About

We solve some of the world’s most complex challenges in the marine environment.

An Efficient Ally

Lally Consulting LLC (Lally LLC) is a small, independent engineering and environmental consultancy with significant history of resolving our clients’ problems with efficiency and integrity.

Our clients cover a wide spectrum, encompassing federal, state and local government agencies, multinational dredging and marine contractors, diverse commercial entities, consultants, NGOs, private estates and UHNWIs.

Our strength comes from uncommon practical experience. While relatively small, Lally LLC leads technically in several sectors, namely advanced marine construction, contaminated sediment remediation, and nature-based engineering.

Since our start in 2008, Lally LLC initiatives have defined numerous successful complex projects and saved our clients in excess of USD 500 Million through implementation of experience-based technology, management, and oversight solutions.

Core Competencies

We serve our clients in four, often integrated, core competencies.

Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Environmental

Field Operations

Dredging and Marine Construction

International Expertise

Based in the United States, we now operate from four offices worldwide to serve the needs of clients and expand collaborative ventures. To enhance our growth and advance the state-of-science in our fields of operation, Lally LLC offices have been established in leading academic and research centers in the USA and Europe.

We have a global footprint not only in infrastructure, but a network of experts delivering specialized skills and agility. Wherever Lally LLC works in the world, we develop in-country relationships to deliver progressive solutions employing local expertise, facilities and equipment.

Our team of professionals include full-time and part-time employees as well as discrete project specialists to serve our clients with exceptional quality and cost efficiency.

Office Locations

Research, Design & Development

Lally LLC is often at the forefront in our fields of operation developing emerging technologies. We design, test, analyze and integrate future technologies and approaches into our projects, habitually raise project performance standards, and educate to achieve optimal cost savings and environmental outcomes.

Lally Innovation Areas

Marine Technologies

We design the next generation of marine construction equipment and the advanced software systems used to perfect them.

Quality Control Systems

Our coastal engineering and construction operations expertise enable improved efficiency. We develop advanced project analytics and visualization products to achieve critical project performance gains.

Offshore Renewable Energy

We aim to apply multi-disciplinary marine engineering and biologist expertise to advance clean energy projects and enhance performance using cost-effective and environmentally sustainable methods, installation through decommissioning.

Contaminated Sediment Remediation

We postulate, design and educate on critical technologies to achieve more environmental restoration for less capital.

Nature-based Coastal Engineering

Since the 1990s we have invented, constructed and monitored several new forms of shoreline erosion control and marine infrastructure using habitat-conducive materials for various species in multiple regions.

Special Projects

We are in development phases of technical solutions that aim to address challenges (i.e. environmental impact, power consumption) related to the responsible advancement of beneficial new markets, like deep-sea mining.

Leadership

John Lally, P.E. (Lally)

Mr. Lally founded Lally Consulting LLC in 2008 and serves as its CEO and Principal Engineer. In a career combined as consulting engineer and marine contractor, John has over 33 years of hands-on experience in the planning, engineering and construction of dredging, coastal protection, and environmental restoration projects.

As one of the first coastal engineers in Louisiana in the early 1990s, Lally began to address large-scale coastal restoration efforts there, designing in total over 48 miles of varied shoreline erosion control projects to protect 56,000 acres of barrier islands and wetlands. John has since had the good fortune to work with several leading American and European dredging and marine contractors, as well as multinational engineering and environmental consultancies, participating in over 1,000 projects in the beach and wetland protection, port capital works, channel maintenance, sediment remediation, and habitat restoration sectors.

Our Values

When it comes to business, Lally holds a few values higher than others.

Integrity

As our colleagues and clients can tell you, we don’t compromise on integrity. We insist on getting the project done correctly, both technically and ethically. We value honesty, caring, fairness, reliability, and courage.

Excellence

We sweat the details and strive for excellence in our development and implementation of solutions for clients to ensure optimal results, that are durable and defensible in the long term.

Innovation

Future technologies point the way to tackling the world’s and our clients’ next challenges. Lally knows from experience that innovative technologies and approaches can deliver win-or-lose performance gains in marine endeavors of all types.

Efficiency

Along with safety, our construction oversight philosophy maintains operational efficiency as an imperative. Internally, we pride ourselves in achieving superior project results, faster, with fewer staff, and with far less cost to the client.

Join Us

As we expand to further address the needs of complex freshwater- and marine-related projects globally, we are seeking accomplished professionals, and problem solvers early in their careers, to join our team. If you have relevant skills, compatible values and interest to work with us, you are welcome to submit a letter of motivation and your Resume / CV to Open Letter for consideration.