Energy & Renewables

FiveRivers bring our specialist expertise 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.

Common 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

At FiveRivers we find a solution for your problem. 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.