News Category: Press Release

GZA is pleased to announce the promotion of Andrew Blaisdell, P.E., G.E. to District Office Manager of the firm’s South Portland, Maine office.

GZA has appointed Edward J. (Ed) Huss as an Associate Principal/Vice President, further bolstering GZA’s environmental assessment and remediation practice in the Mid-Atlantic region.

GZA is pleased to announce that Olga Abinader, the former Director of the Environmental Assessment and Review Division at the New York City Department of City Planning, has joined the firm as an Associate Principal in our New York City office.

GZA has promoted Richard Ecord, CIH, CSP and Cassandra Wetzel, P.E. to the position of Senior Principal and elevated 17 other company professionals to Principal and Associate Principal.

GZA congratulates Maine Maritime Academy on successfully opening the first phase of a revamped waterfront facility to welcome the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel State of Maine.

GZA congratulates the Village of Downers Grove, Il, on winning the prestigious 2025 Daniel Burnham Award from the Illinois Chapter of the American Planning Association for its recently adopted Comprehensive Plan entitled “Guiding DG: Planning the Future of Downers Grove.”

GZA announced that Acoustic Project Manager Ethan Wagner has earned board certification from the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE-USA).

Senior Grant Specialist Rania Campbell-Bussiere has earned the Grant Professional Certified® (GPC) credential.

GZA has purchased assets of Siefert Associates LLC, a national construction engineering firm with offices in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.

GZA has been awarded the Governor’s Occupational Safety & Health Achievement Award for its Fairfield and Hammonton offices.
The honors recognize the staff members of the two GZA offices for an incident rate of 0.0 and for their continuous improvements within their safety and health programs and policies.

GZA recently reached the milestone of supporting its clients in the design of more than 100 Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in New York State, with most of them in New York City.

GZA is leading innovative, “nature-based approaches” to protecting coastlines on Block Island, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket.

GZA has named longtime Springfield city official Patrick F. (Pat) Sullivan to a new position as Senior Consultant and liaison to municipalities for a wide range of GZA professional consulting practices.

GZA congratulates the Massachusetts Department of Marine Fisheries (DMF) on the opening of the fully renovated Salem Willows Park fishing pier, which had been closed for four years because of multiple damaging storms.

GZA has been retained by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) to provide final design and environmental permitting services for repairing and reconstructing fourteen seawalls protecting NH Route 1A.

GZA announced today that Adrienne Dunk, a Project Manager in GZA’s Ecology and Natural Resources practice, has been named a 2024 “Ascending Leader” by the Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC). Now in its 8th year, the EBC Ascending Leader Awards recognize “professionals in the energy and environmental sectors demonstrating exceptional leadership and industry … Read more

GZA has received an Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Maine (ACEC-ME) for its work on the new Madawaska-Edmundston International Bridge.

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 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 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 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

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 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