Description

Bender Consulting, LLC is a consultancy in groundwater science and engineering - specializing in construction dewatering design services, dispute resolution related to hydrogeology, and water rights support. We support the construction, legal, engineering, and environmental industries. A unique hydrogeologic consulting firm that specializes in these fields; we offer the proven ability to develop innovative yet sensible groundwater solutions that satisfy project performance, design criteria, and schedule. Our goal is to reduce risk for our clients engaged in design and construction, and to provide a sound, technical, and defendable understanding of the groundwater regime to our legal and engineering clientele. Scott Bender is the Principal of the firm with 15 years of applied experience in groundwater control, water supply, and water rights. His work is innovative and award winning. He won ASCE Engineering Excellence Awards for his groundwater control system designs for projects at the U.S. Embassy site in Bogota, Columbia and at the Boston Central Artery in Boston, Massachusetts. He conceptualized one of the first mitigated water rights since the 1996 batch denial by Ecology; this set a precedent for the current state of the practice in water right mitigation. He has managed the groundwater evaluations or designed the groundwater control systems for the majority of the recent large-scale underground construction projects in the greater Seattle area including Safeco Field, Key Arena, Denny Way CSO, and Sound Transit Link Light Rail Tunnel.