TDI-Brooks International Revenue and Competitors

TDI-Brooks International, Inc. and its affiliated lab, B&B Laboratories, Inc. were created in May 1996 by former senior staff of the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) at Texas A&M University. Dr. James M. Brooks (President & CEO of TDI-Brooks), Dr. Bernie B. Bernard (President of B&B Laboratories), Dr. Thomas J. McDonald (Senior Project Manager at B&B Laboratories), and others left GERG with the vision of building an Oceanographic Services Company and a Trace Contaminant Laboratory, outside of a university setting. They brought with them, and continue to build, a team of highly trained, motivated individuals who have a stake in the future vision and financial success of the business. During just the first two years, TDI-Brooks and B&B Laboratories were successful in re-establishing project volume with many previous private industry and government clients, and since this time they have continuously expanded their client list and capabilities. Prior to TDI-Brooks' inception, Dr. Brooks and his analytical team conducted many high quality trace contaminant environmental monitoring programs at GERG. Dr. Brooks was the founder and Director of GERG at Texas A&M from 1977 to 1995. During that tenure, they were involved in several national monitoring programs, including: US Fish & Wildlife Contract (1987 to 1995); NOAA National Status and Trend Mussel Watch Project (1984 to 1995); and EPA Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program - Near Coastal (EMAP-NC) in the Gulf of Mexico, Virginian and Carolinian Provinces (1991 to 1995). Operating as TDI-Brooks, in 2000 the team won the Period IV, 5-year contact for the prestigious NOAA National Status and Trend Mussel Watch Project (NOAA NS&T) that many senior staff had been involved in since its commencement in 1985. In 2002, TDI-Brooks won one of the three large multi-year contracts with the US Fish & Wildlife Service, worth about $4.5 million of laboratory analyses over five years. The TDI-Brooks team was awarded the NOAA contract and the USFWS contract after analyzing and performing very well on blind test samples. As a result, TDI-Brooks holds both of the premier multi-year federal analytical contracts in the U.S. (offshore and inland) for trace organics analysis. In the past 5 years, TDI-Brooks has won several EPA analytical contracts in addition to other federal agency and private industry contracts, and TDI-Brooks has also been involved in many Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) studies. While at GERG, some of TDI-Brooks senior staff analyzed the majority of the Exxon Valdez oil spill samples. Because of B&B Lab's litigation-quality analytical product (including rigorous sample custody practices and extremely tight analytical control), the lab is increasingly chosen for NRDA work. B&B Labs is one of the top two or three labs in the U.S. that receive damage assessment samples when an oil spill occurs in U.S. waters. Many of the senior staff have international reputations as published scientists in this type of work. B&B Labs has participated in every highly rigorous and difficult annual NIST intercalibration exercise for trace organics since 1997, and has always ranked in the top group. After years of refining the analytical process, the lab now offers rapid turn-around analysis of samples using the highly qualified performance-based methods specified by the NOAA-NS&T program, the US Fish & Wildlife Service, and the EPA-EMAP program. While at GERG, Dr. Brooks and his team had successfully developed and implemented piston-coring techniques and laboratory methods for use in deepwater Surface Geochemical Exploration (SGE). Several key senior and technical staff transferred their knowledge and expertise in these areas to TDI-Brooks. TDI-Brooks now operates two ocean-going vessels that routinely send marine samples to the in-house lab from all over the world. Since 1996, TDI-Brooks has performed over 100 SGE Coring Programs (both private and consortium programs), and collected over 8,000 cores worldwide. In 2000, TDI-Brooks expanded its petroleum prospecting tools to include Heat Flow Surveys. Recently, Geotechnical Coring and measurements were also added to the list of capabilities. The staff of TDI-Brooks and B&B Laboratories are committed to increasing scientific understanding in many areas including oceanography, geochemical processes, analytical geochemistry, instrumentation, and environmental monitoring, to name a few. Our clients benefit from the vast knowledge and experience that our multidisciplinary staff provides.