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New Senior Staff Joins MBA

Two senior staff members have recently joined MBA based out of the Ventura region. Read more

MBA receives second Award for the San Ramon City Center Project - 2007 State AEP Award for Outstanding Environmental Analysis Document

Read more about this exceptional project in the article listed below.

MBA awarded EBJ Project Merit Award for Outstanding Energy & Infrastructure Project

On February 20, 2008 MBA was presented with the Environmental Business Journal’s Business Achievement Award for Project Merit in Energy & Infrastructure. Then, in March 2008 MBA received another award from the State Association of Environmental Professionals for Outstanding Environmental Analysis Document. These awards were received for the outstanding efforts by the MBA team on the San Ramon City Center Project. Senior Air Quality Scientist, Joe O’Bannon, led the preparation of a Subsequent Environmental ImpactReport (SEIR) for the San Ramon City Center, a 2.1 million square foot mixed-use infill project creating much-needed residential space in concert with the City’s 2020 General Plan. Read more...

Michael Brandman Associates Forerunner in Latest Regulations

Along with other consultants, public agencies, and regulators, MBA has been following the guidance resulting from the consolidated cases Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. United Stated (referred to as Rapanos).  Unlike others, however, MBA had the unique opportunity to have one of its jurisdictional delineations be a case study for the process between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of determining significant nexus. Read more...

MBA awarded AEP's Outstanding Environmental Resource Document Award

The Association of Environmental Professionals' Outstanding Environmental Resource Document Award was presented to MBA for the production of the Glen Helen Specific Plan & Resource Management Plan. This document was prepared as part of the Glen Helen Specific Plan and Environmental Impact Report for the County of San Bernardino. Read more...

AEP Forms new Central Chapter; Holds First Event

MBA’s Kathryn Lee of the Fresno Office has been elected as President of the newly formed Central Chapter of the Association of Environmental Professionals. With the goal of establishing a local network of environmental professionals with diverse backgrounds and keen interests in the southern San Joaquin Valley, the foothills and mountains, the Chapter will include members previously with the Superior Chapter as well as professionals throughout Madera, Merced, Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Mono and Inyo and Kern County! Read more...

MBA Presents at Inland Geological Society General Membership Meeting

Michael Brandman Associates (MBA) was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Inland Geological Society’s General Membership Meeting on Thursday, November 1, 2007. Inland Empire Environmental Services Director, Kent Norton, AICP, REA was a keynote speaker. The topic was California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), something MBA knows quite a bit about. Read more...

MBA Presentation at APA in San Jose

On October 1, 2007, MBA’s Chryss Meier presented at the 2007 California Chapter of the American Planning Association (CAPA) annual conference in San Jose. She was the last rule developer who worked on Rule 9510-Indirect Source Review (ISR) at the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (SJVAPCD), and had taken the rule to approval at the SJVAPCD’s Governing Board, and worked on the implementation of the rule. Read more...