CONSULTING AND RESEARCH

The DS connects academia, institutions, policymakers, and developmental actors as a platform for sharing ideas, and knowledge, and providing the demanded services. These services are helping to make comprehensive plans, and develop flexible policies and developmental strategies.

Our consulting is offered through a network of specialists. Depending on your request or project, we form a professional team adapted to your needs.
Our mission is to empower YOU to be the engine of change. So in our consultancy, we also want to develop with you the key capabilities and provide the necessary support to make your company or institution achieve your goal and be the driver of change.

We help you to understand the new economic environments and the local economic context so that you move forward and succeed sustainably. In this way, we help evaluate and measure your impact on your community in social, economic, and environmental terms. We provide you with a path, and you will see that being sustainable will increase your business and your happiness.

The following are the main consulting services we offer:

• Environmental Plans & Permitting
• Environmental Assessments
• Site Selection & Due Diligence
• Plant startup services
• Onsite operator training
• Agency environmental liaison/license services
• Cost analysis and technical/design review analysis for new plants, upgrades and investment priorities of existing plants
• Professional Translation Services
• CSR strategy development

Besides, DS’s diversity in environmental disciplines allows us to offer environmental research and development services to clients in need of forward-thinking environmental studies. Daira Sabz conducts wide-ranging result-oriented, policy-informed, and bottom-up research.

Our Consulting Services

A large number of industries can utilize environmental consultants. Construction, agriculture and manufacturing firms have enlisted environmental consultants’ expertise to audit their companies’ impact on the environment. Whether companies have decided to either “go green” or avoid penalties and fines, environmental consultants are pivotal across the economic spectrum in today’s business climate. DS offers a wide range of advisory and environmental consulting services to help our clients meet their strategic and project needs, which are detailed as follows.

Air Quality

The DS Air Quality team consists of specialist consultants providing air quality advice to clients. The air quality team has expertise in assessing impacts across all business sectors, including urban renewal and development (residential, industrial and retail), quarrying and mining, transport and infrastructure, renewable energy, oil and gas, intensive agriculture, waste management and wastewater treatment.

How can DS help?

• Air quality monitoring
• Air quality modelling and assessment
• Air quality management

With our specialist expertise, DS air quality team members can undertake a compliance/best practice assessment of an existing installation or help support planning decisions regarding new development and the impact of land use change.

Hydrology & Hydrogeology

We are working with planners, engineers, developers, and regulators to promote sites in sensitive hydrological settings or areas prone to drought or flood risk. DS’s hydrologists, hydrogeologists, and water resource and flood risk specialists have experience working in many business sectors, including development (commercial, industrial, and residential), mining and minerals, waste, energy (hydro, wind, solar, and infrastructure), and oil and gas.

We undertake field studies using the latest hydraulic and hydrological modelling techniques to inform our analytical studies and design recommendations. DS hydrologists, hydrogeologists, geochemists, ecologists and engineers work together, and we have the range of skills to undertake water resource and use/minimization studies, habitat surveys, assess groundwater and surface water interaction and present habitat improvement and diversification plans.

How Can DS Help?

• Baseline Hydrology Studies
• Flood Hydrology, Peak Flow and Flood Volume Estimation
• Flood Risk Assessment
• Geomorphology Studies
• Groundwater Modelling and Resource Studies
• Hydrometry and Monitoring of Rainfall, Evaporation, Flow, Discharge and Water Level
• Hydraulic Modelling of Channels, Flood Defences and Sewer Networks
• Peat, Wetland and Bog Hydrology
• Planning and Design of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SDS)
• River Diversion and Culvert/Bridge Design
• Storm Water Management and Drainage Infrastructure Design
• Sustainable Water Use and Resource Studies
• Water Balances and Masterplanning
• Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment
• Hydrogeology, Groundwater Management & Geochemistry

Land Surveying

DS provides surveying services in a wide range of industries for topographical, hydrographical, and building surveying services. DS surveying services extend to various types of industries such as energy, waste management, planning and development, civil engineering, and construction. DS’s consultants and experts use a selection of state-of-the-art surveying equipment, including GPS satellite surveying, robotic total stations, and traditional total stations.

How Can DS Help?

• Topographic Survey – DS’s staff undertake topographic surveys for a wide range of developments including those related to infrastructure, energy, waste management and planning and development.
• Development Surveying – use of topographic and hydrographical surveys in the provision of land management, planning, permitting and other land management activities.
• CAD, 3D Ground Modelling and Design – DS uses a variety of industry-standard packages to produce drawings for a variety of requirements such as elevation detail and cross sections.

