GeoSyntec Consultants, Inc

Geosyntec is a specialized consulting and engineering firm that works with private and public sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure.

We deliver solutions through Geosyntec and our wholly-owned, affiliates (MMI Engineering, SiREM, Savron, Green Harbor Energy, Geosyntec Asia, and Geosyntec Europe), with a combined staff exceeding 1000 engineers, scientists, and related technical and project support personnel. We serve our clients from more than 80 offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and Malaysia.

Practice Philosophy and Quality

Since our founding in 1983, we have built top tier practices to meet our clients' needs in:

Contaminated Site Assessment and Cleanup
Environmental Planning and Management
Air Quality Management and Air Pollution Control
Water and Natural Resources Assessment, Management, and Restoration
Water and Wastewater System Planning, Engineering, and Design
Geotechnical and Geological Analysis, Modeling, and Engineering
Waste Management Planning, Engineering, and Design
Civil Site Engineering and Design
Building Health Evaluations and Rehabilitation
Structure and Fluid Analysis, Modeling, and Engineering
Facility Hazard Definition and Risk Management
We are internationally known for our technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service.

Contributions to the State of the Practice

Geosyntec staff advance the state of the profession through our academic appointments, scholarships, and professional research contributions. Our applied research partnerships with leading universities, U.S. DOD, NASA, U.S. EPA, FHWA, and others are expanding the available technologies used for:

In situ remediation of recalcitrant chemicals in the environment
Management of urban watersheds to reduce pollutant loadings to receiving waters
Protection of endangered species from the impacts of stormwater runoff
Design of radioactive, industrial, and municipal waste disposal facilities
Geotechnical and seismic analysis and design of water resource and transportation facilities
Reliability analysis for extreme wind and wave loadings of offshore wind turbines

Our Goals

Provide the best possible service and value to our clients.
Give our clients better solutions to their unique problems and challenges by advancing technology in our primary practice areas.
Create a stimulating, progressive, and friendly work environment that enables us to continue to recruit, retain, and develop the very best staff to serve our clients' needs.

Mission and Values

Our Mission

We are a leading consulting and engineering (C&E) family of companies with the following mission:

• We are the consultant and engineer of choice for first-class clients, providing them with responsive, value-added services and solutions for their initiatives and challenges involving the natural and built environments.
• We are the employer of choice for exceptionally talented and motivated engineers, scientists, and related professionals who share our core values and whose practice and client-service interests align with our own.

Our Core Values

We operate as one fully-integrated firm with all employees striving each day to embody our values:

• We expect honesty, integrity, and true professionalism in everything we do.
• We place the safety and security of our staff as our highest priority. Every employee contributes to a safe and healthy work environment.
• We value technology leadership and practice innovation as the foundations for producing services and solutions of exceptional value to our clients and that incorporate the principles of environmental sustainability and stewardship.
• We value personal entrepreneurship and hard work as the cornerstones for exceeding client expectations. We encourage personal entrepreneurship as the driver for new ventures, practice innovation, solutions of value, and development of intellectual property.
• We value employees who are intensely interested in their clients' business objectives, problems, and goals; in understanding how they can best help their clients; and in sharing that knowledge and understanding with their colleagues and staff. We expect all employees to make their clients' initiatives and challenges their own and to go the extra mile to help their clients achieve their goals.
• We value project management excellence, with project managers embracing the critically important practices of client service, safe work operations, quality and risk management, financial management, and timely, responsive project delivery.
• We value the life-long professional development of our staff through mentoring, training, project collaboration, and involvement in professional societies and the academic community.
• We expect teamwork and goodwill among all employees regardless of office affiliation or practice specialty. We are 'one company' and encourage and value the contributions of everyone.
• We value a generous spirit in personnel who share their opportunities with co-workers and who, as true partners to their colleagues, are committed to the success of the team.
• We believe that financial reward should be available to all employees based on each individual's contributions to the firm's success. We value and are committed to workplace diversity and equal opportunity for all employees.
• We value the emotional and physical health of our employees and understand that the work demands of the C&E profession are substantial. We value and are committed to a company culture and working environment where employees feel supported in achieving both their professional and home-life goals.

Our People

Geosyntec Consultants has built a record of successful client service by attracting some of the most creative scientists and engineers from the graduate programs of leading universities around the world. We retain them by providing a management and professional development infrastructure that supports innovation on behalf of clients. We also provide staff with ownership opportunities and other financial incentives that create continuous personal links between client service and corporate well-being.

Approximately 80% of our technical staff have advanced degrees in engineering, scientific, or business management disciplines. When clients select Geosyntec for a project, they are working with a team that is at the forefront of innovative, proven technology application.

