The first three months of 2009 were the worst for the UK economy in three decades.  Companies are tightening their belts and many see spending on environmental and broader sustainability improvements as discretionary. In research by the Environment Agency, 55% of those polled said that short term cash demands outweighed the need to experiment with new environmental initiatives. This is a false economy and those who reduce environmental investment, postpone projects and do not manage their environmental risk may be, at best,  poorly positioned to take advantage of the recovery when it does happen and, at worst, in breach of environmental regulation.
UK and European law-makers have continued to press for improved performance by business. Significant milestones include the closure of REACH pre-registration in December 2008, the application of the Environmental Damage Regulations from March 2009 and the Introductory Phase of the Carbon Reduction Commitment commencing in April 2010. Professional service organisations increasingly need to keep abreast of the ever changing environmental issues that affect their clients and indeed often themselves.

Entec has many years' experience of providing in-depth knowledge and expertise for a range of professional service organisations such as legal firms, management consultants, engineering and civil consultants and the financial sector (banks, other investors and insurers). The breadth and depth of our skills base means that we can offer services ranging from due diligence, pollution prosecution/litigation through to corporate risk management and strategic sustainable management.

Site Closure

Entec has recently been involved in an increasing number of site closures, whether clients are realising asset value or, in a worst-case, where companies have become insolvent.  We have extensive experience in maximising land value and can provide expertise in a wide variety of areas including:

• managing the variation, transfer or surrender of environmental permits,
• assessing the impact of planning conditions and constraints or managing new planning applications,
• undertaking pre-closure assessments, and
• identifying and mitigating environmental and engineering issues prior to divestment.

We are also in a position to add value by providing links in to our developer clients, a number of whom are interested in acquiring heavily contaminated sites and are prepared to consider full liability transfer.
If you are interested in discussing this in more detail, please contact us using the details below.

Our Customers

Entec has provided expertise to a wide range of organisations within the professional services sector, such as:

• Balfour Beatty Capital
• Bank of Ireland
• Barclays
• Close Brothers Growth Capital
• Fortis Investments
• HSBC
• Merrill Lynch
• Rothschild
• Schroder Investment Management
• Standard Chartered
• Amec
• Arthur D Little
• Baker & McKenzie
• Burgess Salmon
• Carter Jonas
• CB Richard Ellis
• Dickinson Dees
• DLP Piper
• Eversheds
• Gaiatech, Inc.
• Halcrow
• Knight Frank
• Nicholas O'Dwyers
• Marsh
• Pinsent Masons
• Montgomery Watson
• PricewaterhouseCoopers

Project Profiles

Examples of Entec's experience in providing solutions in this sector are provided below.

National Flood Risk Research Project Association of British Insurers	View
Consequence Assessment for Large Ammonia Storage Facilities Confidential Underwriters	View
Corporate Responsibility Advice and Reporting Standard Chartered Bank	View
London City Airport Bid Support Merrill Lynch International	View
Cory Environmental Transaction Support Viking Consortium, lead by ABN AMRO Global Infrastructure Fund (now Fortis Investments)	View
Project profiles are in PDF format and require Acrobat Reader to view - click on the link (right) to install. PDFs are screen resolution for quicker download times. Higher quality versions are available on request by e-mailing marketing@entecuk.co.uk.

Our Capabilities in Detail

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Further Details

We welcome the opportunity to share ideas with you and listen to your thoughts on issues that matter to your business. To discuss Entec's capabilities in the professional services sector in more detail, contact our marketing team on 0800 371733

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