate paths of change, implementing these changes, and gauging post change effectiveness. We can also assist in the critical task of communicating your success in achieving organizational sustainability.

We Live It – On and Off the Job
RRSI team members live the notions of sustainability in their business and community involvement as founders of new and innovative non-profit and for-profit organizations, trustees of community institutions, elected officials, teachers of primary, secondary, and university students, and appointees of local regulatory bodies. We use these life experiences along with our other consulting capabilities to assist our clients in developing successful strategies for implementing sustainability into their own organizations. RRSI can assist you in measuring your current practices, assessing opportunities for change, choosing appropriate paths of change, implementing these changes, and
gauging post change effectiveness.

• Herman Miller
Provided assistance to the 
“triple-bottom line” focused
furniture designer and 
manufacturer to minimize, 
streamline, and more 
effectively recycle their 
industrial and office 
solid waste streams. 

• Simplex
Developed new-product      
specifications, marketing 
plans, and sales program for 
“studio board”, a recycle-based 
building product used 
predominantly in Hollywood 
for set construction.

• Ann Arbor MRF
As part of this full-scale 
engineering development 
project, RRSI incorporated 
an environmental education
and demonstration component
showing the use and cost 
effectiveness of numerous      
energy-saving and 
environmentally sensitive 
building products.

• Pactiv 
Raw Material Stewardship and
FDA Compliance – Identified
appropriate waste sources,
procurement strategies and
management techniques to
acquire recycled material
stream for the manufacture 
of food contact products.

• Cohousing Development 
   Company
Provided numerous strategic 
and engineering work tasks for
development of the “green” 
cohousing communities.

• CEPES/ECN
RRSI principals JD Lindeberg 
and James Frey provided 
founding leadership for both 
the Environmental Capital 
Network and its parent 
501 (c)3 organization, the 
Center for Environmental      
Policy, Economics and Science.
At the height of its efforts 
ECN facilitated early stage 
funding opportunities for 
hundreds of emerging 
environmental and energy
companies.

• Co-housing Development Company
RRSI principal, JD Lindeberg, founded a
successful development company that
has been responsible for the 
construction of three Co-housing 
communities in the Ann Arbor area. 
Co-housing takes a collaborative
approach to both construction and
operation by emphasizing shared
resources, concentrated growth and
greenspace preservation.

• Leslie Science Center
RRSI principal, James Frey, 
participates actively on    
the Advisory Board of this 
City owned children’s 
science education center    
to integrate its programs 
with surrounding scientific,
cultural and environmental    
resources.

• Recycle Ann Arbor 
RRSI principal, James Frey, 
has been involved with    
RAA for more than twenty 
years starting as one of the 
key founders of this recycling    
organization. Other current 
and former RRSI staff members
have been RAA board members
and executive directors.

• Ann Arbor District Library
As an elected trustee, RRSI 
principal JD Lindeberg is currently 
the AADL board president. 
In that role he has been the initiator
of the development of a series of 
“sustainable” library branches. 
This $15 million building effort will 
culminate with the completion    
of three library branches within 
Ann Arbor and its surrounding area, 
all of which integrate materials, 
systems, and designs that are 
driven by best sustainable design 
practices.