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Real Estate

Terraphase experts support developers and land owners in assessing environmental liabilities as part of complex transactions and help mitigate development risk.

Expert Real Estate Consulting

Terraphase provides accurate, timely information to help our clients navigate property transactions and site development. We anticipate challenges and offer innovative solutions while incorporating purposeful environmental, social, and governance strategies. From project inception to completion, we collaborate with stakeholders to deliver feasible and economical solutions. Our expertise includes:

  • Due diligence
  • Hazard & risk evaluation
  • Environmental compliance
  • Design and construction
  • Remediation design and implementation
  • Regulatory support
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Key Services

Our Solutions

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Environmental Assessment and Remediation

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Compliance Services

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Healthcare

Healthcare

We support clients with industrial hygiene, remediation, and waste stream management services.

We support clients with industrial hygiene, remediation, and waste stream management services.

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Transportation & Infrastructure

Transportation & Infrastructure

We support the following industries:

  • Rail operators
  • Marine transport
  • Trucking companies
  • Cargo Transportation

 

We support the following industries: Rail operators Marine transport Trucking companies Cargo Transportation  

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Metals

Metals

We support the following industries:

  • Automobile repair centers and scrap yards
  • Metals recycling
  • Battery recycling
  • Mining
  • Steel and ironworks manufacturing

 

We support the following industries: Automobile repair centers and scrap yards Metals recycling Battery recycling Mining Steel and ironworks manufacturing  

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Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences

Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences

We provide services for active facilities and legacy sites that includes auditing, permitting, hazardous materials and waste management, site characterization, and remediation.

We provide services for active facilities and legacy sites that includes auditing, permitting, hazardous materials and waste management, site characterization, and remediation.

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Chemical Manufacturing and Recycling

Chemical Manufacturing and Recycling

We support the following industries:

  • Chemical manufacturing
  • Wood products
  • Semiconductors
  • Electronics manufacturing
  • Construction materials manufacturing
  • Food processing
  • Aerospace products
  • Solar panels
  • Industrial tool manufacturing
  • Hazardous waste disposal & recycling

 

We support the following industries: Chemical manufacturing Wood products Semiconductors Electronics manufacturing Construction materials manufacturing Food processing Aerospace products Solar panels Industrial tool manufacturing Hazardous waste disposal & recycling  

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Petrochemical

Petrochemical

Our experts support both upstream and downstream operations and facilities with various services including emergency response support.

Our experts support both upstream and downstream operations and facilities with various services including emergency response support.

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Representative Projects

Clients turn to Terraphase for trusted expertise, strategic guidance, and impactful, high-value solutions.

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Regency Hub Commercial Redevelopment

Terraphase performed environmental assessments and remediation services at a shopping center formerly occupied by a dry-cleaning facility from 1930 to

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Treasure Island Redevelopment Project Environmental Due Diligence and Construction Compliance, California

Treasure Island is one of the largest development sites in the San Francisco Bay Area, featuring plans for 8,000 new

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Bellwether District Refinery Redevelopment

Terraphase is the lead environmental consultant for the Hilco Redevelopment Partners (HRP) transformational redevelopment of a former petroleum refinery located

Lead Practitioners

Our experts are ready to assist. Connect with our senior practitioners for customized solutions to your project needs.

Nader Sherif

Nader Sherif

Vice President, Developers/Land Owner Market Sector Lead, Senior Principal Engineer
Charlene Drake, PG, LSRP

Charlene Drake, PG, LSRP

Senior Principal Geologist
Charles E. Robinson, PE

Charles E. Robinson, PE

Senior Principal Engineer
James R. Farrow, RG, PG, CHG, LH, CEM

James R. Farrow, RG, PG, CHG, LH, CEM

Federal Market Sector Lead, Principal Hydrogeologist

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Christopher Alger, PG, CHG, CEG

Senior Principal Engineering Geologist

Christopher’s Profile

Christopher Alger, PG CHG, CEG, is a Principal Engineering Geologist at Terraphase and brings over 35 years of scientific investigation, design and consulting experience in a multidisciplinary problem-solving practice that spans contaminant hydrogeology and site remediation to geotechnical engineering for landslide and slope failure studies.

In his subsurface site characterization and remediation practice, Chris has developed creative solutions to accelerate remediation, regulatory closure, and redevelopment of impaired properties in California and throughout the United States.

Chris has designed and implemented a wide range of remediation technologies, including soil vapor extraction systems for volatile chemicals, in situ fixation injection for hexavalent chromium, in situ and ex situ bioremediation, air sparging, ozone injection, groundwater extraction and treatment, dewatering systems, and excavation programs.

Chris is routinely engaged to provide expert review and opinions in peer review and litigation projects for insurance and attorney clients involved with multi-party disputes nationwide. Chris continues to provide expert services for dry cleaner litigation and resolution, superfund defense, RCRA facility operations and closure, cost recovery, and CERCLA claims. His work in this capacity has included preparing declarations, expert reports, remedial cost estimates, depositions, and other expert witness services. Chris’s geotechnical engineering work has involved mapping of Landslides and rockfalls in the San Francisco Bay Area, Yosemite National Park, and Utah’s Wasatch Range. He has served as the engineering geologist responsible for pre-construction geotechnical investigations, oversight of client and third-party residential and commercial grading projects, and geologic hazard investigations.

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