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November 26, 2019
SLR has appointed Peter Skinner as our new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Peter joins SLR from AECOM where he led their Environment and Ground Engineering business in EMEA for the past five years. As COO and a main board director, Peter will lead operational management and growth in the business: providing leadership and working closely with SLR’s five Regional Managers (Africa, APAC, Canada, Europe, US) and their service line and sector teams.
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November 22, 2019
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November 11, 2019
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November 11, 2019
SLR has acquired Manchester based HFL Consulting Ltd., a forerunner in sustainable Process Safety Management services, combined with proven business improvement capabilities.
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October 22, 2019
On October 14, 2019 the California State Water Resources Control Board released results from their first phase of their state-wide investigation into the presence of PFAS in groundwater. This initial phase of testing included almost 600 drinking water supply wells, primarily those in the vicinity of airports and municipal solid waste landfills, and in wells where these contaminants had been observed previously.
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October 02, 2019
SLR Principal John McCorkle recently accepted an invitation from the Washington State Department of Ecology to participate in a 22-person Cleanup Rule Stakeholder & Tribal Advisory Group (STAG) which is responsible for providing stakeholder input and recommendations to the agency on proposed changes to the state's rules and regulations around contaminated site cleanups.
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September 26, 2019
On September 18, Managing Principal Matt Harrison and Senior Engineer James Van Horne attended the Sixth Annual CH4 Connections Conference, the largest methane emissions conference in the U.S., which was held at Colorado State University and co-sponsored by SLR client, the Gas Technology Institute.
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September 23, 2019
SLR’s Kellye Larsen-Dundon, Associate Scientist was elected to serve another year as vice chair for the Oregon Chapter of Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA). Kellye has been in this role since 2017 and has also served as chapter secretary from 2013 to 2017. Kellye began her career over 7 years ago and specializes in transportation noise analysis and industrial noise monitoring. She has measured existing noise levels and counted traffic for proposed highway projects in the state of Oregon, as well as analyzing noise mitigation techniques, such as barriers of different heights to optimize noise reduction and cost effectiveness. She specializes in regulatory compliance, permitting, and greenhouse gas emissions.
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September 10, 2019
We're delighted to share the news that SLR has acquired RPA Inc, a 60-person, world-leading mining advisory business with teams in Toronto, Denver and London.
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August 20, 2019
SLR Consulting (Canada) Ltd. announced today that highly regarded technical hydrogeologist, Dr. Ric Horobin, will be joining SLR taking on the role Principal Hydrogeologist. Ric will report to Ian Mitchell, head of the groundwater team, and will be based in the Whitehorse, Yukon office.
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July 25, 2019
SLR has recently announced the expansion of services in its Asia Pacific region with the introduction of a Risk Assessment and Toxicology team, led by Tarah Hagen.
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July 22, 2019
SLR has achieved a prestigious award in recognition of our practices and successes around health & safety at work. We've been awarded a President's (10 consecutive Golds) in the RoSPA Health and Safety Awards, the longest-running industry awards scheme in the UK.
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July 01, 2019
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April 23, 2019
SLR, a global leader in environmental and advisory solutions, has acquired Novus Environmental, a 25 person specialized environmental firm based in Guelph Ontario and Calgary Alberta, Canada.
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March 20, 2019
SLR Consulting has recently announced the senior appointment of Colin Stapleton to lead the firm’s Waste and Resources Management service in the Asia Pacific region.
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March 15, 2019
In March, a bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation that would classify all PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) as “hazardous substances” under the Comprehensive Emergency Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), often referred to as Superfund. If this bill passes and is signed into law, cleanups of these chemicals would be eligible for CERCLA cleanup funds and cost recovery actions under that law. The bill was introduced following the EPA’s issuance of their PFAS Action Plan, which was met with a mixed response, including skepticism from states who have indicated that some of the steps highlighted in the action plan should be taken more quickly – such as the change outlined in this recent legislation.
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March 07, 2019
SLR, a global leader in environmental and advisory solutions, has acquired HydroSimulations, a team of groundwater specialists based in New South Wales, Australia.
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February 19, 2019
University of Texas (UT), Austin is partnering with Colorado State University (CSU), and SLR to develop libraries of emissions data sets and activity factors for The Collaboratory to Advance Methane Science (CAMS), an industry-led collaborative research consortium. This will be their first research project to study spatial and temporal methane emissions profiles across various oil and gas basin locations.
