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Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs)
An essential part of due diligence when buying commercial property is getting an environmental site assessment (ESA) before closing the deal.
Essentially, an ESA will help identify the existence and scope of soil or groundwater contamination (e.g., from petroleum, heavy metals, pesticides or herbicides), as well as the presence of hazardous products at sites such as asbestos, PCBs etc.
An ESA will determine whether environmental issues exist before you buy, and help you avoid costly surprises down the road.
Our services include:
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Acquisition and divestment due diligence assessments for legal and property transactions
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Preliminary (ASTM Phase I) and detailed (ASTM Phase II) soil and groundwater assessments
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Legal compliance
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Assessment of soil gas
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Site sensitivity assessments
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Peer review services
Soil and Groundwater Studies
ESS has extensive experience in a wide range of groundwater and soil studies. Working closely with you we can tailor a successful outcome to your project in compliance with local soil legislation without over delivering.
ESS has established relationships with expert primary contractors and service providers allowing us to achieve greater efficiency and cost benefits for your organisation’s projects. Some of our services include:
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Design and supervision of drilling programs
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Human health risk modelling
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Soil and groundwater management plans
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Applying for legal compliance with soil legislation
Tailor-made Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Audits
EHS (or HSE) stands for Environment, Health, and Safety. It's a general term used to refer to legislations, standards and workplace efforts to protect the health and safety of employees and the public as well as the environment from hazards associated with the workplace.
With a network of EHS specialists, ESS can help you implement an effective EHS improvement program wherever it is required.
Moreover, ESS can tailor audits according to your needs or existing corporate global or local standards. We can assess your legal EHS compliance level and advise for improvement.
Specialized Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Services
While EHS is an operational, legislative and oftenly contractual requirement; EHS is more a subset of ESG since 'Environment' is a common aspect while Occupational Health and Employee Safety together with Corporate Social Responsibility comprise the 'Social' aspect of ESG. 'Governance' however, is mostly untouched by any aspect of EHS.
Investors, customers, bankers, insurers, and other stakeholders and capital providers recognize that a company’s financial performance is tied to its proper management of its sustainability-related issues.
Moreover, multilateral and bilateral development Finance Institutions (FIs) operate across various world regions to promote sustainable development. As part of their mandate, these institutions require that their financing activities are conducted in compliance with certain environmental and social requirements. Some of the most commonly used standards are IFC Performance Standards, EBRD Performance Requirements and Equator Principles.
ESS's network of experts are capable of fulfilling environmental and social due diligence audits according to international or corporate standards. Moreover, if your company is lacking ESG professionals, we can assist you through capacity building.
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic process for evaluating the environmental implications of a proposed policy, plan or programme and provides means for looking at cumulative effects and appropriately address them at the earliest stage of decision making alongside economic and social considerations.
ESS's network of experts are capable of supporting the Client to conduct a SEA process in compliance with the Strategic Environmental Assessment Regulation which has been enacted in 2017.