Our Sustainable Philosophy
"The market is currently shifting to a new paradigm with sustainability becoming a standard consideration – The Chazen Companies can take you there. Chazen’s “triple bottom line” site design and planning services benefit site owners, the environment, and our host socio-political communities. Professionals at The Chazen Companies can provide thoughtful analysis of the opportunities and drawbacks of individual development sites, providing streamlined reviews, material savings, and value gains instead of cookie-cutter entitlement site plans trimmed by SEQRA."
The Chazen Companies manage the environmental review, agency permitting, and local approval process for sustainable projects through a wide range of planning, design, and technical tasks as listed below by discipline. Chazen professionals are deeply engaged with LEED and National Green Building Standard design teams, with many of our staff LEED AP certified.
Engineering
- LEED compliant, Low-Impact-Design practices
- Pipeless, living green streets and bioswales
- Wastewater reuse and decentralized treatment
- Stream crossing designs for aquatic connectivity and quality
- Integrated stormwater designs for groundwater recharge
Planning & Landscape Architecture
- Traditional neighborhood design
- Non motorized/multi use trail design and connectivity analysis
- Rain gardens and runoff bioretention layout
- Sustainable, mixed-use zoning code and site development
- Conservation easement planning
- Wetland design/restoration for stormwater management
- Street tree plans and native planting designs
- Local code sustainability reviews
- Green design project reviews
- Climate adaptation and waterside planning
Environment & Ecology
- Natural resource inventories
- Threatened, rare, and endangered species evaluations
- Brownfields remediation and reuse
- Habitat integration and management plans
- Watershed use budgets and consumption analysis
- Aquatic quality sampling and flows monitoring
- Geothermal and solar options reviews
- Wetland and riparian zone integration and restoration
