SCS ENGINEERS ANNOUNCES NEW “SCS SECURE” BROWNFIELDS REDEVELOPMENT SERVICES GROUP

 

Long Beach, CA - SCS Engineers, a full-service environmental engineering and construction firm, announces the formation of SCS Secure, a new practice group offering integrated real estate, site renewal, and risk transfer solutions for environmentally impaired or underutilized properties.
 

From its first project in 1970, SCS has assisted property owners in solving unusual environmental challenges that interfere with residential, commercial, and industrial land uses.  The firm is an industry leader in the specialized area of redevelopment of closed landfills and similar sites.  SCS Secure was established to help integrate environmental solutions with the real estate development process. The new group offers owners, buyers, and sellers of real estate a risk-free solution to environmental problems, including transfer of liability for impaired assets, guaranteed fixed price remediation to closure, and guidance for financial assistance. Drawing on SCS’ 35 years of experience, SCS Secure provides proven engineering, construction, and long term operations experience for environmental systems that protect people from methane, other vapors, polluted groundwater, and contaminated soils.   “The formation of SCS Secure was a natural progression from our proven environmental remediation services, allowing us to more fully support developers considering brownfield projects,” said Dan Johnson, vice president of SCS Engineers based in the firm’s San Diego office.  “Redevelopment projects can be far more attractive given such comprehensive ‘turn-key’ redevelopment services.”   Mike McLaughlin, a Senior Vice President with SCS Engineers in the firm’s Reston, Virginia office, will lead the SCS Secure practice group.  McLaughlin is an attorney and engineer with more than 25 years of experience with the firm.  Other key members of the SCS Secure management team include:  
 

• Joe Kesling, Vice President, who joined SCS in 1999 following a career at Principal Financial, and who has over 30 years of experience in the real estate and consulting industries
   

  Mark Varljen, a Vice President and geologist in the firm’s Bellevue, Washington office, and who has almost 20 years of experience
   

  Ken LaConde, a Vice President in the firm’s Long Beach, California office who has long been active in the California Redevelopment Association, and who joined SCS in 1974
   

• Dan Johnson, a Vice President in the firm’s San Diego office, and a charter member of the California chapter of the National Brownfields Association, as well as being along-time member of the California Redevelopment Association.

SCS Engineers recently provided remediation services for the formerly contaminated 26-block area of East Village in San Diego, the current site of PETCO Park. The environmental engineering firm also completed several investigation and remediation projects on property incorporated into the Chesterfield Square retail development in South Los Angeles.  Both of these projects received prestigious Phoenix Awards as examples of outstanding Brownfields redevelopment.  The Phoenix Awards will be formally presented during the Brownfields 2005 conference November 2-4 in Denver.

 

SCS Engineers provides engineering, construction, and contract operations services to private and public sector clients through a network of more than 40 offices in 17 states.  For more information about SCS Secure, please visit our website at www.scs-secure.com or www.scsengineers.com, or contact service@scsengineers.com.