CES, Civil Environmental Survey Group
About CES

Who CES is

Civil Environmental Survey Group, Inc. (CES) is a Southern California environmental consulting and field services company. We assess property, investigate and clean up contaminated soil and groundwater, and monitor and maintain landfills and remediation systems for private owners and public agencies.

Company overview

Consulting and field execution under one license

CES employs its own engineers, geologists, scientists, project managers and field crews, and holds a California Class A and HAZ contractor license. That means CES performs both the consulting and the field construction and operations work itself, from the first Phase I through final regulatory closure.

Founded2001, Southern California
OfficesHuntington Beach (headquarters) and Long Beach
StaffEngineers, geologists, environmental scientists, project management professionals, site superintendents and field crews
LicensesCalifornia Contractor License 859757, Class A and HAZ · California registered Professional Engineer
ClientsProperty owners and developers · national property managers · lenders and transaction counsel · school districts · counties · Caltrans · ports · federal agencies · landfill operators
History

Twenty five years in Southern California

2001
CES founded in Southern California, providing environmental site assessment and survey services.
2006
The Environmental Remediation Group founded by James Keegan, Skye Green and Daniel Baysa to design, build and operate remediation systems, including soil vapor extraction, multi-phase extraction and air sparging, and to support in situ thermal remediation vendors with ISTR system construction and operations across the West Coast.
2012
The two firms merge, combining consulting with in-house remediation design and construction. CES wins the LAUSD on-call site assessment and remediation contract.
2013
CES is awarded its first OC Waste & Recycling landfill O&M and long-term monitoring contracts.
2013 to 2022
CES expands its public and private client base with OC Waste & Recycling, LAUSD, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Caltrans, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and federal agencies, along with private environmental consulting and remediation work for property owners, developers and national property management companies.
2022
Allen Swift and Rob D'Anjou join CES's ownership and executive team.
Today
CES continues to grow, adding project management professionals, professional engineers, scientists and senior environmental practitioners.
CES field team on a commercial remediation site
CES field team on a commercial remediation site
Leadership

Owners who run the work

CES is owned and led by four principals, each directly involved in client work: winning and contracting it, engineering and signing it, executing it in the field and managing its finances.

Allen Swift

Allen Swift

Chief Executive Officer

Allen sets CES's strategy and leads the company's growth. He identifies and shapes opportunities, builds and holds senior client relationships, leads pursuits, prices and negotiates contracts, and stays engaged through delivery so clients come back. Over more than 30 years in the environmental remediation industry he has won and delivered work for public agencies, industrial owners and consultants across the country, and he is a co-inventor of patented remediation technologies.

Skye Green

Skye Green, PE, QSD/QSP

President · Principal Engineer

Skye has practiced environmental engineering since 1998 and has led more than 250 site assessment and remediation projects. She designs remediation systems, obtains the permits and agency approvals to build them and manages them through operation and closure. She is the Responsible Managing Employee on CES's contractor license.

California PE (Civil) C63756 · M.S. Civil Engineering, UCLA · B.S. Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine

Robert D'Anjou

Robert D'Anjou

Chief Financial Officer

Rob is an entrepreneur, inventor and technical leader who has helped build and grow several environmental remediation companies. As CFO he directs CES's financial management, contracting, risk and corporate policy, and he serves as Principal Scientist on monitoring and remediation programs.

M.S. Geosciences and Ph.D. (ABD) Biogeochemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Daniel Baysa

Daniel Baysa

Chief Operating Officer

Danny runs CES's field operations. He has more than 30 years of environmental field experience, has supervised field work on more than 500 projects and has served as Site Safety and Health Officer on more than 200, from UST removal and drilling to remediation system construction and landfill O&M.

U.S. Navy Quality Assurance School · OSHA 30 Construction · 40 Hour HAZWOPER

Our people

Professional staff and field crews under one roof

The people who write the work plan, collect the samples and build and maintain the systems all work for CES.

EngineersCalifornia registered civil engineer; system design, permitting, construction oversight and report sign off.
GeologistsSite characterization, boring and well logging, conceptual site models, groundwater evaluation.
Environmental scientistsSampling design, data evaluation, risk screening, regulatory reporting.
Project managersPMP certified project management, schedules, budgets, task order tracking and client reporting.
Site superintendentsField supervision, subcontractor coordination, site safety, QA/QC.
Field crewsTechnicians, sampling crews, construction crews and system operators.

What our field crews do

  • Quarterly and semiannual groundwater sampling at landfills and remediation sites
  • Soil, soil vapor and landfill gas sampling, including SCAQMD Rule 1150.1 monitoring
  • Facility water sampling programs, including Legionella sampling
  • Dust and air monitoring during demolition and construction
  • Well installation oversight, development, redevelopment and abandonment
  • Remediation system construction: wells, trenching, conveyance piping, vaults and equipment
  • Operation, maintenance and repair of remediation and landfill systems
  • Excavation and UST removal oversight, stockpile sampling and disposal coordination

Credentials across the team

  • California Professional Engineer (Civil)
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Qualified SWPPP Developer and Practitioner; Certified Inspector of Sediment and Erosion Control
  • 40 Hour HAZWOPER with current refreshers
  • OSHA 30 Hour Construction
  • Excavation Competent Person; Permit Required Confined Spaces; aerial lift operator
  • Site Safety and Health Officer experience on 200+ projects
CES staff logging soil core samples
CES technician sampling a groundwater monitoring well
CES remediation trenching at a retail center