Environmental Consulting

Through our expertise with the United States Green Building Council and the Leadership in Energy Efficiency in Design (LEED), we help organizations and communities promote sustainable site development, and water and energy efficiency, sustainable materials and resources. Sustainable building and low-impact design does more than benefit the environment; it reduces your operational costs in the long term.

We can help deliver financial improvement through:

• Smaller parking lots
• High-efficiency heating and cooling systems
• Drought-resistant landscape design
• Creative storm water management techniques

Our developments leverage natural resources and work in harmony with the environment. We implement projects such as:

• Boardwalks
• Native revegetation
• Bio-swales and rain gardens
• Swirl chambers
• Detention/retention systems
• Sedimentation basins
• Forebays

Additionally, we offer engineers and wetland biologists with expertise in:

• Mapping regulated wetlands systems
• Natural features inventories
• Floodplain studies
• Water-quality assessments
• Watershed studies
• Storm water master plans
• Lake augmentation and lake improvement studies

“Giffels-Webster has provided a broad range of services for Lowe’s on many new store projects, such as storm water management analyses and design for on- and off-site watershed systems, design and analyses of regional detention basins and retention basins, and obtaining multiple Department of Natural Resources  and Corps of Engineers permits for developments adjacent to and within floodplains and tributaries. The team’s dedication to learning and understanding Lowe’s development program standards, as well as taking a macro-view of the entire project, has proven to be a value-added asset to the overall success.”
- Daniel J. Moylan, PE, CPESC, Director of Site Development, Lowe’s Companies, Inc.