Services
Carried out using effective practical, sustainable and appropriate technique(s), only applied once we have completely 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 key elements. Soilfix prides itself on having skilled staff with the necessary skills to deliver complete soil and groundwater services in Swansea.
Soilfix are a specialist soil remediation and groundwater company in Swansea and can manage your remediation projects from start to finish, including 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 complete 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.
An increasingly common legacy of former industrial sites is the presence of asbestos containing materials (ACM’s) deposited or dispersed within made ground, leading to asbestos contaminated soils (ACS) present in the ground.
This problem is usually enhanced 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 escalating 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 control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR) 2012 and relevant waste management legislation. Through accurate planning of pre-treatment and materials management requirements, the volumes of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes removed off-site can be minimised.
Works are carried out by either Soilfix properly skilled personnel 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 cost effective and sustainable 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 Swansea and the surrounding areas, get in touch with a member of our expert team today.
Our specialist bioremediation service in Swansea and the surrounding areas is carried out by our expert team. Lots of organic contaminants provide an energy source for naturally occurring micro-organisms present within the soil (e.g. bacteria). Under the right conditions, 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 thrive and interact with the contaminants. The presence of nutrients and available carbon within the soil will provide the foundations for the organisms and can be artificially increased with the application of various fertilisers or bio-nutrient products. Optimising pH, temperature, moisture and oxygen conditions can expand 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.
The solutions that Soilfix can design and construct will allow you to achieve the highest 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 intensify 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 specific mechanisms.
Prior to commencing, samples of the corrupt material are taken and laboratory pilot trials carried out to determine 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 Swansea.
Soilfix has a wide range of experience in adopting a wide variety of both conventional and more innovative in-situ / ex-situ groundwater treatment technologies in Swansea to meet site specific remedial objectives 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 Swansea soil and groundwater treatment services.
Enquiries for soil and groundwater remediation in Swansea
Peter Howland
Managing Director
