expertise in infrastructure
About LaBella
At LaBella Associates, our job is to create—structures, plans, ideas, results. As a nationally recognized Design Professional Corporation, that’s a given, right? But here’s what really drives us: creating partnership between our team and our clients. So much so that we become one team, unified in the unrelenting pursuit of exceptional performance on each and every project. Reliability. Accountability. Collaboration. Respect. Not skills we went to school for, but innate in LaBella team members.
The pursuit of partnership is embedded in our culture—has been since our inception in 1978. And it affects client outcomes in profound ways. It means we’re built to expertly execute projects from start to finish. That we have the talent and resources to take on any challenge. That projects are completed on time, on budget, and beyond expectations. And that we win awards— not just for our talent, but also for our ethics, employee culture, and growth.
Today, our wheelhouse is broad, with four key service offerings: Buildings, Energy, Infrastructure, and Environmental. Our reach is widespread with staff located throughout the country and Europe. We’re headquartered in Rochester, NY—but our impact is seen, felt, and experienced around the world.
Visit us at www.labellapc.com to get a glimpse of some of the things we’re working on right now. But don’t let us do all the talking—tell us about your goals by calling (877) 626-6606.
We’ve built partnerships with our clients since our inception in 1978. If there’s been a need, we’ve responded. The result? Diverse service offerings that can address any aspect of the built or natural environment.
highway
Our municipal, state, and private clients rely on LaBella’s highway team for planning, feasibility studies, analysis, and design services. We’ve amassed highly rated projects in expressways, arterials, collectors, and local roads.
Our planning services have included:
• Downtown parking studies
• Traffic impact analysis for 6 lane commercial corridors
• Roundabout feasibility at multileg intersections
• Expressway tunnel feasibility
• Center-city pedestrian circulation
• Regional bicycle route assessment
Our highway design services have included:
• Interstate highway rehabilitation
• Principal arterial corridor reconstruction
• Historic village main streets with signature streetscape amenities
• Preventative maintenance rehabilitation with multimodal improvements
• Roundabout construction as alternative traffic control
• Traffic signal optimization
• Multi-modal trail systems
LaBella has consistently demonstrated the ability to deliver on cost, scope, schedule, and quality.
Our commute affects our quality of life. That’s why LaBella’s transportation projects are about more than pavement and concrete. They’re about safety. They’re about efficiency. They’re about innovative design approaches that deliver longevity: of the projects themselves, and the partnerships behind them.
Our construction engineers work with the construction team to develop innovative and cost-effective solutions to project-specific hurdles. LaBella’s team develops plans to address design, fabrication or construction conditions unique to each project environment, turning the theoretical, actionable.
construction engineering
bridge
Successful bridge projects do not merely provide safe crossing—they minimize impact to the environment, the public, and the taxpayer. We keep public and private roads high and dry, from small, single-span structures to complex multi-span bridges on the interstate system. Our engineers are equally adept at working with small municipalities on innovative rehabilitation as they are at completing full highway interchanges under heavy traffic conditions. Our practice has encompassed historic truss bridges, changeable rivers, and pedestrian thoroughfares.
planning & grant Services
Grant writing is a process. For that reason, we take a comprehensive approach to obtaining and securing grants for our clients—from identifying potential funding to working with grant agencies, writing applications, and submitting your final application.
And our work doesn’t end when your grant is awarded. We ensure that your grant is administered in accordance with what was proposed in the application, the terms of the grant contract, and agency guidelines. In short, we are involved every step of the way.
We have been using this knowledge to assist communities with their planning, grant funding and administration needs for more than 40 years. With so much experience under our belt, it’s no wonder that we have been able to secure over $750 million in funding on behalf of our clients.
We’re not just grant writers. Our certified planners provide development services that include comprehensive plans, downtown revitalization planning, economic development action plans, land use regulations, active transportation plans, agricultural plans and brownfield area planning. We work closely with municipal, agency, and private clients to ensure that their concepts and ideas come to reality.
Nearly all development projects require some level of environmental review. We have the resources to evaluate potential environmental impacts for a wide range of projects including commercial developments, municipal buildings, correctional facilities, schools and campuses as well as marinas, wind farms and solar installations.
civil engineering
Communities require a wide range of services, and that’s where LaBella’s team of dedicated civil engineers come in. Supported by construction professionals, landscape architects, and planners, our team provides professional services across a full spectrum of needs including assessments and planning, design, permitting, procurement, contract administration and inspection, commissioning, and operational support.
LaBella can provide the expertise necessary to keep your infrastructure functional, sustainable, and up to date. Our professional services include:
• Water Supply Systems: Sources, treatment, storage and distribution.
• Wastewater Management Systems: Collection, treatment and disposal/discharge.
• Stormwater Management Systems: Collection, treatment and discharge, including expertise with green infrastructure practices and compliance support for MS4 municipalities.
• Water Resource Management: Protection of water bodies and shorelines, watercourses, and sensitive environmental areas, including expertise in Floodplain Management.
• Transportation Systems: Pedestrian, vehicular and recreational, including expertise with pavement systems, bridges and other transportation structures. Specialized expertise with streetscapes (landscape and hardscape elements) and ADA compliance.
• Utility Systems: Municipally owned, operated and maintained gas and electric systems, including expertise with a variety of renewables.
• Public Facilities: All forms of public facilities, including expertise in recreational facilities, such as athletic fields, beaches, parks, and public pools.
In further support of a community’s infrastructure needs, LaBella provides professional services to municipal boards and departments (planning, zoning, code enforcement, public works, etc.), including expertise with community planning, data management, general council relative to regulatory programs, code compliance and enforcement, and emergency response services.
Our planners also provide expertise in project approvals. Our experienced team will define, understand and comply with the regulations that shape your project.
All civil engineering is local. Our team is prepared to meet your regulations, wherever you are.
survey
Your project may have a variety of environmental considerations. From an initial due diligence study to remediation and ongoing compliance, LaBella has your environmental needs covered. Our team is well versed in applicable regulations and permitting requirements pertaining to environmental due diligence and wetland and ecological impacts. Should remediation or mitigation be necessary, our staff is experienced with developing environmental solutions tailored to the future use of a property.
Nothing can halt the progress of a project like the discovery of regulated building materials. LaBella’s team is experienced with providing inspection, abatement design, and air and project monitoring for asbestos and other hazardous materials. Our in-house laboratory ensures accurate and efficient results.
With over 40 years in survey and mapping, the team at LaBella has serious experience. With state-of-the-art survey equipment, our crews successfully complete your projects on time and within budget. LaBella performs surveying in accordance with all applicable state and federal guidelines - we are licensed to practice boundary surveying in both New York and Pennsylvania, and can provide engineering surveys throughout the eastern United States.
environmental
We’re planning, designing, and building the systems and structures that enable modern life. It’s innovation meets heavy-duty insight.
