Our Story
Design Philosophy
Ethos Collaborative provides civil & ecological engineering design and consulting services to address a wide range of green infrastructure, water resources, and social needs within the urban environment. We strive to differentiate ourselves from traditional engineering firms by staying focused on the social, environmental, and economic aspects of design, the triple bottom line of sustainability.
The core competencies of Ethos Collaborative lie at the nexus of Water, Energy, Climate, and Community. We recognize that these factors are intertwined from a physical perspective – in particular in the context of urban infrastructure management. However, they are also incredibly pertinent to the well-being of human condition and this, in turn, strongly influences our overall design approach.
Design Services
Water and Ecology
Ethos Collaborative offers a wide range of water resources and ecological engineering services including green infrastructure design, stormwater master planning, water policy advising, hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) analysis, watershed management, wet weather CSO/SSO remediation, stream and habitat restoration, and GIS and hydroinformatics.
Energy and Climate
Ethos offers holistic insight into the long-term economic and environmental costs and benefits of site-related infrastructure, institutional operations, and regional community patterns. Energy-related services provided by Ethos include regional energy baseline analysis, energy efficiency planning, sustainability analysis, life cycle assessments, climate change mitigation and adaptation consulting.
Resilient Site Design
Our approach to design is to provide context-sensitive, regenerative and community-focused solutions. We offer site design, planning, landscape architecture, 3D and graphic rendering, net zero water design, land development and environmental permitting.
Urban Agriculture
Food is, and always has been, an essential focal point of human life. It is therefore no surprise that urban agriculture is becoming increasing popular for reasons relating to health, nutrition, environmental stewardship and for strengthening communities and local economies. Ethos provides numerous services related to urban agriculture, including site feasibility assessment, water harvesting and irrigation design, site, greenhouse and compost facilities design, permaculture consulting, and regulatory permitting.
GIS and Intelligent Cities
Ethos is a non-traditional design firm, both in our business model and in the innovative tools we use to provide added value to our customers. Specifically, we believe in the importance of collecting, maintaining, analyzing, visualizing and sharing data, as it relates to the built environment. Our design toolbox includes knowledge of web and mobile application design, real-time sensing and performance monitoring, geographic information systems (GIS), data visualization, machine learning, and artificial intelligence methodologies. We are actively seeking research partners for data sharing initiatives.
Outreach and Grants
Outreach, education and grant-writing are critical to the planning and execution of resilient and community-oriented site design solutions. Ethos offers grant writing support, including preparation of plans, details, graphical renderings, analyses and cost estimates. We have experience organizing and facilitating community visioning events, design charrettes, workshops and training related to resilient site and green infrastructure design, policy and maintenance.
Team
Matt Zambelli, RLA
Pittsburgh Office
Project Landscape Architectmattzambelli@ethoscollaborative.com
As a landscape architect the opportunity to weave sustainable stormwater management into both existing and proposed projects offers an opportunity to introduce additional function ...Read More
Elizabeth Glowczewski, EIT
Pittsburgh Office
Project Civil Engineerglowczewski@ethoscollaborative.com
My personal and professional passion intersect at the implementation of green infrastructure in urban areas. I enjoy creating opportunities for others to connect with nature, so I ...Read More
Sagar Kamath, EIT
Pittsburgh Office
Associate Civil Engineersagarkamath@ethoscollaborative.com
Sagar started at Ethos Collaborative in 2018 as an intern and has remained with the company where he is now working as a Graduate Engineer. At Ethos, Sagar has worked on numerous l...Read More
Barton Kirk, PE
Pittsburgh Office
Principal / Senior Ecological Engineerbartonkirk@ethoscollaborative.com
For more than two decades I have dedicated my academic and professional career to researching, planning, designing, building, monitoring, and communicating on green infrastructure ...Read More
Damon Weiss, PE
Pittsburgh Office
Principal / Senior Civil Engineerdamonweiss@ethoscollaborative.com
Over my career as a Professional Engineer, I have had an unusually broad exposure to various disciplines, having worked as a structural, municipal, site design, and transportation ...Read More
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News And Events
Groundbreaking at New Permeable Parking Lot in South Park, Design by Ethos Collaborative
PRESS RELEASE BY ALLEGHENY COUNTY:County Executive Rich Fitzgerald was joined today by Senator Devlin Robinson, Rep. Mike Puskaric, Rep. Nick Pisciottano, Council Members Tom Duerr and John Palmieri, Caren Glotfelty of the Allegheny County Parks Foundation as well as...
Ethos Announces New Webpage Launch
We are very excited to announce the launch of our newly designed website. After some hard work and dedication by Ethos staff and leadership, we are delighted to officially announce the launch on July 9, 2021. We wanted to make the new website faster, easier to...