Meredith Avery Email Address

Member Board of Directors

We move projects forward - that's what VHB has been doing for our clients and communities for 30 years. Providing multidisciplinary planning, design, engineering, and consulting for some of the nation's most complex infrastructure and development initiatives, VHB professionals take projects from concept to completion. Our planning, transportation, land development, and environmental professionals create successful and workable results, changing the face of the built environment. Three business drivers are at the heart of our success: Collaboration, Maintaining Clients for Life, and Personal Development. By focusing our time and effort on these drivers, we believe, we will continue to be successful as a firm and as individual contributors. And our generational company management philosophy holds that sustained success of our organization can only be achieved when there is equal emphasis on business and people. VHB's unique method for solving client problems focuses on integration of our service offerings coupled with our deep understanding of the full context of projects. This integration is more than just a slogan - it is how we tackle every challenge. Our team has an open-minded approach to projects and the willingness to listen and truly understand our clients' needs. This collaborative approach to strategic project planning, along with proactive management and nationally recognized professionals, help our clients and our communities solve critical problems - VHB gets it done.

As an environmental consultant with a background in science, I bring a focus on natural resource protection to my projects. Working with private and public sector clients, I manage project permitting strategy, provide input on design alternatives, and conduct environmental impact assessments. In my role as Managing Director at VHB, I manage a team of incredibly talented environmental specialists who assist our clients with natural resource inventories, permitting, environmental planning and sustainability, water resource engineering, noise and air studies, cultural resource protection and site investigation and remediation. Specialties include: National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA), Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, Massachusetts Endangered Species Act, US Clean Water Act, agency consultation, wetland mitigation design, transportation planning, and environmental monitoring.