Haley & Aldrich
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
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Owners, Principals & Senior Executives
Bryan Sweeney's Bio
Bryan has more than 30 years of experience in structural and geotechnical engineering, including design of foundations, temporary support systems, and underpinning for low- and high-rise buildings, garages, tunnels, bridges, subway stations, and other structures. He specializes in proactively identifying risks and developing risk strategy options consistent with an owner’s risk tolerance.
Clients appreciate Bryan’s ability to listen and understand their desired outcomes and challenges, and then provide different value propositions for those challenges. As clients balance competing and shifting demands, Bryan takes a hands-on approach to develop real-time solutions. He is driven to solve problems that have no clear solution, and he always collaborates with the client and project stakeholders to address the problem at hand and ultimately reach project completion.
Foundation design
Geotechnical instrumentation
Ground improvement
Impacts of excavations on adjacent improvements
Soft ground engineering
Structural design of underground space
Support of excavation design
Trenchless technology
Underpinning
Dawn Santoianni's Bio
Dawn is passionate about partnering with her clients to integrate environmental, social, governance, and resilience (ESG+R) principles into their business strategy, helping them mitigate risk and adapt to a changing climate so they can deliver exceptional value to their customers and shareholders. She has worked in the environmental field for more than 30 years, and previously led environmental and energy policy strategy for one of the largest utility companies in the U.S.
Dawn’s diverse project portfolio includes coal ash management, electric generation, transmission and distribution, environmental regulations, carbon policies, pollution mitigation, smart grid, and waste-to-energy technologies. Leveraging her engineering background and extensive public relations experience, Dawn has helped organizations navigate a changing environmental policy and regulatory landscape while building constructive relationships with their customers, policymakers, and stakeholders.
Advocacy strategies
Climate resilience strategies
Coal ash management and recycling
Crisis communications
Media relations and public engagement
Regulatory impact analysis, commenting, and agency relations
Sustainability reporting standards
Testimony on environmental policies and climate risk
Dennis Peters's Bio
Dennis is a performance-driven project manager and environmental scientist who specializes in environmental site investigation, restoration, and multi-media regulatory compliance. He prioritizes the needs and goals of his clients when managing projects through providing senior technical review for plans and permits, overseeing field data collection, and developing reporting for a wide range of projects.
Over the past 25 years working primarily in Hawaii, Dennis has gained extensive experience with Department of Defense environmental programs, delivering on dozens of projects for the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Navy. He has also led private sector and federal/municipal projects across the pacific rim, particularly in Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam. This breadth of his experience in both tropical and cold-weather environments brings added value to his clients wherever they or their facilities may be located.
Dennis has served as President and Director of the Hawaii Association of Environmental Professionals, has been a contributing member to the Society of American Military Engineers Honolulu Post, and is a Director with the Pacific Basin Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America.
CERCLA Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS)
Environmental assessments and impact statements
Environmental baseline surveys
Environmental regulatory compliance and permitting (Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures (SPCC) Plans, Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs), and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting)
Industrial wastewater treatment process evaluations and design
Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) site investigation and cleanup
Site characterization and remediation design and construction
Solid waste management
Don Craig's Bio
Don uses his diverse background and proven financial expertise to support sustainable, long-term growth at Haley & Aldrich. He has over 25 years of financial leadership at dynamic, leading-edge engineering and architecture, telecommunications, and technology companies across the United States and Canada. He is successful in his role by immersing himself in operations, collaborating with other functional areas, and effectively communicating key financial messages. Don is committed to mentoring Finance & Accounting staff to reach their full potential, which will ultimately contribute to the success of Haley & Aldrich and our clients’ projects.
Don is a member of the Certified Management Accountants (CMA) of Canada. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada. Additionally, Don moderated the two-year pre-certification CMA Strategic Leadership Program in Alberta and Ontario for 13 years, mentoring over 300 candidates.
Acquisition due diligence and integration
Budgeting and strategic planning
Cash management, forecasting, and capital planning
Compliance with financial principles and standards
Development and implementation of accounting policies
Financial reporting and analysis
Doug Lindquist's Bio
Doug is an award-winning geotechnical and earthquake engineer with over 20 years of experience working on a variety of projects including tall buildings, campus developments, and waterfront structures. He has worked with a wide variety of clients including developers, ports, the federal government, universities, hospitals, and manufacturers.
Doug’s projects have won top awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), American Institute of Architects (AIA), and others. He has led the seismic design on over 30 peer-reviewed high-rise developments including the tallest three buildings constructed in the Pacific Northwest since 1990. Doug also led the seismic design on the tallest mechanically stabilized earth wall in the western hemisphere and the 90-foot-deep portals to the largest bored tunnel in the world.
