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Larry Bridge: Sustainability is good business
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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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