What Winter Environmental does

Winter Environmental, founded in 1987 and headquartered in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, is a self-performed environmental services contractor and division of DiGeronimo Companies (which acquired the broader Winter Companies group in 2023). The company delivers six integrated service lines—asbestos, lead, and mold abatement; facility decommissioning; chemical and radioactive decontamination; select demolition; soil, sediment, and groundwater remediation; and Vapor Intrusion Mitigation System (VIMS) installation—addressing the full lifecycle of contaminated and end-of-life industrial facilities. Projects range in value from $1,000 to $33,000,000, and the firm reports more than 6,000 completed projects since inception across 26 U.S. states, with rapid additional-state licensing capability.

The company's underlying technical capability rests on regulatory expertise (NESHAP, RCRA, TSCA, DOT, OSHA compliance), specialized decontamination methods including low/high-pressure water cleaning, chemical cleaning, aggregate and cryogenic blasting, and convection heating, and the deployment of proprietary sub-slab depressurization and spray-applied vapor barrier systems such as Land Sciences Nitra Seal. All work is performed by company-trained crews rather than subcontractors, and the firm sustains industry-leading safety metrics (Experience Modification Rate of 0.61, Incidence Rate of 0.34 over five years), STEP Diamond Level certification, and an ENR Top 400 Contractor ranking held for more than 15 consecutive years.

Winter Environmental generates revenue through project-based professional services contracts priced on a unit-pricing model across five budget tiers (under $50,000; $50,000-$250,000; $250,000-$1M; $1M-$10M; over $10M), with multi-year contract structures on the largest engagements. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales targeting federal, state, and municipal agencies, utilities, industrial facility owners, developers, and commercial clients, pursued through direct solicitation, competitive bidding, and subcontracting relationships with national demolition primes. Customer segments span government, power/utilities, industrial, commercial, education, healthcare, multi-family residential, retail, brownfields, and public/community markets.

Name

Winter Environmental

Legal name

Winter Environmental

Website

https://winter-environmental.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Winter Environmental is a self-performed environmental services contractor (founded 1987, division of DiGeronimo Companies) delivering asbestos/lead/mold abatement, decommissioning, decontamination, demolition, soil/groundwater remediation, and VIMS installation for government, power utility, industrial, commercial, and institutional clients across 26 U.S. states.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Peachtree City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Environmental Services Projects: Revenue is generated through project-based professional services contracts. Projects range from small-scale abatement jobs ($1,000) to large-scale environmental remediation projects ($33,000,000). Services include abatement, decommissioning, decontamination, demolition, remediation, and VIMS installation. Revenue is earned through direct client contracts with government agencies, industrial facilities, commercial property owners, and developers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Winter Environmental is a self-performed environmental services contractor delivering six integrated service lines: abatement (asbestos, lead, mold), decommissioning, industrial decontamination, select demolition, soil/groundwater remediation, and vapor intrusion mitigation system (VIMS) installation. Projects range from $1,000 to $33,000,000 across industrial, power generation, government, commercial, healthcare, education, and brownfield redevelopment sectors, executed by in-house trained crews rather than subcontractors.

Product overview

Winter Environmental is an award-winning environmental services company (founded 1987, a division of DiGeronimo Companies) offering a unified portfolio of six self-performed service lines: Abatement, Decommissioning, Decontamination, Demolition, Remediation, and VIMS Installation. These services address the full lifecycle of contaminated or hazardous facilities, from initial assessment and hazard removal through site restoration and vapor intrusion protection. Projects range from $1,000 to $33,000,000 in value, spanning 26 states across sectors including industrial, power, commercial, government, healthcare, education, retail, and multi-family development. The six services are typically deployed in combination on complex projects—for example, VIMS Installation often follows Remediation, and Demolition follows Abatement and Decontamination—enabling the company to serve as a single contractor for multi-discipline environmental projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Abatement Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 6,000+ environmental projects completed successfully since 1987
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• DiGeronimo CompaniescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Parent company relationship. In 2023, the Winter Companies (including Winter Environmental) became part of DiGeronimo Companies, a family-owned corporation based in Ohio. DiGeronimo Companies is a diversified family of construction, environmental, and development organizations delivering integrated solutions nationwide.
• Special Olympics of GeorgiaminorOthers · 1 January 2004Charitable partnership involving annual fundraising golf tournament that has raised over $1,000,000 since 2004, plus employee volunteer participation at Summer and Winter Games.
• Make-A-Wish GeorgiaminorOthersCharitable partnership with fundraising efforts to help transform lives of children through Make-A-Wish foundation.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Clean Harbors: Largest North American environmental services firm offering hazardous-waste management, industrial cleaning, and emergency response. Directly comparable to Winter in industrial decontamination and remediation services, but operates at vastly greater scale with a national footprint.
• Veolia North America: Global environmental services giant providing hazardous-waste treatment, industrial services, and remediation across North America. Overlaps with Winter on industrial decontamination and remediation, with substantially larger scale and broader service breadth.
• Brand Industrial Services (BrandSafway): Large industrial services provider with environmental, insulation, coatings, and access-scaffolding capabilities. Overlaps with Winter on industrial decontamination and remediation, particularly in power and petrochemical markets, but with a much broader portfolio.

Direct peers

• USA DeBusk: Industrial cleaning and environmental services contractor serving refineries, petrochemical plants, and power generators. Comparable to Winter's decontamination and industrial remediation scopes, especially within the same utility and energy customer base.
• Heritage Environmental Services: Privately held environmental services firm specializing in industrial waste management, remediation, and decontamination. Closely comparable to Winter's industrial and power-generation remediation offerings, with overlapping customer types and similar project-based revenue model.
• NorthStar Group Services: National specialty contractor focused on asbestos, lead, and mold abatement alongside demolition and decontamination. Directly comparable to Winter's abatement and decommissioning core services, with similar self-perform execution model and federal/industrial client base.
• ERC (Environmental Remediation Contracting): Specialty contractor performing environmental remediation, demolition, and civil/site work for public and private clients. Closely comparable to Winter in self-performed remediation and brownfield redevelopment project execution.
• D.H. Griffin Wrecking: Demolition and environmental services contractor executing complex industrial takedowns including power plants and manufacturing facilities. Directly comparable to Winter's combined demolition, abatement, and remediation delivery model across the Southeast US.

Emerging players

• Haley & Aldrich: Environmental and geotechnical engineering firm executing site characterization, remediation, and brownfield redevelopment. Comparable to Winter in remediation scope, though positioned primarily as an engineering consultancy rather than a self-perform contractor.
• Independence Demolition: Sibling company under DiGeronimo Companies focused on demolition services. Highly relevant as a sister entity with overlapping power-plant and industrial takedown capabilities, offering cross-sell and resource-sharing potential with Winter Environmental.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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