THE AMERICAN SOCIETY
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The paper "T-AKE: Acquiring the Environmentally Sound Ship of the 21st Century" was presented at ASNE Day 2001 and published in the Naval Engineers Journal of Fall 2001. The authors are recognized for their significant documentation of the environmental, safety, and health integration model (EIM) and its application to the T-AKE ship acquisition program. Institutionalization of environmental, safety, and health (ESH) requirements will substantially reduce waste streams relative to ships being replaced, with commensurate savings in life-cycle costs. Establishment of ESH requirements in this program provides a model and methodology for follow-on programs.
The authors note the crucial importance of integrating environmental protection requirements occurs during RFP development and crafting of contract language. They stress the imperative of early identification of ESH requirements at program onset to enable management of explicit and derived ESH risks. ESH risk reduction entails not only traditional ESH systems such as HAZMAT control, but also whole ship design decisions that have a derived ESH effect. They provide specific recommendations to ease the implementation of ESA requirements in future programs.
The authors have captured the essence of environmental engineering as it
applies to the field of naval engineering. The paper is clearly in keeping with
the high technical standards of the Naval Engineers Journal. The authors are
most deserving of the Society's 2001 "Jimmie" Hamilton Award.