Company

"One of the features that differentiates ESS is our specialization in waterfront and offshore development. Over the past five years, ESS coastal consulting assignments have expanded our geographic reach, into New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, the Great Lakes, the Caribbean, and Hawaii."

Payson Whitney

Payson R. Whitney, III, PE

Vice President
Land Development & Engineering

Payson Whitney is a Vice President at ESS Group, Inc. and Practice Leader of the Land Development & Engineering Practice. He has more than 16 years of experience in a wide range of public and private sector projects, including project design and management activities in civil/site engineering, coastal permitting/shoreline assessment, and the planning and permitting of electrical transmission projects. He has extensive experience in the routing and permitting of submarine electric transmission cables and has managed several large-scale projects involving multidisciplinary staff and subconsultants.

Mr. Whitney’s engineering design and management experience includes recreational facility planning and design, dredging design, roadway design, site layout and design, site drainage analysis, transportation analysis, design reviews for project specifications and plans, reviewing third party plan sets, preparing and reviewing construction documents and shop drawings, construction consultation, and preparation of construction budget estimates.

Professional Affiliations

Professional Engineer Registration - Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Master Design Certificate for Low Impact Development - Rhode Island

Education

BS, Civil Engineering, Lehigh University, 1994