Ridolfi
Specialty: Environmental engineering, consulting
Management: Callie Ridolfi, president; Colin Wagoner, environmental manager; Bruno Ridolfi, operations manager
Founded: 1990
Headquarters: Seattle
2004 revenues: $2.2 million
Projected 2005 revenues:
$2.5 million
Current projects: Crab sampling and analysis at Vieques Island in Puerto Rico; a study for a community in Anacortes to see how people can develop renewable energy there
Photo by Ben Minnick Callie Ridolfi checks out the view from her new office overlooking the Seattle waterfront. |
New office
When Ridolfi moved its Seattle office on Fourth Avenue to the Waterfront Place building on Western Avenue, crews put in a brand of recyclable carpet called Interface and applied a coat of low-VOC paint to existing ceiling tiles.
In the next 10 years, more attention to sustainable design will be big for Callie Ridolfi’s company, she said. She’s interested in renewable energy sources like solar, wind, geothermal and biomass, too.
New direction
Ridolfi recently finished a course on the technical and economic sides of sustainable design at Bainbridge Graduate Institute. More work in restorative development will be a new direction for the company, and not just on brownfields. Sculpting sites with bioswales and rainwater harvesting systems could be some of Ridolfi’s services in the near future. People who can provide them will be added to the staff.
One material in short supply in this field is sustainable lumber, she said, but changing forest practices in Washington could be a way to make more available locally.
Keeping the brand
Much of the firm’s past work has been in environmental cleanup and habitat restoration, so clients already know her firm as an environmental one, Ridolfi says. No need to rebrand.
Past clients are coming back with new kinds of projects; for example, a waste management plan for the Makah Reservation at Neah Bay.