What Services Does Straughan Environmental, Inc. Offer?

Straughan Environmental, Inc. is an environmental consulting and engineering firm that serves both government and commercial clients. According to its website, the firm is led by engineers, planners, and scientists and organizes its work around four service areas: management and consulting, planning and public involvement, environmental design and engineering, and assessments and permitting. If your project involves environmental compliance, infrastructure planning, ecological restoration, or public-facing environmental programs, the service list below is the place to check whether your needs fall within the firm's stated capabilities.

Management and Consulting

This category covers the programmatic and oversight side of environmental work:

• Environmental Program Management – running environmental programs and compliance efforts across a project or agency portfolio.
• Construction Management + Inspection – oversight and inspection during construction, which typically matters when environmental commitments must be verified in the field.
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – spatial analysis and mapping support, useful for screening sites, tracking resources, or communicating project data.

The website's featured projects illustrate this in practice: for the Maryland State Highway Administration, the firm provides TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) program management, and for the District Department of Energy and Environment it performed underground and piped stream mapping.

Planning and Public Involvement

• Planning + Public Involvement – combining project planning with outreach to stakeholders and communities.

This service tends to pair with regulatory processes where public comment or community coordination is required. The I-95 Express Toll Lanes project for the Maryland Transportation Authority, for example, included public outreach alongside design review and permitting work.

Environmental Design and Engineering

This is the firm's technical design and restoration side:

• Ecosystem Restoration
• Water Resources + Civil Engineering
• Coastal + Resiliency
• Sustainable Infrastructure

Featured restoration work includes stream restoration and pond decommissioning for Frederick County's Office of Sustainability and Environmental Resources, and stream restoration mitigation design as part of the I-95 project.

Assessments and Permitting

• Assessments & Permitting
• Alternative Analysis + NEPA – analysis of alternatives and documentation under the National Environmental Policy Act.
• Natural Resources + Permitting
• Cultural Resources
• Noise + Air Quality Analysis

These services support projects that need environmental review, resource surveys, or permit approvals before construction. The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion work for the Virginia Department of Transportation, which involved a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan and environmental services, is an example of this category in the transportation sector.

Markets Served

The website lists the following markets, noting that the firm serves both government and commercial clients:

Federal work includes support for the Indian Health Service Sanitation Facilities Construction Program, while county and local government work includes the stream mapping and restoration projects noted above.

How to Decide If This Fits Your Project

Use the service categories as a checklist against your own scope:

• If you need program-level environmental management, construction inspection, or GIS, look at the management and consulting services.
• If your project requires NEPA documentation, permitting, or resource studies (natural, cultural, noise, air), the assessments and permitting area is the relevant one.
• If you need design or restoration work — streams, water resources, coastal resilience, sustainable infrastructure — the design and engineering services apply.
• If your project involves public outreach or community coordination, planning and public involvement is the matching category.

The website also states that the firm works with a commitment to quality, customer service, safety, and management, and describes its approach as developing creative strategies that can improve environmental and community outcomes while often reducing project costs and schedules. For a specific scope question, the site's "Looking for a specific solution?" prompt and its Markets & Services section are the direct routes to confirm whether a given service applies to your situation.