Over the life-cycle of a project, implementation of a Triad approach should result in expedited project schedules and overall project cost reductions. However, for particular activities, a Triad approach may require additional expenditures of time and/or resources initially to realize overall project benefits. For example, systematic planning is one of the three underpinnings of the Triad. While short-cuts in the systematic planning process (e.g., selecting a standard analysis technique without review for site-specific appropriateness) may result in immediate project cost-savings and schedule acceleration, this will be at the expense of overall project quality, schedule, and budget. Conversely, up-front investments in demonstrations of methods applicability early in the characterization and remediation process to gain regulatory acceptance for a particular set of real-time measurement technologies may introduce additional cost initially, but produce significant cost-savings and schedule compression for the project as a whole as it moves through characterization to remediation.