Environmental Services
GIBB’s highly qualified and experienced Environmental Services team has a proven track record in the planning, coordination, management and execution of a wide range of environmental projects. Our vast experience in the environmental field makes us well placed to contribute to the successful completion of projects.
Our services include:
Environmental Sciences:
- Environmental advisory services
- Environmental policy and corporate reporting
- Sustainability assessments
- Environmental management systems
- Environmental liability and risk assessment
- Integrated development planning
- Strategic environmental assessments
- Environmental impact assessments
- Public consultation
- Environmental management programmes
- Environmental training, monitoring and auditing
- Environmental permit and regulatory compliance management
- Coastal zone management
- Planning and botanical and rehabilitation assessments
Environmental Engineering:
- Environmental monitoring protocols
- Hazardous waste management
- Integrated waste management plans
- Landfill management and operation plans
- Landfill planning, development, design, construction and closure
- Leachate treatment and landfill gas management
- Monitoring and environmental permit and regulatory compliance management
- Permitting of landfill sites
- Pollution prevention
- Risk assessment
- Site remediation
- Waste minimisation and recycling
Certification of environmental practitioners
In line with a national trend for professionals to be registered with a certification body, GIBB supports and assists staff members in applying for certification or to accrue experience in order to meet the certification criteria.
Sustainability
Sustainability is a part of every aspect of life and therefore forms a central focus at GIBB. Sustainable living requires decisions that balance human needs with maintaining the health of the natural systems that support high quality human life. Sustainability principles have started influencing decisions and actions from individuals to countries, as well as to global organisations. However, this remains a difficult task, but careful consideration of interactions between society and the environment is the starting point for creative solutions.
Services include:
- Moving from developing and implementing fixed plans, ideas and solutions towards operating in an adaptive system that can continuously improve governance and promote coherence in responses to different challenges;
- Moving towards integrated planning;
- Facilitating sharing of results and opportunities, transparent negotiation, cooperation and concerned action that encourages improved relationships with stakeholders and/or shareholders; and
- Effectively including the processes of monitoring, learning and improvement into business practice.