Nov 12, 2009

Geosyntec Consultants Announces New Charlotte Office

Geosyntec Consultants announced today the opening of its new Charlotte, N.C., office to better serve its clients based in the Charlotte metropolitan area, including those that have come to rely upon its expertise in environmental studies and cleanup; infrastructure assessment, engineering, and design; and natural resources assessment and restoration.

Leading Geosyntec’s Charlotte office are principals, Dr. Jay Beech, P.E. and Mr. Terry Cheek, C.F.P., and senior consultant, Mr. Ron Santini. Jay Beech, Ph.D., P.E., is a principal engineer with 30 years of experience in design and construction of environmental management infrastructure including: waste containment/disposal, stormwater management, and subsurface barrier systems; demolition and remediation of former industrial sites; and technical consultation on litigation involving geotechnical and civil engineering issues.

Terry Cheek, C.F.P., is a principal scientist with Geosyntec focusing on natural resources issues that affect industry and government entities primarily centered on Clean Water Act (CWA) permitting and compliance. Mr. Cheek is a certified fisheries professional with more than 25 years experience as a senior water and natural resources scientist. He applies his extensive knowledge of water resource and ecological issues throughout the eastern United States for clients in the power generation, water supply, and land development sectors.

Ron Santini is a senior consultant with Geosyntec and has over 30 years of experience encompassing environmental management, environmental oversight of complex real estate projects, site assessments, and geographic information systems analysis. Mr. Santini has more than 18 years of experience focused exclusively on the environmental issues of diversified electric power providers.

Geosyntec’s Charlotte office (located at 401 North Tryon Street, 10th Floor, Suite 1105, Charlotte, N.C. 28202; telephone: 704.998.2550) joins the firm’s existing Raleigh, N.C. and Greenville, S.C., locations in supporting a diversified group of clients in the region with specialty engineering and environmental science services.

Geosyntec, founded in 1983, provides consulting engineering and science services throughout the United States and internationally. With more than 45 offices in the U.S. and select international locations, Geosyntec engineers and scientists are known for their technology leadership and practice innovation in the areas of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, contaminated site assessment and remediation, groundwater assessment and remediation, risk assessment and toxicology, urban stormwater management, water and natural resources management, solid waste disposal facility permitting and design, and environmental biotechnology.

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