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I have worked with the professionals at HSA Golden for nearly 20 years. In my experience, they are highly knowledgeable and efficient problem solvers. They also understand how to be responsive and keep the client informed. I look forward to working with them again.

Thomas K. Maurer
Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP

HSA Golden and Peter Barts came to me when I needed results. Peter reviewed previous work on our property and suggested a strategy for a broad scope of environmental services to solve our problems. Implementation went smoothly and without surprises. We still use him as environmental monitoring continues, and I would recommend Peter Barts and HSA Golden without hesitation.

Daniel Blackford, CCIM
Vice President, Realty Capital Advisors, Inc.
Regional Leader, Primerica Financial Services

I have known Peter Barts for over a decade, and I have always been well satisfied with Pete and HSA Golden’s environmental consulting work. He and his team are valuable assets in any transactional setting.

Geoffrey di Mauro
Environmental/Transaction Counsel
di Mauro Practice Group

HSA Golden is an exceptional environmental consulting firm with a great understanding of real estate development. They have worked on multiple developments that required a complete skill set, from basic Phase I Environmental Site Assessment studies to very complex Brownfield site remediation. I would not take on a project without their careful and professional review.

Tony Benge
President
Benge Development Corporation

Grove Scientific & Engineering Company continues to partner with HSA Golden on complex industrial projects requiring professional geologist and site development expertise. They fit well with our own company’s values and integrity.

Bruno Ferraro, C.E.P., Q.E.P.
President
Grove Scientific & Engineering Company

Pete and HSA Golden were recommended to us by the FDEP and did a tremendous job for our firm on a State regulatory-specific assessment project in Orlando, FL.  His assignments included both field and office work, including regulatory liaison, and helped me manage the project so well, that we hired his firm to help out again with further required assessments at this site.

R. Scott Higginbotham, RPG
Senior Project Manager, Environmental Science Group
Neel-Schaffer, Inc.

My firm has subcontracted HSA Golden for Phase II Environmental Site Assessment services on multiple occasions over the past several years.  Their staff is highly competent, diligent, and professional, and their work product is consistently thorough.  I look forward to many more years of collaboration with HSA Golden.

Laura Vedral, LEP
Environmental Scientist / Managing Member
Precision Environmental Assessments, LLC

We have used HSA Golden as our primary engineering firm for our business for more than seven years.  In that time, they have helped us with environmental studies to support the acquisition of three landfills and the development of a C&D recycling center.  Their support and expert advice has been instrumental in expansions, routine engineering, new site evaluations, compliance issues, as well as a host other environmental services.  Choosing HSA Golden as our engineer of record has been a solid choice for our business.

Tony Wibbeler
President
Orange County Environmental, LLC
Earth Guard Recycling

Your pragmatic approach to the environmental challenges that I have been confronted with in my brokerage business, and the timely professional way your environmental reporting has been accomplished for my personal properties, has kept me as a very satisfied customer for the past 20 years.

J. Wallace (Wally) Henderson
Owner/Developer – Lessor of Industrial/Commercial Properties
Tenant Representative – General Contractor
J. Wallace & Associates, Inc.

Dear Pete,

Since contracting with your services for many years, I am pleased to say the HSA has been a very responsive organization. I am especially impressed with the high quality work under very tight deadlines.

Sincerely,

Rob Kodsi
Vice President
Tricon Development of Brevard

I engaged Pete Barts and HSA Golden as an expert witness in a very large and complex case involving arsenic contamination in the soil and groundwater of a 100-acre subdivision.  Thanks to the compelling expert report prepared by Pete Barts and the continuous invaluable support of the HSA Golden team during the course of the case, we were able to settle the claim on the eve of trial for a very significant amount.  Pete’s expertise and insights were critical to the successful resolution of the case.

Michael R. Gibbons
Shareholder
Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.

David Leggett is a supremely conscientious consultant who has always provided top-notch service. In addition, when hiring David, I know I am getting the in-depth knowledge and meticulous care that my clients deserve. Having David on our team means I needn’t worry about the minutiae of the civil engineering work or verifying their coordination efforts because I know David already has an eye on those matters and will ensure they are resolved before I ever have to ask.

Heather Marquard
Architect, Paul Davis Partnership
LEED Faculty, U.S. Green Building Council

Pete,

Thank you and the staff at HSA Golden for your work on our UST site investigation project. You have been very accommodating to our schedule and demands, and your work on the project has been instrumental in helping us move this project through the local environmental agency and helping us to achieve the desired outcome with that agency. Our previous consultant was not able to accomplish this. Thanks to your work, we have reduced our groundwater monitoring from quarterly to semi-annually and are thus saving money. It is my pleasure to recommend you and HSA Golden for any project for which you are technically qualified.

Russell Strader
Environmental Manager
Boise Cascade, L.L.C.

Jim Golden was able to take a site that had been under Florida Department of Environmental Protection scrutiny and design a cleanup strategy to ultimately allow us to receive the needed permits for construction of a transfer station and operating facility.

Ramon Rivera
Owner
Diamond Systems, LLC

Mid-Florida Materials, a division of Hubbard Construction Company, owns and operates a 220-acre, C&D landfill in northwestern Orange County, Florida.  HSA Golden has provided Mid-Florida Materials with environmental consulting services since 2004.

Specifically, the services that HSA Golden currently provides for us include: environmental compliance and permitting; landfill engineering and design services; groundwater and landfill gas quality testing; and odor control/gas collection services.

We are pleased to have them on our team and highly recommend them to others.

Sincerely,

Dennis Severance
Manager
Mid-Florida Materials

Dear Pete,

As we prepare to close our site, you should know how much my family and I appreciate the peace of mind that we have had since HSA Golden actively directed the site assessment, remediaiton and subsequent monitoring.  If any prospective clients would like to talk with me personally for a recommendation, please provide them my number and I will be happy to speak with them.

Kind personal regards,

Matt Blake
Former Vice-President
United Solvents of America

Pete and his staff of civil and environmental engineers, geologists and environmental professionals are not satisfied unless the client is delighted. His friendly and calm demeanor belie his intensity when he adheres to the golden rule of treating clients as he would wish to be treated. His standards are high, and his clients reap the benefit.

Mark Hart
Co-Founder, Green Environmental Associates
Consultant and Trainer, American Safety Consultants, LLC
Consultant, Training Consultants, Inc.