Scale Readiness Assessments
Evaluate whether your organization is ready to move from incubator, lab, or bench-scale work into pilot or production environments.
Executive Advisory for Scaling Innovation Operations
From Lab to Pilot to Production.
Helping CEOs, founders, and leadership teams scale chemical, laboratory, pilot, and advanced manufacturing operations safely, compliantly, and with fewer costly blind spots.
Industrial Hygiene
Chemical Safety
Biosafety
Laser Safety
Commissioning
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.
Industrial Hygiene & Exposure Assessment
Develop exposure assessment strategies, air monitoring plans, ventilation evaluations, and occupational health risk management programs.
Chemical Operations Review
Assess chemical handling, process hazards, waste streams, air emissions, wastewater, storage, compatibility, and scale-up risk.
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.
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
Founder & Principal Consultant
Brian E. Butkus, MS, MSMSE, SMP
Brian Butkus founded B² Commissioning & EHS Solutions to support companies moving from research and development into pilot, scale-up, and manufacturing environments. His background combines laboratory safety, industrial hygiene, chemical hygiene, biosafety, laser safety, environmental compliance, commissioning, and materials science.
Education
- MS, Nanoscience & Technology
- MSMSE, Materials Science & Engineering
- BS, Biology & Chemistry
Credentials & Program Leadership
- SMP, Safety Management Professional (BCSP)
- Chemical Hygiene Officer experience
- Industrial Hygiene program leadership
- Biosafety Officer, 10+ years
- Laser Safety Officer, 10+ years
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.
Contact
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