The Sinclair Knight Merz Environmental Science Group provides a clear focus on science as opposed to the more traditional engineering approach in the Local Government Sector. This is necessary, as our society demands a better understanding of what we are doing to our environment, particularly in term of emissions whether they are solid, liquid or gaseous.

Local Government often has a double role in the ‘emissions field’ as both an emitter and a regulator. Councils are often directly responsible for solid and liquid waste disposal from these municipal waste streams and it is important that Councils provide a responsible lead in terms of both technologies utilised and operational performance.

Sinclair Knight Merz has much to offer in this rapidly expanding and challenging field through our growing Environmental Science Group, which is spread throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Capabilities in the Environmental Science Sector include

• Air and Noise Emissions and Pollution          
• Contaminated Sites Assessment and Remediation          
• Ecological Risk Assessment          
• Data Collection and Analysis          
• Ecological surveys, studies and monitoring          
• Ecotoxicological studies and testing          
• Water, discharge and sediment monitoring          
• Atmospheric modelling          
• Greenhouse gas emission audits and studies          
• Pollution, discharge and oil spill assessment and controls          
• Environmental compliance audits          
• Environmental management systems          
• Environmental impact assessments and studies          
• Health and environmental risk assessment          
• Waste management and minimisation          
• Land use and rehabilitation          
• Resource management          
• Dredging and sea dumping permits.