Southern Civil Engineers is an environmentally sensitive civil engineering firm with regulatory expertise. They understand client priorities and integrate fully into project teams. For the Brasstown Valley Resort project, SCE recognized environmental importance and worked with the developer to increase wetlands and protect sensitive species and habitats through design and construction. The project established environmental controls that are now standard and has won awards for its environmental sensitivity.

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Southern Civil Engineers, Inc. is a highly competent, environmentally sensitive
civil engineering firm with strong regulatory expertise and relationships. SCE
thinks of the project the way the owner does by understanding the priorities and
processes. We manage costs by effectively communicating, fully integrating into
the project team, maintaining a strategic network of industry experts, and striving
for continuous improvement.
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Project Highlight: Brasstown Valley Resort
From the outset, the Brass- sensitivity in design and con-
town Valley Resort team rec- struction. The project has
ognized the importance of the achieved sizeable results- net
project’s relationship with the increase in wetlands, im-
environment. The project con- proved buffering capacity of
sists of a 134 room lodge, 2- the Brasstown Creek system,
1/2 miles of entry road, and established sanct uaries
service drives to the lodge’s where rare and sensitive plant
remote location, eight cot- species now thrive. And now,
tages, an 18-hole champion- a new study of the riparian
ship golf course, an eques- system have found endan-
trian facility, and full service gered species fish now thrive
spa- all nestled among moun- and coexist with native brown
tain hardwood, cove wet- and rainbow trout. Brasstown OWNER: NORTH GEORGIA MOUN-
lands, challenging topog- Valley resort established envi- TAINS AUTHORITY
raphic terrain, protected trout ronmental controls in 1993
streams, flood plains, signifi- that are now standard means DEVELOPER: STORMONT TRICE
CORPORATION
cant archaeological sites, bo- and methods for protecting
tanically significant zones and the environment. ARCHITECT: COOPER CARRY
varied animal habitats. The
project and SCE have won
awards for environmental
GREEN TEAM UPDATE A SAMPLE OF JIM ’S APPOINTMENTS:
After Brasstown Valley, SCE continued to carry our
philosophy forward and have since completed many • Georgia State Erosion and Sediment Control
projects with likeminded developers, governments, and Overview Council
entities. This project (BTVR) was built long before
LEED, before NPDES, CEPSC, Greenbooks, Blue- • NPDES Stakeholder Advisory Committee
books, etc. Now some of the methods we tested back
then are commonplace today and have grown much • Georgia Stakeholder Advisory Board
further being part of the Green revolution.
• Nancy Creek Technical Advisory Committee
SCE felt our commitment went beyond our office. So,
with Jim Hamilton’s leadership we made an effort to • Georgia State Technical Advisory Committee
join external committees to take part, impart our learn-
ing’s, and perhaps help set the agenda for environ- • Fulton County Soil and Water Conservation
mental sensitivity amidst certain development activity District Supervisor
going forward- especially in Georgia.