BB&T

Environmental Term Contract

Over the last three years, GLE has successfully emerged as a leading provider of environmental due diligence consulting services for BB&T projects located throughout Florida and Georgia. BB&T is the ninth largest financial holding company in the United States and operates more than 1,400 branches in 11 states and Washington, D.C.

GLE’s vast technical expertise in the environmental arena, coupled with our commitment to identifying client needs and risk tolerances on a project by project basis, have resulted in the successful completion of over 700 environmental assessments/investigations for this large banking client. GLE has assisted BB&T with environmental due diligence involving a wide range of properties, including gasoline stations, retail shopping centers, restaurants, commercial dry cleaning facilities, apartment complexes, hotels, proposed neighborhood developments, metal recycling facilities and numerous light industrial facilities. GLE has provided BB&T with comprehensive environmental consulting services, including Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments, Transaction Screening Procedures (TSPs), Regulatory File Reviews, Contamination Assessments, Remediation Designs and Site Clean-up Services.

In a recent meeting with BB&T’s Environmental Risk Department, Environmental Risk Officer Cindi Lewis informed GLE that in 2007 BB&T worked on 3,694 environmental properties nationwide, with a majority of the properties requiring multiple phases (Phase II EA, followup documentation, asbestos surveys, Indoor Air Quality assessments, LBP surveys, etc.). Ms. Lewis stated that GLE ranked 2nd in the country in terms of environmental projects awarded to consultants.

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