Moving projects and communities forward

Transportation infrastructure shapes how communities grow, connect, and experience the places around them. Delivering this requires more than engineering. It means navigating environmental resources and regulatory requirements, understanding community impacts, coordinating with agencies and stakeholders, and communicating complex projects clearly from planning through construction.

Hollaway has supported transportation infrastructure across Texas for more than 30 years, working alongside TxDOT, toll road authorities, airports, local governments, and engineering partners on highways, roadways, bridges, interchanges, toll facilities, aviation, and other major mobility investments.

Our environmental, communications, and creative teams bring different perspectives to the same project: helping to identify constraints early, navigate environmental review and permitting, engage affected communities, and translate technical information into communication people can understand.

Our Capabilities

Environmental Planning + NEPA

We help transportation teams identify environmental considerations early and develop clear, defensible documentation to support project development and decision-making.

  • Feasibility and environmental constraints studies
  • NEPA Documentation (Categorical Exclusions, Environmental Assessments, and Environmental Impact Studies)
  • Section 4(f) evaluations
  • Section 106 and cultural resources coordination
  • Socioeconomic and community impact analyses
  •  Hazardous materials initial site assessments (Phase I ESAs)
  • GIS and environmental data analysis

Natural + Water Resources

Our scientists help project teams understand existing conditions, identify potential impacts, and navigate state and federal environmental requirements.

  • Wetland and stream delineations
  • Clean Water Act Section 404 and Section 10 permitting support
  • Protected species surveys
  • Migratory bird, eagle, and freshwater mussel surveys
  • Mitigation planning and coordination
  • State and federal agency coordination
  • Ecosystem restoration support
  • Field investigations and technical documentation

Public Involvement + Stakeholder Engagement

We design engagement around the people affected by a project—not simply the requirements of the process. Our team helps clients communicate technical information clearly, reach diverse audiences, gather meaningful input, document engagement throughout project development, and maintain NEPA compliance throughout.

  • Public involvement, communications, and engagement strategies
  • Messaging and branding development
  • Stakeholder identification
  • Community and landowner outreach
  • Public meetings and hearings
  • Virtual and hybrid engagement
  • Elected official and agency briefings
  • Multilingual community engagement
  • Public comment management and documentation
  • Issues, crisis, and opposition communications

Creative + Digital Communications

Complex transportation projects are easier to understand when people can see what is being proposed, where it is happening, and how it may affect them. Our creative team turns technical project information into accessible, engaging visual communications.

  • Project websites and digital engagement platforms
  • Interactive corridor mapping and informational presentations
  • Project videos and animations
  • Drone photography and construction progress documentation
  • Public meeting and hearing exhibits
  • Infographics, fact sheets, project collateral, and educational materials

Construction Environmental Compliance + Management

Our environmental support continues beyond planning and permitting, helping project teams maintain compliance as projects move into construction.

  • Pre-construction environmental surveys
  • Environmental inspection and monitoring
  • Permit compliance support
  • Agency documentation and reporting
  • Environmental Compliance Training
  • Drone photography and construction progress documentation

Transportation Experience That Runs Deep

Hollaway holds TxDOT precertifications spanning transportation environmental services, public involvement, GIS, environmental documentation, permitting, natural resources, socioeconomic analysis, traffic noise, and alternative delivery.

But our transportation experience goes beyond qualifications on paper.

Our team has worked across multiple TxDOT districts and alongside some of the state’s largest transportation and tolling agencies, local governments, airports, and engineering firms. We understand how transportation projects move from early planning and environmental review through public involvement, design, and construction—and where environmental, stakeholder, or communications challenges can affect that path.

That experience allows us to anticipate what comes next, identify issues earlier, and help our clients keep projects moving.

TxDOT Precertifications

1.5.1 Feasibility Studies

1.8.1 Public Involvement

1.9.1 Geographic Information System (GIS) and Data Analysis

2.1.1 Traffic Noise Analysis

2.3.1 Wetland Delineation

2.3.2 Conditional/Functional Assessment

2.4.1 Nationwide Permit

2.4.2 Clean Water Act Sec. 404 Permits

2.4.3 U.S. Coast G. & U.S. Army Corps of Engr. Permits

2.6.5 Protected Species Evaluations

2.7.1 Sec. 4(F)/6(F) Evaluations

2.12.1 Socio-Economic And Environmental Justice Analyses

2.13.1 Hazardous Materials Initial Site Assessment

2.14.1 Environmental Document Preparation

23.10.1 Public Involvement for Alternative Delivery Projects

Our Work

  • State Highway 87 Revetment

    To support TxDOT, Hollaway prepared a Biological Evaluation (BE) and conducted intensive habitat surveys (ground and drone technology) for the eastern Black Rail, Piping Plover, Rufa Red Knot, and sea turtle to support consultation with USFWS for a proposed revetment project near High Island and Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge in Galveston County, Texas.

  • State Highway 99 Segment I-2 Cedar Bayou Bridge

    Hollaway worked closely with TxDOT’s contractor to meet restoration obligations under a Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 404 permit, as construction activities resulted in a severed hydrological connection to a large wetland complex (causing it to dry up). Hollaway facilitated negotiations between TxDOT, USACE, and the contractor to identify a solution that met the spirit of the CWA. Hollaway quickly designed, obtained approval for, and implemented a Voluntary Restoration Plan that restored and enhanced three forested wetlands.

  • Houston Airport System Environmental Services Contract

    Hollaway served as the environmental consultant for the five-year Environmental Services Contract, which includes all three major airports within the Houston Airport System. Overseen by the City of Houston, HAS includes George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston Hobby Airport, and Ellington Airport.

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