Services
Carried out using the most practical, sustainable and appropriate technique(s), only applied once we have fully understood your objectives 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 of each project. Soilfix prides itself on having skilled staff with the essential skills to deliver complete soil and groundwater services in Birmingham.
Soilfix are a specialist soil remediation and groundwater company in Birmingham 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 close the project either as 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, resulting in asbestos contaminated soils (ACS) present in the ground.
This issue is typically exacerbated 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 result in significant potential liabilities, programme delays and growing costs for developers and landowners.
Soilfix has extensive 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 amount of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes removed off-site can be minimised.
All asbestos removal works are either carried out by 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 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 Birmingham and the surrounding areas, get in touch with a member of our expert team today.
Our specialist bioremediation service in Birmingham and the surrounding areas is carried out by our expert team. Lots of organic pollutants 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 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 bio-nutrient products or fertilisers. Optimising moisture, temperature, pH 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 will allow you to achieve the highest rates of bioremediation at your site can be designed and built by Soilfix. 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 heighten 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 specific mechanisms.
Prior to commencing the works, samples of the corrupt material are taken and laboratory pilot trials conducted 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. According to the specifications, testing on hydraulic conductivity, unconfined compressive strength, and leachate characteristics may be included.
Speak to us today for more information about soil stabilisation / solidification in Birmingham.
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 Birmingham to meet site specific remedial objectives and / or enable excavation and extraction 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 Birmingham soil and groundwater treatment services.
Enquiries for soil and groundwater remediation in Birmingham
Peter Howland
Managing Director
