Client & Country (UK unless stated)

Description of Project 

Brecher Abram

Pre-acquisition Phase I assessment of a manor house and grounds attached to a large mechanized arable farm

Nicholson Graham Jones

Pre-acquisition Phase I assessment of an aeronautical wiring harness manufacturer in Swindon for a US buyer

MWH

Pre-acquisition Phase I assessment of a printed circuit board manufacturer in Biggleswade for a N American buyer

Solvay

Multi-stage delineation of free and dissolved phase organics in soils and groundwaters, development and implementation of remediation programme. Second stage 2-3 year expert support in a demerger dispute with former partner

Royal Insurance

Selection and management of expert team to provide technical support for RI in a legal action with Coalite Chemicals opposing a claim under the insureds' general liability policy (farmers loss of livelihood claim)

Security Capital, UK & W Europe

Conducting pre-acquisition Phase I assessments (plus Phase IIs & asbestos surveys to quantify risks where necessary) on scores of properties (including Frigoscandia warehouses) in the UK & Western Europe

City &WE Properties

Conducting pre-acquisiton Phase I assessments and asbestos surveys of occupied and empty office blocks and banks in the West End of London

Blagden Chemicals

Pre-acquisition assessment of the operations, impact and management of a solvent recovery facility

Blagden Chemicals

Pre-divestiture Phase I and II assessment of a chemicals handling, packaging and distribution facility with considerable pre-1939-1945 War history

AT&T, Ireland

Compliance audit of the operations and management system of the facility (Bray) that included Occupational H&S and Ergonomics

Lucent Tech, Ireland

Environmental, Health & Safety compliance audit.(Dublin)

General Electric, Ireland

Phase I and II environmental compliance and impact assessment (Dundalk)

EAC Terraillon, Ireland

Pre-acquisition Phase I assessment of the operations, management and impact of a bathroom scales manufacturing company (Sligo)

DOE (NI)

Evaluation of the operations of the Dupont facility in the aftermath of a spillage incident that resulted in the release of an organic contaminant into the Class A Lough Foyle

Technetix

Carrying out an Environmental Review and developing the company's environmental management system. Gained SCEEMAS grant approval

NCR

Compliance audit of the operations and management system of the Dundee plant that included Occupational H&S and Ergonomics

Camford Engineering

Carrying out an Environmental Review and developing the company's environmental management system. Auditing implementation progress and conducting environmental awareness raising training at five levels of management. Attend routine Steering Group meetings

Pre-Star

Carrying out an Environmental Review and developing the company's environmental management system. Auditing implementation progress one year later and conducting environmental awareness raising training

Camford Engineering

Preparation of site specific registers of regulations for three operating facilities and a summary of environmental law

James River Corp.

Pre-acquisition assessment of the operations, impact and management of two paper mills (N Ireland)

Vickers Property Services

Various Phase IIs of property pre-divestiture including provision of site supervision during asbestos stripping and demolition. Developed a divestiture policy

British Coal

Training of audit team involving the compliance auditing of deep mines and the subsequent development of an auditing approach and standard

Gripperrods

Provision of expert support in a legal dispute between the company and the landlord in respect of the removal of an environmental indemnification clause in a lease 

Rolls-Royce MC

Provision of support in the development of the company's certified EMS including Steering Group attendance, waste minimisation programme and Phase II

Stanley Works

Pre-acquisition Phase I assessment of a pre-construction new-build property on a former shipbuilding dock area

RSR (Dallas)

Provision of technical support, including Phase I & II, in the successful purchase of a large secondary materials lead smelter in Derbyshire and six refinery and rolling mill sites in the UK and France from Shell

S J Berwin (lawyers)

Provision of technical support, including Phase Is, in the successful purchase of nine leisure complexes in the UK, Austria, Spain and the Canary Islands

James Smith Estates

Carrying out a full pre-acquisition Phase II site investigation and interpretation for an industrial park in The project also involved testing three underground storage tanks and associated fuel lines and the replacement of defective fuel lines

Henley Burrowes Ltd

Involvement in the development of environmental risk control procedures for the application for an IPC authorisation for the proposed Waste to Energy plant 

Wilkinson & Associates 

Completed a report entitled Environmental Law in England - An Introduction and Summary of Current Regulatory Policy and Practice in relation to the operation of oil distribution depots. This commission followed the completion the previous month of a similar report for Scotland

Solvay

Reviewed the history and documentation associated with the remediation of contaminated groundwater at an operational manufacturing plant of Solvay to assist the environmental co-ordinator in challenging the need for a Mobile Plant licence