Old dams are being taken down around the country for environmental and safety reasons. In Massachusetts, the story of the Upper Roberts Meadow Reservoir Dam removal project shows the complexities...
Zoning boards aren’t usually where you find groups of teenagers. Yet recently, the city government of East Brunswick, NJ saw local teens come before them with drawings, plans, and a host of material...
Opportunity Zones (OZ) created by the tax reform that was approved by Congress in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in 2017 are present in all 50 states and allow qualified investors to defer and...
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...