Doug is adept at conveying complicated technical issues in an easy-to-understand way. He is collaborative with owners and their teams – seeking to optimize foundations and structural systems to improve safety and lower costs. Doug’s favorite aspect of his work is exceeding client and project team members’ expectations. His thoughtful, science-based approaches and transparent communication style have earned him a strong rapport in the industry as an exceptional and dependable engineer.
Earthquake engineering
Embankments and retaining walls
Foundation design
Geotechnical instrumentation
Ground improvement
Litigation support
Soft ground engineering
Soil-structure interaction modeling
Support of excavation
Joel S. Mooney's Bio
After four decades with Haley & Aldrich, Joel serves a variety of public and private clients as a principal and project executive, providing geotechnical and environmental LSP services for design and construction. As a principal, Joel has significant experience integrating various facets of below-grade challenges to meet client and project goals. His responsibilities often include an environmental component for redeveloping contaminated urban sites or permitting from a regulatory agency.
Joel’s leadership experience makes him a valuable mentor and coach to Haley & Aldrich staff. Additionally, Joel is a member of A Better City, a group of Boston business leaders focused on enhancing the region’s economic health and sustainability.
Due diligence and transactional support
Foundation design and below-grade construction
Redeveloping urban contaminated sites
Remediation and regulatory compliance
Site assessment activities
Soil management during construction
Lisa Turturro's Bio
Lisa has nearly 25 years of varied environmental management and strategic consulting experience for clients in the built environment across the country. She is constantly seeking to understand what each client values and how Haley & Aldrich can best deliver that value, which has resulted in unique consulting assignments leveraging her experience in real estate, facilities, and people development. Lisa leads teams working on acquisition, design, and construction projects, and on environmental risk management during the life of their asset. She also provides executive coaching, training, and management consulting for organizational transformation. Lisa leads several of Haley & Aldrich’s internal staff development programs for technical staff and staff managers.
Lisa is driven by helping diverse teams work together and has a special interest in integrating technical skills and emotional intelligence to achieve better outcomes. She utilizes her Lean Black Belt to help individuals achieve their full potential and guide teams to work more effectively to deliver value and reduce waste. She gets a lot of satisfaction out of working collaboratively to understand a problem and come up with the best solution – whether that problem is something straightforward or complex that we have to unravel.
Environmental asset management
Environmental due diligence
Executive coaching
Lean training and facilitation
Organizational transformation consulting
Planning, design, and construction
Site characterization
Michael Atwood's Bio
Mike has a great sense of pride and satisfaction when he walks or drives through Boston and can point to the many buildings he has helped build or preserve. Over the past more than 30 years, he has worked on a broad range of construction projects and investigative studies, including low- and high-rise buildings with and without below-grade space, new construction and rehabilitation/re-purposing of existing structures, waterfront construction, and repairing and stabilizing wood-pile-supported century-plus old structures.
Mike currently works with developer clients to address their difficult underground design and construction challenges. His expertise includes managing significant multidisciplinary projects that include the new construction of high-rise buildings and deep basements, as well as the rehabilitation of existing structures involving geotechnical and environmental services.
Assessment of below-grade foundation and excavation requirements
Complete design investigations
Environmental regulatory compliance
Foundation design and excavation support
Geotechnical and environmental site explorations
Preliminary feasibility/due diligence studies
Underground construction
Estimating, Purchasing & Preconstruction
Greg Mowatt's Bio
With over 30 years of environmental consulting field experience at Haley & Aldrich and over 38 years of construction experience, Greg is responsible for handling health and safety and construction management challenges associated with all types of excavations, environmental remediation, and marine construction projects. Clients appreciate that Greg provides real-time observations and facts that help them adapt quickly and tackle unexpected challenges.
He provides the hands-on experience necessary to gather complete and reliable data, promote efficiency and safety in all field activities, and manage field work to ensure compliance with regulatory standards. He is also an experienced heavy equipment operator who develops budgets for construction field remediation activities and operates and maintains treatment systems.
Operations
Andrew R. Chan, Jr.,'s Bio
More than 20 years ago Andrew joined Haley & Aldrich and since that time he has managed and been involved in many integrated geotechnical and environmental design projects. He primarily works with institutions and developer clients to address their underground and construction challenges. This includes complex renovations of historic structures, large capital projects, and infrastructure expansions for urban campuses. He enjoys collaborating with his clients and other project team members to build and renovate facilities to meet end-user needs.
