To address today’s complex health, safety
and environmental liability issues, WSP Environmental has established a
specialist subsidiary company called WSP Risk Management Services (RMS). Those
in the property, industrial, redevelopment and corporate sectors need to control
and reduce risk exposure whilst achieving assurance, confidence and certainty
over the long term. WSP RMS identify, manage and resolve complicated built
environment risks on our clients’ behalf.
Our experience and expertise has been developed through direct involvement in
identifying and resolving risk issues from within the built environment,
demolition and re-development schemes, decommissioning projects, technical due
diligence and corporate health & safety environments. This enables us to deliver
commercially pragmatic solutions to specific areas of risk within almost any
working arena.
We support our clients in minimising risk through providing services in;
- Independent and impartial asbestos risk management
solutions
- Asbestos and Hazardous material surveys
- Turn-key management of asbestos abatement and
remediation
- Contaminated land investigations for asbestos and
remediation strategies
- Decommissioning and demolition management
- Strategic health and safety auditing
- Occupational hygiene and water quality
- Building health assessments
WSP RMS has significant experience across many sectors in
managing asbestos and hazardous material risks on brownfield development sites.
We hold UKAS accreditation for our analysis of asbestos, are one of few
consultancies in Europe to have our own certified in-house laboratory and are
underpinned by a HSE Supervisory License.
Society’s expectations and regulatory requirements mean health and safety issues
within the corporate environment need careful management. Our technical
consultancy provides management and compliance programmes as well as
quantitative assessments, guidance and management strategies. Our commercially
driven solutions go further than satisfying statutory and corporate governance
requirements to apply best practice and minimise risk exposure in a
cost-effective way.
WSP Environmental, through WSP Energy, our global energy
consultancy, works with organisations in all major sectors to provide innovative
solutions to energy related business issues.
As a specialist consultancy, WSP Energy delivers
commercially focused, pragmatic solutions to energy supply, clean energy
production, and energy infrastructure and demand issues. Uniquely, we are able
to combine these services with strategic sustainable planning expertise and the
delivery of advanced technological solutions. In addition to delivering a range
of consultancy options, we also design, deliver and invest in our own energy
projects.
Our specialist technical expertise coupled with our sector
experience and global office network enables us to deliver large and diverse
energy projects, providing support from inception through to completion. In our
teams we draw together experienced project managers, financiers, engineers and
technical and commercial consultants, in order to deliver technical and
commercial excellence to our clients.
Our expertise is grouped into four core areas:
- Energy and Emissions Management:
Helping organisations to manage their energy usage, improve their
efficiency, drive down costs and reduce emissions.
- Project Investment and Development:
Creating investment strategies to deliver cleaner energy production, whilst
also investing directly in energy projects.
- Sustainability Consultancy: Advising
on urban master planning, green building design, climate change,
micro-climate studies and the use of renewables in building design.
- Climate Change Consultancy:
Providing advice on carbon and climate change strategies focused on emission
and carbon financing, whilst also supporting organisations involved in CDM
and JI initiatives.
WSP Environmental has developed a portfolio of
environmental liability solutions which help clients mitigate liabilities
associated with contaminated sites.
The financial burden on stakeholders involved with contaminated sites,
especially those who are seeking to sell or develop them, is often significant.
WSP’s Environmental's Liability Solutions include insurance backed, long-term
indemnities against contaminated land liabilities. Our solutions help clients
to manage or remove their financial uncertainties and protect against the risk
of escalating remediation costs. In particular, this has the advantage of
enabling traditionally risk averse institutions and organizations to consider a
broader range of brownfield sites.
These solutions often work in combination with our market leading land
remediation business (WSP Remediation) that has an established track record in
delivering successful remediation of contaminated land and groundwater. Through
fixed price remediation or the active transfer of the liability to WSP for an
agreed payment, WSP can provide long-term indemnity protection for clients
against known and unknown pollution conditions.
Our solutions are designed to address risks presenting an unacceptable level of
exposure to our clients and the benefits are summarised as:
- Removal of complexities caused by contamination
- Facilitation of business transactions
- Protection against unforeseen remediation costs
- Enabling reduction of balance sheet provisions for
contamination liability
- Enhancement of land value
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