In 2010, GZA was asked to evaluate a former manufactured gas plant facility that had since been redeveloped on a busy part of one of New England’s historic shorelines. What began as a preliminary site...
We’ve known for centuries that corvidae are unusually intelligent animals. It’s no coincidence the Norse pantheon has two ravens named Thought and Memory on Odin’s shoulders. That intelligence...
The growing awareness of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water throughout the U.S is driving the demand for technically defendable, risk-based drinking water standards. In May...
If this notoriously wet New Hampshire spring turns into a notoriously dry New Hampshire summer, officials if the town of Durham/University of New Hampshire Water System won’t be worrying about having...
Don Goldberg and Bill Zoino founded GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc. (Norwood, MA) in 1964 as a soils and foundations specialty consultant. Since then, the company has grown from a small consulting...
Perhaps disheartened by the cold and gloomy winter months, some residents in the northeast believe that solar photovoltaic (PV) systems don’t make sense here. This perception is wrong and a number of...
With the rise in property values and market push of luxury construction in NYC we have seen the requirement for adapting classic underpinning design with modern construction techniques. This project...
Under a newly raised design flood elevation (DFE) for resilience design, many existing buildings need significant structural improvements to meet the structural capacity requirements and comply with...
Becoming resilient to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather in Connecticut has a price. To date, in Connecticut most of the dollars invested in resilient infrastructure have come from...
Recently described scientific literature has identified the airborne presence of 2,3-butanedione (diacetyl) and 2,3-pentanedione at concentrations approaching or potentially exceeding the current...
On July 8, 2015, the New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) discovered a turbid discharge at the toe of Cannonsville Dam, a 2,800 ft. long, 175 ft. max. height, earthen dam constructed...
In 2012, the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research embarked on a $600 million expansion of its Cambridge, Massachusetts Campus with the addition of a 550,000 square foot complex which includes...