Experienced with supporting design team on complex renovation of historic structures for underground engineering
Geotechnical and environmental consultant for large capital projects and infrastructure expansions for urban campuses
Contractor design assist services include engineering of excavation support and other structural systems
Douglas Allen's Bio
Doug is passionate about providing technically superior and outstanding client service. He enjoys working with talented colleagues and other project stakeholders to enable clients to achieve their goals. A licensed professional geologist with more than 20 years of experience, Doug provides consulting on a wide variety of sites, with a focus on developing and implementing strategies for contaminants in overburdened and fractured bedrock. He thrives on the challenge of creating strategies for complex sites regulated by EPA and state agencies, including assessments of coal tar and residuals, metals, and chlorinated solvent dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL).
Doug’s approach fosters teamwork and collaboration to develop detailed conceptual site models that give clients clear, logical paths forward, and to achieve regulatory approval. His comprehensive project approach reduces his clients’ burdens, allowing them to focus on other important work.
Community relations
Data visualization
Development, review, and improvement of conceptual site models
Groundwater flow and contaminant transport assessment
Licensed professional geologist
Litigation support
Remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS) work plans
Remediation strategy and implementation
Strategic consulting for contaminated sites
Strategy lead for Superfund sites
James Pippin's Bio
James finds great satisfaction working on projects that have a positive impact not only for his clients, but for the surrounding environments and communities. His passion for natural resources and the environment has led him to projects ranging from performing ecological and aquatic studies at oil exploration sites in the Amazon River Basin to managing large-scale energy projects in the Northeast of the U.S. For more than 25 years James has led natural resources projects in markets including airports, renewable energy, electrical transmission, natural gas power and transmission, municipal and state parks, commercial development, and institutions. He has worked with clients through rigorous state and federal certificate and licensing processes, obtained environmental regulatory permits, and managed field teams to monitor compliance throughout the course of construction.
Biological/ecological surveys
Pond management
Stream restoration
Surface and groundwater monitoring
Visual resources assessments
Wetland and stream delineations
Wetland mitigation design
Kelvin Wong's Bio
Kelvin is an energetic and collaborative senior project manager with over 10 years of diverse geotechnical engineering experience. His project work has spanned tall buildings and deep excavations from lot line construction to sprawling, new multi-acre developments. Kelvin has worked on projects with engineering, environmental, and hydrogeologic challenges. His integrated expertise provides insights that help clients make informed decisions early in a project lifecycle, regardless if it’s geotechnical in nature.
Kelvin embraces innovation while adapting proven strategies and solutions to new challenges. He thoughtfully synthesizes these strategies with team members and client goals into a unified approach.
Clients value Kelvin’s can-do attitude and ability to speak to designers, contractors, and owners in a way they understand. At Haley & Aldrich, Kelvin is helping to evolve industry practice for emerging foundation technologies, such as ground improvement and high-capacity micropiles, by providing technical review and guidance for project work across the firm.
Contaminated site management
Earth retention systems
Foundation design
Geotechnical engineering
Ground improvement
Groundwater
High-capacity micropiles
Stormwater
Support of excavation design
Kyle Block's Bio
Kyle has over 15 years of experience solving complex environmental issues with contaminants ranging from chlorinated solvents, metals, LNAPL/DNAPL, and coal tar. He’s found solutions across a broad range of industries, including for manufacturing, industrial, and transportation clients. Kyle manages projects by cultivating and leveraging strong relationships and partnerships in order to achieve mutually defined end goals and meet project budgets and schedules. He’s considered a mentor by colleagues and has successfully managed cross-functional teams to achieve successful outcomes for all parties. Clients look to Kyle to articulate difficult environmental issues into problems that can be clearly defined. He takes pride in the products delivered to clients and takes to heart their ends goals and financial stakes as if he were the site’s owner.
Chlorinated solvents
LNAPL/DNAPL
Massachusetts Contingency Plan sites
Phase I and remedial investigations
Project management including scoping, sequencing, and budgeting
Site Characterization and remedial investigations
Superfund
Vapor intrusion
Lee Vanzler's Bio
Seeing new communities thrive and prosper motivates Lee to help his clients find the right geotechnical and environmental solutions. Whether he’s working on a hospital, bridge, highway, or residential development, Lee focuses on the end-user. As senior project manager, Lee is passionate about creating safe, functional, and high-quality spaces for people to work and live. He knows that each client has a different definition of success, so Lee is dedicated to offering solutions and carefully advising clients to meet and exceed project goals.
