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Integral Consulting

Specialty: Scientific and engineering consulting for environmental, ecological, health, natural resource projects
Principals: Betsy Day, Judi Durda, Roy Hummell, Lucinda Jacobs, David Livermore, William Locke, Marc Lorenzen, Rosalind Schoof
Year founded: 2002
Local office: Mercer Island
2003 revenues: $3.3 million
Projected 2004 revenues: $7.5 million
Largest current project: Portland Harbor remedial investigation for the Lower Willamette Group

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It has been a year of change at Integral Consulting. In January, it merged with Striplin Environmental Associates, where 2003 revenues were $2.9 million. Employee-owned Integral’s staff now totals 55, up from the half dozen it started with two years ago.

“We just hired really strong people, and we merged with a really strong company,” said Betsy Day, principal.

Integral, which has offices in Olympia, Portland, Boulder, Colo., and Annapolis, Md., is working on several cleanup projects, including the Portland Harbor portion of the Lower Willamette River, leading the remedial investigation and coordinating the remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS) consultant team.

Integral is the city of Seattle’s lead contractor for the cleanup of the Lower Duwamish, managing the Slip 4 early action program and providing technical oversight on the Lower Duwamish RI/FS.

For the state of Alaska, Integral is providing an independent assessment of lingering oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill. The goal is to provide information to better characterize recovery status and explicitly define when restoration is complete.

Among Integral’s other projects are cleanups in Texas, Minnesota and Oklahoma.

One of its most interesting projects is development of a management plan for Suffolk County, N.Y., to evaluate using pesticides to control West Nile virus. It’s interesting, according to Day, because it integrates traditional environmental expertise in pesticides and risk assessment with public health.

Day and fellow principal Lucinda Jacobs expect Integral to stay busy because there will always be a place for sound science and engineering. They add there is a lot of local work associated with the cleanup and redevelopment of ports.

Integral has no immediate plans to merge again. The company’s expanding naturally in response to projects and the needs of clients, said Day and Jacobs, who add they would actually like to slow down a bit. Integral has hired 10 employees since the Striplin merger and is now hiring entry-level staff.