Services
Terra Ambiente is unique in that our worldwide highly qualified consultants have a wealth of practical experience as well as an understanding of business management in both Europe and abroad. This enables us to fully accommodate and address the needs of your business. Our strength lies in the flexibility and ability that Terra Ambiente offers in providing expert support for solving any sustainability and environmental issues that your organisation has encountered.
We offer a wide range of consultancy services to a broad spectrum of industry and businesses. Our experiences include small, medium and large enterprises, and we cover areas as extensive as the service industry, construction, schools, academia, and governmental establishments.
For these, Terra Ambiente offers a variety of advice and solutions in the areas of environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, environmental management system, strategic policy development, compliance to environmental law, assessment and auditing. Terra Ambiente also provides a selection of training courses on environmental awareness.
Terra Ambiente can offer services in the following areas:
Refer to our staff profiles for more specific information about our staff capabilities.
Management
- ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (EMS) ISO14001 TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IS0 9001
This is designed to help an organisation manage itself in ways that achieve consistent regulatory compliance, with planned improvements in environmental performance. The benefits of an Environmental Management System (EMS) are:
- helps management to become aware of and to focus on key environmental priorities,
- delivers cost savings through better use of resources, energy and waste minimization,
- demonstrates compliance and helps accommodate future legislation,
- enhances the corporate image in the marketplace, leading to competitive advantage
- minimises the organisation's possible liabilities.
- UNDERSTANDING LEGISLATION THAT IS RELEVANT TO YOUR COMPANY
European environmental law is developing very rapidly. These directives will eventually become national law and firms of any size will have to comply to these laws all along its supply chain We will keep you up to date with environmental policies and help you understand regulations and how they affects your business - so you are ahead and proactive!
- ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AUDIT ASSESSMENT
Terra Ambiente has developed environmental compliance audit assessments that will help assess your organisation's status and position as it pertains to the environment. We will also ensure the most cost-effective implementation of necessary health and safety procedures to be compatible with environmental standards.
- DEVELOPING ENVIRONMENTAL/SUSTAINABILITY POLICIES
Today, businesses and public institutions all over the world are increasingly mindful of how their actions can both positively and negatively impact the environment. As such, many of these organizations are developing environmental/sustainability policies. Terra Ambiente will give you tools that empower your organisation towards a more sustainable future by engineering and implementing environmental policies that suit your needs and are flexible and adaptive to changing legislations and social demands.
- CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY STRATEGIES
Terra Ambiente will help you implement a strategy and tactically managed your Corporate Social Responsibilities. We will undertake your social reporting and evaluate your organisation's social sustainability status. plan and a programme to assistn you with Corporate Social Responsibility, strategies, the social report, and evalution social sustainability, finding key performance indicators for your businesss, body.
- CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTS
Terra Ambiente will guide you through any best practice standards, such as DEFRA or Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (GRI), collect, select and manage your information and analyse your key performance data in order to, objectively and systematically, document and produce your organisation's corporate sustainability and environmental reports.
- HELP WITH YOUR PLANNING APPLICATION
As the UK government and local authorities tighten their environmental and energy requirements for new developments, Terra-Ambiente will advise you on the environmental or sustainability aspects within your planning application. We will bring all our expertise in sustainable construction and eco-friendly building features to bear on your applications. Through its commitment to the social and ecological benefits of environmentally responsible construction, Terra Ambiente will ensure that your application is sustainability compliant and successful.
- ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE AND CARBON TRADING
We assist business to identify and evaluate the risks presented by climate change and emissions trading, and to develop effective risk management measures in the context of an uncertain and dynamic external environment. Our services range from a checklist to more detailed strategic reviews. We also look at the ecological economics indicators and apply these to your business for a long term sustainable and ecologically sound business.
- LIASE WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY, LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND GOVERNMENT BODIES
Leveraging our extensive experience with the different government bodies, Terra Ambiente will assist you in liaising with different government bodies. We will help you understand and accommodate their environmental guidelines, requirements and regulations, from permits for waste disposal, clean water standards, air quality management and other key sustainability aims and objectives.
- ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING ASSESSMENTS
New methodology are in place to account your environmental impacts. Either you wish to you address it within your Annual Report.
Technical
- ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITS FOR YOUR OFFICE AND OFF-SITES BUILDINGS
Terra Ambiente will carry out environmental audits, gap analysis and will evaluate your company's environmental aspects and impacts for your office and off site buildings.
- CO-ORDINATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLANS
Following an environmental audit, Terra Ambiente will be able to assist you with a programme for implementation of continuous environmental and sustainability improvements. Working with your staff.
- TRAINING - ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
If you require any type of environmental training for your staff, Terra Ambiente will carry out a training needs analysis and provide the appropriate level and method of training for your workforce, be these real world training, seminars, workshops, lectures or longer term courses.
- GREENING YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN
By helping you make environmentally responsible options in the management of your supply chain, for example, through the choice of ethical and environmentally aware and compliant partners in procurement and delivery, Terra Ambiente will help you green your supply chain, improve the quality of your product, improve your time to market ratio, create new markets and win new customers, while meeting increasingly stringent corporate social and sustainability demands.
- DESIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT - BREEAM FOR OFFICES ASSESSMENTS, AND ECO HOMES ASSESSMENT TOOL.
Our registered assessors will be able to carry out a BREEAM assessment for your offices and a Eco Homes assessment for your homes. When commissioning new building, most housing associations require an Eco Home assessment and the achievement of a certain rating. We will be able to advice you on what score you designs may be able to achieve and help improve your scoring potential.
- AUDIT AND MEASURING ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE OF YOUR BUILDING AT DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT STAGE
Whether you are working with architects or an engineering company, we will be able to audit and measure current environmental performance of your building at design or management stage.
- HELP WITH DESIGN OF AN ECO-BUILDING AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT
If you are building your own home, or a set of homes, we can work with you on an eco home design throughout the duration of your project. Terra Ambiente will work with engineers and architects to help you achieve your goals in energy management, and hence reduced utility bills, as well as creating a home that provides high quality air and water supplies while using fair trade and eco-friendly building materials.
- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CHECKS
We will be able to carry out an environmental health check of your offices and your staff. Terra Ambiente offers an holistic approach to your office environment, undertakes ergonomic testing, and advises on complimentaries therapies such as chiropractic and acupuncture to your staff.
- HELPING FINDING GRANTS & LOANS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES
Whether you want to build a PV roof, or have a combined heat and power boiler, Terra Ambiente will help you select the green technology options that best meet your needs and are most cost effective. Terra Ambiente will also help you apply for a variety of grants loans that are available both nationally and regionally in the UK for environmentally-sound, energy-efficient, and renewable energy products.
- RENEWABLE ENERGY
Our renewable energy specialists will be able to advice you on the latest and best environmental technologies - from wind farms to solar panels - and guide you through selection, purchase or implementation, through to maintenance.