Lee enjoys solving complex problems and collaborating with project teams to develop customized, innovative solutions. Each project has its own unique challenges, and Lee relishes developing unique new solutions that deliver efficiencies, cost-savings, safety, and quality.
Building rehabilitation and adaptive reuse
Due diligence consulting
Foundation and geotechnical design
Geotechnical and environmental site characterization
Geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring
Slope stability evaluation and improvement
Support of excavation systems and urban construction
Richard Volpi's Bio
For 35 years Rick has sought to safely deliver innovative, cost-efficient solutions for his clients’ most difficult environmental challenges. To do so, he has been involved on the ground floor of the developing sciences related to the degradation of hydrocarbons and solvents, monitored natural attenuation, vapor intrusion, and recalcitrant compounds.
Rick’s experience spans management, field investigation, reporting, and remediation phases of hazardous and non-hazardous waste sites completed under multiple Federal and State regulatory programs, including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), and state programs in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, among others. Rick has also conducted or managed Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) Reports in 46 states, as well as in Canada, Germany, Hungary, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Mexico.
Aquifer characterizations
Contamination assessments
Hydrogeological investigations
Natural attenuation modeling and monitoring
Non-aqueous phase liquid contamination assessment and remediation.
Phase I and II ESAs
Regulatory compliance evaluation and negotiation
Risk and liability identification
Steven Phillips's Bio
Steve is known by his clients as a trusted advisor and strategic contributor who continually looks for new ways to reduce project risks. As a senior project manager, he oversees the permitting, siting studies, alternatives analysis, field surveys, and reporting for complex energy development projects.
Steve works closely with his clients and other Haley & Aldrich staff to identify issues before they emerge, and he solves problems on-the-spot when required. He enjoys finding the right solutions and team members to ensure his clients do not experience delays during project development or challenges with environmental compliance during construction.
Budget and schedule management
Environmental regulations and environmental assessments
Environmental resource investigations
Field survey management
Geologic investigations and interpretation
Geotechnical field investigations
Permitting
Quality control oversight
Regulatory agency expertise
Thomas Vanage's Bio
As a project manager, Tom thrives on the opportunity for innovation that comes with each new project. While some tasks may be routine, others require brainstorming out-of-the-box ideas to find unique solutions for complex client challenges.
Tom employs the knowledge he’s gained during his nearly two decades of experience as a geologist and project manager to strategically tackle the toughest issues. In his 18-year tenure at Haley & Aldrich, Tom has conducted a wide variety of environmental evaluations and developed solutions for groundwater remediation projects as well as hydrogeological, soil, soil vapor, and bedrock investigations.
Tom strives to form strong, long-term client relationships. Understanding what keeps his clients up at night enables Tom to provide personalized, sustainable value on his projects.
Budget accountability
Cost estimates
Data evaluation
Field coordination
Groundwater, surface water, sediment, soil, and air sampling
Invoicing
Pump and treat system operation and maintenance
Report generation
Scope development and project planning
Subcontractor contracts
Other
Colleen Canfield's Bio
Colleen finds the solution to her clients’ environmental issues by examining process-based conceptual site models, leveraging her knowledge of current environmental regulations, and aligning them with her clients’ business goals. By blending strategic thinking and scientific expertise, Colleen has become a leader in her field and a valued asset to her clients. This includes leading a team of more than 20 consultants to support the work of an aerospace company that is also Haley & Aldrich’s second largest client.
Using her more than 15 years of experience and passion for contributing to a sustainable environment for future generations, Colleen finds innovative and cost-efficient solutions to the most challenging environmental problems. She specializes in solving these issues for her aerospace facilities and airport clients. Colleen’s clients love working with her because of her expertise, work ethic, and big-picture approach.
Chlorinated volatile organic compounds (CVOC)
Forensic contaminant evaluation
Leverage of historical research in strategic approach
Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Performance review of remediation systems
Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments
Portfolio and project management
Regulatory negotiation
Specialization in aerospace facilities and airports
Strategy development for tough environmental issues
Pat McKee's Bio
As general counsel for Haley & Aldrich since 2000, Pat leads the efforts to manage legal and risk management issues. Pat draws on more than 30 years of experience in the engineering and environmental consulting industry to ensure compliance with relevant regulations, legal demands, and ethical standards that affect Haley & Aldrich’s business. Risk management and loss prevention are Pat’s key areas of focus.
Pat is involved in legal organizations that support the engineering and environmental consulting industry’s efforts to create legal clarity around our work. Pat has been chair of the Legal Affairs Committee for the Geoprofessional Business Association and is currently involved in the ACEC Legal Counsel Forum.