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January 30, 2019
SLR would like to announce the senior appointment of Technical Director Ian Stupple. Ian will assist with the continued growth of the firm’s Waste and Resources Management services in the Asia Pacific region, with a regional focus on New Zealand, where he will be based.
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January 23, 2019
SLR has expanded its operations on the U.S. East Coast with addition of a number of new advisory and environmental consultants joining our team in offices in New York and Connecticut. New team members include:
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January 10, 2019
SLR is delighted to feature in the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mine Closure, held in Leipzig, Germany.
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December 13, 2018
Our Energy and Carbon team at SLR have summarised some of the key topics affecting the sector recently.
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December 12, 2018
SLR recently co-sponsored and participated in an international symposium on Improving Impact Assessment and Management in the Mining Sector. The symposium was organised by the International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA) and hosted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) at their offices in London.
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December 06, 2018
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December 03, 2018
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November 14, 2018
SLR’s Jeremy Smith (Technical Discipline Manager for Landscape Architecture) was featured in Planning Resource magazine last week.
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November 09, 2018
ESOS is the Energy Savings Opportunities Scheme, the UK enactment of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive Article 8. This requires large undertakings to assess at least 90% of their energy consumption every four years.
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November 01, 2018
SLR is pleased to welcome its newest managing principal, Matt Harrison, P.E. who brings over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas and energy business sectors. With a strong background in air emissions and regulatory interpretation and regulatory compliance, Matt is nationally recognized in his specialty in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions measurements, characterizations, and mitigation.
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October 29, 2018
SLR Consulting is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew O’Brien as Operations Manager - Environmental Management, Planning and Approvals (EMPA) . Andrew will be based in our Brisbane office, and will be responsible for leading our Asia Pacific Environment and Social Impact Assessment, Transport Advisory and Environmental Management, Permitting and Compliance teams.
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October 08, 2018
Another successful year has seen SLR move into the Sunday Times’ Grant Thornton Top Track 250 list for the first time. Published in the business section of the Sunday Times, this year marked the 14th Annual Top Track 250 list, which recognises fast growing mid-market companies. Last year, SLR was highlighted on the ‘Ones to watch’ list, which...
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October 05, 2018
SLR is delighted to welcome Jen White as our new Marketing and Communications Manager for Canada. With over 18 years experience in the environmental and engineering consulting sector, Jen’s extensive background and experience will play a critical role in helping us build on our growth strategies and brand, and positioning SLR as a top tier service provider of environmental and advisory services.
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October 04, 2018
SLR’s Conor Walsh was out and about last week taking part in a couple of radio and TV interviews in his role as Secretary of the Irish Waste Management Association (IWMA).
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September 06, 2018
This month SLR Technical Director for Safety Services, Rachel Bennett, penned an article which was published in Sustainable Ireland magazine.
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September 04, 2018
SLR is looking forward to attending Mine Closure 2018 in Leipzig, with papers being presented by colleagues from our North American and European offices.
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September 03, 2018
SLR has been handed a prestigious award in recognition of its practices in maintaining excellent workplace health and safety standards for staff and clients. This comes in the form of our 9th consecutive Gold Medal in the RoSPA Health and Safety Awards, the longest-running industry awards scheme in the UK.
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August 30, 2018
Recently SLR’s Conor Walsh, with the help of Pete Watkins and Munashe Musarurwa, prepared a report commissioned by the Irish Waste Management Association which has just been published.
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August 29, 2018
SLR's Jamie Robinson and Peter Kinghan have recently been developing a methodology to assess the chemistry of soil and surface water using drone mounted hyperspectral sensors.
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August 28, 2018
SLR Consulting has recently announced the Principal appointments of Paul Goldsworthy, Richard Simmons and Giorgio De Nola. These appointments are a great reflection of our growth not only across multiple technical disciplines, but geographically as well.
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August 22, 2018
We’re pleased to share the news that SLR’s Built Environment Planning team has secured instruction from a brand-new client - SoCity (Leeds) Limited. SoCity is a lifestyle brand of parent company Prospect Property Group, a property development company with experience completing residential and commercial projects.
