2026 Environmental Seminar Sponsors
Stoel Rives, a full-service law firm with a nationally-recognized environmental, natural resources, and real estate practice. Stoel Rives assists with all aspects of regulatory compliance, site remediation, project permitting, development, and construction, including counseling and litigation services related to cost recovery, insurance coverage, and project construction.
Maul Foster Alongi, An integrated consulting firm offering award-winning services in environmental and civil engineering, site planning and development, communications and outreach, environmental assessment and cleanup, strategic planning, Geographic Information Systems(GIS), health and safety services, and air quality. MFA has decades of experience assisting Washington ports with their unique commercial, environmental, statutory, and community priorities.
Ameresco, Inc. is a leading international developer of comprehensive energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Our team of experts helps customers achieve long-term value and sustainability through integrated energy solutions—ranging from efficiency upgrades and renewable energy systems to innovative facility modernization—all supported by practical financing and guaranteed performance. For Ports in Washington, Ameresco’s state-qualified Performance Contracting approach offers a clear, low-risk path to achieve fiscal and operational goals. We help Ports reduce operating expenses, upgrade and maintain facilities, stabilize energy costs, enhance occupant comfort, boost tenant appeal, and strengthen energy resiliency—all while supporting local economic growth and protecting the environment.
Anchor QEA is an environmental engineering and science consulting firm that specializes in planning, permitting, design, construction, and monitoring of waterfront projects. With offices nationwide, Anchor QEA provides solutions to complex environmental, development, and restoration needs for port and waterfront facilities.
In the past half decade, CSI’s work to catalyze showcase integrated infrastructure projects has centered on Industrial Symbiosis (IS), a uniquely powerful approach to boost local economies, grow jobs, and accelerate sustainability at the same time.
CSI has spearheaded the IS movement in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) by:
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pioneering a comprehensive technical assistance delivery approach that is helping a wide range of PNW communities develop their local IS initiatives and projects
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leading multiple IS study tours to Denmark involving over 200 Pacific Northwest elected, business, agency, and community leaders
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supporting these leaders to bring the inspiration and innovations we discovered in Denmark to initiate IS action back home
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galvanizing broad bipartisan support in the Washington and Oregon legislatures to direct over $16 million toward IS innovation
Law and policy firm specializing in energy, environment, land use, real estate, and government relations matters.
Established in 1919, Kennedy/Jenks Consultants is an employee-owned, multidisciplinary environmental engineering consulting firm specializing in water, wastewater, stormwater, and ballast water management, civil engineering and utility design, construction management, upland environmental investigation and site remediation, brownfields redevelopment, environmental compliance, and litigation support for Northwest marine ports and airports.
MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions makes buildings work better. We are a full-service mechanical construction company serving the Pacific Northwest since 1965. As the largest Washington and Oregon approved ESCO by workforce in the region, we provide high-quality performance contracting services to public institutions, government agencies, and local jurisdictions throughout the region. Our services include HVAC & mechanical, plumbing, electrical, alternative energy solutions, new construction, Smart Building technologies, and Clean Buildings Act compliance. With the largest service fleet in Washington, we self-perform most work, offering significant quality, value, and on-time execution to our customers.
Shannon & Wilson has supported the design and construction of port and harbor facilities for over six decades. We provide a variety of geotechnical, geologic, seismic, environmental, natural resources, environment planning, hydrogeologic, and hydraulic/hydrologic expertise for waterfront development and airport facilities. We specialize in deep foundations; soft soils; long- term settlement; soil liquefaction and lateral spreading, integration of rail track and yards, permitting, wetlands identification and mitigation, environmental analysis and remediation, hydrogeologic assessments, dewatering, wave and scour modeling, interior drainage, coastal floodplain, and levee assessment and design. Our environmental planning group specializes in SEPA/NEPA environmental documentation and permitting for Washington ports. We employ 190 staff in our Seattle, Tri-Cities, and Portland offices, and 387 nationwide.
