Adding value to your service delivery

We provide clients, in all sectors, with practical, cost-efficient and quality-driven solutions to their biodiversity and environmental needs.

We define the costs and benefits of different management options for our clients to make informed decisions on the option that best suits their needs.  We also seek to add value by providing advice on the business benefits that can be secured from biodiversity and environmental activities undertaken for a development, especially from innovations in environmental compliance, management, monitoring & enhancement.

Biodiversity

We provide business support for gaining strategic value from 'green' activities in the short and long term through enablement and optimisation.  Our key services comprise:

• Business Strategy & Enhancement
• Operational efficiency enhancements
• Tender support
• Positive media coverage
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Incentive schemes: BREEAM; Code for Sustainable Homes
• Key Performance Indicators
• Biodiversity offsetting & habitat banking
• Ecosystem Services: surveys, GIS mapping, management plans
• Biodiversity risk & opportunity assessment
• Conservation management plans
• Biodiversity Action Plans
• Research
• Training & lecturing

Ecology, Arboriculture & Landscape

Our Ecology Team offers clients across all sectors professional advice on nature.  We work directly with our clients to ensure the solutions recommended are firstly, appropriate to the level of the project and secondly, in accordance with UK and European legislation.  We offer a wealth of experience in large scale highways and housing construction projects, as well as more localised projects for individual land or property owners.  Our key services include:

• Protected species surveys & licenses; liaison with statutory agencies
• Toolbox talks
• Invasive species surveys & management
• Hazard tree surveys and condition assessments
• Landscape design, habitat surveys
• Green infrastructure design
• Arboricultural on-site construction support

Ecological Clerk of Works

We have particular expertise in providing on-site ecology supervision.  This is especially important, as more emphasis is being placed on the need for experienced ecologists to oversee construction works in order to ensure compliance with UK and European legislation.  CBC can offer these services given the extensive experience our ecologists have in supervising a wide range of large and small scale projects for a variety of clients.

Environmental Management

Our support for clients with their environmental management obligations include:

• Energy, waste, water & carbon
• BREEAM support
• ISO 14001 pre-certification & third party internal audits
• Gap-analysis, legal compliance reviews
• Systems development & implementation
• Environmental reporting
• Risk assessment & training.

Environmental Coordinator

Our Environmental Coordinators are experts in managing environmental compliance for a project or construction site including liaising with the client & authorities, coordinating specialist input, auditing and KPI reporting.

Highways Environmental Assessments

We provide assessments in accordance with the DMRB that include EIA determination reports, Records of Determination and Appropriate Assessments.

Adding value

CBC is committed to adding value to your project and business by securing a variety of benefits including:

• Minimising risk of overly complex & expensive mitigation
• Informing decision-making by defining the costs & benefits of all possible environmental options
• Identifying environmental resource & cost requirements for budget and programme planning
• Maximising business benefits from biodiversity improvements including CSR, positive media coverage & evidence for tenders
• Strategic advice on business impacts of new & forthcoming legislation

For more information, please contact:

Dr Julia Baker MIEEM CEnv at our Kingshill Office
Email: julia.baker@chrisbritton.co.uk

Chris Britton Consultancy Ltd
BBMM Area 4
10 Kings Hill Avenue
Kings Hill
Kent
ME19 4WA
Tel: +44 (0)203 433 2000
www.chrisbritton.co.uk