Land Quality & Remediation

One of DS’s main strengths is identifying and then cost-effectively mitigating the risks associated with contaminated land. We work in providing site assessment, ground investigation, remedial design and remedial action implementation services on sites potentially affected by contamination. In addition, we are familiar with the requirements of regulators, industrial and commercial clients, lending institutions, and legal advisors. DS’s commitment to achieving efficient, cost-effective solutions for its clients is strengthened by the company’s ability to provide a comprehensive range of proven and innovative technologies.

DS can provide:

• A comprehensive range of site investigation techniques
• Reviews of environmental data
• Environmental Impact Assessments, Risk Assessments and Contaminated Land Assessments
• Design and management of remediation schemes including materials and waste management
• Development of a conceptual site model
• Quantitative assessment if required, including toxicological and human health risk assessments
• A practical approach to determining mitigation measures

How Can DS Help?

• Site Assessment, Remediation & Regeneration
• Site Restoration & Redevelopment

Masterplanning, Urban and Sustainable Design

Too often, master plans can be aspirational and unrealistic. The DS master planning team draws on our broad range of technical skills to deliver robust and sustainable design solutions. DS masterplans are also based upon a sensible business case for the proposed mix of uses, ensuring that the development proposals can deliver value to our clients. DS’s team of landscape architects and urban designers are able to provide practical and original design solutions.

How can DS help?

• DS is able to provide masterplans for challenging sites
• We have graphic and Virtual Reality capabilities which can assist with the communication of masterplan concepts.
• Helping to find appropriate sites and shaping the form of development on those sites.
• Landscape and Urban masterplans employing high-quality graphics.
• Detailed designs including construction and planting details.
• Management of contracts to ensure implementation to a high standard.

Mining Advisory

DS can offer our clients in the mining sector a complete service extending from value creation and generation through resource and reserve work to environmental and social risk and liability management. The team includes geological, mining and metallurgical consultants who provide expertise and advice to clients in the mining industry.

Policy and Planning

DS is can be asked to contribute to high-level strategy and policy, for example by Government Departments or Planning Authorities. Our outputs include technical studies to inform new policies, design guides, high-level planning strategies for public and private clients, and drafting new planning policies. Our services include:

• Environmental technical experts can assist policymakers by providing clear assessments and guidance.
• Experienced planners, master planners and urban designers are able to create design guides.
• In-house planning capability is able to prepare draft policies.

Soil Science

Our team of Professional Soil Scientists employ methods and data analysis techniques specifically tailored to the project, ensuring they are fit for purpose

DS is working in land resource assessment with a specific focus on providing a holistic approach to soil taxonomy, land capability and agricultural land suitability classification for any land-use requirement. Soil samples collected during surveys are analysed by laboratories with sampling sites and classification boundaries presented in a user-friendly GIS format. We also have Professionals in Erosion and Sediment Control who apply practical soil conservation solutions.

How can DS help?

• Soil Surveying & Management
• Land Capability / Suitability Assessment
• Agricultural Impact Studies
• Management of Agricultural Off-Set Areas & Agronomic Advice
• Waste Characterization & Disturbance Management
• Landform Design
• Rehabilitation Planning & Execution
• Rehabilitation Monitoring & Maintenance
• Auditing – Rehabilitation & Agricultural
• Decommissioning & Closure Planning
• Decommissioning & Rehabilitation Provision / Valuation

In addition to the above, we also provide the following consulting services:

• Environmental Plans & Permitting
• Environmental Assessments
• Plant startup services
• Onsite operator training
• Agency environmental liaison/license services
• Cost analysis and technical/design review analysis for new plants, upgrades and investment priorities of existing plants
• Professional Translation Services
• CSR strategy development
• Energy Audits and Project Analysis
• Environmental Records and Reporting Systems
• Regulatory Compliance Audits
• Waste Management Reporting, Strategy, Systems
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting and Systems

Our Research Services

DS’s diversity in environmental disciplines allows us to offer environmental research and development services to clients in need of forward-thinking environmental studies. Daira Sabz conducts wide-ranging result-oriented, policy-informed, and bottom-up research.

Hence, DS can help its clients by conducting:

• Surveys (lab, field, and remote-based)
• Focus group discussions
• Interviews
• Feasibility studies
• Social, environmental, and economic assessment
• Institutional, household and firms analysis
• Market assessment
• Policy analysis
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Participatory appraisals
• Cost-benefit analysis and impact assessment.

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