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Carried out using effective practical, sustainable and appropriate technique(s), only applied once we have fully understood your goals and typically following a detailed an in-depth 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 essential components. Soilfix prides itself on having fully trained staff with the essential skills to deliver complete soil and groundwater services in Oxford.
Soilfix are a specialist soil remediation and groundwater company in Oxford and can manage your remediation projects all the way through, from identification of the remedial requirement through to completion and final verification. Our internal professional staff can facilitate all stages of the remedial process, including design, site clearance, demolition, enabling works and regulatory approvals. Soilfix can close the project either as the role of principal contractor or as specialist sub-contractor.
Once we’ve understood our clients’ goals and objectives, we determine the best techniques and processed to carry out our remediation of soil and groundwater services.
The presence of asbestos is becoming more prevalent in former industrial sites, which contains materials (ACM’s) deposited or dispersed within made ground, leading to asbestos contaminated soils (ACS) present in the ground.
This concern is usually exacerbated by poorly managed 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 result in significant potential liabilities, programme delays and accelerating costs for developers and landowners.
Soilfix has 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 accurate planning of pre-treatment and materials management requirements, the volumes 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 Oxford and the surrounding areas, get in touch with a member of our expert team today.
Our specialist bioremediation service in Oxford and the surrounding areas is carried out by our expert team. Various organic contaminants 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 manipulating the conditions within the soils that enable the relevant micro-organisms to both interact and thrive with the contaminants. The presence of nutrients and available carbon within the soil will provide the basic building blocks for the organisms and can be artificially increased with the application of various fertilisers or bio-nutrient products. Optimising moisture, temperature, pH and oxygen conditions can increase populations and enable maximum interaction with the contaminant.
Biorememediation can be accelerated within ex-situ soils using vented biopiles or windrow technology. Bio-venting, sparging or permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) can be used to accelerate the process in-situ.
To obtain the highest rates of bioremediation at your location, Soilfix can design and construct the systems necessary. 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 increase the treatment process.
Stabilisation / Solidification of soils is increasingly a cost effective technology for the rapid treatment and / or immobilization of hazardous wastes and contaminated soils or sludge’s. 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. Depending on requirements this can include tests on hydraulic conductivity, unconfined compressive strength and leachate characteristics.
Speak to us today for more information about soil stabilisation / solidification in Oxford.
Soilfix has a wide range of experience in adopting a large variety of both conventional and more innovative in-situ / ex-situ groundwater treatment technologies in Oxford to meet site specific remedial goals and / or enable excavation and extraction of in-ground obstructions.
With the help of qualified partners, Soilfix has also performed thermally enhanced treatment utilising both steam and electric conductive heating.
Get in touch today to find out more about our Oxford soil and groundwater treatment services.
Enquiries for soil and groundwater remediation in Oxford
Peter Howland
Managing Director
