CREATIVITY
We believe in looking at challenges
and opportunities from new angles
and in exercising our curiosity.
OUR ROOTS IN CREATIVE SOLUTIONS
TRC began as an innovator in the field of meteorology and air quality as part of
the Travelers Weather Research Center, an affiliate of the Travelers Insurance
Company. The Center was formed to provide improved weather forecasts in view
of significant property losses by insurance carriers from severe storms. As one
of the country’s first privately owned weather research centers, it pioneered the
use of sophisticated statistical methods, mathematical models and early computers to significantly improve weather forecasting techniques.
In the early 1960s, Travelers Insurance Company recognized that the environmental movement was underway, having been precipitated by several severe air
quality problems in this country and abroad in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
In 1961, Travelers formed a wholly owned subsidiary, The Travelers Research
Corporation, which folded in the research segments of the Weather Research
Center and added staff in anticipation of forthcoming federal regulations controlling air quality. In the late 1960s, Travelers decided to go focus its attention
back on the traditional insurance market. As a result, 22 environmental quality
and waste management employees branched out on their own as The Research
Corporation of New England, also known as TRC. With Travelers’ blessing, TRC
was incorporated in the State of Connecticut in 1969.
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