Geotechnical, Water, Ecology, Environmental, Construction Mgmt
Challenge Pollinators are a key component of our ecosystems and an important component for US food production. Renewable energy facilities can replace diverse meadows with monocultures of turf grasses with low ecological importance. Eden Renewables have long incorporated biologically diverse communities into their European projects. Full acceptance of these practices here in the US often … Read more
Challenge This project involved replacing the Madawaska International Bridge over the St. John River between Madawaska, Maine and Edmundston, New Brunswick. The original bridge was opened in 1920 and had become fatigued enough to warrant load limits threatening this vital international link. MaineDOT and their bridge designer, HNTB, opted for a replacement bridge on a … Read more
GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. provided comprehensive acoustical consulting services for a proposed private membership club at 656 6th Avenue, located at the corner of West 20th Street, in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The project involved the adaptive reuse of a deconsecrated former church into a multi-level, high-end hospitality venue offering dining, social, cultural, and co-working spaces, along … Read more
The Edge at Hudson Yards hosts an event venue perched atop Manhattan’s skyline that holds commercial music events. In response to noise complaints from neighboring residential units, GZA was engaged to conduct a comprehensive noise study. Challenge The project faced the challenge of measuring and mitigating noise transmission between a bustling commercial venue and … Read more
GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. provided comprehensive acoustical consulting services for a proposed Mixed-Use Development on a parcel of land located along Highland Avenue in Cheshire, Connecticut. The proposed mixed use development is slated to include a sit-down restaurant, two light industrial buildings, a supportive housing building, a cold storage building, associated parking, and a wooded area … Read more
Atwater Park is one of Springfield’s most scenic neighborhoods, known for its beautiful parkways and residences. When the Atwater Park neighborhood association asked the City to develop a small garden at one of its public terraces, they came to GZA and its team of landscape architects for professional design services. Challenge The City had limited … Read more
The City of Springfield wished to enhance recreational opportunities, achieve universal accessibility, and implement climate-resilient design within the 166± acre Blunt Park, which hosts the popular Stone Soul Festival held annually on Labor Day weekend. Challenge The City needed a site design that could be included in state and federal grant applications to fund … Read more
Calhoun Park is a 2.5-acre park occupying one full block in a residential neighborhood, and offers large shade trees, a playground, splash pad, handball court, picnic areas, and open lawn space. Challenge Many of Calhoun Park’s amenities were aging and falling into disrepair, and the overall site design required an update. At the same time, … Read more
Greenleaf Park is a 46-acre public park located in Springfield, MA which hosts an assortment of playing fields, tennis, and basketball courts, parking lots, wooded areas, and wetland resources. Challenge The City of Springfield came to GZA to develop a conceptual master plan to address the lack of play amenities, accessible pedestrian circulation and … Read more
Challenge The Town of Branford, a Connecticut coastal community bordering Long Island Sound, was looking to update their Natural Resources Inventory (NRI) that had traditionally been a document with encyclopedic-like text. Furthermore, the Town had a limited budget with which to update its NRI. GZA proposed creating a digital web experience to make the NRI … Read more
A description of work GZA did on the Whittier/I=95 Bridge in Salisbury, MA.
PRINT READY VERSION> Challenge Ellis Island is a historic site under the ownership of the National Parks Service. The island’s original seawall is over a century old and was experiencing cracking, erosion, and displacement. Rehabilitation of over 3,000 feet of seawall supporting the perimeter of the island was to be completed in eight separate … Read more
Background Con Edison’s Water Street Network in Brooklyn is among its oldest electrical distribution networks. It has become stressed by the increasing electrical demands of robust real estate development and is increasingly impacted by extreme weather and coastal flooding events. To bolster the network’s reliability and resiliency, a private micro-utility, with approval from the New … Read more
Challenge The Town of Amherst has set ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets and needs to develop additional renewable energy generation to meet those targets. Given the need to develop solar and protect open space, the Town wanted to better understand community sentiment surrounding solar development, systematically understand solar feasibility town-wide, and produce estimates of current … Read more
Background During redevelopment of this turn of the century ice factory into a charter school facility, a noise E-Designation was required as part of New York City’s CEQR process. Challenge The property is situated on a busy section of heavily traveled Bruckner Boulevard and is adjacent to an active aggregate storage yard, surroundings with … Read more
Challenge The King Philip’s Stockade, an historic area of the larger Forest Park managed by the Department of Parks, had been closed to the public for several years and was in need of new and improved facilities. Additionally, the park did not originally provide comfort stations and there was no sewer service to the site. … Read more
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were detected in water samples collected from our client’s on‐site public water supply well in March 2022, as part of the quarterly sampling required by the MassDEP drinking water program. The reported detection of PFAS started an inquiry by MassDEP and prompted a site audit. The MassDEP required the sampling … Read more
GZA completed a comprehensive noise study during a rezoning process that amended a manufacturing district to a residential district. Several New York City public policies supported the rezoning, including initiatives that promoted affordable housing, equity, economic development, and sustainability. Challenge The property, housing a one-story structure, is adjacent to the heavily traveled Whitestone Expressway and … Read more
GZA planners have been deeply involved in this Crown Heights neighborhood for 10+ years, providing planning services to optimize its revitalization. Zoning had outgrown historical uses, resulting in conforming but waning manufacturing uses, brownfields, non-confirming residential housing, and blighted land uses. The neighborhood’s ready access to a vital transportation corridor added great value to its … Read more
The Shed is a 225,000 square foot multi-functional art and performance space in the revitalized Hudson Yards neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. The unique project was designed to transform from an intimate venue to one with stadium seating, offering interior and exterior options under extremely varied operational hours. Challenge Like other high-end, high-profile urban hospitality … Read more
Challenge Bluewave Solar sought to develop a dual use solar array project on a portion of a wild blueberry farm in Rockport, Maine. The project included upgrading an existing access road and building a 4.2-megawatt solar energy system in a design compatible with continued blueberry production. GZA was contracted to provide wetland delineation and vernal … Read more
Camp STAR Angelina is an all-inclusive summer day camp for children ages 5-14 with and without disabilities, that is run by the City of Springfield’s Department of Parks, Buildings, and Recreation (DPBRM) that previously had been held at various City-owned sites located throughout the City of Springfield. Challenge It was important to DPRBRM that the … Read more
GZA provided landscape architectural and civil engineering services to the City of Springfield for the redevelopment of Stearns Square and Duryea Way as part of a downtown rehabilitation effort. GZA provided conceptual master planning/design, coordinated multi‐ City Department reviews (DPW, Planning, Parks, Traffic Commission), estimated cost, prepared construction documents, and provided construction phase services. Challenge … Read more
Challenge Alleviating Block Island’s dependence on expensive oil-fired electricity generation required interconnection to the Rhode Island mainland and to the 30 MW offshore Block Island Wind Farm located approximately 3 miles southeast of the Island. Solution Energy generated by the turbines is transmitted to the Block Island Substation, and then to the Rhode Island mainland … Read more