Ecologia’s Office in Ireland Moves to Larger Premises

Ecologia proudly announces the opening of its new premises in Antrim, Northern Ireland. Since our recent expansion into Ireland in 2009, Ecologia has continued to grow serving its existing client base and forging into new areas of commercial work. Chris Madden, Regional Manager for Ireland said, “This is an exciting time for Ecologia in Ireland, opening our new premises will strengthen our position within the Irish market and will provide a central location to deliver continued sustainable growth and provide a higher level of customer care for our existing clients.” The Antrim office will provide an easily accessible location from which we will be able to offer rapid response service for environmental pollution incidents across Northern Ireland.

Contact Details

Unit 3 Antrim Business Park
Randalstown Road
Antrim
Co. Antrim
BT41 4LD

Tel +44 (0)28 944 67132
Fax +44 (0)28 258 60857

irelandinfo@ecologia-environmental.com

Zero Valent Iron (ZVI) Tests Begin

Ecologia has installed a test reactor at a National Grid site to allow the effectiveness of ZVI at treating contaminated groundwater to be assessed. The design concept is to take water from upgradient of the exiting in ground barrier and pass the groundwater though the reactor to treat cyanide. Ecologia is undertaking the work for Parsons Brinckerhoff.

Further Expansion at the Northern Ireland Office

Two new staff have joined our Regional Manager Chris Madden at the recently opened office in Northern Ireland in order to cope with the increased volume of business. Janine Kerr has been appointed as Project Coordinator whilst James McGrath has been recruited as Environmental Scientist. Janine former experience as Senior Environmental Consultant and EMS auditor will also ensure that the Ireland office will fully implement the extensive Company’s Quality and H&S system.  James graduated from the University of Coleraine with a BSc in Environmental Science in 2008 and previously worked as Environmental Scientist for another Irish contractor specialised on domestic oil spills emergency response. James will increase Ecologia’s operational capability and on site response time.

Nuclear Drilling in Oxfordshire

Ecologia has been awarded the contract to carry out drilling works to install eight deep monitoring wells at three off-site locations close to the former nuclear research facility at Harwell (Oxfordshire). This contract forms part of a programme of work being carried out by Research Site Restoration Ltd (RSRL) on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to deal with chemical contamination of groundwater. The contract was awarded to Ecologia following a competitive tender process and the drilling operations are due to begin in January 2010.

Ecologia Opens New Office in Northern Ireland

Ecologia is proud to announce that from mid November it will open a new office in Northern Ireland. The new office will be headed by Mr Chris Madden, a former senior consultant at OHES and with previous experience as an Environmental Officer at the NI Electricity Company.

Ecologia’s South West Office Continues to Grow

Ecologia’s South West regional office is growing again. Since opening in January 2009 the office has managed a large number of projects and we have consolidated our position in the area. We are now pleased to announce that Andrew Binkley has joined the team, based in Honiton, Devon, as Project Manager. Andrew is a geo-environmental engineer with six years experience in contaminated land site assessment and project management. Andrew has formerly worked for GeoDelft Environmental and Rodgers Leask Environmental.

Ecologia Cleans Up at Innovation Awards

Ecologia won the ‘most innovative’ category at the 2009 Brownfield Briefing Remediation Innovation Awards held in London on the 22nd September for its radiowave technology developed and piloted in Kent.

The award recognised the development of Ecologia’s remediation technique, which uses its patented In Situ Radio Frequency Heating (ISRFH) technology to speed up the removal of volatile organic chemicals from contaminated sites without the cost of removing the soil to landfill.

Dual Phase Extraction in Italy

Ecologia UK has been awarded the contract to undertake dual phase extraction works at a site in Italy owned by a multinational chemical company. Ecologia survived a tough selection process and will be installing the equipment and commencing remediation works in September this year.

Milk Clean-up

Ecologia has been contracted to undertake sparging works at a dairy site to remediate groundwater that has been heavily impacted by milk. The groundwater was rendered completely anoxic with a low pH resulting from biological activity. The sparging works will oxygenate the system and together with pH adjustment during the project remediate the groundwater at the site.

ISRFH Technology Presentation at the 10th Anniversary CL:AIRE Conference

The Managing Director of Ecologia, Dr Giacomo Maini, will present the results of the field trial carried out at a former service station contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons using In Situ Radio Frequency Heating (ISRFH) technology. The venue will be at the 10th CL:AIRE anniversary conference to be held at the Barbican Centre in London on the 01/07/09.