Environmental and water permits

When you have a municipal and infrastructure project, an industrial investment or a project that affects water bodies or water use, we will carry out the necessary studies and permit applications for your project.

Our environmental and nature service experts have extensive experience with various assignments related to environmental and water law permit applications, as well as environmental impact assessments. We carry out the necessary assessments and modeling to be attached to your environmental or water permit application. We also assist you with cooperation with authorities and stakeholders.

Industrial environmental permits

Environmental permits are required for activities that may cause or threaten to cause pollution, such as forestry, metal and chemical industries, energy production, large animal housing and fish farming. We have a comprehensive range of expertise to serve our clients in areas such as industrial and municipal permitting, and we can also provide comprehensive planning services for urban development.

For your industrial project, our experts focus in particular on identifying the environmental values of industrial sites and how to take them into account in planning. This includes applications for environmental and water permits, including derogations under the Nature Conservation Act and the Water Act, as well as expert services in environmental risk management and minimising environmental impacts.

Changing environmental legislation imposes new obligations, especially on industrial operators. We help you manage these obligations with reliable and up-to-date information. In this way, we ensure that environmental impacts are minimised and that national, international and corporate environmental responsibility targets are met.

Our experts offer a wide range of expertise in environmental permitting processes and environmental assessments, as well as knowledge of various quality and environmental management systems. We can also help you to liaise with the authorities and integrate environmental management into your wider safety planning.

Environmental reports and risk assessments

Environmental reports and risk assessments help you to ensure that your operations are sustainable and that the chosen measures do not cause excessive harm in any area of environmental responsibility.  Environmental management also requires taking account of a wide range of legislation, at the right time and with the right content.

For example, industrial activities may require an environmental risk assessment, which must be updated at least every five years. It is also often necessary to draw up a fire-fighting waste water plan to help prepare for environmentally harmful chemical spills in the event of a fire.

The Environmental Protection Act requires baseline studies to be carried out, which provide information on the current state of the soil in the area of operation, the sources of emissions and the environmental conditions. We can also provide you with soil and groundwater reports for the construction site, which guide, among other things, the design of the foundation structure.

Water permits for water construction and infrastructure projects

We are your environmental experts for port projects, bridge, dredging and filling projects, fairway modifications, hydropower permitting and various restoration projects in the vicinity of water bodies.

For your civil engineering projects, such as roads and railways, our experts will assess the environmental and natural values of the area, ensuring that they are taken into account in the planning process. Soil extraction permits, groundwater studies and conservation plans are also important parts of our environmental assessments for infrastructure projects.

Additionally, we offer expert services for improving the ecological status of water bodies and preserving biodiversity.