Capabilities and Fields of Work

Environmental and technical capabilities

  • Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA); Initial Environmental and Social Examinations (IESE); Environmental and Social Scoping Studies
  • Environmental and Social Due Diligence (ESDD)
  • Environmental and Social Management Systems (ESMS) and Frameworks (ESMF)
  • Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMP) and Monitoring Plans (ESMMP)
    • e.g. for industrial locations, roads, waterworks, wastewater treatment plants, biogas plants, mines, power plants, substations, transmission lines, college, school and hospital constructions etc.
  • Strategic Environmental and Social Assessments (SESA)
  • Application of World Bank’s Environmental and Social Standards (WB-ESS) and International Finance Corporation’s Performance Standards (IFC-PS)
  • IFC/WB Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Guidelines
  • Assessment of treatment processes for drinking water and wastewater
  • Solid and liquid waste treatment (including hazardous/infectious waste), management and strategies for solid/liquid waste disposal
  • Investigation of contaminated sites and abandoned industrial locations (risk assessments and proposals of sanitation and rehabilitation measures)
  • Occupational safety
  • Project preparation, appraisal, examination, evaluation and monitoring
  • Project back-stopping

Consulting capabilities

  • Environmental industrial consultations for SME
  • Eco- and industrial audits (cleaner production)
  • Preparation of
    • Regulations for Municipal Solid Waste Management
    • Directives on Water Quality for Human Consumption
    • Standards on the Quality of Wastewater Intended for Discharge to the Public Sewerage System (indirect discharge)
  • Consultations for groundwater protection, water quality, re-use of treated wastewater, natural resources protection
  • Consultations for renewable energy and energy efficiency measures

Chemical expertise

  • Planning of water quality laboratories
  • Physical-chemical, chemical and microbiological analyses of drinking water, surface water, groundwater and wastewater
  • On-site analyses and water sampling strategies
  • Introduction of chemical-analytical methods in laboratories
  • Analytical Quality Control (AQA)
  • Expert assessment and evaluation on contaminations of water, soil and foodstuffs (anthropogenic and microbial)
  • Assessment of chemical residues in water, food and soil
  • Consultations for environmental laboratories and ISO 17025 accreditation

Training programms

  • Training courses in the fields of:
    • Water (contamination and treatment of surface water, groundwater, drinking water, sewage/wastewater, leachate water)
    • Preparation of Eco Audits
    • Environmental and food analyses
    • Rehabilitation of contaminated sites
  • Planning and conception of training courses in the field of environmental protection