Super Model
Polestar then developed applications within the database to assist in management of basic facility information, ROM cost estimating, end state determination, ranking and sequencing facilities for D&D from 2003-2025. This massive planning effort resulting in the development of a site-wide SRS Integrated D&D Plan. Additional project management and GIS tools were developed to make the plan a 'living document.'

POWERtool Project Planning Process (P4)
Polestar also has conducted Risk-Based End State Planning, Project-specific planning, and pioneered the POWERtool Project Planning Process (P4) – a systematic method of planning, estimating, tracking, managing, and scheduling projects of all sizes and complexities.

End State Determination
Polestar combines technical expertise and experience in the determination of the end state for facilities, using a systematic approach in a software-based application. A worksheet prompts the user to document the analysis used in the end state determination. Polestar also assists projects and corporations in negotiating with the regulators and stakeholders, providing justification for the selection of the end states.

End Point Development
The EndPoint process, included in DOE G 430.1-3, Deactivation Implementation Guide, provides a logical framework to determine the necessary requirements to achieve the desired end state. The EndPoint process, created and copyrighted by Polestar, was developed to select, justify, and document the facility conditions to be reached in completing a deactivation or decommissioning project. The resulting end points are used to plan project work, and are closed out to document project completion. This process has become the expected framework by the DOE for defining the work scope of deactivation and decommissioning projects.

To aid in the development of project end points Polestar, under contract to EM, developed EndPoints 2000 (linked to PowerPoint presentation, a database software application to facilitate application of the EndPoint process by allowing efficient development of custom end points for a project. End Points 2000 is a systematic way a determining end points for each area and space/system, tracking their completion, and verifying that they have been accomplished. End Points 2000 is applicable to the entire range of projects, from the smallest to the most difficult and complex. Polestar provides guidance, leadership, and technical support in the development of project end points for deactivation and decommissioning.

Polestar was contracted for the creation and review of project end points for deactivation and decommissioning projects at Hanford's B Plant, PUREX Plant, FFTF, 242-T Evaporator Building, 244-AR Vault and PFP, Rocky Flats, SRS's F Area Facilities, Oak Ridge Y-12's Alpha 5. End point and end state development for the deactivation and decommissioning projects under this scope of work will be critical to ensure that project scope and objectives are well understood, and that project costs are properly estimated and adequately defined and managed.