Larry Bridge: Sustainability is good business

#37 – Larry Bridge: Sustainability is good business

• Built the pedestrian bridge over Sycamore St in Cincinnati.
• Bert wants to use nitinol someday. It is super-elastic and has shape memory.
• Larry’s dad was called Mr. Steel and his uncle worked on submarine propellors.
• Thought about being an actuary
• Quickly moved into project management – lots of capital products
• HVAC in an R&D building is huge expense
• Kosher surfactants are a thing
• A big problem with waste is transporting it.
• Cincinnati is building an anaerobic digester, P&G is a big “supplier”
• Kentucky’s water is key to horses and bourbon.
• Does burning plastic count as recycling it?
• Bio-char is becoming a thing.
• Larry collects guitars instead of cars.
• His favorites hacks are in Excel.
• Engineers need to take a finance class or two.
• Decided he was an engineer, not a mechanical engineer.

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