Environmental Engineering Department

Today’s environmental and regulatory procedures must be properly addressed to minimize your exposure to liability and avoid unnecessary project delays and costs. Our environmental professionals will guide you through the complex maze of environmental regulations and procedures to assure that your project is completed on time and within budget.

We offer a full range of environmental services including environmental assessments, environment impact studies, SEQR studies, wetland delineation, permit assistance, environmental sampling, and traffic impact analysis. With the stakes as high as they are, you cannot afford to make a mistake. We will quickly identify, assess, and address the environmental requirements of your project in the most efficient and cost effective manner.

Services Provided:

Phases I & II site assessments and studies: We provide phase I ESAs to assist you with your environmental due diligence and to satisfy lending requirements.  If Phase II investigations are necessary, we conduct surface and subsurface investigations and sampling and provide recommendations for remediation or future development.

SEQRA and Environmental Impact Studies: We provide beginning to end services to expedite your trip through regulatory review.  Depending on your project needs, we will conduct the necessary scoping, data collection, public hearings, and prepare the project EAF or impact statement.

Wetlands and Biological Studies: Our staff botanist and soil scientist provide services in soil and water conservation, wetland delineation and mitigation design, water resources, biology, and wildlife habitat evaluations.

Noise/air quality: We provide complete services including data collection, analyses and design recommendations for mitigation and abatement for traffic corridors, airports, and commercial facilities.

Geotechnical Services: Our experienced staff provide services beginning at project inception and extending through construction.  Our staff often provides services including subsurface explorations, laboratory testing, deep foundation design and monitoring, shallow foundations, contract specifications, and construction support.  We will make sure your project gets out of the ground and not stuck in the mud. 

Asbestos Inspection and Assessments: If your project includes renovation or demolition of an existing structure, our trained staff that includes NYSDOL certified inspectors and designers are ready to assist.  We will conduct the required ACM surveys, develop remediation plans, including quantity and cost estimates, and assist through the regulatory paperwork for abatement.

Stormwater and Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPP):Our environmental and civil engineers will work with you to develop a site design and SWPP that is not only cost effective, but that fits your site and allows you flexibility for your site layouts.  Effective management of site stormwater may impact your development, and our experience will reduce adverse impacts.

SPCC Studies: If your site or operations utilize product or processes that may result in spills, we can help prepare and effect spill prevention, containment, and control plan.  We will review your operations, identify and inventory potential migratory pathways, and develop a plan that will allow you effectively implement remedial actions in a cost effective manner.

Tank Installation and Removal: If your site or facility happens to have USTs or ASTs, we will provide the expertise to have them removed and the site restored in accordance with regulatory guidance.  And if you do not know if you have USTs, we will conduct non-intrusive investigations to help you determine their possible presence.  Then we will prepare design for installation of new, replacement tanks that you may need.

LEED Certified Staff Available:  Fisher Associates’ staff members have LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.  Having LEED certified staff allows us to help clients transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built, and operated to become more environmentally responsible.  Our sustainable design policy balances environmental stewardship, user comfort, resource efficiency, community sensitivity, and social equity into our designs, whether the project is slated for LEED (or SPIRIT) designation or not.  Through site planning and design, we incorporate LEED design principals that cover Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, and Materials and Resources.

Sustainable Design: Our sustainable design also covers context sensitive design.  We believe our designs should be a good match with community styles and sensitivities.  Areas that we focus on are a visually appealing landscape that integrates into the neighborhood, ease of vehicle and pedestrian circulation, pedestrian safety, pedestrian amenities (including links to sidewalks and trails), and specialty lighting designs that enhance a neighborhood.  A community’s first look at the outside the building is just as important as the experience inside.