Environmental Consulting Services
What We Offer
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- Environmental Site Assessments: Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) is one of our primary areas of expertise. An ESA is used to identify potential liabilities, assess extent of impact, and provide supporting data for remediation or risk assessment. There are two types of ESAs: 1) Phase I Environmental Site Assessment and 2) Phase II Environmental Site Assessment. Our Professional Engineers (P.Eng.) and Professional Geoscientists (P.Geo) have vast experience conducting ESAs that meet Canadian Standard Association (CSA)and Ontario Regulation (O.Reg.) 153/04 Our team of O.Reg. 153/04 Qualified Persons (QPs) undertake and manage ESAs for private, public, and government organizations.
- Environmental Compliance Approvals (ECA): Any company with complex or unique types of operations that emit contaminants and discharges related to air, noise, waste, and sewage into the natural environment requires an Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA) or a registration through the Environmental Activity and Sector Registry (EASR). The purpose of this approval/registration is to ensure your business activities do not have adverse effects on the environment and/or individuals. ARA DESIGN GROUP’s team of engineers and technicians specialize in all things related to the ECA application and approval process. We have a proven record of success in assisting companies with the preparation of ECA applications, and the development of operations that work to achieve the MECP standards and guidelines. Our team goes the extra mile and will liaise with MECP review engineers to assess any further requested compliance measures.
- Ambient Air Quality Monitoring: Air quality monitoring can serve a variety of purposes, including supporting data and verification for Environmental Compliance Approvals, air quality indices for municipalities, monitoring of air quality surrounding construction projects, and for industrial site safety and economic assessments. ARA DESIGN GROUP has the experienced personnel and equipment required to address all of our client’s needs. ARA DESIGN GROUP offers ambient air quality field monitoring, sampling and consulting services for a diverse range of industrial, municipal, and construction projects. Dust (particulate matter) monitoring is also a component of our services. We typically monitors airborne dust for a wider variety of industrial operations, remediation projects and construction developments
- Waste Audits & Waste Reduction Work Plans: By conducting a waste audit and implementing a waste reduction work plan, your organization can maintain compliance with Ontario Government mandated regulations. Ontario’s 3Rs Regulations (O. Reg. 103/94 – Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Source Separation Programs) require businesses to develop waste management programs to reduce the amount of waste going to disposal and to establish waste reduction work plans. The purpose of a waste audit is to determine the amount and composition of waste and how it is produced within your operations or specific site. ARA DESIGN GROUP offers waste audit and waste consulting services conducted in accordance with Ontario Regulation 102/94and 103/94. Our Waste Management Specialists develop efficient waste programs to ensure that your facility is compliant with Ontario’s 3R Regulations.
- Erosion & Sediment Control Plans: ARA DESIGN GROUP provides erosion and sediment control consulting, design and monitoring services for a variety of temporary and permanent control measures. We are experienced in preparing Erosion and Sediment Control Plans for diverse applications including residential, commercial and infrastructure development, as well as infrastructure maintenance activities adjacent to environmentally sensitive features. Our team can assist clients with meeting their obligations for controlling off-site impacts and potential impacts to sensitive features.
- Environmental Risk Assessments: Under Ontario Regulation 153/04, a property owner has the option to conduct a Risk Assessment to develop property-specific standards based on site-specific characteristics. These standards can be used as clean-up targets or to develop risk management measures to reduce risks to acceptable levels. Further, Risk Assessments can be conducted for due diligence purposes as a screening level evaluation of risk. Screening level Risk Assessments may be conducted to support property redevelopment and/or transactions when land use is not changing to a more sensitive use. (e.g., industrial to residential). Under Ontario Regulation 153/04, a Risk Assessment must be supervised by Qualified Person for Risk Assessment (QPRA). ARA DESIGN GROUP’s in-house QPRA is available to assist with your project and ensure that the requirements for remediation and/or risk management are appropriately defined. ARA DESIGN GROUP offers in house services for both regulatory risks assessments and screening level risk assessments.
- Site Remediation & Restoration: ARA DESIGN GROUP’s team has an extensive portfolio of successful environmental site remediation projects consisting of light to extensive remediation work and brownfield reclamation. Our team has the experience and skills require for remediation projects in order to bring the conditions of a contaminated site within an acceptable limit for the intended long-term land use. Our goal is to remediate, reclaim and/or restore the land back to its original state or a state suitable for human use. Our restoration abilities include removing, reducing, or neutralizing soil, sediment and water contaminants that threaten human health and ecosystem productivity and integrity. Our team have worked extensively with a variety of clients and sectors including government, municipalities, and insurance companies, industrial, manufacturing, and private individuals. ARA DESIGN GROUP provides our clients with complete project services from investigation and management, to clean-up methods design and technologies. ARA DESIGN GROUP also specializes in brownfield developments; previously developed sites that now site idle or have been abandoned over fears that the site is contaminated. ARA DESIGN GROUP can work with clients and provide viable options for brownfield remediation and redevelopment options. We provide expert advice in both environmental site management and environmental planning that are components of brownfield development. Our team is also extremely knowledgeable about the Ontario Investment Ready Certified Site Funding Program. We can assist clients in preparing applications and completing the required studies and documentation including environmental site assessments, species at risk assessments, and document review to name just a few.
- Excess Soil Management (per O.Reg. 406/19): Historically, soil management was recommended but it will now be a requirement in accordance with the Ontario Onsite and Excess Soil Regulation. In addition, a Qualified Person (Professional Engineer or Professional Geoscientist) is required at both the source and reused site. ARA DESIGN GROUP can guide and advise you on how to achieve balance through the changes. The Excess Soil Management regulation obligates a minimum standard of due diligence in the management, movement and testing of excess soil. Our professionals provide expert advice on how this may affect your operations and will help guide you to compliance. Whether you are a regulator, receiver, or generator, ARA DESIGN GROUP provides a complement of services to leverage opportunities for soil reuse and proper management. Our Qualified Person (P.Eng. or P.Geo.) services for due diligence, liability risk mitigation, and regulatory compliance includes but not limited to soil sampling and analysis, site registration and preparing soil management plan and regulatory reports.
- Regulatory Consultation Services/Environmental Review: ARA DESIGN GROUP can conduct an Environmental Review for a client’s proposed operations for the purpose of determining which, if any, environmental regulations and/or permitting apply to the proposed undertaking. As part of the environmental review process, the following steps would be undertaken:
- Review and determine the list of regulations which are applicable to the client’s process(es)
- Determine any applicable regulatory exemptions that apply to the client’s process
- Provide guidance on maintaining compliance with any applicable regulatory
- Provide a clear path forward to achieve necessary permitting/approvals where required
- Provide a cost estimation to achieve the necessary approvals where required
ARA Design Group specializes in delivering comprehensive geotechnical engineering services, covering every phase from investigation and planning to detailed design and construction for residential, commercial, and infrastructure projects