iEnvironmental Australia (iEnvi) was recently engaged by an architect firm to conduct a preliminary site investigation on a property they wanted to convert into a child care centre. Preliminary site investigations are required for obtaining development consent for most projects. The developers requested a desktop only preliminary site investigation, and as such, a site visit
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iEnvironmental Australia recently conducted a preliminary site investigation (PSI), soil sampling, and subcontracted a geotechnical investigation for developers as part of their obligations under their development planning permit, just outside Ballarat in Sebastopol, Victoria. We delivered a full PSI of the 4.1 Ha site with 30 soil bores to 5m depth, soil sampling, and geotechnical
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Major cost savings can be made with a little extra ingenuity when it comes to managing your property developments, environmental approvals and waste soil. Often when constructing a new building, removing underground storage tanks, building a new sports field or remediating contaminated soil the method has often been to get soil off site directly to
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iEnvi stepped up to the mark and prepared a fast turn around preliminary site investigation (PSI) for a Childcare Development Application in Western Sydney iEnvi prepared a fast turn around preliminary site investigation (PSI) for a developer in western Sydney, wishing to transform a residential property into a childcare facility. They were under severe time
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iEnvi staff developed a commercially viable and statutory compliant solution for groundwater remediation of a coatings manufacturer site in Western Sydney, due to be completed in June 2018, including groundwater delineation, underground storage tank (UST) removal and validation, soil bioremediation, human health and environmental risk assessment (HHERA), and groundwater remediation. The client company’s commercial objectives and
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Tasmania Community Human Health Risk Investigation for Mine Site Mercury Impact iEnvironmental’s Michael Nicholls implemented a surface water, sediment, and soil sampling programme at an island of Tasmania, on behalf of a community group near the municipal potable water intake, and in an open scheelite mine pit at various depths, and surrounding flood zone. In
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iEnvi Principal Michael Nicholls directed and managed a soil and groundwater assessment and soil and groundwater hexcavalent chromium (Cr6+) remediation, both on and offsite, at a steel processing factory. The industrial site had operated for over 50 years and contained corroded drainage pits, corroded pipelines, leakage into stormwater drains, corroded stormwater pipes, and corroded drip
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iEnvi Principal Environmental Scientist Michael Nicholls directed and helped design (in partnership with Arcadis) a series of 11 creek sediment remediation projects, and four major industrial zone soil remediation and groundwater remediation projects. They began in 2012 to the value of $2.1 billion, starting with creek sediment remediation as part of a major river remediation
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iEnvi provided advice for a NSW Government department during a drainage dam construction project that exposed impacted fill material, asbestos and waste tyres on Crown Land. Contractors had been engaged and the sensitive project required additional controls of an experienced environmental consultant to ensure compliance. Asbestos, waste tyres and other material were encountered during civil
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iEnvi responded to an urgent request to conduct a preliminary site investigation (PSI) or Phase 1 ESA as part of an acquisition, at a depot site in Bowen QLD containing above ground storage tanks (ASTs) and diesel petroleum impacted soil, with fieldwork commencing within 3 days of the request. The due diligence was required as
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