Environmental Impact Assessment Services (EIA)

Environmental feasibility and scoping

• Identification of environmental sensitivities
• Overview of key environmental impact mechanisms
• Scoping of environmental studies, surveys and data requirements
• Consultation with regulators and stakeholders
• Development of impact assessment methods
• Outline of consenting requirements, process and timescale

Environmental impacts

We provide clients with clear and constructive data on the effects their projects will have on the marine and freshwater environment through a variety of advanced assessment techniques.

• Strategic and prefeasibility stage advice on effects and their management
• Preliminary environmental appraisal of proposed developments and projects
• Environmental impact assessment (EIA) to statutory requirements, for all or some EIA topic areas
• Advanced environmental impact interpretation based on the outputs of hydraulic, hydrological, sediment, water quality and ecological modelling studies

We help clients to develop impact mitigation and monitoring strategies to prevent, reduce and offset the impacts to natural and human resources from natural and human induced change. We use our environmental expertise to develop plans for mitigation and monitoring, which take into account the scale and probability of potential impacts that may occur.

Environmental solutions

• Project management and preparation of the full range of marine and freshwater-related studies to support EIAs
• Advice on the requirements and application of environmental legislation
• Habitat creation and managed realignment schemes in marine and freshwater environments
• Studies of beneficial use of marine dredged material schemes
• Development and implementation of environmental monitoring programmes during construction
• Transaction advice on environmental risk, including permitting and EIA reviews for owners and lenders