Environmental and water permits

Our experts' diverse expertise ensures that we can offer comprehensive and reliable environmental studies for both industrial and infrastructure construction projects. Whether it's air quality measurements, bioindicator studies, or groundwater studies, we help make sure your project is carried out in an environmentally sustainable way.

Industrial environmental permits

In your industrial project, our experts focus on identifying the environmental values of industrial areas and ensuring they are taken into account in planning.

An environmental permit is required for activities that may cause, or risk causing, environmental pollution — for example in the forestry, metal, and chemical industries, energy production, large-scale animal shelters, and fish farming. Our experts support industry and municipal sector operators at every stage of environmental permitting. We also offer comprehensive planning and expert services for community and infrastructure construction needs.

Changing environmental legislation brings new requirements and obligations, particularly for industrial operators. We help our clients manage these through reliable expertise and up-to-date information. Together, we ensure that the environmental impacts of operations stay under control and that national, international, and organization-specific environmental responsibility targets are met.

Our experts offer versatile know-how in environmental permitting processes, environmental studies, and the development of quality and environmental management systems. We also support our clients in cooperation with authorities and help integrate environmental management into overall safety planning.

Water permits for water construction and infrastructure projects

We are your environmental experts for port projects, bridge, dredging, and landfill projects, waterway modifications, hydropower-related permitting, and various restoration projects carried out near bodies of water.

In your infrastructure project — such as road and rail projects — our experts assess the area's environmental and nature values, ensuring they are factored into the planning process. Land extraction permits, groundwater studies, and conservation plans are also key parts of our environmental studies for infrastructure construction.

We also offer expert services to improve the ecological status of water bodies and preserve their biodiversity, and we prepare, among other things, water management plans and water impact assessments for solar and wind power projects.

Chemical permits and chemical notifications

A chemical permit is required when an operation manufactures, stores, handles, or uses hazardous chemicals in quantities that bring it within the scope of chemical safety legislation. The purpose of the permit is to ensure safe handling of chemicals and to prevent risks to people, the environment, and property, while also making sure that adequate preparations are in place for possible accident situations.

In Finland, large-scale industrial handling and storage of hazardous chemicals requires a permit from the Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (Tukes). Small-scale operations, on the other hand, must be reported to the rescue authority.

Our environmental experts help with authority processes related to chemical safety and prepare, according to your needs, both chemical permit applications and the chemical notifications required for small-scale operations.