Consultancy Services

Services are provided to a wide range of industrial and professional sectors, including developers, contractors, law firms and planning consultants, using the Director's many years of experience in hydrogeology, geology, contaminated land and geotechnics.

- Pre-acquisition assessment - Remediation advice - Expert witness - Development constraints

- Environmental liabilities - Environmental aspects of planning applications - Due diligence - Brownfield site assessment

Well qualified personnel working for the consultancy are able to cover technical projects that include:

• Contaminated land - assessment of soil and water contamination and its significance in relation to human health and water resources. Qualitative and detailed quantitative groundwater risk assessments using current regulatory approved modelling techniques. Human health risk assessments including use of the most recent CLEA models. Advice, supervision and discharge of planning conditions for groundwater and soil remediation
• Hydrogeology - groundwater flow and quality, water resources, abstraction boreholes, ground source heating and cooling, licensing and regulations
• Environmental impact assessments to support planning applications. Management and compilation of the Environmental Statement including contributions from specialist sub-consultants
• Geotechnical work - foundations, stabilisation of mineworkings, slope stability, dewatering
• Landfill - landfill design and monitoring including groundwater protection and monitoring; gas and leachate control; surface water management; submissions for planning permission, licences, permits and surrender of licences
• Land Condition Records - a factual report bringing together information from diverse sources prepared by a Specialist in Land Condition (SiLC)