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Larry Bridge: Sustainability is good business
Episode 37

Larry Bridge: Sustainability is good business

Beers with Engineers

March 31, 20251h 2m

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#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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