Sustainable Design and Planning Services
What is sustainable? At Lemar we define it this way: striking a balance between sustainable economics and sustainable environments. We believe that it is important that our solutions are viable long-term both economically and environmentally.
Low Impact Development — Retaining and infiltrating rainfall on site, managing storm water with a focus on water quality protection. BARKER LEMAR Infiltration-based storm water management practices include:
water from impervious surfaces.
located to capture runoff from impervious surfaces.
temporarily store water.
parking that allows water to infiltrate reducing storm water run off.
Watershed Based Storm Water Management — Using field data, land use maps, volume calculations, peak flow rates, and other data to develop parcel level storm water discharge limits. Managing runoff using Low Impact Development at the parcel level reduces reliance on detention basins, culverts, and pipes and is sometimes required by municipal ordinances.
Wetland Banking — Delineating, designing, and providing administrative support for wetland banks. Lemar can provide the technical and administrative support required to develop a wetland bank program.
Wetland Mitigation — Federal and State 404 and 401 permitting including US Fish and Wildlife Consultation and State Historical Society Consultation.
Stream Bank Mitigation — Design and installation of vegetative covers, erosion control mats, re-meandering straightened channels, installing weir and boulder check dams to improve water quality in small streams.
Stream Assessment — Using GPS, GIS, tablet computers, and digital imaging, Lemar provides assessment and documentation of streams including: stream bank and bed, surrounding land uses, signs of recreational use, vegetative cover, illegal dumping activity, and the location of pipes and conveyances.
Carbon Trading — An economic incentive to sequester carbon and assist landowners reduce greenhouse gas emissions, manage landfill gas, implement no till agricultural practices, plant trees, and divert certain waste streams using alternative waste management disposal practices.
Carbon Footprint Assessment — A measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide". It is meant to be useful for individuals, nations and organizations to conceptualize their personal (or organizational) impact in contributing to global warming. A conceptual tool in response to carbon footprints are carbon offsets, or the mitigation of carbon emissions through the development of alternative projects such as solar or wind energy or reforestation. The carbon footprint is a subset of the ecological footprint, which includes all human demands on the biosphere.
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Assessment and Compliance — Is a North American certification standard for green building performance. A comprehensive review of required prerequisites to determine achievability and compliance with LEED certification standards.
Geothermal Design and Installation — Using the insulating and heat absorbing capacity of the earth to provide energy efficient heating and cooling to residential, commercial, institutional, agricultural, and industrial buildings.
Lemar GeoVap™ — Lemar’s proprietary technology using geothermal energy systems to assist in the evaporation of leachate and similar waste liquids reducing expensive disposal alternatives.
Alternative Wastewater Treatment Options With Zero Discharge — Solutions with the effluent disposed of on the land and not discharged to a surface water course. Treatment options include either centralized or decentralized treatment: Decentralized treatment would include treatment with on site systems or with neighborhood systems. Disposal can be either centralized or decentralized with decentralized systems on site or within neighborhoods.