Soil and closure: remediation, restoration and financial guarantee plans

Soil is the environmental liability that surfaces when a site is sold, closed or refinanced. We quantify the contamination, design the remediation and calculate the financial guarantee using criteria the authorities and the counterparty accept.

What's included

• Preliminary and site condition reports, and design of the exploratory and detailed investigation.
• Quantitative risk assessment for human health and for ecosystems.
• Remediation or recovery design, with alternatives and comparative costs.
• Restoration plans for degraded land and extractive sites.
• Closure and decommissioning plan for industrial installations.
• Calculation of the financial guarantee under Spanish Law 26/2007 and environmental risk analysis.

When you need it

• You are selling, buying or leasing land with a history of industrial use.
• A potentially soil-contaminating activity is ceasing or changing.
• The authorities are asking for the site condition report or a financial guarantee.
• You have to make provisions for an environmental liability and need a defensible figure.

How we work

We work with accredited laboratories and our own risk modelling, and defend the result before the authorities. Where the risk is lower than it looks, that translates into less earthworks and a smaller guarantee.