Case Study: Triangle Economic Research achieves $30M+ expected cost savings with Palisade (@RISK and PrecisionTree)

Palisade Tools Guide Environmental Consultants for Fortune 500 Companies

Triangle Economic Research, an Arcadis company, helps Fortune 500 clients identify and quantify environmental liabilities and plan pollution‑cleanup strategies. When a major industrial seller retained responsibility for historical impacts after selling about 15 plants, Triangle needed to compare three costly resolution paths under heavy uncertainty. Consultant Tim Havranek used Palisade’s DecisionTools — specifically @RISK and PrecisionTree — to build flexible, Excel‑based simulations for the case.

Using Palisade’s @RISK and PrecisionTree, Havranek modeled more than 100 unknowns, ran sensitivity analyses, and compared the options to pay to transfer liabilities, buy back properties, or remain under the asset purchase agreement and arbitrate. The Palisade model identified arbitration as the least‑cost route, with an expected value savings of over $30 million, and an independent actuarial review validated the findings. Palisade’s tools gave Triangle a streamlined, shareable, and defensible quantitative basis for the recommendation.

Triangle Economic Research

Tim Havranek

Triangle Economic Research