Over Three Decades
Defining an Industry
Our History
Welcome to Solid Ground
Over three decades of investigating, engineering, digging, drilling, building, recycling and innovating. During that time, Impact Environmental has become a full-service industry leader providing vertically integrated services that can transform the relics of the industrial revolution into the successes of the information age. Working with small businesses to Fortune 500‘s, we partner with real estate developers, architects, contractors, industrial entities, and government agencies on some of the largest private development, transportation, energy, and infrastructure construction projects in the Nation. We find solutions and provide strategy.
1989
Humble Beginning
Rich Parrish starts the company working out of his parents’ garage on Long Island.
1991
Leader in the Industry
Impact Environmental coins the industry term, “Environmental Site Assessment” to replace the commonly used "Environmental Audit” for property transfer studies.
1994
Technological Hegemony
Impact Environmental secures Federal and State environmental and spill database for on-line sale to banks and engineering firms performing Phase I Environmental Site Assessments.
1995
Changing Recycling
Impact Environmental obtains the first beneficial use determination issued in the State of New York to recycle contaminated soil for use in construction materials.
1996
Geoprobe
Impact Environmental purchases the second then-novel Geoprobe hydraulic probing tool (8ML) for use on Long Island.
1998
Milestone
Impact Environmental completes its 5,000th Phase I Environmental Site Assessment – the company is widely recognized by northeast regional banks for the quality of its work.
1999
Mass Excavation
Impact Environmental performs the remediation on the largest legacy Manufactured Gas Plant in the City of New York in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
2001
World Trade Center
Impact Environmental was honored to have served in recovery efforts following the terrorist attacks on 9/11; staff found the underground slurry wall bathtub using a ground penetrating radar.
2005
Brownfield Leadership
Impact Environmental, working with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, wins the Phoenix Award for its former Rheingold Brewery Project in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
2008
Reclamation
Impact Environmental starts its first mine reclamation project near Allentown, Pennsylvania – one of many to come.
2009
World Trade Center Rising
Impact Environmental was honored to have been part of the team to work on restoring the World Trade Center - helping in the excavation of the subway 1/9 lines, the Vehicle Security Center and the Fulton Street Station. Donating portions of the concrete bathtub wall for art in the 11 UP project “Victorii Rebuild”.
2018
Rewards with Awards
Impact Environmental was honored with its third Big Apple Award for the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem.
2019
Celebration
Impact Environmental celebrates its 30th anniversary with a once-in-a-lifetime throwback to the 80s party.
2020
Expansion
Impact Environmental expands into the Midwest to redevelop a former DuPont facility in East Chicago, Indiana.