Energy & Renewables

FiveRivers bring our specialist expertise, skills and experience to the sector by providing environmental monitoring, nature-based design and construction of biodiverse schemes to assist clients deliver new projects and ensure existing infrastructure is not at risk. We have experience with a wide range of clients, and can support anything from nationally significant infrastructure schemes to charity led habitat restoration.

FiveRivers is a trusted partner, with a track record of delivering professional outcomes on large and complex projects. With a dedicated team of experts – we’re the specialists so you don’t have to be.

Common environmental challenges and requirements of projects include:

• Environmental monitoring requirements for baseline data for HRA, WFD and other reporting requirements for planning permissions and statutory consents.
• Biodiversity net gain calculations and assessments, including RCA, to inform mitigation and habitat improvements.
• Terrestrial and Aquatic ecology mitigation and surveys to enable construction or to reduce the risk of projects delivery.
• Requirement for specialist aquatic compensatory habitat or mitigation for development that cannot be completed to the standard required through traditional design and construction delivery suppliers.
• A lack of environmental and ecological understanding, specifically in the water environment, can often lead to a last minute rush to ensure legislative compliance, almost always increasing project costs and risk of programme creep.
• Natural processes putting assets at risk and destabilising important utility infrastructure.

FiveRivers is a leading environmental consultant based in Wiltshire and covering the whole UK. With more than 25 years of experience working with nature, and a team of over 75 passionate, multidisciplinary experts, FiveRivers can find a solution for your problem. We understand the complexity of environmental regulation and offer high-quality, cost-effective solutions for clients and stakeholders that respect progress and the natural world.

We believe nature is the solution and deliver innovative nature-based solutions through investing, protecting and enhancing our natural capital. Using our experience in the water and infrastructure sectors, having successfully delivered multi-year schemes, we can:

• Undertake monitoring to produce data for reporting including HRA, WFD and RCA assessments.
• We can create bespoke schemes and programmes of monitoring to produce water quality and hydrometry and telemetry data.
• Undertake terrestrial and aquatic ecology for species presence and absence.
• Design and construct asset protection to stabilise or prevent river erosion from affecting utility services.
• Design and construct river restoration and wetland habitat mitigation and improvement schemes.
• Undertake habitat translocation, to make way for asset installation e.g. hedgerow, turf and woodland soil translocation.

These services are offered by our in-house team of experts with experience completing and supporting clients on multi-million pound schemes.