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Gwynt-y-Mor Offshore Wind Farm

GeoCon provide site investigation services along a cable from a major off shore wind farm just off the coast of Abergele, North Wales. GeoCon have been subcontracted by a large contractor to manage the site...
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New LQM GAC’s

The Land Quality Management (LQM) division of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) have released the 2nd edition of their General Assessment Criteria (GAC's) for human health risk assessment. The document sees the revision...
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GSHP Annual conference

GeoCon attended the Ground Source Heat Pump Associations annual conference on Monday 22nd June 2009. The conference was centred around "making heat pumps the technology of choice" and was aimed at implementing the policy framework...
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Remediation work to start on one of Europe’s most contaminated sites.

The East Midlands Development Agency and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) have announced that work at the former Avenue Coking Works will start on site in August 2009.` The site, a former coking works...
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New report carried out Environment Analyst indicates that revenue for contaminated land work slowed in 2008 due to the downturn in the economy.

Recent research showed that UK environmental consultancies grew by 9% in 2008 with a turnover of around £1.46bn. a high proportion of this revenue was created from projects planned within the first half of the...
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NEW SGV’s

The Environment Agency (EA) have released new Soil Guideline Values (SGV's) for benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes (BTEX), mercury and selenium. Further SGV's are anticipated being released later on this year. In addition the EA have...
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Alkrington Visitors Centre, Middleton

[vc_row el_position="first last"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text el_position="first last"] GeoCon undertake a Phase I preliminary site investigation on a historic landfill site in Middleton, Manchester for a proposed new build visitors centre at the local nature reserve. The...
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St Mary’s Substation, MRI, Manchester

[vc_row el_position="first last"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text el_position="first last"] GeoCon undertake their first site investigation as environmental consultants at St Mary's Substation at the MRI in Manchester. The job involved the successful Phase I preliminary site investigation and...
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Quantitative Risk Assessment

Detailed Quantitative Risk Assessment: Quantitative Risk Assessmnets by GeoCon Site Investigations Ltd use a variety of models and methodologies to carry out DQRA’s which include CLEA UK, SNIFFER and RBCA for soils and the Environment...
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