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August 22, 2018
SLR Consulting’s Asia Pacific operations are pleased to announce the senior appointment of Dehlia Goundrey to the Perth office as Environmental Principal and Western Australia Manager.
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August 06, 2018
We are pleased to welcome Steve Bell who has recently joined SLR's Process Engineering and Process Safety team as a Technical Director based in our Maidstone office.
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July 25, 2018
SLR Consulting Ireland researched and designed the recently launched Tourism Interpretative Master Plan for Ireland’s National Parks, on behalf of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS).
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June 27, 2018
SLR Consulting (“SLR”), a leading global environmental and advisory consultancy, has completed on the deal that sees Charterhouse Capital Partners (“Charterhouse”), a leading European private equity firm, become SLR’s principal investment partner for the next phase of its growth and development.
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May 31, 2018
A new book co-edited by SLR archaeologist and write Associate Professor George Nash, has been released and is selling well.
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May 24, 2018
SLR Consulting’s Asia Pacific operations have recently announced the senior appointment of Simon Ercole to lead the firm’s Occupational Hygiene services in the region.
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May 15, 2018
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May 03, 2018
SLR Consulting has recently announced the expansion of their South-East Queensland offices to include a new Gold Coast premise. The company first commenced operations in Brisbane in 1990 and has expanded to include over fifteen local specialist technical services with over 80 staff permanently based in the SEQ region.
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April 20, 2018
SLR Consulting has recently announced the senior appointment of Technical Director Andrew Quinn to further strengthen the firm’s Waste and Resources Management service in the Asia Pacific region
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April 19, 2018
Does reluctance in the waste sector to manage recyclables price risk presents opportunities for the insurance sector? Over 6 million tonnes of recyclables (e.g. paper, card, metals, plastics, glass) are collected annually from 23 million households in England and the volumes are expected to increase further in the future. The responsibility for providing household recyclables collection service in England sits with c.320 local authorities, of which over 170 have contracts with private waste management companies for the provision of collection services.
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March 26, 2018
SLR Consulting (“SLR”), a leading global environmental and advisory consultancy, announces that it has agreed to partner with Charterhouse Capital Partners (“Charterhouse”), a leading European private equity firm, to support the business in its next phase of growth and development.
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March 18, 2018
SLR has recently announced the Principal appointments of Subathra Ramachandram and Colin Stapleton to further strengthen the Advisory services offered in the Asia Pacific region.
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March 15, 2018
Birmingham City Council’s Planning Committee unanimously resolved to grant planning permission for restoration and conversion of Birmingham’s Methodist Central Hall, a Grade II* Listed Building, into a high quality mixed-use hotel and apart-hotel facility on 1 March 2018. Despite the buildings complexities and sheer scale the decision was received within 13 weeks that included comprehensive discussions with Historic England and other consultee partners who all have an interest in the iconic building’s future use and protection.
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February 28, 2018
On February 15, SLR’s Project Engineer Nestor Godinez received the 2018 Outstanding Younger Civil Engineer Award at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Awards Dinner. The annual event was held at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California and recognizes a few of Orange County’s finest Civil Engineers and projects. Nestor was recognized for...
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February 26, 2018
SLR is delighted to welcome Rachel Bennett to our Manchester office. Rachel works with a range of industries including oil & gas, chemicals, mining and manufacturing, to support them in improving their safety and overall business performance.
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February 23, 2018
Senior Engineer Todd Lusk has recently joined SLR with expertise in industrial wastewater engineering via our new office located in Florence, Kentucky. He brings over 16 years of experience in treatability investigations, wastewater technology evaluations, biological wastewater treatment, water efficiency evaluations, wastewater operations troubleshooting, and microscopic biomass assessments for a range of industries including petrochemical, pharmaceuticals,...
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February 13, 2018
SLR announces the addition of Leslie Cook Wong to our Houston office as Principal Consultant. She will be leading our effort to grow the air quality team and expand our services to clients throughout Texas and the Gulf Region.
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February 12, 2018
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February 08, 2018
In a recent presentation to the Northwest Environmental Business Council, the Director of the Pollution Liability Insurance Agency (PLIA), Russ Olsen, was pleased with the progress of the new Petroleum Technical Assistance Program (PTAP), citing the successful entry of 48 sites into the new program, which provides technical assistance and opinion letters on low- and medium risk sites where petroleum is the only contamination.
