Charter: As a company constructed to positively impact natural and built environments, we empower our people to seek fresh solutions. It's a philosophy that's delivered success to some of the most complex, highly visible projects in our region & beyond.

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Construction

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Charter is a full-service environmental remediation contractor committed to positively impacting the environment through its work on land and water, focusing on large-scale, complex remediation projects.

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Environmental Remediation

Civil Construction Firm - Charter

Charter provides civil construction services with a focus on building, renovating, and reconstructing core infrastructure. Our work ranges from projects in congested urban areas to shoreline reconstructions.

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Civil Construction

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Charter’s foundation was laid upon its soil and waste management services. Today, we are a recognized leader in the management of regulated soils and other waste types.

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Soil Management

Dredging & Waterways

Charter excels at tackling the challenging conditions found in sediment dredging and waterway projects. Our project teams are experts at developing innovative, practical solutions to marine environmental challenges.

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Dredging & Waterways

Development

Charter is uniquely qualified to create value through innovative project structures that result in challenging sites being remediated and redeveloped. Our expertise in complex site remediation, combined with our market knowledge and financial capacity yield successful outcomes for all parties involved.

Alternative Project Delivery

Our ability to partner, collaborate and identify unique solutions that result in shared success serve as the platform for Charter to deliver its core capabilities utilizing alternative project delivery methods. Today’s environmental remediation projects are complicated and diverse with many competing stakeholder expectations.

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Alternative Project Delivery

Brownfield Development - Charter Construction

Charter specializes in challenging projects featuring multiple stakeholders, fragmented land ownership, lack of infrastructure and complex, legacy environmental issues. To all its projects Charter brings a clear, transparent, collaborative approach, backed by strong project management and the demonstrated ability to fully implement the chosen approach.

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Brownfield Development

Featured Project

Muddy River

Flood Risk & Restoration

  • US Army Corps of Engineers - New England District
  • US Army Corps of Engineers - New England District
  • Federal
  • Boston/Brookline, MA
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of River Diversion & Control in an urban environment

Muddy River Flood Risk & Restoration Project

79 days and $130k of schedule and budget savings to the Client through a value engineering proposal

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97,600 safe work hours without a lost time incident

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Latest News & Insights

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Awards

ENR Recognizes Phase IV Remedy Implementation as a National Best of the Best Project

It is an honor for the Phase IV Gloucester Remedy Implementation to be named one of ENR’s 2018 National Best of the Best Projects! Panels made up of prominent architects, engineers, general contractors and other construction industry professionals selected regional award winners from more than 800 entries, and then chose one national winner for each

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Phase IV Remedy Implementation Named ENR New England's Project of the Year

Awards

Phase IV Remedy Implementation Named ENR New England’s Project of the Year

We are beyond proud and excited to have received the Project of the Year Award for the Phase IV Remedy Implementation project performed in historic Gloucester Harbor! The project also received top honors in the Environment/Water category and won a Safety Merit award.

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Awards

Charter Jumps 23 Spots on ENR’s Top 200 Environmental Firms List

ENR released its annual list of Top 200 Environmental Firms and for the 16th year in a row Charter has been named to the list! We jumped 23 spots from #103 to #80. We were also ranked #17, up from #30 the previous year, on the All-Environmental Firms subcategory list. It is an honor to

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The work Charter does is meaningful and interesting, but it is our people who make it great and we are proud to be one of Boston’s Top Places to Work. We understand the need for work-life balance and work with employees to find flexible working arrangements. Every day we strive to make Charter a fun, inclusive, and meaningful place to work.

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