From site assessment to project delivery
Assess a site, compare restoration options, and prepare work your team can review and share. Orenna keeps the evidence and decisions together as your project develops.
Six steps through your project
1. Start with a site or a search area
Upload your project boundary to start with a known site. If you are still looking, Discover screens parcels for Florida Water Quality Enhancement Areas and North Carolina nutrient offsets.
Review the ranked candidates and source coverage, then create a project for a site you want to investigate.
2. Understand the site
Site Characterization gathers available public data on terrain, soils, water, habitats, and other site conditions. Review the findings, contributing watershed, and suggested interventions on the Map and in reports.
Sources and coverage notes help you decide what needs a closer look or field investigation.
3. Build a shared project record
Keep studies, photos, field observations, and generated files in the Data Room. Use Assets for qualifications, templates, and other material shared across projects.
Ask Chat to find evidence, explain findings, and draft documents. Open its citations to check the sources. Record your team’s choices and reasoning in Decisions.
4. Compare outcomes and funding
Define ecological quantities in Outcomes, review funding rules in Programs, and compare costs, timing, and funding estimates in Scenarios.
Net present value (NPV), payback, and uncertainty analysis help you assess the economics. Literature-based public benefits are shown separately from funding estimates. Neither establishes a payment or credit.
5. Explore design options
The optional Design add-on includes Modeling, Design, and Visualization. Organize HEC-RAS models, compare results, generate draft grading surfaces, and create renderings for discussion.
These tools support engineering evaluation. Your engineer checks assumptions, drainage, stability, and constructability before approving technical work.
6. Prepare and review deliverables
Use Intake and the Checklist to review likely requirements and missing evidence. Generate draft Reports from project data and cited sources, then review them before sharing or finalizing. Finalizing locks the report; changes require a new report.
For proposal work, Pursuit helps turn a solicitation and your organization’s qualifications into draft responses and fee estimates.
Put the steps into practice
Create a project or explore Discover. For step-by-step instructions, open Help (sign-in required).
Read the FAQ for common questions and Integrity principles for how to review the evidence.
For current plans and the optional Design add-on, see Pricing.