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February 08, 2018
SLR has recently joined CIRIA in its Project Steering Group, working to produce a guidance document detailing “the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for infrastructure asset management”.
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February 05, 2018
SLR has this week announced the further expansion of its Land & Water service offering with the launch of Risk Assessment & Toxicology in its Europe region. The additional expertise will be of great benefit to existing and new SLR clients involved with urban regeneration and development sectors.
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January 31, 2018
SLR Consulting’s Asia Pacific operations have recently announced the senior appointment of Mo Daud to lead the firm’s Land Quality and Remediation services in the region.
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January 25, 2018
ASTM International, a global standards organization, recently awarded Managing Principal, Gene Watson, their E50 Distinguished Service Award.
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January 18, 2018
SLR has recently announced the senior appointment of Technical Director Anthony Lane to assist in the growth of Land Quality and Hydrogeological services in the Asia Pacific region.
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January 11, 2018
Jessica Miller has joined SLR’s air quality team as a senior scientist located in our Baton Rouge, Louisiana office and will support our growth in air quality and compliance services in the Gulf Region.
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January 09, 2018
We are pleased to welcome on-board Kay Salmon, a new Technical Director within the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment team.
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December 18, 2017
Dr George Nash, Principal, Archaeology & Heritage, over the past three years has been co-directing one of the largest ongoing dendrochronology projects in the UK.
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November 30, 2017
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November 07, 2017
In addition to our booth presence at the show, SLR members received awards and acknowledgement for their technical leadership and participation.
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November 06, 2017
SLR is continuing to broaden its services in the Gulf Coast Region by welcoming Brad Arnold to the firm as a Senior Engineer.
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October 23, 2017
On the 18th of October Nigel Leehane, Technical Director at SLR, and Toby Bridgeman from British Gypsum joined BSI and IEMA in sharing a webinar titled 'ISO 14001 – thinking about context of the organisation and interested parties'. The webinar explored the ISO14001:2015 requirements for organisational context and interested parties, as well as the potential value and approaches to addressing them.
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October 09, 2017
SLR’s VR team has recently completed a virtual reality model showing a proposed offshore windfarm for Inch Cape Offshore Limited near the Angus coast.
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October 03, 2017
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September 29, 2017
SLR Consulting will relocate to the Perth CBD on Monday 3 October to accommodate for the continued growth of the business. After commencing operations in Western Australia nine years ago, the company has expanded its technical capability and range of clients across numerous business sectors.
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September 28, 2017
The Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) is in the process of being transposed to UK law, and will be implemented in England and Wales by December 2017.
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September 25, 2017
SLR Africa, in association with Strategia International, has recently hosted a successful seminar in Johannesburg, focussing on a comprehensive approach to risk management. This was fulfilled by four speakers:
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September 21, 2017
In the fifth of a series of articles SLR's Nigel Leehane has written to help organisations understand the implications of transitioning to ISO 14001:2015, he explores the new requirements for competence, and how organisations can adapt to meet them.
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September 21, 2017
In the fourth of a series of articles SLR's Nigel Leehane has written to help organisations understand the implications of transitioning to ISO 14001:2015, he explores the new requirements for sustainability and life cycle control and influence, and how organisations can adapt to meet them.
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August 30, 2017
SLR Consulting’s Asia Pacific operations have recently announced the expansion of their water advisory and design capability with the senior appointments of Dr Trevor Johnson and Michael Della.
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August 22, 2017
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August 18, 2017
In the third of a series of articles SLR's Nigel Leehane has written to help organisations understand the implications of transitioning to ISO 14001:2015, he explores the new requirements for leadership, who these apply to, and how they can adapt to meet them.
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August 17, 2017
SLR’s Africa Advisory Services have recently provided environmental, social and governance due diligence services for Enko Capital’s expansion capital investment in AMI Logistics. Enko Capital is an asset management company focussed on African investment, and their $7 million transaction gives the $64 million Enko Africa Private Equity Fund a significant minority stake in AMI, as well as a seat on AMI’s board.
