Service \ Environment
Environmental assessment, management and auditing services are at the core of our business. Environmental management has emerged as one of the most important issues of the last century as individuals, governments and businesses realise the importance of the maintaining and protecting natural capital.
The concept of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) underpins the majority of new development in Australia and much of the rest of the world. However the nature of environmental regulation is complex and rapidly evolving.
Environmental Assessment and Management
Failure to meet environmental standards can lead to damage to the environment, costly delays and exposes owners, developers, and others to risks and legal liabilities. Expert advice helps ensure that problems are anticipated, properly investigated and effectively managed for the benefit of all stakeholders. Gilbert & Sutherland’s expert environmental investigations and assessments integrate years of experience, advanced computer modeling, thorough research and the latest management techniques. Our advice and management plans are professional, clear and direct and supported by a solid track record of positive outcomes.
We specialise in environmental solutions, no matter how large, small or complex the problem or site. Our team includes qualified and experienced specialists in soil science, agriculture, hydraulics and flooding, hydrology, hydrogeology and land management.
Our environmental management capabilities include:
- assessment of impacts of mine subsidence on agricultural land
- discharges
- due diligence advice
- environmental management plans for land-based re-use of wastes
- erosion and sediment control
- groundwater
- land management plans for post-subsidence landscapes
- resource assessment
- rehabilitation of degraded land
- site assessment
- soil fertility
- soil mapping
- water management
- water quality assessment and monitoring
Site Contamination
Any land use or site activity with the potential to generate unwanted byproducts represents a contamination risk. How that risk is identified, investigated and managed has serious consequences for people, businesses, governments and the environment.
Working amid a complex and ever-changing regulatory system, Gilbert & Sutherland’s contamination specialists have the skill, resources and breadth of experience to guide and advise clients from preliminary investigation stage through to final validation.
Be it a legally defined ‘notifiable activity’ or an unexpected or accidental event, our fully qualified scientists and engineers have the knowledge and experience to identify and design real solutions to difficult problems.
Registered with the relevant Queensland authorities, but independent, our experience is built on a vast range of contamination investigations. Keeping clients up-to-date with the latest legislative requirements and liaising with all relevant regulatory authorities is part of our service, ensuring our advice is current, relevant and meeting their needs.
Our contamination investigation and managements capabilities include:
- preliminary site investigations (Stage 1)
- detailed site inspections (Stage 2)
- design and implementation of remediation programs (Stage 3)
- validation sampling (Stage 4)
- drilling and field services
- expert testimony in legal disputes
- liaison with local and state governments and statutory authorities
- preparation of remediation action plans and site management plans
- risk assessments
- sampling and monitoring of soil quality, ground and surface water quality and air quality
- management plans for site management and/or management of specific activities
- site-specific advice