HSA GOLDEN, INC.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA

Pete Barts and his staff of engineers, geologists and environmental professionals are not satisfied unless the client is delighted. His friendly and calm demeanor belie his intensity, and he adheres to the golden rule of treating clients as he would wish to be treated. His standards are high, and HSA Golden’s clients reap the benefit. Mid-Florida Materials, a division of Hubbard Construction Company, owns and operates a 220-acre, C&D and Class II landfill in northwestern Orange County, Florida. HSA Golden has provided Mid-Florida Materials with environmental consulting services since 2004. The services that HSA Golden currently provides for us include environmental compliance and permitting, landfill engineering and design, groundwater and landfill gas quality testing, and odor control/gas collection services. We are very pleased to have them on our team and highly recommend them to others. HSA Golden was able to take a site that had been under Florida Department of Environmental Protection scrutiny and design a cleanup strategy to ultimately allow us to receive the needed permits for construction of a transfer station and operating facility. We were very pleased with their services and would highly recommend them to others. We have used HSA Golden as our primary engineering firm for our business for more than seven years. In that time, they have helped us with environmental studies to support the acquisition of three landfills and the development of a C&D recycling center. Their support and expert advice has been instrumental in expansions, routine engineering, new site evaluations, compliance issues, as well as a host other environmental services. Choosing HSA Golden as our engineer of record has been a solid choice for our business. I engaged Pete Barts and HSA Golden as an expert witness in a very large and complex case involving arsenic contamination in the soil and groundwater of a 100-acre subdivision. Thanks to their compelling expert report and the continuous invaluable support of the HSA Golden team during the course of the case, we were able to settle the claim on the eve of trial for a very significant amount. HSA Golden’s expertise and insights were critical to the successful resolution of the case. My firm has subcontracted HSA Golden for Phase II Environmental Site Assessment services on multiple occasions over the past several years. Their staff is highly competent, diligent, and professional, and their work product is consistently thorough. I look forward to many more years of collaboration with HSA Golden. Grove Scientific & Engineering Company continues to partner with HSA Golden on complex industrial projects requiring professional geologist and site development expertise. They fit very well with our own company’s values and integrity. Grove Scientific & Engineering Company I have known Peter Barts for over a decade, and I have always been well satisfied with Pete and HSA Golden’s environmental consulting work. He and his team are valuable assets in any transactional setting. HSA Golden came to me when I needed results. They reviewed previous work on our property and suggested a strategy for a broad scope of environmental services to solve our problems. Implementation went smoothly and without surprises. We still use HSA Golden as environmental monitoring continues, and I would recommend them without hesitation. Please know how much my family and I appreciate the peace of mind that we have had since HSA Golden actively directed the site assessment, remediation and subsequent monitoring at our property in Sanford, Florida. If any prospective clients would like to talk with me personally for a recommendation, please provide them my number and I will be happy to speak with them. Thank you for your work on our underground storage tank investigation project. You have been very accommodating to our schedule and demands, and your work on the project has been instrumental in helping us move this project through the local environmental agency and helping us to achieve the desired outcome with that agency. Our previous consultant was not able to accomplish this. Thanks to your work, we have reduced our groundwater monitoring from quarterly to semi-annually and are thus saving money. It is my pleasure to recommend HSA Golden for any project for which you are technically qualified. Russell Strader HSA Golden’s pragmatic approach to the environmental challenges that I have been confronted with in my brokerage business, and the timely professional way your environmental reporting has been accomplished for my personal properties, has kept me as a very satisfied customer for the past 20 years. HSA Golden was recommended to us by the FDEP and did a tremendous job for our firm on a State regulatory-specific assessment project in Orlando, Florida. Their assignments included both field and office work, including regulatory liaison, and HSA Golden helped me manage the project so well that we hired them to help out again with further required assessments at this site. HSA Golden is an exceptional environmental consulting firm with a great understanding of real estate development. They have worked on multiple developments that required a complete skill set, from basic Phase I Environmental Site Assessment studies to very complex Brownfield site remediation work. I would not take on a project without their careful and professional review. I have worked with the professionals at HSA Golden for nearly 20 years. In my experience, they are highly knowledgeable and efficient problem solvers. They also understand how to be responsive and keep the client informed. I look forward to working with them again. Since contracting your services for many years, I am pleased to say the HSA Golden has been a very responsive organization. I am especially impressed with the high quality work under very tight deadlines. It is so nice to work with people that do what they say they are going to do. We will certainly use HSA Golden again in the near future, as we have many projects going on that will involve similar environmental situations. Thanks again!