A major environment consulting firm trains thousands of geographically remote EPA stakeholders on water regulations and other topics using MediaPlatform WebCaster.
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Case Study: MediaPlatform Powers EPA Training
1. Case Study
Tetra Tech’s Cost Effective Outreach Webcasts for the Environmental Protection Agency
A major environment consulting firm trains thousands of geographically remote EPA stakeholders on
water regulations and other topics using MediaPlatform WebCaster.
Introduction
Managing water resources in the United States is a tremendous
challenge that involves balancing the needs of communities
with industry and government. The stakes are very high,
though, with precious and limited fresh water supplies at risk,
potentially affecting the health of millions of people. At the Tetra Tech (NASDAQ: TTEK) is a leading
heart of water management are a number of complex federal provider of consulting, engineering, and
regulations that govern how water resources are managed, technical services worldwide. Tetra Tech is a
how wastewater is handled, and how the environment and diverse company, including individuals with
expertise in science, research, engineering,
public health are protected along the way. construction, and information technology.
The company’s strength is in collectively
Tetra Tech, Inc. a 14,000‐person environmental engineering providing integrated services—delivering the
best solutions to meet its clients' needs.
and consulting company, uses webcasting to support EPA in its
Tetra Tech is renowned for its leadership in
efforts to educate federal, state, local and tribal agencies; water‐related services for public and private
watershed practitioners and environmental organizations on clients. Engineering News‐Record (‘‘ENR’’),
the complex issues and evolving science surrounding water the leading trade journal for the industry, has
ranked Tetra Tech the number one water
quality and watershed management. To reach the most
services firm for the past eight years, most
stakeholders as possible in a way that is cost‐effective, Tetra recently in its April 25, 2011, ‘‘Top 500 Design
Tech uses MediaPlatform WebCaster software to conduct its Firms’’ issue. Tetra Tech, which had revenues
EPA training webcasts. of $2.6 billion in 2011, employs 14,000
people in 330 offices worldwide.
The Challenge: Reaching a Large Audience with Custom Webcasts
Tetra Tech’s webcast team faced a number of challenges in helping the EPA deliver its training and
outreach programs. The agency’s goals included reaching as many people as possible, presenting
training from multiple internal and external experts, interacting with the audience, certifying
attendance, and making archived versions of webcast available on‐demand. In technical terms, Tetra
Tech’s webcasting solution needed to convert a phone signal into streaming Adobe® Flash® audio so
that phone‐based presenters could have their voices seamlessly integrated with a streaming visual
presentation over the Web. The presentations had to be available on virtually any browser, operating
system or mobile device. Each presentation required a different look and feel, document downloads
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