Scale Readiness Assessments
Evaluate whether your organization is ready to move from incubator, lab, or bench-scale work into pilot or production environments.
Explore Scale Readiness →Executive Advisory for Scaling Innovation Operations
From Lab to Pilot to Production.
Helping technical organizations move from research to pilot and production with a consultant who understands the science, the environmental obligations, the worker exposures, and the operating risk.
Industrial Hygiene
Chemical Safety
Biosafety
Laser Safety
Hazardous WasteCommissioning
Services
Strategic support where technical risk, compliance, and operations meet.
Facility Commissioning & Startup
Review lab and pilot spaces for operational readiness, safety infrastructure, equipment startup, chemical storage, and required controls.
Explore Commissioning →Industrial Hygiene & Exposure Assessment
Develop exposure assessment strategies, air monitoring plans, ventilation evaluations, and occupational health risk management programs.
Explore Industrial Hygiene →Chemical Operations Review
Assess chemical handling, process hazards, waste streams, air emissions, wastewater, storage, compatibility, and scale-up risk.
Explore Chemical Safety →EHS Program Development
Build scalable systems for chemical hygiene, hazard communication, hazardous waste, SOPs, JHAs, training, and inspections.
Incident Investigation
Support root cause analysis, corrective action development, near-miss review, and executive-level incident briefings.
Explore Investigation →EHS & Laboratory Safety Training
Customized, engaging technical training built around your chemicals, processes, equipment and workforce.
Explore Training →ASTM Witnessing & Independent Verification
Independent technical observation, documentation and verification against an agreed standard, protocol or project scope.
Explore Witnessing →Hazardous Waste & Environmental Services
Characterization, profiling, lab packs, vendor oversight, program audits, training and disposal-path review grounded in decades of hands-on waste experience.
Explore Hazardous Waste →Pilot Plant Safety & EHS
Evaluate chemical, exposure, equipment, facility, commissioning, and operational risks as technology moves into pilot-scale execution.
Explore Pilot Plant EHS →Selected Expertise
Multidisciplinary operational risk support for complex technical environments.
Many organizations have scientific expertise but lack integrated experience across EHS, industrial hygiene, commissioning, laboratory operations, and scale-up execution. B² bridges those gaps.
Commissioning & Startup Readiness
Industrial Hygiene Program Development
Chemical Hygiene & Laboratory Safety
Biosafety Program Management
Laser Safety Program Management
Environmental Compliance & Permitting Support
Process Hazard & Risk Assessment
Incident Investigation & Root Cause Analysis
Scale-Up Operations & Technology Transfer
Why B²
20+ years across science, environmental operations and EHS.
B² is led by Brian E. Butkus, MS, MSMSE, SMP—a multidisciplinary research scientist and EHS professional whose career spans environmental chemistry and hazardous materials, major-university research safety, and advanced manufacturing and pilot operations.
His program leadership includes 15 years as a Chemical Hygiene Officer, 15 years in laser-safety leadership, biological-safety program leadership, industrial hygiene, hazardous-waste management, emergency response, incident investigation, laboratory auditing, technical training and facility/scale-up support.
The B² advantage: understanding both the science being performed and the risks created when that science becomes an operation.
Industries Served
Built for technical teams scaling into real operations.
Advanced Materials
Specialty Chemicals
Battery & Critical Materials
Metals Processing
R&D Laboratories
Pilot Plants
Biotech & Life Sciences
Growth-Stage Manufacturing
University Spinouts
Why B²
Most startups know their technology. Fewer know what it takes to scale safely.
B² helps leadership teams understand what regulators, insurers, landlords, investors, and operations teams will eventually ask — before those questions become expensive surprises.
Why B²
Depth built across science, environmental work and EHS operations.
B² is principal-led by Brian E. Butkus, MS, MSMSE, SMP. His experience spans environmental chemistry and hazardous-material field operations, research-safety program leadership, industrial hygiene, hazardous-waste management, emergency response, startup and incubator support, commissioning, advanced manufacturing, scientific research and technical training.
20+ yearsEnvironmental, scientific and EHS operations
15 yearsChemical Hygiene Officer leadership
15 yearsLaser-safety program leadership
Career-spanningHazardous-waste management across environmental services, research institutions and manufacturing
Peer-reviewed researchLife sciences, nanoscience, materials science and engineering
Principal-ledDirect technical involvement from scope through deliverable
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