GEI specializes in broad and extensive multi-disciplinary ecological and environmental services which are often integrated with our other practice areas. This integration better enables innovative solutions that are more effective, efficient, and reduce overall project costs.
Project Lifecycle
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Health and Safety
Every day we integrate health and safety in all that we do at GEI. From site safety plans to daily safety briefings and site safety audits. Our culture of safety at GEI is reflected in our processes, training programs, and ultimately our safety record. Since safety transcends every facet of our work, we integrate seamlessly with our client’s safety programs and protocols.
Planning and Studies
At GEI, we understand that each project is unique. Once a project need has been identified, we work with our clients to understand, evaluate and develop the best approach to successful project implementation based on the project-specific technical, institutional, regulatory, economic and environmental challenges.
Key Activities & Deliverables
- Environmental Opportunities and Constraints Analysis
- Alternatives Identification and Analysis
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Existing Data Collection and Review
- Site Selection
- Agency and Scoping Meetings
- Technical Reports
- NEPA/CEQA Compliance
- Preliminary Permit Acquisition Strategy
- Conceptual Mitigation and Restoration Planning
- Tribal Consultations
Permitting
GEI helps clients identify all federal, state, and local environmental regulatory requirements applicable to a project, and to assess the current compliance status of the project. Through our regulatory compliance and permitting experience, as well as our engineering experience planning, designing, and constructing a wide variety of projects throughout the United States, GEI is well positioned to help clients meet all applicable environmental regulations within a client’s project objectives, schedule, and budget.
Key Activities & Deliverables
- Final Permit Acquisition Strategy
- Permit Package Development
- Permit Terms and Feasibility/Cost Evaluation
- Agency Coordination and Negotiations
- Restoration Planning
- Mitigation and Monitoring Plans
- Environmental Compliance Database
- Memoranda of Agreements and Programmatic Agreements with Tribes
- Burial Treatment Plans and Preservation Plans
Design and Engineering
Our ecological and environmental services are often integrated with GEI’s other core disciplines of geotechnical and water resource services in project settings such as streams and shorelines, parks, dams, mining sites, hydroelectric power, reservoirs, industrial properties, water bodies, brownfield sites and more.
Key Activities & Deliverables
- Project Design Input to Avoid/Minimize Key Environmental Impacts
- Permit Acquisition Strategy Plans
- Siting and Routing Studies
- Environmental Field Surveys
- Minimization and Avoidance Measures
Construction
GEI guides our clients through the complex process of environmental compliance and implementing sound monitoring procedures while maintaining construction schedules and budgets. We work closely with construction contractors, resource agencies, and other project stakeholders to avoid and minimize project construction impacts to environmental resources and quickly resolve any challenges that arise during construction activities.
Key Activities & Deliverables
- Construction Monitoring
- Mitigation Monitoring
- Ongoing Permitting Assistance for Construction Deviations
- Environmental Compliance
- Worker Environmental Awareness Training
- Pre-Construction, Construction, and Post-Construction Biological and Cultural Surveys
- Air Quality and Noise Monitoring and Documentation
- Special-status Species Avoidance, Mitigation, and Relocation
Operations and Maintenance
Following project construction, GEI botanists, wildlife and fisheries biologists, and restoration ecologists monitor and manage sites to help projects reach design goals. This may include site vegetation and wildlife monitoring or implementing various management techniques, such as integrated vegetation management plans, which may include moving, selective herbicide, burning, etc. applications for invasive species control.
Key Activities & Deliverables
- Revegetation and Site Restoration
- Post-Construction Monitoring and Reporting
- Post-Construction Species Mortality Surveys
- Operations and Maintenance Compliance
- Environmental Compliance