East Coast Engineering

What East Coast Engineering does

East Coast Engineering, Inc. (ECE) is a privately held civil and environmental engineering consultancy founded in 1993 by Christine R. LeBlanc and headquartered at 147 Bakerville Road, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Marion, MA. The firm provides technical and management services to both public sector clients (municipalities, state agencies including MassDEP, and federal entities such as Brookhaven National Laboratory) and private sector clients (industrial companies, real estate developers, solid waste facility owners/operators, and law firms), all primarily within Massachusetts and the surrounding region.

The company operates three integrated service lines. Its Hazardous Waste Site Assessment & Remediation Services deliver LSP services, forensic investigation, risk assessment, remedial design, construction oversight, and regulatory compliance for contaminated soil, groundwater, sediments, and surface water. Its Environmental Forensics & Litigation Support line provides chemical fingerprinting, fate and transport modeling, and courtroom expert witness testimony for complex environmental contamination cases. Its Solid Waste Management Services cover landfill, transfer station, compost, and recycling facility design, permitting, and operational oversight, with a documented track record of more than 50 completed facilities.

The business model is project-based professional consulting: engagements are custom-scoped, priced per project, and sourced primarily through direct relationships, professional reputation, and case-study referrals rather than digital channels. Notable engagements include a $1.6M removal action at the former Henry Woods Sons Paint Factory, a 100,000-gallon underground fuel storage tank remediation at the Berkshire Hathaway Mill Complex, and design work for a 500-ton-per-day MSW/Biosolids compost facility. The firm has no external institutional investment, no disclosed headcount, and no public revenue; operations are anchored by LeBlanc as sole principal and owner, supported by her Massachusetts LSP (#4669) and Professional Engineer credentials and prior experience as a regulator at MassDEP.

Name

East Coast Engineering

Legal name

East Coast Engineering, Inc.

Website

https://eastcoastengineering.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Short description

East Coast Engineering is a Massachusetts civil and environmental engineering consultancy founded in 1993, providing hazardous waste remediation, environmental forensics and expert testimony, and solid waste facility design to government and private-sector clients in the New England region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Engineering Consulting

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Engineering Services (54133), Testing Laboratories and Services (54138)

SIC

Hazardous Waste Management (4955), Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

All Appropriate Inquiries (AAI) & ASTM Phase I ESA (EUAHAEAA)

Keywords

• Environmental engineering services
• Hazardous waste remediation
• Solid waste management
• Environmental site assessment
• Expert witness testimony

Headquarters

HQ city

Dartmouth

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

East Coast Engineering (ECE) is a civil and environmental engineering consulting firm offering technical and management services to public and private sector clients. The company provides three integrated service areas: hazardous waste site assessment and remediation (including Licensed Site Professional services, forensic investigation, hydrogeological assessment, and construction oversight), environmental forensics and litigation support (including expert witness testimony and fate-and-transport analysis), and solid waste management services (including landfill, transfer station, compost, and recycling facility design, permitting, and operational support).

Product overview

East Coast Engineering is a civil and environmental engineering firm offering three integrated service areas: Hazardous Waste Site Assessment & Remediation Services, Environmental Forensics & Litigation Support, and Solid Waste Management Services. The company provides end-to-end environmental consulting including site investigation, risk assessment, remedial design, construction oversight, and regulatory compliance. The three service offerings work together to address contaminated site cleanup from initial assessment through remediation and post-closure monitoring, with litigation support for legal cases involving environmental contamination.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hazardous Waste Site Assessment & Remediation Services Comprehensive investigation, characterization, and cleanup of contaminated sites including soil, groundwater, sediments, and surface water. Services include Licensed Site Professional (LSP) services, forensic investigation, risk assessment, remedial design, construction oversight, and regulatory compliance for government and private sector clients.
• Environmental Forensics & Litigation Support Technical support and expert witness testimony for complex legal cases involving environmental contamination. Services include forensic analysis of industrial waste processes, chemical fingerprinting, fate and transport modeling of contaminants in soil and groundwater, expert testimony, and litigation support.
• Solid Waste Management Services Engineering, permitting, and management services for solid waste facilities including landfill design, closure, permitting, transfer stations, composting facilities, and recycling center design and operations for facility owners and operators.

Quantifiable outcome

• Transformed nearly 200 acres of contaminated property into recreational sports complex and nature trails at Henry Woods Paint Factory
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Arcadis: Global design, engineering, and environmental consulting firm with a sizable remediation and environmental compliance practice. Comparable in service lines but competes from a much broader platform and international footprint.
• AECOM: Global engineering and environmental services firm offering comprehensive site assessment, remediation, solid waste, and environmental compliance services. Overlaps with ECE's full service portfolio but operates at global scale across many geographies and verticals.
• GHD: Global engineering, environmental, and construction services firm offering site assessment, remediation, and solid waste engineering. Comparable across all three of ECE's service lines but at significantly larger scale and global reach.
• Brown and Caldwell: Environmental engineering and consulting firm with established practices in site remediation, compliance, and solid waste management. Comparable technical offering but serves a broader national footprint of municipal and industrial clients.

Direct peers

• Haley & Aldrich: Massachusetts-headquartered environmental and geotechnical engineering consulting firm offering site assessment, remediation design, and LSP-equivalent services. Highly comparable in geography, customer mix (developers, municipalities, industry), and core environmental services.
• Sanborn, Head & Associates: New England-based environmental and civil engineering consulting firm providing site assessment, remediation, and solid waste services to municipal and private clients. Closely comparable practitioner in ECE's home geography.
• EA Engineering, Science, and Technology: Environmental consulting firm specializing in site assessment, remediation, and compliance for government and industrial clients. Comparable service mix in hazardous waste cleanup and solid waste support, with similar federal/municipal customer overlap.
• TRC Companies: Mid-sized environmental, engineering, and construction management firm offering site investigation, remediation, and solid waste management services. Comparable in core service lines and customer types, though operating at materially larger scale.
• GZA GeoEnvironmental: New England-based environmental and geotechnical engineering firm providing site investigation, remediation, and regulatory compliance services. Direct competitor in the Massachusetts hazardous waste and brownfield redevelopment market with a similar practitioner-led model.
• Vertex Environmental Engineers: Environmental engineering consultancy focused on site assessment and remediation. Closely comparable niche practitioner competing in the same hazardous waste site assessment and clean-up work as ECE.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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