Assessment and Approvals

Our skilled consultants are experts in the financial, reputational and schedule traps inherent in obtaining regulatory approvals. Our commercially savvy approach to navigating these traps is tried and tested.

We combine our technical expertise and our comprehensive understanding of statutory requirements to implement cost effective and environmentally sound management and closure solutions that reduce your commercial and regulatory risk.

We specialise in rapid response with pragmatic, commercial, expert advice tailored to address the unique nature of your transaction and risk profile.

We identify and work with the leading scientists and consultants who can deliver the rigorous technical and specialist studies you need to support approval of your project.

We bring our strategic insight and our knowledge of the who, what and how of government engagement to ensure your project progresses smoothly and efficiently.

We will guide you in establishing the integrity and competence essential to building a relationship of trust with your community stakeholders. Early, honest and responsive engagement will enhance your reputation and deliver your project.

We collaborate with the right specialists to deliver bankable feasibility studies which demonstrate the technical feasibility and good business sense of your project to your investors and lenders.

We apply our wide ranging hands-on industry and government experience to devising, scoping, streamlining and mapping a strategy which will optimise your project’s approvals pathway from initiation to sign-off.

With an undeniable approvals track-record combined with first-class negotiation skills, our nation-wide leading specialists navigate and alleviate environmental complexity, assisting clients to progress projects from small independent residential sub-divisions through to major residential and industrial estates.

Our thorough understanding of regulatory requirements combined with our diverse range of specialist services enables us to provide tailored solutions, ensuring our mining clients achieve environmental approvals and remain compliant. Our expertise assists to progress, support and maintain mining projects throughout their entire life-cycle.

For regulated industrial facilities, we effectively manage client projects by drawing on decades of first-hand experience to provide strategic advice and facilitate environmental assessments, approvals and ongoing compliance.

Our fully qualified botanists and zoologists assist the land development, mining and infrastructure sectors, undertaking ecological surveys, rehabilitation and revegetation programs and monitoring.

Assisting both private and public sector organisations, we deliver environmental approvals and ongoing audit and compliance to major infrastructure projects including road and bridge works, railways, airports, water and gas pipelines, power stations, ports and marinas, water and gas pipelines, wastewater treatment, power stations and transmission lines.

We design and facilitate air quality, point source and ambient monitoring programs and emission assessments in metropolitan and regional environmentally sensitive settings. Our skill-set includes specialist technical advocacy and expert witness services.

We are experienced in the preparation of district and local water management strategies as well as urban water management plans. Our sustainable outcomes support planning approvals by balancing regulatory requirements and the practicalities of water management.

We deploy a range of specialist skills to specifically address the needs of agricultural producers to obtain environmental approvals and achieve ongoing regulatory compliance.