Services
Carried out using the most practical, sustainable and appropriate technique(s), only applied once we have completely understood your goals and generally following a comprehensive options appraisal.
Understanding the most current remedial technology is not enough for successful delivery of a remediation project. Health & safety, demolition, construction programs, waste management, changing legislation and the clients’ objectives are all key elements. Soilfix prides itself on having skilled staff with the essential skills to deliver complete soil and groundwater services in Cheltenham.
Soilfix are a specialist soil remediation and groundwater company in Cheltenham and can manage your remediation projects from start to finish, including identification of the remedial requirement through to completion and final verification. Our team of in-house professionals can facilitate all stages of the remedial process, including design, site clearance, demolition, enabling works and regulatory approvals. Soilfix can finalise the works either in the role of principal contractor or as specialist sub-contractor.
The most feasible and appropriate technology is used for the remediation of soil and groundwater after we have completely understood the goals of our clients.
The presence of asbestos is becoming more prevalent in former industrial sites, which contains materials (ACM’s) deposited or dispersed within made ground, resulting in asbestos contaminated soils (ACS) present in the ground.
This problem is typically enhanced by poorly controlled demolition practices, resulting in ACM fragments becoming spread across the site surface and/or throughout crushed materials. The presence of ACM’s and ACS can lead to significant potential liabilities, programme delays and growing costs for landowners and developers.
Soilfix have significant experience in adopting pragmatic, robust yet cost-effective solutions for asbestos contaminated sites, fully in compliance with the relevant waste management legislation and Control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR) 2012. Through meticulous planning of pre-treatment and materials management requirements, the amount of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes removed off-site can be minimised.
All asbestos removal works are carried out by either Soilfix appropriately trained staff under a Notifiable Non-Licensable Works (NNLW) Notification, or, where higher risk ACM’s are encountered, carried out using a licensed Asbestos Contractor. The following sustainable and cost-effective remedial measures are routinely carried out by Soilfix:
All Soilfix staff working with asbestos are Non-licensed/Notifiable non-licensed work trained and have regular medicals and respirator face-fitting to ensure compliance with CAR2012.
For more information about asbestos removal in soil and demolition materials in Cheltenham and the surrounding areas, get in touch with a member of our expert team today.
Our specialist bioremediation service in Cheltenham and the surrounding areas is carried out by our expert team. Many organic pollutants provide an energy source for naturally occurring micro-organisms present within the soil (e.g. bacteria). Under the right environment, these organisms will degrade organic contaminants to form less toxic and/or more stable materials.
These processes can be excelled by altering the conditions within the soils that enable the relevant micro-organisms to both thrive and interact with the contaminants. The soil’s availability of carbon and nutrient content within the soil will provide the groundwork for the organisms and can be artificially increased with the application of various fertilisers or bio-nutrient products. Optimising temperature, moisture, pH and oxygen conditions can increase populations and enable maximum interaction with the contaminant.
Ex-situ soils can use vented biopiles or windrow technologies to speed up bioremediation. Bio-venting, sparging or permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) can be used to accelerate the process in-situ.
Soilfix can design and build the systems that will enable you to achieve maximum rates of bioremediation at your site. Where more complex contaminant situations, gross start concentrations or biomass limited situations occur, Soilfix has experience in bio-augmentation using both specially cultured and indigenous biomass to enhance the treatment process.
A increasingly affordable technology for the quick treatment and/or immobilisation of hazardous wastes and polluted soils or sludge is soil stabilisation or solidification. The terms “solidification” and “stabilization” describe two distinct mechanisms.
Prior to commencing, samples of the contaminated material are taken and laboratory pilot trials carried out to calculate the most cost effective reagent or combination of reagents to achieve the site remedial targets. Binding agents are then applied and the soils rotivated either in-situ (e.g. auger, injection, rotivator) or ex-situ (e.g. batching plant, blending equipment). Performance testing of the treated materials is usually completed throughout the works. This may involve testing for hydraulic conductivity, unconfined compressive strength, and leachate properties, depending on the requirements.
Speak to us today for more information about soil stabilisation / solidification in Cheltenham.
Soilfix has significant experience in adopting a wide variety of both conventional and more innovative in-situ / ex-situ groundwater treatment technologies in Cheltenham to meet site specific remedial objectives and / or enable excavation and removal of in-ground obstructions.
Soilfix also has experience in carrying out thermally-enhanced treatment using both steam and electric conductive heating using specialist partners.
Get in touch today to find out more about our Cheltenham soil and groundwater treatment services.
Enquiries for soil and groundwater remediation in Cheltenham
Peter Howland
Managing Director
