What Makes Excel Unique?

  • Excel’s professionals are experts in balancing technical innovation, economic feasibility, and agency acceptability with a clear focus on achieving project closure in a timely, cost-effective, and compliant manner.
  • Excel’s professionals are highly experienced with both the administrative and technical requirements of New Jersey environmental regulations.
  • Excel has developed strong relationships with the NJDEP and other state agencies through years of successfully navigating large and small projects through the compliance process.
  • Excel has a solid track record of success with innovative remedial alternatives under a wide range of circumstances and site conditions.  Our professionals stay on the forefront of new and emergent remediation technologies and often solve problems that others have said could not be solved.
  •  Excel’s professionals are well versed in State and Federal Grant, Loan, and Cost Recovery programs that offset costs of environmental compliance and remediation.  Excel prepares grant applications for environmental investigation, remedial action, and Brownfield Development Area designations on behalf of our public sector clients at our cost.
  • With five Licensed Site Remediation Professionals (LSRPs) on staff in addition to multiple senior professionals with the expertise needed to confidently, autonomously, and successfully design, implement, and complete remediation within the framework of the ever changing regulations.
  • Excel’s professionals have a keen understanding of the real estate transaction and redevelopment process, including development trends, issues of concern to lenders and investors, developments in the environmental insurance industry, and financial incentives for both the public sector and private third-party developers.
  • Excel has successfully completed site-wide remediation of Brownfield properties that fully integrates remediation into redevelopment planning, significantly offsetting capital costs.
  • Excel’s President, Lawra Dodge is a recognized expert in the Brownfield industry and is an active member of multiple industry organizations. Her input is routinely sought by public and private sector leaders on issues and policies that affect the industry.