MASTER PLANNING - Master Planning is the key step for larger projects, agencies and complex projects. PR DEI facilitates goal setting, environmental thresholds, marketing targets and stakeholder inclusion through facilitated "charrette" meetings.

Master Planning is recommended for Livable/Walkable Community Planning, Service Agency Operations and County/City/Town Sustainability Programs.

STORMWATER - Low Impact Development (LID) stormwater solutions are our specialty, be it rain gardens, pervious concrete/permeable paivng, "First Flush" designs, bio-swales or sub-surface flow constructed wetlands. Our solutrions are effective, feasible and ecologically conscious, with significant cost benefits.

Whether you are a governmental agency or a private developer, LID designs are the best choice for capital costs savings and long term operating cost benefits. Federal Stimulus Dollars under the ARRA programs require 20% of funded projects to have "green infrastructure".

ENGINEERING - PR DEI offers comprehensive civil engineering, feasibility studies and inspection/management services. We hold current licensure in both California and Nevada. Civil Engineering services include conceptual designs, design development and construction documents. For Public Works, PR DEI has a full suite of Front-End Documents, Specification Packages and Bid Documents.

Contact us to develop a scope for your project.

PERMITTING -

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, TRPA Compliance
We successfully permit all types of projects in the Tahoe Basin. From New Development to BMP Retrofit, we ensure your entitlement process.

LANDSCAPE - With over 20 years experience and numerous awards in landscape design and construction, we take great pride in crafting custom landscapes to achieve client goals. Whether it is restoration using native plants in a soil preparation and seeding scenario or a permaculture landscape full of edibles or something in between, our staff of talented landscape professionals will create a thoughtful and site-specific plan that meets regulatory requirements and the client's needs. We have created designs for demonstration gardens, LEED Platinum projects, and won numerous awards both in Tahoe and the San Francisco Bay Area. Feel free to call us to discuss your landscape needs.

GREEN DESIGN -The heart and soul of our philosophy is "green design" via an integrated systems approach. What is green design? It is the crafting of our design decisions to reflect the greenest or most ecologically sound choices. Whether it is site design to minimize grading/disturbance or building orientation to reduce over-heating from the sun or a specifications package requiring low Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) finishes and fly ash in concrete or the use of renewable materials (wood, bamboo, wheat straw, etc.), we consider each and every component of a project and how it integrates into the system as a whole. How can small pieces unite in the whole to exceed the sum of the parts? Careful holistic planning and design leads to optimized performance and reduced environmental impacts.

We bring more than 20 years experience in site planning, appropriate technology (solar, wind, micro-hydro, etc.), alternative building methods (straw bale, rammed earth, PISE, cob) and native and edible landscaping. This deep background combined with todays latest advances in technology allow us to provide client's "green" solutions with reliable return on investment. We are happy to discuss your project with you.

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT - Providing clients with a complete suite of services, PR DEI will see to it that your project is installed per plans and specification through our construction management services. We provide a complete tracking system of progress verification to assist in payment procedures as well as direct oversight including measurement and testing (special inspections included). We work hard to ensure the contractor remains on schedule and uses the correct materials and methods to ensure proper construction of your project. Whether it is one of our designs or that of another design firm, we are capable of reviewing plans and specifications; performing build-ability and bid-ability reviews; conducting pre-bid, bid and pre-construction meetings and seeing the project through to close-out/occupancy by the owner or tenant. Call us to discuss your needs.

ECODEVELOPMENT - PR DEI is a diverse multi-disciplinary design and engineering firm. We believe we have a special knack for understanding a site and the wide range of local conditions affecting your Return on Investment (ROI). We are happy to sit down to discuss any project and how we might be of assistance in ensuring ROI while enhancing value and reducing environmental impacts both in the near and long term. We are happy to conduct "brainstorming" sessions and/or facilitate "charrettes" to generate ideas and solutions for specific projects. Please call us to discuss your unique needs.

ENERGY SYSTEMS - With a long history in appropriate technology (now known as energy systems) PR DEI brings training and todays technologies to bear thus substantially improving the long term value of your project. Whether your solution is advanced weatherization, micro-wind turbines, combined heat & power or solar thermal water heating, we have the technological and structural savvy to bring real cost savings and reduced carbon footprint to your project. There are many opportunities for cost savings when it comes to energy system performance. In some cases, we may just need to "tune-up" (commission) your existing system.