Environmental Professionals Network
A network of environmental specialists, built to work as one.
EPN is an environmental network of independent specialists. We connect firms, field resources, and service providers so they can pursue larger opportunities and deliver broader environmental scopes together.
One project. One lead. Every specialist it takes.
Additional specialist disciplines are added as the project requires.
Why the network matters
Specialized expertise is fragmented. EPN helps connect it.
Environmental expertise often sits in separate firms. EPN helps connect those capabilities so clients can reach them through one network and specialists can pursue broader work together.
The core commercial problem
A specialist can see a $500,000 project and bid $50,000 of it.
Environmental work turns multidisciplinary fast. The firm that found the project is rarely the firm that can credibly propose all of it, so the project moves up to a larger competitor and the client goes with it.
One specialist, alone
The client still has the larger problem. The gap is commercial breadth, not technical quality.
The same specialist, through EPN
The originating firm stays in the work while EPN assembles the complementary capability around it.
Illustrative example: a five-person wetlands firm and a $500,000 development scope.
You keep your piece
Your scope, your license, your price, and your signature stay yours.
You get paid for bringing it in
Register the opportunity first. The role and economics are defined before the bid is built.
The client gets one team
One lead, one schedule, and one reporting line across every firm on the project.
For specialists
Bring the project. Keep your piece.
- Register an opportunity before you introduce anyone
- We build the rest of the team and the proposal
- Your scope, your price, and a fee for originating the work
For clients
One lead instead of six vendors.
- We map the whole path before you spend anything
- One schedule, one reporting line, one change process
- The next phase stays with a specialist already on the job
Operating model
How a project works
Tell us the need
A call or a short form. No commitment.
We map the scope
The work you asked for, and the work it usually leads to.
We build the team
Qualified specialists, local knowledge and field crews matched to each piece.
One lead, one schedule
A named project lead coordinates partners, reporting and changes.
Closeout, then what is next
Final deliverables, partner scorecards and a plan for follow-on work.
Why it works
Why teams choose EPN
Opportunity expansion
Map the broader environmental scope before the work leaks out to a larger competitor.
Originator protection
Register the work first. Define the role, relationship, and economics before anyone starts bidding.
Integrated network
One lead, one schedule, one change process, and specialist accountability where it belongs.
Field capacity
Bring in crews, drilling, laboratories, monitoring, and implementation resources when the project demands them.
The network
The firms behind EPN.
Independent firms, each with its own clients and its own license. See who they are, visit their sites, and read the work they have done through EPN.
Not a directory
A team you can hire.
Every listed member passed EPN's qualification review and agreed to be listed.
We first sketched EPN in 1994. The idea was simple. Environmental problems rarely fit inside one firm's specialty, and many of the best specialists run small, independent companies. If those companies could work as one team without giving up their independence, clients would get better answers and specialists would get better work.
We are building it carefully: vetted partners, clear rules for how work and fees are shared, and real projects first. If you are a client, we will tell you plainly what your project needs and who will do it. If you are a specialist, we will tell you plainly how the work is shared.
Come talk with us. Fifteen to thirty minutes, no pitch.
Wayne Dorband and John Nillen
Start the conversation
Tell us what you are working on.
Fifteen to thirty minutes with a founder. No pitch.
