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| Environmental Studies & Permitting |
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Any plan for development of a green field or redevelopment of a brownfield precludes a much larger number of alternate plans. While this has always been true, our increasing population densities add importance to every land use decision made. Helping clients determine how each potential plan will mesh with its environment and the community and which resources it will enhance and from which it will detract is the goal of our Environmental Studies and Permitting staff.
Whether a development is at is core based on a natural resource, such as development of a hard rock quarry in the Midwest or a spring water supply in New England, or is built around indirect benefit from one such as recapturing a scenic waterfront committed a century ago to a new different industrial use, GZA can identify the costs and benefits.
Which sites have the attributes the project needs, would development affect a rare or endangered species or cultural artifact, how can people get to and from the site, and will this traffic affect the air quality and aesthetics of the user already in place? If a brownfield, what potential exposures will the plan increase in the short-term but control or eliminated in the long-term? How can short-term exposures be monitored and controlled to the satisfaction of the public? For decades these questions were never asked and for years the answers were qualitative and open to debate. GZA knows that for a project to be approved today these questions must be both asked and answered with clear, unambiguous and reproducible facts, facts which our engineers and scientists are experienced in providing.
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