Category: Sustainability
Clippership Wharf Wins EBC Award for Climate Change Project of the Year
The Clippership Wharf project won an Award for Climate Change Project of the Year from Environmental Business Council New England, Inc. (EBC), announced on September 17th at the virtual awards ceremony. The award recognized the project team’s innovative integration of resiliency features and leading commitment to protecting and enhancing Boston’s urban harbor. Nitsch Engineering ... READ MORE >
Children’s Wharf, Martin’s Park Project Wins Engineering Excellence Award
The Children’s Wharf, Martin’s Park project won a 2020 Engineering Excellence Silver Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts, and a 2020 Engineering Excellence National Recognition Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). The award recognized Nitsch Engineering for its unique approach to designing the structural support system for ... READ MORE >
Building Resilient Communities with the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program
Weather in Massachusetts keeps getting more extreme – but our ability to counteract the impact of severe storms and climate change has recently improved. Since 2010, Massachusetts has experienced four storms that caused more than one billion dollars in damage each. Since Executive Order no. 569, established in 2016, the development of policy to empower ... READ MORE >
Planning and Building for Coastal Resilience
On August 8th and August 16th in Portland, Maine, and Stamford, Connecticut respectively, Isabel Kaubisch, Project Manager in Nitsch Engineering’s Planning Department, presented “Planning and Building for Coastal Resilience” together with Dave Hampton of re:ground, organized through Halfmoon Seminars. The 8-hour seminar, “Planning & Building for Coastal Resilience,” was aimed at equipping participants with a ... READ MORE >
Nitsch Engineering Wins Two ACEC Engineering Excellence National Recognition Awards
On Tuesday, May 7th, Nitsch Engineering received two National Recognition Awards at the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC’s) 52nd annual Engineering Excellence Awards Gala held in Washington, D.C. The awards recognize Nitsch for “exemplary engineering achievement” on both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology North Corridor and the D.C. Water Kennedy Street Green Infrastructure projects. ... READ MORE >
Scott Turner talking about smart & sustainable development at APA
The American Planning Association's (APA's) 2019 National Planning Conference – which kicked off on Saturday – is the premier planning event of the year, bringing together thousands of planners to discuss the hottest topics, share the latest tools, and hear from industry leaders. We're excited to be there – especially since our Vice President ... READ MORE >
MIT’s North Corridor Project Wins ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence Award
Nitsch Engineering designed a new landscape filter approach that is more flexible for implementation in complex sites The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) North Corridor project won a 2019 Engineering Excellence Silver Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) on March 20, 2019. The award recognized Nitsch Engineering for their unique ... READ MORE >
DC Water’s Kennedy Street Green Infrastructure Project Wins ACEC/MW Engineering Excellence Award
Nitsch Engineering designed a high-performance urban streetscape retrofit that serves as a model to help reduce the District’s combined sewer overflow discharges The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) Kennedy Street Green Infrastructure Challenge project won a 2019 Engineering Excellence Honor Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Metropolitan Washington ... READ MORE >
Talking Groundwater, Green Infrastructure, and Resiliency at ABX
The ArchitectureBoston Expo (ABX) is the largest building and design conference in the Northeast, bringing together 8,000 attendees to cover a range of topics for people working in the A/E/C industry in New England. It's one of our favorite events every year, and we'll be there attending sessions, networking, and visiting the exhibit hall ... READ MORE >
Greening from the Ground Up: A Health Impact Assessment of the Lawrence Green Streets Program
When it comes to green infrastructure, how do you measure success? Are performance metrics such as volume of water captured or amount of pollutant removed per dollar spent on construction the only things that matter? Or are the more intangible benefits - such as health - just as important for our communities? In late 2015, ... READ MORE >