"If you don't try to do something beyond what you've already mastered, you won't grow." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882)
Waste Management
Development and implementation of operational and regional waste management concepts (municipal waste, construction waste, commercial and industrial waste);
Definition of waste management and economic goals;
Determination of basic data 1: types of waste, waste quantities, waste compositions;
Determination of basic data 2: waste disposal infrastructure - collection, transport, waste treatment and -Deposition;
Description of the current situation;
Derivation of waste quantity forecasts (scenario development - technical, organizational, financial)
Development of strategies for waste recycling (glass, paper, metals, plastics, hazardous waste);
Selection and dimensioning of waste pretreatment (sorting, composting, fermentation , mechanical-biological pretreatment, incineration);
Design and preliminary planning for waste disposal plants;
Supporting procedures for site search of waste treatment plants (waste treatment, landfills).
Budget and Finance Planning
Structuring, categorizing and re-organizing of the project activities expected in the future;
Recognition and assignment of income and expenditure in the course of the defined project phases (days, weeks, months, years);
Interlocking of technical and financial project and company data taking into account variable boundary conditions (budget changes, contract changes, technical difficulties etc.);
Development of relational databases to represent the future technical and financial project situation with special consideration of company-specific attributes / key figures (What do I need to know?);
Procedures for evaluating the databases with standard software;
Quantitative representation of the activity-related risks to the financial project success;
Cooperation with the responsible IT staff;
Moderation between technical and finance experts/teams;
Connection and integration of variable budget planning into the company-wide finance software.
Contaminated Sites and Real Estate Development
Risk assessment and remediation studies in the context of approval procedures and real estate transactions;
Historical research on land use;
Evaluation and assessment of existing reports, studies and statements;
Deficit analyzes;
Planning, cost estimation, organization and monitoring of laboratory and field work;
Modeling of the dispersion of pollutants in soil and groundwater;
Dimensioning and cost estimation of remedial measures such as "pump & treat", soil exchange, soil consolidation, reactive walls etc.;
Assessment of remediation and cost risks;
Industry experience: food industry , steel and nonferrous metal industry, chemical industry, gasworks, waste disposal companies, mining companies, governmental and semi-governmental organizations (various levels).
Environmental Management & Due Diligence
Planning and implementation of environmental management systems according to ISO 14001 in companies and public institutions;
Planning, monitoring or carrying out the first environmental due diligence;
Data collection on raw material, water and energy consumption, the generation of waste, waste water and other emissions as well as determination of the contaminated site situation;
Preparation of an input-output analysis (processes, company, region);
Identification of significant environmental aspects and environmental impacts;
Development and introduction of management "procedures";
Development of environmental policy;
Environmental goal (catalogs) and environmental programs (measures) for the continuous improvement of the environmental situation;
Preparation and monitoring of internal and external audits;
Integration of the environmental management system in the frame of long-term sustainability strategies (qualitative and quantitative approach).
Energy Efficiency
Development and introduction of strategies for the efficient use of energy in companies and government organizations;
Determination of the technical and socio-economic framework;
Prognosis of energy consumption and assessment of possible savings;
Selection of suitable technical processes for energy saving;
Estimation of investment and operating costs for energy-saving measures;
Reorganization of energy efficiency funds;
Support of public relations activities for energy-saving action;
Preparation of applications for financing energy-saving measures in companies;
Evaluation and assessment of applications within the framework of energy efficiency funds.
Research and Development
Planning, cost estimation and organization of research projects in the above-mentioned technical fields;
Planning, organization and monitoring of laboratory and field work;
Data evaluation;
Publications and reports;
Special experiences: groundwater purification with the help of “reactive walls” (remediation of contaminated sites), composting and waste fermentation;
Assessment of cost risks with the help of the Monte Carlo simulation.