Category: Stormwater
Join Nitsch at SCUP North Atlantic 2022
The Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) 2022 North Atlantic Regional Conference is next week – will we see you there? We’re excited to get together in-person at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus from Wednesday, March 16th through Friday, March 18th to share best practices about integrated planning for higher education. Nitsch has ... READ MORE >
Christian Science Plaza Restoration and Repair Project Wins 2021 Engineering Excellence Award
The Christian Science Plaza Restoration and Repair project won a 2021 Engineering Excellence National Recognition Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) on Thursday, June 17, 2021. This follows the 2021 Engineering Excellence Silver Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA). The award recognizes Nitsch Engineering for their ... READ MORE >
“Kennedy Greened: A Streetscape Planned, Designed, and Now Built!” Presented at the 2020 International Low Impact Development Conference
This year’s International Low Impact Development (LID) Conference was hosted virtually on July 20th through 24th. The LID Conference series is organized by members of the American Society of Civil Engineers - Environment and Water Resources Institute: Urban Water Resources Research Council and showcases the latest developments, technologies, and case studies related to LID ... 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 >
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 >
The True Value of Green Infrastructure
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 increasing the tree canopy, improving public health, and reducing ... READ MORE >
It’s back! Delayed Small MS4 Permit will be effective on July 1, 2018!
Over the past two years, Nitsch Engineering has been monitoring the 2016 Massachusetts Small MS4 General Permit. While the permit was delayed by a year, we now anticipate the permit coverage starting as scheduled on July 1, 2018. The Small MS4 program provides a regulatory framework for managing stormwater and protecting important water resources that ... READ MORE >
Protecting Wetlands and Controlling Erosion and Sediment with MACC
When it comes to protecting the environment, conservation commissions are on the front line, working within communities to protect their natural resources. With six of our engineers currently serving as conservation commissioners in their local communities, many others serving in the past, and our 28 years of experience working with conservation commissions throughout the ... READ MORE >