Sustainability
Improving quality of life while protecting natural resources
Committed to enabling a more sustainable and resilient future
Whether it's developing business strategies or implementing specific projects, Verdantas’ engineers and scientists are passionate about creating sustainable solutions that protect our communities and natural resources, conserve water, use renewable energy, and reduce wastes. We work with clients to identify their sustainability priorities and goals and incorporate sustainable design elements in every project.
We support our clients’ efforts to track and reduce carbon emissions to limit their contribution to climate change. As climate and weather extremes continue to make headlines, we help improve the resilience of infrastructure systems and communities. Our work helps communities adapt to a changing climate and higher sea levels.

Our Sustainability Services
Energy
Energy evaluations and audits to reduce energy use. Strategies and designs for sustainable energy transition for a facility or portfolio of assets. Managing development of renewable energy generation projects at the utility-scale and distributed generation scales. Experience with solar, wind, battery energy storage, landfill gas and combined heat and power projects.
Air Emissions
Performing greenhouse gas and carbon emission inventories and management plans along with credits, banking, and trading.
Verdantas' Key Sustainability Initiatives
Sustainable Energy Transition
Helping our clients transition to a portfolio of projects that have a lower carbon footprint. Evaluating strategies for increasing renewable energy use, energy efficiency, hydrogen fuel use, electrification, and carbon capture and storage.
Sustainability in Every Project
Verdantas has established an approach within its project management processes to enable our clients with the knowledge and technical expertise to consider sustainable solutions in their environmental, engineering, and technology projects and advises on lowering company and project impacts on the environment to fulfill strategic sustainability goals. Verdantas has implemented the mechanisms and review processes to bring sustainability considerations to project-based solutions, project results, and overall client operation recommendations.
Sustainable Infrastructure Verification through Envision
Verdantas is a member of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) and has multiple credentialed Envision Sustainability Professionals (ENV-SP). We support the application of sustainability principles to infrastructure projects and offer Envision project verification for clients who desire confirmation that their infrastructure project is sustainable.

Four Pillars of Success
Led by our employees, Verdantas has launched its own Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) plan.
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Mandated to eliminate wastewater stream discharge for compliance with the Inland Bays Total Maximum Daily Load, The Town of Millsboro embraced an innovative solution based on recycling, rather than disposal, of high quality treated effluent. The recycled water is used to recharge the local aquifer through seven rapid infiltration basins (RIBS). With a capacity of 1.2 MGD, Millsboro’s RIBs are the largest municipal system in Delaware. RIB systems require less land and have lower long term operating costs than wastewater disposal systems using irrigation. Hydrogeological testing has demonstrated that the performance of Millsboro’s RIB system exceeds the original design criteria.
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Sustainability | Civil Infrastructure
Rapid Infiltration Basins
An innovative solution based on recycling, rather than disposal, of high quality treated effluent to eliminate wastewater stream discharge.
RWE Renewables, a global energy company, constructed a 75-turbine, 250 MW onshore wind electric generation facility between 2019 and 2021. It went into commercial operation in June 2021. The project includes Siemens Gamesa turbines and is RWE’s first onshore wind project in Ohio. It has the capacity to provide clean energy for more than 60,000 households.
Verdantas was selected to provide civil engineering design, land surveying, ODOT and County roadway permitting, surface water delineations and ecological surveys, SPCC plan preparation, Decommissioning Plan preparation, Ohio EPA construction stormwater permit and Stormwater Pollution prevention Plan (SWP3) preparation, surface water permitting, storm water inspections during construction, and ecological specialist services during construction.
Temporary intersection improvements were designed for turbine blades that were up to 211 feet long and weighed 31,200 pounds. The nacelle units weighed 250,000 pounds. The project study area included approximately 50 square miles (31,986 acres) and required approximately 38 miles of new access roads and approximately 75 miles of electrical collection lines.
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Sustainability
Scioto Ridge Wind Farm
Read how the construction of a 75-turbine onshore wind electric generation facility was supported by Verdantas.