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Real estate, insurance, and finance clients, along with their legal counsel, must make complex decisions about possible environmental risks inherent to their properties and property transactions. This often includes managing multifaceted remediation projects.

Geosyntec combines our deep understanding of environmental engineering, science, and regulatory factors within the financial, insurance, legal, and risk-management frameworks that drive their projects. Our practitioners work as integrated members of our clients’ project teams to clearly communicate, minimize, and manage environmental risks.

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Geosyntec practitioners help clients with projects including landform grading, stormwater management, subsurface-vapor migration, and landfill-gas containment and control, as well as with redeveloping contaminated, underutilized, and abandoned properties.

Major clients turn to us to help them develop National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater discharge permits and related Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs) during construction.

We also help developers audit compliance with regulations and plans by developing audit protocols and conducting audit programs. Geosyntec engineers and scientists have conducted a variety of audits involving more than 1,000 commercial and residential properties across the United States.

On behalf of insurance clients and their insureds, we employ decades of experience to help them better understand, quantify, and manage complex environmental risks in the context of insurance claims, underwriting, and related negotiations. As subject matter experts, we investigate and relay our findings on pollution condition source and timing, the necessity and reasonableness of costs, and remedial and regulatory strategy.

We support clients engaged in active negotiations, mediation and arbitration, and litigation related to insurance matters involving a variety of environmental contaminants. Grounded in our experience assessing and addressing wide-ranging environmental challenges at thousands of sites, Geosyntec helps position our clients and their legal counsel to achieve resolutions and to minimize cost exposure.

Clients seek us out because of our award-winning redevelopment strategies for brownfield sites worldwide. Geosyntec approaches each brownfield site individually, tailoring investigations, risk assessments, and remediation approaches to the client’s planned end use. We work with regulators, developers, and insurance providers to realize the full economic and social value of sites and develop solutions that are amenable to all parties.

Geosyntec brings expertise supporting due diligence for property transactions, as well as handling property valuation and conducting cost-to-cure estimates for environmentally impaired properties. We routinely perform environmental impact evaluations to help clients identify, select, and purchase sites for redevelopment, and we provide technical support through the brownfield designation process.
 
We incorporate risk-based approaches and end-use planning to develop remedial strategies that offer best-value solutions and mitigate environmental and financial risks for our clients. Similarly, our work with landforming techniques, such as mechanically stabilized walls, and low-impact development approaches allows site planners and architects greater freedom in achieving aesthetic, site-use, and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) objectives.
 
Geosyntec incorporates purposeful environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy into our due diligence work to give clients the information they need to mitigate risks, realize opportunities, and drive long-term value.

  • Due diligence assessment
  • Environmental liability valuation
  • Cost-to-cure and property diminution assessment
  • Permitting
  • Technical assistance during the Brownfield designation process
  • Geotechnical and subsurface design and construction
  • Civil engineering design
  • Stormwater management
  • SWPPPs for construction activities
  • NPDES stormwater permit compliance audits
  • Site investigation and remediation
  • Subsurface vapor and indoor air management
  • LEED designation assistance
  • Public information and community involvement
  • Environmental, social, and governance (ESG)

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  • Offshore Geotechnical Engineering

    Geosyntec provides nationally recognized expertise and specialized geotechnical and geological engineering (geoengineering) services to evaluate and improve the design and construction engineering properties of soil and rock foundations.

  • Environmental, Social, and Governance

    Geosyntec helps our clients identify ways to embed ESG and sustainability goals into their business operations so they can create new sources of value in the way they deliver their core products and services.

  • Stormwater Management

    A significant aspect of Geosyntec's water and natural resources practice is our stormwater management expertise. In fact, the firm is known for its innovative work in urban stormwater and surface water quality management, including green infrastructure design for CSO controls, Low Impact Development, Best Management Practice (BMP) design, hydromodification management, and erosion and sediment control.

  • Brownfield Redevelopment Planning & Design

    Working with public- and private-sector clients, Geosyntec provides award-winning redevelopment strategies for brownfield sites worldwide.

  • Vapor Intrusion Assessment & Remediation

    When a site involves volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in soil or groundwater, those chemicals can volatilize and migrate into nearby buildings presenting a health hazard to those inside. Not only that, but most buildings also contain other sources of volatile contaminants that are related to ongoing operations or consumer products.

  • Infrastructure Planning, Engineering, and Design

    Across industries and project types, delivery is increasingly shaped by regulatory complexity, environmental constraints, stakeholder expectations, and the need to accelerate schedules while managing costs.

  • Due Diligence

    The role of environmental due diligence during merger, divestiture, and acquisition (MD&A) activities has evolved significantly since the early years of conducting straightforward Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) for the purpose of identifying potential environmental concerns.

  • Geotechnical and Geostructural Engineering

    Geosyntec provides nationally recognized expertise and specialized geotechnical and geological engineering (geoengineering) services to evaluate and improve the design and construction engineering properties of soil and rock foundations.

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Geosyntec supports our practitioners as they explore new ideas, find new uses for established technologies, and develop more efficient ways of serving our clients. We work across disciplines, often partnering with universities, researchers, and clients, to develop and commercialize leading-edge solutions.

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