Bravo Environmental believes in saving our salmon, Seattle, WA

Company History
Bravo Environmental (Bravo) was founded by Alan Schumacher (Al) and Robert Buchmayr in 1996.  Al and Robert both spent 18 years commercial fishing and crabbing in Alaska, many of those years were spent together on the same vessel.  While both founders were engineers on crab boats, Al directed the reconstruction of a large crabbing vessel.  In 1993 Robert designed and built a revolutionary (for its time) jet boat for the Bristol Bay flats making him one of the top boats year after year.  In addition, Al and Robert both have extensive experience in the construction industry, commercial diving and boat building.  Al and Robert's respect for the environment and outdoors steered them towards an environmentally important line of work.  The name Bravo Environmental originates from Robert's wife's maiden name, Tierna Bravo, also a large contributor to the success of the company.  Tierna has been and continues to be involved in the day to day activities of running the office.

They founded Bravo with the purpose of protecting the environment and utilizing their vast experience with complex mechanical systems, challenging job environments and changing technologies.

Since 1996 Bravo grew from a single old Camel truck to our existing fleet of the Northwest's newest and best equipped Vactor trucks and industrial vacuuming machines.  In 1998 it was clear that in addition to catch basin cleaning our customer needs could best be met by Bravo providing a full range of infrastructure inspection services. 

As a result Bravo now services a large municipal, industrial and commercial customer base in WA, OR, ID and CA.  Our primary areas of service range from infrastructure maintenance, infrastructure inspection and construction services.  Bravo will continue to explore new growth opportunities in these fields based on customer needs.