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We’ve got the environment down to a science

Our team is passionate about the relationship between our natural and built environments. Drawing from over 20 technical specialties, we assemble teams tailored to your project, whether it’s a school, a road, broadband fiber, or another challenge. 

With a long-term commitment to the people and places we serve, our Environmental Services team connects to projects on a personal level and collaborates with communities across the globe.  

Our goal is clear: avoid resource impacts, expedite regulatory approvals, and cut project costs. We do this by connecting you and our environmental consulting and engineering teams at the onset of a project and keeping everyone connected through exploration, planning, operations, and closure.

Our approach to environmental solutions protects wildlife habitats, restores biodiversity and wetlands, and builds active communities. We support nature-based solutions, carbon capture, and a range of sustainability-focused goals. 

By balancing innovation with proven science and engineering practices, we deliver environmental services that meet your needs—today and into the future.

We are recognized for our sustainability leadership
A-
CDP Score
PRIME
ISS ESG Score
AA
MSCI ESG Rating

Stantec is rated as a climate leader with an A- score by CDP, and we are the only firm in our space that has achieved that rating for the last eight years.
Stantec’s ISS Corporate ESG rating continues to outperform our peers year after year (2025).
Stantec’s MSCI ESG rating is top of class relative to other engineering and design firms, six years running (2025).

Every project has a purpose

Our team consists of biologists, geologists, archaeologists, hydrologists, and engineers. It also includes geochemists, regulatory specialists, risk assessors, toxicologists, and other scientists. We take the time to understand each project—learning its past, adapting to the present, and preparing for future shifts. Our teams find solutions that address regulatory and environmental challenges. Through partnerships, industry experience, and technology, we’re developing new, inventive ways to solve emerging issues and meet regulations.

We make communities feel like home

Transforming land into a residential or mixed-use community—or a public space with parks, trails, roadways, and transit—calls for technical skill, creative vision, and insight into development. We’ve merged this broad array of expertise to create a team of engineers, surveyors, and environmental service professionals who can optimize the potential of your land and incubate vibrant communities. By creating unique spaces that respond to the land and the people who use them, we can help you bring your community vision to life.

We help manage risk

We’ve seen the environmental challenges that can affect your business. Based on a deep understanding of markets, function, regulatory compliance, and best practices, we develop integrated designs to promote environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable solutions. We are forward-looking and continually adapting to the market, your needs, and regulatory requirements. Our teams can help you manage risks to protect the wellbeing of employees and communities, reduce lost-time and insurance costs, and increase productivity.

We want you to succeed

Whether you’re preparing a complex permit application, conducting time-critical due diligence for acquisitions, assessing a facility for water and energy efficiency, monitoring a site during construction, developing a decommissioning plan, assessing ecological and human health risk, or outlining regulatory options before a dam removal, we can help. Our local strength, knowledge, and relationships around the globe, coupled with our world class expertise, allow us to go anywhere to meet your environmental consulting needs.

Services


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Assessment & Permitting Using science to meet regulations.
Atmospheric Sciences Rooted in reality, educated in natural sciences, and experts in the latest regulatory and permitting compliance, we go beyond the common approach to develop ideal results for clients.
Human Environment When we feel connected as a community, we work better together.
Ecosystems By documenting existing conditions and determining potential impacts, we develop avoidance and mitigation measures that are cost-effective but ensure protection of fish, aquatic invertebrates, and vegetation.
eDNA Management of protected species requires reliable methods for detecting their presence without causing them harm. eDNA allows for sampling the environment for DNA shed by organisms without capturing, handling, or observing the target species.
Environmental Health, Safety & Compliance We have certified industrial hygienists, safety professionals, toxicologists, and other specialists developing practices that can limit your risks and liabilities.
PFAS Our PFAS team helps assess and manage this group of chemical pollutants in line with evolving guidelines, standards, and regulations.
Remediation & Revitalization We use our expertise to investigate, plan and implement the right solution to your challenges.
Water Resources We help you to protect and restore sensitive water resources, explore and develop new sources of water, and manage risk resulting from sedimentation and flooding.

We’re better together

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