GZA has been honored with an Engineering Excellence Award by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Rhode Island chapter for GZA’s work on the Ørsted Offshore Wind Component Manufacturing Facility at ProvPort. GZA’s project team was led by Senior Principal David Carchedi, PE and Associate Principal James Marsland, PE. The 30,000-square-foot Ørsted facility enables … Read more
For owners and operators of complex networks of horizontal infrastructure such as highways, railroads, and powerlines and pipelines, a major challenge today is predicting and cost-effectively deploying preventive maintenance dollars towards the areas of their systems at higher risk from soil erosion and landslides. GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. (GZA), a leading multi-disciplinary firm providing geotechnical, environmental, … Read more
GZA announced today that William Hover, P.E., a retired Senior Principal and nationally leading dam engineer, has been selected for the Boston Society of Civil Engineers’ top honor. Hover will be named a lifetime “Honorary Member” of the society, officially known as the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section (BSCES) of the American Society of … Read more
GZA announced today that Senior Principal Ernest Hanna has been selected as 2024 “Geotechnical Engineer of the Year” by the board of the American Society of Civil Engineers Philadelphia Section. Founded in 1852, ASCE is the nation’s oldest national civil engineering society, now counting more than 160,000 members in 177 countries. ASCE’s Philadelphia Section is … Read more
GZA announced today that four of its senior professionals will be presented at Battelle’s 2024 Chlorinated Conference being held in Denver from June 2-6. Battelle’s Chlorinated Conference is widely recognized as the premier international gathering of environmental professionals researching and applying innovative technologies and approaches for characterization, monitoring, cleanup, and management of complex sites contaminated … Read more
GZA has named Mindy Sayres, P.G., LSRP, a Principal of the firm, as District Office Manager (DOM) in GZA’s Fairfield office. Sayres has more than 30 years of experience in the environmental field, encompassing a wide range of geologic, hydrologic, and contaminant investigations for private industry, government agencies and developers. She has led teams on … Read more
GZA has been honored by Climate Change Business Journal (CCBJ) with its 2023 Business Achievement Award for GZA’s work on a “living shoreline” project to improve coastal climate resiliency in New Haven, Conn. Honored in CCBJ’s Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience awards division, the New Haven project GZA has designed and engineered will, when complete, … Read more
GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. (GZA), a leading multi-disciplinary firm providing geotechnical, environmental, ecological, water, and construction management services, is honored to announce that Associate Principal Barry Stuedemann and Senior Landscape Architect Jay Womack have been appointed to leadership positions with the Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP), an automotive industry group committed to positive environmental, economic, … Read more
GZA has named Benjamin Verburg, P.E., as Associate Principal Environmental Engineer/Vice President, based in GZA’s office in Brookfield, WI, outside of Milwaukee. As a registered professional engineer in Wisconsin, Verburg has more than 30 years of experience as a lead engineer, client manager, and technical advisor on a range of environmental, infrastructure, and brownfield redevelopment … Read more
GZA has been retained by the Connecticut Department of Administrative Services (DAS) for a two-year contract to provide on-call environmental assessment and master planning services for multiple state government agencies. Under the contract, which runs through December 2025 with a maximum value of $300,000, GZA specialists will be available to all agencies of Connecticut state … Read more
GZA is pleased to announce that Sean Leary, GZA Associate Principal and Vice President of Transaction Risk Management, has been honored by the Environmental Bankers Association (EBA) with its prestigious 2024 President’s Award following a distinguished term serving on the EBA Board of Governors for the past five years. In his remarks, President Dave Lambert … Read more
GZA has been retained by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) to design coastal resilience measures at Gull Cove in Portsmouth and Quonochontaug Pond Breachway in Charlestown. In partnership with the DEM and incorporating public feedback, GZA’s Waterfront Engineering team and Design with Nature Studio will provide services to develop bid-ready final designs … Read more
GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. (GZA), a leading multi-disciplinary firm providing geotechnical, environmental, ecological, water, and construction management services, today congratulated CAMBA Housing Ventures on its groundbreaking for the $238 million, 328-unit Clarkson Avenue Estates sustainable, permanently affordable, and supportive housing development. A multi-disciplinary team of environmental and planning professionals from GZA negotiated on CAMBA’s behalf with … Read more
GZA has completed a full suite of geotechnical, marine, and coastal consulting services in support of design and permitting Crowley Wind Services’ Salem Offshore Wind Terminal. Design and permitting are now well underway with a goal of breaking ground in Q1 2024. The construction timetable will be developed over the coming months and is anticipated … Read more
GZA is honored to announce that Senior Principal Emeritus Lawrence Feldman, Ph.D., has been selected by NAIOP Massachusetts, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, to receive its 2023 Government Affairs Champion Award. NAIOP praised Dr. Feldman’s “tremendous contributions to NAIOP’s advocacy” as a longtime member of NAIOP’s Brownfields Redevelopment Committee. Also honored with the Government … Read more
GZA has appointed Katja Bavendam as Project Manager/Transportation Lead in GZA’s growing transportation planning practice in New York and New Jersey. An accomplished traffic planner, Bavendam also has extensive site/civil engineering and permitting experience. She was a key member of the teams that prepared transportation analyses for East New York Rezoning in Brooklyn and East … Read more
GZA is providing support for multiple facilities upgrades at the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command Mid Atlantic (NAVFAC MIDLANT) historic Philadelphia Navy Yard. Working under Design-Build contracts at the Naval Foundry Propeller Center, GZA is providing extensive geotechnical engineering and construction support for upgrades and enhancements at 11 sites and three top-security buildings within the … Read more
GZA congratulates its client Lupoli Companies’ “The Pavilion” project on winning the 2023 CoStar Impact Award for the best commercial development in the Boston market as judged by real estate professionals. The Pavilion is located on the campus of the Riverwalk Innovation District, a bustling mixed-use community in Lawrence, MA that was formerly made up … Read more
GZA GeoEnvironmental names
Stephen Chiavaroli as Senior GIS Manager
GZA names Christina Szczepanski as
Senior Planning Consultant serving NY/NJ/CT market
GZA GeoEnvironmental names Todd Roberts
as Vice President/Associate Principal
GZA GeoEnvironmental announces asset purchase of Glorieta Geoscience
GZA has named Sarah Wright as Associate Principal leading GZA’s data management practice. Wright, who served as technical director at Environmental Resource Management (ERM) and is a Co-Chair of the International Conference of Environmental Data Management (ICEDM), will oversee data, analytics, and visualization, providing a multi-disciplinary perspective on data across all of GZA’s markets. GZA … Read more
GZA will provide design, permitting assistance for new Middle School athletic fields and rehab of Ted Smith Field
