New Address, New Milestones: CDIM's 2024 Journey

We write now to wish you a warm holiday season and to provide an update on our status. After seven years in SF's Civic Center, CDIM has embarked on an exciting new chapter! We've moved our SF office/headquarters to 601 Montgomery Street, Suite 780, where the Financial District meets North Beach and Chinatown. With the iconic TransAmerica Pyramid as our neighbor, this move caps off a transformative 2024 for our team.

This year brought significant growth, including welcoming a PhD engineer and business manager to our family. We've secured major environmental contracts with the City of Oakland and SF Airport, while supporting our industrial and technology clients through evolving regulatory landscapes.

Our expertise continues to deepen, particularly in environmental compliance support for major development projects. We've tackled complex challenges with legacy pollutants and emerging concerns like PFAS and climate vulnerability. Our field work has continued to expand through use of advanced investigation techniques, remote monitoring, and vessel-based aquatic sampling aboard our 17-ft Boston Whaler.

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Looking ahead to 2025, we recognize the uncertainties in the global economy, political landscape, and climate challenges. While promulgation of federal environmental regulations may slow, we anticipate California maintaining its strong environmental stance and support for green investment.  As we adjust to our new location, we will redouble our efforts to provide high quality, client-created environmental consulting services to our commercial, development, industrial and municipal clients. Our staff is also excited to contribute to our profession by leading the effort to update the Hazardous Waste Section of the ASCE’s California Infrastructure Report Card.

And finally, we’re proud to report that our successful year has allowed us to increase our charitable giving to causes close to our hearts:

San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates (SFCASA), supporting foster children

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, advancing research and patient support

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As 2024 draws to a close, we wish you all a peaceful holiday season and a 2025 filled with meaningful work and precious time with loved ones.

Best wishes from the CDIM team,

Scott, Mary, John, Chris, Lisa, Kylie, Hamed, Catherine and Brian 

2023 Year End Message

Dear Friends, Family, Colleagues and Clients,

 We hope this message reaches you at the end of a productive and fulfilling year. Our team is grateful to be ending its sixth full year working alongside trusted colleagues on projects that positively impact our community.

 It's been a busy year: CDIM added a scientist and engineer to our team; we won a new $2.5M contract for a long-term client and a $0.5M contract with a new client; and, we continue to nurture a network of clients and partner firms by executing environmental projects with diligence and integrity. Through efficient business operations, we have also had the opportunity to continue to make donations to our partner charitable organizations: PanCan Network and SFCASA.

 As the year winds down, we write now to express gratitude to all our clients and partner firms for trusting us, and to wish you a peaceful close to 2023 and prosperity and joy in the year to come!

 Thank you,

The CDIM Team

Scott, Mary, John, Chris, Anne, Lisa, Kylie and Brian

Announcing Brian Price

CDIM is pleased to announce that Brian Price, EIT recently joined the firm. After earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree in environmental engineering from UC Berkely, Brian spent two years at an environmental and geotechnical engineering firm executing field projects.  He joined CDIM in July 2023. Brian will support CDIM on water system and field projects. 

Announcing Lisa Kappler

CDIM is pleased to announce that Lisa Kappler recently joined the firm. After spending five years at a national waste management firm honing her skills in hazardous material and waste management for technology clients, Lisa joined CDIM in May 2023. Lisa holds client service and quality as paramount values and will augment CDIM’s existing environmental compliance capabilities for CDIM industrial and technology clients.

CDIM Wins $2.5M Port of San Francisco Contract

CDIM is pleased to announce that we were recently awarded a four-year environmental consulting services contract with the Port of San Francisco to support the expansion and improvement of their waterfront facilities. Our team includes over 25+ subcontractors that, together with CDIM, will ensure that the Port gets best-in-class services for sediment assessment and remediation, water quality engineering, resource permitting and environmental regulatory compliance.

CDIM Provides Vessel-Based Sampling and Monitoring Services

Through recent project needs and equipment and vessel acquisition, CDIM Engineering now provides vessel-based sampling and monitoring services within northern California’s estuarine and riverine systems. CDIM is pleased to announce that it offers the following services:

• Vessel-based water quality monitoring including field observations, real time data collection, and sampling for chemical and physical analysis;

• Shallow sediment sampling;

• Vessel-based inspections and reconnaissance for dredging or sediment remediation projects;

• Deployment and operation of water quality monitoring stations;

• Application of high-resolution global navigation system devices for all projects;

• Data collection quality assurance procedures in accordance with project needs; and,

• Contracting and oversight for laboratory analysis including data validation and reporting.

Based in San Francisco, CDIM provides environmental and engineering services to local construction, development, industrial and municipal clients. Our staff of licensed professional engineers and geologist provide client-focused support on site engineering, contamination remediation, water quality and environmental regulatory compliance projects. We hold superior quality, cost efficiency and exceptional client-service as paramount values.

Examples of recent or ongoing on-water projects include:

• Dredging and Capping for Future Ferry Terminal Construction: CDIM was the overall consultant project manager and technical lead for water quality monitoring for the Mission Bay Ferry Landing Dredging and Cap Construction project in the Mission Bay/Central Basin Waterfront area of San Francisco. We provided vessel-based water quality monitoring during dredging and sediment capping, including both real-time monitoring and at-depth sampling for high resolution chemical analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), to ensure compliance with San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board requirements.

• Temperature and Harmful Algae Bloom Monitoring: CDIM provides on-water monitoring services facility that discharges water to the San Joaquin River. CDIM uses a 17-foot vessel to collect field measurements using a multiparameter devices as well as grab samples for harmful algal blooms (HAB) to maintain with the client’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.

CDIM maintains a Class A General Engineering Contractors License with Hazardous Substance Removal Certificate (1020239 A HAZ) and is a Local Business Enterprise (LBE) through the City of San Francisco Contract Monitoring Division (#CMD082017244). We value engineering solutions that accomplish our client’s objectives, advance our profession, and result in net positive business, community, and social impacts.

We are enthusiastic about our expanding services and continued growth as a company. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to discuss how our vessel-based services could assist in achieving your objectives!