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Carried out using effective sustainable, practical 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 latest 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 crucial elements. Soilfix prides itself on having fully trained staff with the necessary skills to deliver complete soil and groundwater services in Slough.
Soilfix are a specialist soil remediation and groundwater company in Slough who can take your remediation projects from start to finish, including identification of the remedial requirement through to completion and final verification. Our group of internal experts can facilitate all stages of the remedial process, including design, site clearance, demolition, enabling works and regulatory approvals. Soilfix can finish the project either as the role of principal contractor or as specialist sub-contractor.
Remediation of soil and groundwater in Slough is carried out using the most practical and appropriate techniques that are only applied once we have fully understood our clients’ objectives.
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 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 result in significant potential liabilities, programme delays and escalating costs for landowners and developers.
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.
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 cost effective and sustainable remedial measures are routinely carried out by Soilfix:
To guarantee compliance with CAR2012, all Soilfix employees who operate with asbestos are trained in Non-licensed/Notifiable non-licenced work are fully qualified, have routine medical exams, and have their respirator face-fitted.
For more information about asbestos removal in soil and demolition materials in Slough and the surrounding areas, get in touch with a member of our expert team today.
Our specialist bioremediation service in Slough and the surrounding areas is carried out by our expert team. Lots of organic contaminants provide an energy source for naturally occurring micro-organisms existing in the soil (e.g. bacteria). Under the right circumstances, 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 foundations 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.
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 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 the works, 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. 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 Slough.
Soilfix has a great amount of experience in adopting a wide variety of both conventional and more innovative in-situ / ex-situ groundwater treatment technologies in Slough to meet site specific remedial goals 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 Slough soil and groundwater treatment services.
Enquiries for soil and groundwater remediation in Slough
Peter Howland
Managing Director