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August 08, 2017
SLR has this week announced the further expansion of its services in Asia Pacific with the launch of Landscape Architecture. Previously only serviced from the European region, the additional expertise will be of great benefit to existing and new SLR clients involved with urban regeneration and development sectors.
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August 04, 2017
In the second of a series of articles SLR's Nigel Leehane has written, he will be helping organisations understand the implications of transitioning to ISO 14001:2015.
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August 01, 2017
SLR has been using visualisation in projects for over 20 years and now our latest project with National Grid has been the biggest virtual reality project to date.
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August 01, 2017
If you are preparing to make the transition to ISO 14001:2015, you need to understand the implications of the new requirements of the revised standard, so that you can plan how to address them in the time remaining for recertification.
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June 23, 2017
SLR is pleased to announced the appointment of Graeme Starke to lead the Air Quality team in the Asia Pacific region. Graeme brings more than seventeen years’ experience and has a particular focus in the assessment of the environmental effects of air discharges, emission inventories, atmospheric dispersion modelling, management plans and air monitoring.
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June 08, 2017
The State of Victoria Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning (DELWP) have recently released their ‘Better Apartment Design Standards’ (BADS) which includes internal noise requirements for apartment buildings. These requirements are for properties within stated catchment areas from industrial, road and rail land uses. This has the potential to impact over 400,000 land parcels within Greater Melbourne. SLR have developed the tools to quickly and easily support our clients in screening sites for possible noise implications. This is to help understand the potential cost impacts due to noise abatement during early costing exercises on a development site. Ben Hinze (Manger – Environmental Mapping) and Alex Campbell (Sector Lead – Infrastructure) provide a summary of the impacts and an enlightening case study.
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June 07, 2017
This article outlines the recent and near future changes to respirable dust in coal mines and recent innovations by SLR's Occupational Safety and Hygiene Team to assist mines effectively and efficiently manage the issue.
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June 05, 2017
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June 05, 2017
SLR Consulting has this week announced the appointment of Andrew Joycey as Principal Consultant with the firm’s Transport Advisory team based in the Melbourne office.
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May 30, 2017
The SLR Oil & Gas Advisory team assisted INEOS’ with their recently
announced acquisition of Dong Oil & Gas Business from DONG Energy for a
payment of $1.05 billion, plus a contingent payment of $250 million. The
acquisition positions INEOS as a top ten company in the North Sea and the
biggest privately owned exploration and production business operating in...
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May 26, 2017
SLR is pleased to have been awarded a position on the ESPO (Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation) 664 Consultancy Services framework.
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May 17, 2017
Senior Project Manager, Kerry Mierau, has joined SLR bringing over 15 years of experience with supporting and managing projects in the area of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting. Her expertise includes preparing new, renewal and modification NPDES discharge permit applications, CWA 316(b) cooling water intake support, aquatic bio-assessments, whole effluent toxicity (WET) and aquatic toxicity, water quality-based effluent limit derivation, and site-specific criteria development. Ms. Mierau has also served as supporting or lead eco-toxicologist in the development of registration dossiers under REACH regulations for more than 20 substances.
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May 17, 2017
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May 16, 2017
Like you, staff at SLR are receiving many briefings being circulated about the new EIA Regulations. Much of the comment appears to be raising the potential for concern, pushing those developing projects to seek additional advice that in reality may well be unnecessary. Our perspective is that if you were already pro-actively applying the old EIA Regulations to the specific advantage of your project, then the new regulations change little.
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May 12, 2017
SLR has this week announced the appointment of Trent Collins as Principal Consultant in the firm’s Mine Waste Engineering team. Trent has over sixteen years’ experience in the geotechnical industry with a focus on Mine Waste, Tailings Dams and Earthworks Construction.
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May 11, 2017
Road Safety is one of the most important community issues worldwide. Whilst it is a global problem, we all need to think “and act” locally to seek an improvement in road safety and a reduction of injuries and fatalities on our transport network.
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April 26, 2017
SLR has been awarded a gold medal award for the 8th consecutive year in the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2017.
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April 24, 2017
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April 20, 2017
SLR is pleased to welcome Managing Principal, D’Ann Wilkins, who has opened a new office in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in March 2017. With over 20 years of experience in water treatment and wastewater services, D’Ann will further develop SLR’s technical service offerings in the engineering and water quality service area.
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