Environmental Engineering

E-TEK apply scientific and engineering principles to evaluate possible environmental impacts and develop mitigation measures and successful solutions. Our experienced environmental engineers will ensure that you receive well researched, practical solutions to your environmental problems.

We provide our national and international clients with the necessary guidance to comply legally and develop innovative management solutions. We have vast experience with:

Closure Planning, Rehabilitation and Monitoring:

• Rehabilitation planning of mining, industrial, landfill, construction and other ecologically disturbed sites in line with industry norms/standards and legislative requirements.

• Rehabilitation Benchmarking to sites with similar nature and characteristics

• Develop and optimise post mine land use(s) appropriate for site constraints, regional context and stakeholder expectations.

• Field based rehabilitation trials and research

• Practical closure objectives and criteria

• Develop targeted monitoring programs

• Develop rehabilitation design and implementation including care and maintenance programs;

• Supervise and audit rehabilitation and closure works;

• Monitor rehabilitation success;

Mine Planning:

• Develop and optimise dumping strategies in line with closure criteria and objectives

• Cost benefit analysis of rehabilitation alternatives and strategies

• Concurrent Rehabilitation planning and cashflows

• Airspace modelling for the development and/or rehabilitation of typically residue deposits and/or landfill sites.

• Soil and mine waste inventories to optimise resource management

Soils:

• Mine waste erosion stability assessments and physical characterisation

• Material characterization

• Soil analysis

• Soil amelioration recommendations and programs

• Baseline soil surveys and soil mapping

• Soil resource assessments and management plans