Brownfields

12th Street Power Stations, Richmond, Virginia

Project Type: Directed the environmental remediation of two power plant buildings located on an island in the James River.

Project Status: Remediation work successfully completed.  One power plant site was subsequently sold to another developer who constructed a mid-rise residential and office tower on the site. 

Managed the environmental remediation of existing shell buildings on the island to clear them for conversion to a headquarters office for a national advertising firm. The advertising firm dropped their option however; we continued to prepare the sites for new uses.  Primary material removed was asbestos, however, numerous other materials were discovered and removed during the work including acids and mercury.  The work was complicated as access to the site was limited and lower levels of the facility were partially submerged requiring dewatering and water treatment.   

Abitibi Paper Mill, Lufkin, Texas 

Project Type: Potential Salvage and Conversion of an Inactive Paper Mill Plant 

Project Status: Site not pursued after completion of evaluation. 

Evaluated Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments prepared by others for this 1,000+ acre paper mill production facility.   The client for the assignment was considering purchase of the site with a plan to salvage metals, sell functional equipment, and recycle other site materials. 

Savage Station, Howard County, Maryland 

Project Type: Brownfield conversion of a former lumber storage and distribution facility to a mixed use, transit oriented project. 

Project Status: Voluntary clean up completed, project completed. 

Performed due diligence on this infill site which contained an existing light rail station.  Evaluated additional parcel to be assembled into the site program that was a former lumber storage and distribution facility that was served by a railroad spur.  After review of contamination investigation, assisted on the submission of a voluntary clean up program that allowed the site to be integrated into the new development. 

Exxon Site, Fairfax County, Virginia

Project Type: Brownfield conversion of a gas station site to a mid-rise residential tower. 

Project Status: Investigation and analysis completed. 

Developed construction alternatives and costing analysis for the foundation design of this infill, residential tower in an urbanizing area of the County.  Site had groundwater contamination that needed to be collected and treated during and after construction. 

Bridgeway Commerce Park, Suffolk, Virginia 

Project Type: Brownfield remediation, clearance of unexploded ordinance for development of the site as a commercial park.

Project Status: Complete 

Managed the remediation of the site that was adjacent to a former military munitions depot that was active in WW1 and WW2.  New types of munitions and captured foreign munitions were tested and fired at the adjacent site and some landed on the subject site.