Provides professional consulting services across the Pacific Northwest through our ten offices in Oregon and Washington. Our services include: Civil, Structural, Transportation, Traffic, and Geotechnical Engineering; Environmental Services, Health and Safety, Surveying, Landscape Architecture, and Natural Resource Planning. Since 1989, we have offered quality, local staff and responsive services to public ports and their tenants. With over 2,000 professionals nationwide, we specialize in planning and design of land development and capital improvement projects; environmental permitting and compliance; hazardous building materials abatement and demolition; and project management for waterfront and upland facility improvements.
Blakely Rock Strategies is a marine business consultancy led by Charles Costanzo, an attorney with advocacy, environmental and strategic business planning experience in the maritime industrial space. BRS holds twenty years of industry knowledge across ports, vessels, shipyards, government partners, and marine stakeholders. Successful projects have involved energy transition for terminals and vessels, siting and logistic challenges for shipyards and operators, coalition building and advocacy, and business development initiatives. BRS offers a multi-disciplinary, turnkey, maritime-specific government affairs solution that knows your business and understands the unique formula needed to protect against risk and maximize opportunities.
Civil, structural and marine engineering; landscape architecture, planning, natural resource delineations.
Services include environmental, geotechnical, contaminated site management, seismic, natural resources, and hydrogeology for port and harbor planning, permitting, terminal design and waterfront development. Specialize in remediation of contaminated sediments/dredged material and development on sites with complex geological and environmental issues. Includes support for deep water projects, capped aquatic disposal sites, piers, wharfs, marinas, dry docks, upland facilities, and retaining structures. Also specialize in wetlands, freshwater and marine fish biology, endangered species, habitat restoration, and stormwater management.
The Washington State Microenterprise Association (WSMA) assists Washington’s smallest businesses with the essential business tools, resources and financing they need to innovate, grow and flourish within their communities. WSMA’s primary work, capacity building support for nonprofit Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs), is done through grants, training, and technical assistance to ensure quality business tools and needed resources are accessible to every business in the state. These ESO partners specialize in providing business training, technical assistance and/or financing to companies with 5 or fewer employees in every industry sector. Many of the business owners include veterans, entrepreneurs with limited incomes, people with disabilities, rural businesses and those who have been historically marginalized. These ESO partners serve these communities so that they can earn more, build upon their work, expand their reach, and contribute to Washington State’s economy. WSMA also works closely with policy makers, Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs), public port districts, lenders, manufacturers, Associate Development Organization (ADOs), chambers of commerce, regional Tribes, experts in sustainability, workforce/economic development teams, and leaders around the country to grow the field of microenterprise development. WSMA seeks to build a path to prosperity for Washington’s smallest businesses that is integrated, community driven and meaningful in order to strengthen our local economies.
Jacobs is the industry’s largest provider of professional engineering and architecture services in the world and ranks as the #1 Program Management and Design Firm in Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) latest rankings. We lead the global professional services sector delivering solutions for a more connected, sustainable world. With approximately $11.5 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2024 and a workforce of over 45,000 across more than 400 offices in over 40 countries, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of services, including scientific, technical, professional and construction and program management for business, industrial, commercial, government and infrastructure sectors.
Our Global Ports & Maritime Group, comprising over 700 dedicated professionals, offers advisory, design, and program and construction management services across the container, bulk, general cargo, and energy sectors, as well as to port authorities, governments, and naval forces. We partner with port authorities, operators, and waterfront owners to provide comprehensive, and sustainable solutions, from initial planning to fully operational facilities.
In the Pacific Northwest, we have consistently been delivering services to our clients for over 30 years, including many on-call and longer-term program engagements. Jacobs’ portfolio of Port & Maritime services includes strategic planning and operations, equipment and technology, asset management, environmental permitting support, risk assessment, feasibility and optioneering, design, engineering, above and underwater inspection, scheduling, cost estimating, construction management, maintenance and rehabilitation planning, and program management.