Energy & Power Awards 2019

42 | SME NEWS - 2019 Energy & Power Awards Your Environment Ltd: Best Piling Mat & Crane Position Plate Testing Company There are few things worse than costly building delays and unexpected surprises when working on a piece of land that has not been thoroughly investigated. Understanding the underground, Your Environment Ltd. offer a down to earth approach of examining contaminated land through geotechnical consulting. Thanks to the services being kept in-house, projects can be fast-tracked should they need to be without having to wait for results from an external partner. Clients who decide to work alongside Your Environment can be assured that the utmost levels of care will be taken, and the highest levels of quality will be achieved throughout four key phases; desktop study, site investigation, remediation, and validation. The desktop studies, also known as contaminated land risk assessments, are the first step in investigating potentially dangerous land by compiling a report of geological data, historical maps, preliminary risk assessments, and much more. Should the desktop study show more invasive work is necessary, then phase two begins. Whether working on a small house extension, or a massive national development project, gathering in-depth knowledge of the project site and what is beneath it can help clients get on with whatever it is that they are wanting to do. With early investigation into land, clients can save themselves the worry of potentially devastating delays and nasty surprises just beneath the surface. Your Environment can help clients get answers quickly, so that projects can commence as soon as possible. From the firm’s humble beginnings in 2011 with just two directors, Your Environment has since grown rapidly to include more than fifteen members of staff across two locations in the United Kingdom. Headquartered in West Sussex with a second office in Yorkshire, the small but highly-motivated team supply the entirety of the United Kingdom with contaminated land and geotechnical services for any land investigation. Large enough to cope with any sized project, but small enough to ensure personability, the firm remain ambitious, young, and fast-moving to react rapidly to any client needs. Keeping everything in-house, the team at Your Environment ensure that they maintain total control over every aspect of a project, from initial drilling to laboratory testing. Phase two includes site investigations; a more intrusive investigation of the land in search of potential contamination. This can include incredibly simple procedures such as hand-dug pits from which chemical testing takes place, or significantly more complex procedures that include monitoring for gas with boreholes. From there, should the more in-depth studying show even more work is necessary, then the team at Your Environment will walk their clients through the remediation and validation process. During that time, the land where a project is taking place is cleaned and the result of the cleaning are validated so that building work can resume. Clients can rest easy in the knowledge that by having a contaminant-free plot of land to work on, they are protecting not only themselves, but the people who will be using the land for generations to come. One of the most key elements to any building site or project work site is safety, and the team at Your Environment are also renowned for their piling mat and crane position plate testing. By rigorously testing plates positioning, the firm can help clients conforms to British standards through a series of tests for different surfaces. Delivering these tests on a multitude of surfaces, the firm can help builders prepare for work on sites that needs drilling or crane work. An unseen threat that can cause untold delay and frustration for all parties involved in a construction project, contaminated land doesn’t need to be the headache that is currently is. Your Environment, with their diligent and rigorous geotechnical services, can help all sized projects secure themselves against the pain of delay to ensure every project can get underway as soon as possible. Company: Your Environment Ltd. Contact: Colin Hiscock Website: https://yourenvironment.org/