Environment

Environmental Consulting at Booz Allen

Booz Allen Hamilton provides leading-edge environmental expertise to government clients addressing the full range of environmental challenges, including regulatory development and compliance, natural resource management, greenhouse gas reduction, and sustainability. We work with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Interior (DOI), Department of Defense (DoD), and organizations throughout the U.S. federal government to improve national and organizational environmental programs.

Booz Allen has developed a broad perspective on environmental issues, having supported the regulatory and regulated communities for 35 years. We help clients address complex issues associated with air, land, and water contamination, greenhouse gas emissions, and habitat and natural resource protection. Our thought leadership insights into sustainability and climate change, environmental management, and water and resource management, supported by our in-depth expertise in facility and installation management, provide cutting-edge approaches to address the most pressing environmental challenges.

Our Work

Booz Allen works with government clients on critical projects to help achieve their environmental goals in line with their organizational mission. Whether it is developing solutions that position an organization for carbon regulation, provide innovative tools for natural resource management, or result in more efficient installation or facility construction, operation, and disposal, Booz Allen delivers results that endure.

• Developing a Growth Strategy for the U.S. Green Building Council—Booz Allen is helping the U.S. Green Building Council design and transition to a new certification process to meet surging demand for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.
• Safeguarding the Nation’s Water—Booz Allen partnered with the EPA to modernize the Integrated Compliance & Information System (ICIS) to support effective compliance and enforcement of regulations protecting the nation’s water supply.
• Wolf Trap Goes Green—Booz Allen was asked by the Wolf Trap Foundation to help develop a greening strategy to reduce energy use and waste generation, improve procurement practices, and involve and educate visitors and the arts community.
• Sustainability of Installations and Ranges in DoD—Booz Allen supports the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment) and Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Readiness) by developing and implementing proactive strategies and initiatives that promote regional collaborative planning and sustainability.

Our Capabilities

Booz Allen brings world-class management and technology expertise to provide solutions on the full range of environmental challenges. We work with clients to develop and implement solutions for sustainability and climate change and offer a complete suite of environment-specific services to complement our firmwide capabilities:

• Assurance and Resilience
• Economics and Business Analysis
• Environmental Management
• Facility and Installation Management
• Information Technology
• Modeling and Simulation
• Organization and Strategy
• Safety and Security
• Supply Chain and Logistics
• Systems Engineering and Integration

Career Opportunities

Explore career opportunities at the leading edge of Environmental Consulting at Booz Allen.

Additional Information

• Greening Enterprises: How to Assess and Develop Your Organization’s Drive Toward Sustainability—Introducing a new methodology to help organizations design and implement high-performing sustainability programs.
• A New Tool for Green Buildings—A joint Environmental Protection Agency-Booz Allen team has created unique “crosswalk” that makes it easier for federal buildings to go green.
• Natural Infrastructure Asset Management—Booz Allen delivers a new, dynamic strategy for managing natural assets that enables DoD's military installations and ranges to partner with government, business, private land owners and environmental organizations on broad-based conservation efforts that sustain both the environment and military mission.
• Miles to Go before They’re Green—A performance-based approach to combating surface transportation-generated greenhouse gas emissions.
• A Model Business Recycling Program—Fairfax County, Virginia recognizes Booz Allen for the second consecutive year with its Business Recycling Award—and asks the firm to mentor other companies.
• A Proactive Approach towards Healthier Oceans—With pro bono assistance from Booz Allen, the Ocean Conservancy designs a comprehensive plan to further enhance a worldwide coastal cleanup effort.
• “Green” Initiative Receives Corporate Social Responsibility Award—Booz Allen lends pro bono support to Wolf Trap’s lauded, first-of-its-kind effort to incorporate eco-friendly policies into the performing arts.
• New Solutions to Traffic Congestion May Also Reduce Environmental Concerns—Booz Allen principal Joyce Wenger discusses a role for environmentalists in linking traffic congestion to climate change at “The Climate Think Tank: Transportation’s Impacts and Solutions” conference in May 2008.
• The Critial Enabler—Government and the private sector need to creatively and strategically collaborate if realistic solutions on sustainability are to be developed and implemented.
• Preserving the Environment—Government and commercial organizations are coming to understand how their environmental activities can be sources of value and a competitive advantage.
• Lights! Water! Motion!—Public and private sectors need to join forces in addressing the transportation, energy, and water crises in tandem with a comprehensive strategy to handle the infrastructure requirements of the future.
• Unrecognized Assets—Environmental Liabilities—Even abandoned oil platforms and polluted wetlands—are hidden sources of value.
• Improving the U.S. National Parks—Booz Allen helped The National Park Service with a $5 billion deferred maintenance backlog by developing a comprehensive asset management philosophy.
• Worldwide Tab to Fix Aging Infrastructure Will Total $40 Trillion over 25 Years—Smart, Sustainable, Secure, and Affordable (S3A) solutions can be applied to modernize the world’s water, electricity, and transportation systems, and installations and facilities.
• Thousands of Booz Allen Staff Participate in Firm-Wide "Green" Initiatives—Creative transportation and work options are reducing environmental impacts while supporting both employee and client needs.
• Turning Assets into Value: Leveraging Federal Real Property—Tapping into “the tool box” can unleash a variety of alternative solutions for the government’s aging infrastructure challenges.