American Railway Development Association

THE ARDA NEWSLETTER 
March 2020
Environmental Section Feature
Why Should Railroads Consider Nature Based Solutions?

Nathan Joe Loftice
Director, Planning & Business Sustainability, BNSF

Peter T Masson
Consultant, Antea Group

The goal of nature-based solutions (NBS) is to address environmental and engineering needs while restoring natural landscapes. NBS - also known as green infrastructure - imitate processes in the natural environment to provide clean water, clean air, flood, fire and drought risk reduction, and other benefits in the world of industrial infrastructure. Such solutions can also offer economic, social, and environmental benefits to the community. As more and more communities begin to require green infrastructure as an element of new developments it may be time for the railroads to start considering NBS, and here is why.
2019-20 ARDA SPONSORS
We want to say thank you to all of ARDA's 2019-20 Sponsors. Without our sponsors this would not be possible. 

2019 ARDA Sponsors

Platinum
Bartlett & West
Canadian National Railway (CN)
CSX
HDR
Norfolk Southern

Gold
AECOM
BNSF Railway Company
Kansas City Southern Railway
LJA Rail
Railpros Field Services

Silver
Canadian Pacific Railway
GEI Consultants, Inc
Jones Lang LaSalle
TerraPact
TRC Companies, Inc.
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway

Bronze
Antea Group
Bergman Associates
Daley Mohan Groble
Kelly Hart
RJ Corman
RMI Valuation
VAA Engineering

If you have any questions or would like to sponsor ARDA in 2019 please contact us at [email protected]

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thank you to all attendees for joining us at the 2020 Executive Forum! 

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2020 Annual Meeting

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