Our Principals
P.W. Grosser Consulting was founded nearly 35 years ago to meet the need for a multi-disciplined engineering and environmental consulting firm offering a diverse range of services to meet market demand regionally and nationally. We provide federal, state, municipal and private clients with quality environmental consulting and engineering services.
Our staff consists of nearly 70 diverse professionals including civil, chemical and environmental engineers, hydrogeologists, geologists, and environmental scientists. Profiles for our principal executives are listed below.
An environmental engineering professional Mr. Boyce has amassed an impressive portfolio of successful project in the New York Metropolitan region. He is an expert at providing public and private clients with targeted analyses, designs, modeling services, investigations, master planning development, construction oversight, regulatory, and sustainability consulting.
For more than two decades at PWGC, Mr. Boyce has been immersed in some of the most innovative and successful environmental engineering projects on Long Island, playing key roles in developments that have improved the region’s economy and environment. Whether using cutting-edge geothermal technology to assist Amneal Pharmaceuticals in the development of its base of operations in Yaphank or conducting detailed groundwater modeling at Brookhaven National Laboratory, his client expertise covers a wide spectrum of applications including targeted design and analysis, groundwater modeling, environmental investigations, construction oversight, and sustainability consulting.
Overall, Mr. Boyce develops project-specific civil and environmental engineering designs, implementation strategies and project management plans. He is an expert on the design and construction oversight related to the application of geothermal technologies. He assists clients with selecting the appropriate system and location, feasibility assessment, design preparation, system development and startup.
In his tenure at PWGC, Mr. Boyce has earned an industry-recognized reputation for his ability to assess project parameters and design and developing economical environmental engineering solutions that meet the stringent demands of our clients.
In 2017, James Rhodes was named PWGC’s Chief Operating Officer providing the leadership, management and vision necessary to ensure that the firm has the proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures and the people in place to grow the organization, ensure financial strength and operating efficiency.
Prior to his promotion, Mr. Rhodes led PWGC’s Environmental Unit, where he utilized his 30 years’ experience as an expert in managing environmental concerns unique to the real estate market, serving public and private sectors. Through his tenure he has provided guidance to associates and clients, maintains established working relationships with regulators at multiple levels of government. His expertise enables clear communication on project requirements and speeds the approval process.
Mr. Rhodes’ expertise in environmental remediation and redevelopment fields includes environmental site assessments (ESA), such as Phase I/II ESAs, RI/FS, NYS Brownfield studies, NYC “E” Designation Program, and cost to cure estimates for real estate tax purposes. His experience with soil and groundwater investigations, air quality studies and remedial measures has benefitted clients that include attorneys and developers, insurance companies and municipal agencies. His resourcefulness to pinpoint key environmental concerns quickly helps avoid unexpected delays and cost overruns, benefitting the client.
Mr. Lockwood specializes in planning and managing CERCLA/NYSDEC remedial investigations/Feasibility Studies, Phase I and Phase II ESAs, Brownfields Cleanup Program (BCP) projects, and nuclear facility decontamination & decommissioning (D&D). He has worked at numerous DOE and DOD facilities in more than a dozen states across the country managing remedial investigation/feasibility study projects involving the generation of radiological, hazardous and mixed waste. They include multi-year projects that involved complex investigations, remediation and waste management issues. Mr. Lockwood manages PWGCs environmental group, overseeing a staff of more than 30 professionals.
Mr. Lockwood has more than 30 years of experience managing environmental investigation and remediation projects including CERCLA RI/FS sites, NYSDEC BCP sites, NYCDEP “E” sites, Municipal Landfill permitting and closure, and environmental investigations for real estate transactions. Mr. Lockwood’s clients range from large governmental agencies to small real estate developers. He has performed work across the eastern United States under numerous federal, state, and local regulatory agencies.
Mr. Almskog has more than two decades of project management experience, which includes a strong focus on land use, mine permitting, groundwater quality evaluation, property due diligence, environmental portfolio management, environmental liability services, compliance, dredge permitting, planning and sediment disposal, lake restoration, soil, groundwater and soil vapor investigations and remediations, and C&D facility and vegetative organic recycling facility permitting and quality control.
Mr. Almskog has been providing professional services to Federal facilities, municipalities, the sand and gravel aggregate mining industry, private developers, material recyclers and organic waste recycling industry for over two decades. He assists clients with permit applications and renewals, reserve analysis and volume calculations, groundwater evaluations, drone modeling, and facility compliance issues to deliver client driven solutions.
Mr. Almskog is a licensed professional geologist and maintains an excellent working knowledge of hydrology and geoscience related to groundwater, soil, and air quality investigations, characterizations, remediation and reporting. He has provided coordination and field oversight for soil and subsurface water characterizations, pesticide investigations and remediation services on diverse environmental studies such as Phase II investigations, geothermal well installations, treatment system installation and dredging projects.
Mr. Almskog assists real estate interests with environmental issues to facilitate transactions and site development. His expertise includes New York State Brownfield Cleanup Programs and New York City’s Office of Environmental Remediation “E” designation zoning requirements. He focuses on soil and groundwater investigations, air quality studies, and associated remedial measures. He coordinates with PWGC clients to prepare and implement time and money saving plans – Remedial Action Plans, Health and Safety Plans, Work Plans, Interim Remedial Measures.
Mr. Almskog’s construction background, including 15 major groundwater treatment system construction projects, large scale redevelopment projects for Northwell Health, numerous redevelopment projects with remedial requirements, and numerous dredging and mining operations, enables an understanding of combining design planning with real world implementation. He focusses on both short-term scheduling deadlines and long term strategic planning for his clients and their industries.
Mr. Rosen is a veteran engineering professional with three decades of experience. Over that time, Mr. Rosen has assembled an impressive portfolio of successful projects in water resource, wastewater, and civil planning and design disciplines.
As an established project manager, Mr. Rosen directs investigations and implements successful strategies that are in sync with client objectives. He provides PWGC with an analytical strength that is applied towards engineering solutions for PWGC’s municipal clients. He provides environmental engineering design, investigation, site planning, regulatory compliance, and construction oversight services.
Mr. Rosen’s knowledge allows for effective coordination with the clients and other design professionals, allows for quick response times, streamlined project development, and permits accelerated project schedules.