LEEDS Announcements from Chazen Company

The Chazen Companies, a leading provider of engineering, land surveying, environmental, planning, and landscape architecture services, announced that sixteen professional staff have attained certification as LEED® Accredited Professionals based on the criteria awarded through the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). USGBC is a nonprofit organization composed of leaders working to advance buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work. Driving its mission to transform the built environment is USGBC’s LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™, which is supported by the LEED Professional Accreditation program, administered through the Green Building Certification Institute.

The sixteen staff include the following in the Company’s Troy office:

John Montagne, RLA, Vice President of Land Development
James “Andy” Rymph, RLA, Director of Landscape Architectural Services
Roger Keating, PE, Director of Engineering Services
Angelo Santabarbara, PE, Senior Project Manager/ Engineer
Craig Tripp, RLA, ASLA, Senior Landscape Architect
Eric Johnson, PE, Senior Project Engineer
Sean Doty, PE, Senior Project Engineer
Walter Kubow, PE, CPESC, Project Manager/Senior Project Engineer
Ed Larkin, EIT, Project Engineer
Kelsey Gnoinski, Assistant Project Engineer

“Chazen is taking the talk of sustainability and putting it into action,” said Mark Kastner, the Company’s President. “Our staff is committed to providing clients with the most comprehensive approach to their projects. These LEED Accredited Professionals can help clients determine how their projects can be sensitive to the environment and the community as a whole. We’re looking forward to having even more LEED Professionals among our staff before year’s end.”

The Chazen Companies, founded over 60 years ago by Milton Chazen, is a professional services firm offering engineering, land surveying, environmental, planning, and landscape architecture services. Chazen serves clients from private land developers, to municipalities, healthcare, education, and more through offices in Poughkeepsie, Troy, and Glens Falls, New York, and Waterford, Connecticut.