With more than 20 in-house academic disciplines plus specialists in construction management, construction quality assurance, and computer-aided drafting and design (CADD), we have the breadth of technical expertise to ensure that every project we undertake is managed and performed by a team with a vested interest in client satisfaction.

Oil and Gas Affiliated Industries

Geosyntec has served the oil and gas industry with environmental consulting, engineering, and management expertise for nearly two decades. We routinely work with all segments of the industry – downstream, midstream, and upstream – as well as legacy sites and litigation support. In keeping with the industry focus, we emphasize safety process and performance in all our work efforts. We are proud of our exceptional safety record.

Chemicals/Petrochemicals

Geosyntec provides the chemicals/petrochemicals manufacturing and refining industry with technical services for strategic management and resolution of complex environmental issues.

Diversified Manufacturing Industries

Geosyntec provides technical services for strategic asset management and resolution of complex environmental issues for diversified manufacturers.

Aerospace and Electronics Manufacturing Industries

Geosyntec provides technical services for strategic management of legacy properties and resolution of complex environmental issues related to ongoing operations including those associated with merger, acquisition, and divestiture activities within the aerospace and electronics manufacturing industries.

Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology

Geosyntec is a leading provider of environmental consulting services to multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries serving locations in the United States and Europe. We know that strict compliance in these highly regulated industries is essential for our clients to maintain excellent public relations and a reputation for social responsibility and environmental stewardship.

Electric Power Utilities

The electric power industry faces numerous challenges in the coming decade. Shifts in fuels, increasing pressures by the public and environmental advocacy groups, regulatory changes for air, water, and combustion byproducts, and high-profile events such as the tsunami that struck Fukushima, Japan, are reshaping plans and decisions for producing and delivering electricity.

Solid and Hazardous Waste Management

Geosyntec helps both public and private sector clients in the solid waste management industry with the permitting, design, construction management, and closure of landfills, leachate and gas management systems, and waste transfer stations. Our experience spans the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia involving more than 500 facilities operating under a broad range of site, operational, and regulatory settings.

Real Estate/Property Development Services

Geosyntec helps clients make property transactions and site development projects more successful. We understand the physical challenges and environmental compliance issues associated with achieving the full potential of a property - from redeveloping contaminated, underutilized, and abandoned properties to landform grading and stormwater management, to subsurface vapor migration and landfill gas containment and control.

Law Firms

As an outgrowth of the technical expertise and reputation of its senior practitioners, Geosyntec has become a trusted technical resource to leading law firms throughout the United States. We provide the specialized expertise necessary for lawyers to counsel their clients and advocate for client interests on a wide range of matters related to environmental management, compliance, enforcement, toxic tort and other litigation, and business transactions.

Municipalities, Counties, and Local Public Agencies

At Geosyntec, we understand the business of local government and the daily demands of strict accountability, tight budgets and deadlines, and answering to a diverse range of customers – who are also constituents.

State Government Agencies and Departments

Geosyntec supports government departments, agencies, and authorities that are entrusted with statewide responsibility for protection of the state’s environmental resources, water supply and water resources management, hazardous and solid wastes management, roads and highways, state-owned buildings and lands, university systems, and parks and recreational facilities.

Federal Departments and Agencies

Federal clients choose Geosyntec to work on their most challenging projects, where inventive technical and management approaches are required for engineering, earth science, remediation, and environmental management consulting and design services.

Electric Power Utilities: Subsector Focus
Coal Combustion Residuals and Byproducts

Coal has successfully powered electricity generation for more than 100 years. But during the past few decades increasing regulations pertaining to air, water, and the handling, storage, treatment, and disposal of coal combustion residuals (CCR) has greatly impacted operations at coal-fired facilities. Geosyntec consults with clients to achieve their goals for new and expanded ash and residuals storage facilities, closure and reuse of existing storage facilities, and the management of leachate, unplanned releases, and groundwater impacts related to coal combustion activities.

Electric Power Utilities: Subsector Focus

Air Quality Services

Geosyntec’s air practitioners provide the full spectrum of air quality services to the electric power industry. These services include permitting; compliance assurance; emissions monitoring; and air pollution control equipment evaluation and optimization. Our practitioners have expertise in New Source Review pre-construction permitting and air dispersion modeling as well as the application of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air measurement methods (e.g., Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources, or 40 CFR Part 60) within the electric power industry.

Electric Power Utilities: Subsector Focus
Water and Wastewater Services

Water is a vital component of all fossil-fueled electricity generation. Cooling water, process water, wastewater, stormwater, and groundwater must all be considered for optimal generation efficiencies. For all aspects of water management at an electric generating facility, Geosyntec’s regulatory understanding, technical excellence, and diverse experience integrating innovative science and engineering approaches facilitates solutions that encompass whole process issues for our clients that help to minimize compliance costs and maintain operational flexibility.