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