Other Projects
Centralized Booking and Video Conferencing - CONSAD is presently concluding these studies for the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
For the Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commission, CONSAD prepared land use maps and charts to highlight the problems and opportunities of future development following completion of a "missing link" of an "interstate quality" road. CONSAD also identified marketing and developmental directions that could be pursued to maximize the locational benefits of available land and infrastructure for industrial, commercial, and tourism development.
For the Concurrent Technologies Corporation's National Defense Center for Environmental Excellence (NDCEE), CONSAD has conducted an analysis to determine the estimated direct and indirect effects on the nation's economy of the transfer of vacuum coating technologies to replace certain electroplating processes. CONSAD used engineering life-cycle assessments of electroplating and vacuum coating technologies as inputs into a CONSAD economic model. The model was used to estimate economic impacts of technological innovation based upon capital and operation costs of vacuum coating process equipment and different scenarios describing the adoption rates of the new technologies into the market.
For the U.S. Department of Energy, as a subcontractor to the Southwest Technology Development Institute, New Mexico State University, CONSAD developed estimates of the potential economic consequences from joint public-private research and development partnerships sponsored by DOE under its Industrial Waste Reduction Program (IWRP). CONSAD projected expected economic impacts, for the period 1996 to 2010, from the implementation of the policies resulting from industrial waste reduction research.
For the U.S. Department of the Air Force, as a subcontractor to McDonnell Douglas, CONSAD has assisted in the development of a computer-based decision support system, and is helping Air Force managers to use the system in making manpower and training decisions. CONSAD has primary responsibility for developing procedures for estimating training costs and capacities. For that purpose, CONSAD has devised methods to collect data and develop estimates of training capacities and costs for Air Force specialties.
For the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and with funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), CONSAD designed a statistical study to explore the relationship between occupational safety and workers' use of substances that may impair job performance.