Areas of Expertise

  • Brownfields Development

    Providing nationwide turn-key and design-build teams performing abatement, demolition, remediation, and site fill/civil contracting services at a Fixed Price or Guaranteed Maximum Price, including comprehensive liability transfer supported by site-specific insurance with available limits to $200MM.

  • Strategy, Performance & Risk Management

    Offering confidential Brownfields development and acquisition opportunities. Providing and arranging for project and acquisition financing, including both debt and equity. As well as, assisting buyers and sellers in transactions involving professional environmental and insurance services firms.

  • Claims & Litigation

    Assisting buyers and sellers in transactions involving professional environmental consulting, engineering, contracting and insurance services firms.

Consultations & Referrals

WND does not provide but enjoys strategic alliances and can provide referrals to environmental engineering and consulting, engineering and design, insurance brokerage and specialty environmental law firms.

Environmental Management Accomplishments

  • Pioneered the concept of “Environmental Due Diligence,” i.e., conducting environmental audits of real property for the presence of contaminants prior to acquisition, property transfer or foreclosure. Developed comprehensive, multi-property, nationwide programs for Prudential Realty Group, Inc. Newark, NJ, Equitable Real Estate Investment Management, Atlanta, GA., Mutual of New York (MONY), Atlanta, GA, and American Real Estate Group, Ft. Worth, TX.

  • Developed the asbestos management program including survey protocols, Operations & Maintenance Program, standard design for abatement and the abatement management and inspection program for Equitable Real Estate Investment Management Inc., Atlanta, GA, and Prudential Realty Group, Newark, NJ.

  • Designed sophisticated asbestos removal techniques for operating mechanical rooms and occupied buildings with a specific emphasis on high-rise properties. These engineering protocols became industry standard and incorporated into federal (OSHA), state (NJ & NY) and local regulations (NYC). These procedures were submitted to the US Patent office.

  • Designed and managed over $100 million in and contaminated soil/groundwater remediation projects at US Dept. of Defense sites, private industry and institutional sites nationwide utilizing a wide array of technologies.

  • Designed and managed over $ 1.5 billion of hazardous materials remediation projects on properties throughout the United States for private industry, institutions and government.

  • Designed and managed waste minimization and process waste treatment systems for sludges and oily wastes for the international petrochemical industry.

  • Developed, financed and constructed a waste treatment facility utilizing state-of-the-art thermal technology. This site was contracted to perform over $20 million in recycling/treatment within the first six months of operation.

  • Established the Environmental Claims Center in 1996 and formed one of the nation’s most prestigious environmental and claims consultancies, serving predominantly the insurance industry.