Unlocking value and improved environmental outcomes for commercial properties.
Commercial property owners, investors, and insurers face a myriad of challenges operating in today’s market. These stakeholders require precise environmental data and expert solutions to maintain regulatory compliance and make prudent real estate and financial decisions.
Client Challenge
The Roosevelt Roads Naval Station is a former United States naval base situated on Puerto Rico’s northeast coast. The base was closed under the Navy’s base realignment and closure program with future plans in place for commercial and public redevelopment.
Client Challenge
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) operates the General Environmental Assistance Contract (GTAC) program, through which selected consultants provide support that includes environmental investigations, studies, remedial design, construction oversight, and other consulting support at hazardous and storage tank sites.
Client Challenge
Newtown Creek is a four-mile tributary of the East River, intersecting the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Its water and sediments are impacted by decades of heavy urban industrial use. As a Superfund Site, a consortium of potentially responsible parties (Newtown Creek Group) is conducting a multi-phase remedial investigation and feasibility study (RI/FS) under a US EPA administrative consent order.
Client Challenge
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is an active 29,000-acre jet base with a 75-year aviation history, an ongoing mission to provide a combat-ready aerial striking force, and a massive runway system with complex operations. The base has a comprehensive environmental remediation program in place.
Client Challenge
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) entered a vacant property, known as former Medina’s Garage, into its orphan site program. Characterization activities determined that a historical plume of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) originating at the service station had migrated off site, beneath a four-lane roadway and adjacent vacant properties.
Client Challenge
An oil and gas company, dedicated to responsible energy exploration and production, responded quickly and decisively to a natural gas well control incident. Due to a period of record-breaking rains, a primary containment wall failed, causing a release of 10,000 gallons of well fluid. The production fluid, mixing with rainwater, flowed off the well pad and into nearby pasture, pond, and creek.
Client Challenge
A US-based energy company invests in the development of unconventional onshore oil and natural gas assets. Its commitment to responsible and safe operations requires collection of voluminous data related to drinking and domestic water quality at potential and approved natural gas drilling sites. Data are collected prior to any drilling activities to establish a baseline of water quality prior to well construction and operation.
Client Challenge
A global integrated energy company has invested in the development of natural gas resources in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. The company’s commitment to safe and responsible development stresses that operations at well pads, impoundments, tank pads, and pipeline facilities are completed with respect for the communities and protection of the environment.
Client Challenge
A US-based producer of oil and natural gas required establishment of a multi-state groundwater quality database to support their drilling operations. The massive five-state program was designed to meet regulatory and liability protection requirements. The company was challenged to manage and properly glean from data collected, as there were commonly multiple sources of parcel data and overlapping of parcels identified for sampling during different stages of the drilling program.