2025
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Project Developers
Leading Successful Projects from Anywhere in the Life Cycle
SWCA provides local expertise with a global reach to support for complex projects, offering tailored services in environmental permitting, compliance, planning, and stakeholder engagement to ensure efficient, sustainable, and reliable project completion.
What Project Developers Need to Know
You’re moving fast, and your project depends on predictable permitting, smooth compliance, and partners who won’t slow you down. At SWCA, we help you see around corners—navigating regulatory hurdles, environmental challenges, and agency coordination so you can stay on schedule and minimize risk. Whether you’re in early feasibility or heading into construction, we’re with you from concept to completion.
Sound Science. Creative Solutions.
- Environmental Compliance
- Due Diligence
- Impact Assessments
- Permitting
- Full Project Life Cycle Support
Pain Points We Address
- Cost Overruns
- Disjointed Compliance Process
- Regulatory Uncertainty
- Risk of Delays or Legal Challenges
- Slow, Inefficient Reviews
- Sustainability Pressures
Clients Like You
- Mining
- Mitigation
- Oil & Gas
- Power Generation
- Renewable Energy
- Residential/Commercial Development
- Transmission
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Meet the Experts
Senior Vice President | Client Services
Stephanie Hudgins
Stephanie Hudgins is Senior Vice President of Client Services at SWCA Environmental Consultants, where she leads the firm’s nationwide client strategy. In this role, she focuses on expanding SWCA’s portfolio and strengthening client relationships across the private and public sectors, connecting strategy, delivery, and technical expertise to support successful project outcomes.
With more than 24 years of experience in environmental consulting, Stephanie brings deep expertise in client development, regulatory strategy, and large-scale infrastructure projects. She partners closely with clients and internal leaders to align business objectives with operational excellence, helping organizations navigate increasing environmental and regulatory complexity with confidence.
Stephanie is a trusted partner to corporate and utility clients navigating evolving regulatory landscapes. Her focus on execution, responsiveness, and collaboration ensures that clients receive thoughtful, strategic support from planning through construction.
Senior Vice President of Scientific & Technical Services • Denver
Jon Kehmeier
Jon is the Vice President of Scientific and Technical Services, responsible for advancing SWCA’s scientific and technical strategy, staff development, large project execution, and client development.
Environment and Infrastructure Vice President
Anne Cabrera
Anne has more than 18 years of experience and specializes in multi-hazard risk and resilience planning and mitigation. Her expertise includes compliance monitoring, procurement, multiagency coordination, public information, closeout processes, and audit support.
Vice President of Scientific & Technical Services • Honolulu
Jaap Eijzenga
With over two decades of experience in ornithology, Jaap has led numerous projects across the US and Europe, specializing in research, resource management, endangered species compliance, and project management. A significant highlight of his career includes his decade-long tenure as Director of the Pacific Islands office here at SWCA, where he demonstrated exceptional leadership in overseeing multidisciplinary environmental projects.
Jaap holds a BS in Wildlife Management/Conservation Biology from the Van Hall Institute and an MS in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology from the University of Hawai’i.
