Langan 2021 Sustainable Project of the Year Finalists

Langan is a leader in providing sustainable engineering services on urban infill, brownfield, and landfill development projects. These projects help clients and communities reuse impacted lands. The sustainability benefits to communities are many – reducing traffic, lowering reliance on cars, preserving undeveloped open space, reducing pollution and carbon emissions, and promoting health and quality of life.

With over 100 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professionals (LEED APs and Green Associates) and ENVISION Sustainability Professionals on staff, sustainable design weaves through all Langan services. Our expertise allows us to make significant contributions in developing sustainable sites. Langan has been an instrumental player on hundreds of LEED and sustainable design projects.

We established our annual Sustainable Project of the Year awards program six years ago to celebrate projects that incorporate sustainable design practices and contribute to the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit.

Freshkills Park – South Park

OVERVIEW
Once home to the 2,200-acre Fresh Kills Landfill, the world’s largest landfill, this site is currently undergoing a transformation to become Freshkills Park, New York City’s largest new park in over a century. Once complete, it will be three times the size of Central Park. The South Park is the latest addition to the project’s phased construction. For this phase, Langan helped develop the landfill gas mitigation system and an innovative stormwater management system. With a focus on sustainability and resiliency, we successfully designed the site layout, utility locations, and stormwater management systems to minimize disruption to wetlands and forested areas, and reused areas of degraded ecologies for stormwater capture. We also prepared an innovative pollution prevention plan, establishing the sampling required to monitor construction and post-construction runoff at new discharge points.
AWARD
2021 Langan Sustainable Project of the Year

Location
Staten Island, NY

Client
Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners

Services
Site/Civil
Environmental
Geotechnical
Land Use Planning
Natural Resources & Permitting

Strategic Partner
New York City Department of Parks & Recreation


Park 505 at Hardy

OVERVIEW
Park 505 at Hardy is a 534,000 SF warehouse building located on a 40.7-acre site in Harris County. For this area, the county typically requires a 1D flood study; however, due to unforeseen circumstances during the review process, the project required a more in-depth 2D study. In response, Langan completed a 2D unsteady flow flood analysis. By completing the study, Langan coordinated a reduction in earthwork for the removal of 16,000 cubic yards of soil destined for the landfill, saving the client time and money. The study also produced sustainable outcomes: the reduction in earthwork removed the need to haul soil off-site, saving approximately 1,000 truck trips worth of carbon emissions, and the stormwater management measures reduced base flood elevations for the surrounding area.

Location
Houston, TX

Client
IDV

Service
Site/Civil


The Glasshouse

OVERVIEW
The Glasshouse is a five-story, residential mixed-use building with over 300 apartment units, ground floor restaurant and retail space, and indoor parking. The project is extremely environmentally sensitive because of the location within the floodplain, site contaminants, and the ACT II process. Langan’s environmental team facilitated the ACT II process that helped to procure funding; addressed site contaminants and underground storage tanks; and developed a soil characterization and management plan to optimize re-use and disposal. Our site/civil engineers coordinated with the DEP, Allegheny County Conservation District, and City of Pittsburgh to develop a stormwater management plan that met City and DEP requirements while working with the site constraints.
AWARDS
2021 ASCE Pittsburgh Sustainability Award

Location
Pittsburgh, PA

Client
Trammell Crow Company

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Environmental

Architect
Hord Coplan Macht

Strategic Partner
Rycon Construction


Selected Projects