We have mandate to promote Kashmir's ecological security, conserving biological diversity, ensuring sustainable use of natural resources, minimizing pollution &  wasteful consumption and promoting sustainable life style. We earns most of our budget for the objectives through entrepreneurial ventures and corporate partnerships.

Our focus is on:

• Improving environmental performance;

• Reducing project risk and cost; and

• Increasing project value.

We supply consultant services for transport, waste, water, energy, industrial, residential and commercial development, commerce and finance, research and policy. We assist both public and private sector clients. esro is committed to effective communication and positive management of our supply chain.

Philosophy

esro is focused on providing good value and the right expertise for environmental services. Our core principals are:

Partnering : We know from experience that partnering clients is the key to success - to work openly and with joint objectives with our clients, project team partners and stakeholders.

Efficiency : Our aim is to save you time, money and potential risk by listening, understanding and developing the right mix of skills for you, and we will continually improve upon our service so that you will come back to us time and again.

Innovation : esro is client focused. Our service development is suited to your needs to help you to meet best practice and legislative requirements whilst meeting and exceeding project goals. We are firmly committed to providing innovative and pragmatic advice to enable positive sustainable development that is beneficial for our clients and our environment.

Precision : Because esro associates with specialists across the Kashmir and internationally, we are flexible, fast acting and very precise in building project teams that are locked-on to your requirements. We can advise you on the latest drivers that affect your interests and can deliver you realistic and sound solutions.

Professionals

esro Kashmir was established to harvest and combine a broad range of environmental skills to provide clients with new and innovative environmental business services and experienced project management. We develop project teams with the right mix of skills from professionals in all environmental disciplines. Our staff hold appropriate qualifications from centres of excellence across the Kashmir. esro encourages continued professional development and the pursuit of professional qualifications.

Our key professionals are experienced in:

• Project management;

• Environmental assessment;

• Policy and training;

• Environmental masterplanning and design; and

• Contract management and procurement.

We supply and develop teams from the following specialist disciplines:

• Agriculture;

• Air quality;

• Archaeology and cultural heritage;

• Community studies;

• Contaminated land;

• Ecology and natural resources;

• Landscape and visual;

• Noise and vibration;

• Socio-economics;

• Transport;

• Waste and materials; and

• Water resources.

Sectors

esro Kashmir has experience in a wide range of sectors. Listed below are some of the key ones.

While different sectors require specific considerations at times, we consider our broad experience and approach to environmental work enables us to rapidly work in any sector which requires good quality, robust and practical environmental solutions and advice.

Our staff have core experience in the following sectors:

• Railways;

• Funiculars;

• Roads;

• Residential Development;

• Energy;

• Commercial and Industrial;

• Urban Regeneration;

• Water and Waste;

• Public Sector Research; and

• Corporate and Financial.

Services

esro Kashmir provides a full range of environmental services and consultancy, either directly or through partnership with companies we know and have previously worked with. We place great emphasis on management of our supply chain so that all benefit.

Some of the key services we provide are listed below. We provide input to projects at all levels and stages from consultation at a national level, expert witness at Public Inquiry through to supervision of site works.

Environmental Impact Assessment & Planning

esro’s experience spans a broad range of sectors, including small complex urban development to large infrastructure projects. Our added value comes from our ability to manage and deliver innovative environmental design solutions during the evolution of a project. We are highly experienced in assisting our clients through the planning process and to efficiently managing and coordinating technical studies for Environmental Impact Assessments. We provide:

• Sustainability appraisals;

• EIA Screening and Scoping;

• Consultation management;

• Environmental Impact Assessment;

• Coordination of all specialists including: ecology, heritage, landscape, soils and waste, water, air, noise and traffic;

• Compliance advice and consents;

• Environmental management planning;

• Mitigation design and advice;

• Monitoring proposals and studies;

• Expert witness; and

• Environmental Statement review.

Natural Resources & Ecological Assessment

esro has extensive experience in ecology covering the full range of surveys required to carry out robust ecological appraisals and assessments. Moreover we use our understanding of the ecology of habitats and species to add value to projects leading to protection of appropriate resources and better designed projects which minimise impacts.

esro has qualified ecologists that provide:

• Rapid early identification of ecological value and constraints;

• Baseline ecological survey, assessment and evaluation;

• Specialist and detailed ecological surveys – protected species including -mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, invertebrates and plants;

• Ecological impact assessment;

• Mitigation proposals;

• Expert witness;

• Habitat restoration;

• Ecological management plans; and

• Research and monitoring.

Environmental Risk Assessment

The management of environmental risk is integral to the success of our clients’ business. Issues such as protected species, contaminated land and archaeology can pose a potential hidden risk to client interests. Where clients are acquiring or disposing of properties, we provide early environmental information and pragmatic advice/management options to reduce such risks. We provide experience and reliability in:

• Environmental opportunities and constraints advice;

• Rapid environmental risk identification and evaluation;

• Evaluation of development options; and

• Due diligence and environmental audit.

Facilitation & Training

Ever changing market drivers and environmental standards have lead to increasing needs for environmental communication, management and reporting. Working with regulatory authorities, stakeholders and communities, esro Kashmir has an excellent understanding of national and local environmental and social issues and assists clients in achieving positive environmental performance by providing:

• Tailored environmental training programmes;

• Advice on changes in environmental regulations and standards;

• Public participation strategy and stakeholder facilitation; and

• Managed consultation and negotiation with statutory and non-statutory organisations.

Environmental Management & Solutions

 
esro applies the appropriate resources to each assignment by building a team of qualified professionals, led by one of our highly experienced project managers who is actively engaged in each project and ensures appropriate partnership and communication with our clients. We work closely with our clients to establish performance indicators to manage and report on project goals, limitations and strategies. Our strengths include:

• Building project teams from a network of associated specialists from agriculture to zoology;

• Strategic leadership, management and delivery of complex and large-scale projects;

• Integration with planning, development, design and engineering teams;

• Strategic Environmental Assessment;

• Construction Environmental Management Plans and Emergency Response Plans;

• On site supervision, monitoring and 24 hour call out; and

• Site risk evaluation, costing and management strategies.

  Software Hardware & Networking Services

The experience of dealing with the present environment scenario of Jammu and Kashmir has brought to surface the fact that their solution requires the most sophisticated techniques which are available at esro because of its wide professional base. A number of independent ‘deliverables’ are incorporated in our Software & Networking services

• Geographical Information System (GIS) - Arc/Info, GeoVision GIS, Kork GIS with support for Digitization.

• Topology Construction, Processing of  Satellite Imageries

• Development of  Databases, Analysis, Query, Visualisation, Presentation and Integration of data.

• Service Support for Remote Sensing (RS) Imaginaries

• Image Interpretation ( RS & Arial )

• Hardware and Software Maintenance

• Network Installations, Support and Management

• Application Development and Support Services

• Eco based Website Design, development, hosting and maintenance

• Firewall, Virus Control and Overall Security Planning of Corporate/Public Networks

• Environmental Database Management, Storage and Back-up Administration

• Internet / Intranet Setup, Connectivity and Complete Support

• Tele-conferencing and VoIP Solutions

• Online Data Acquisition System for Monitoring of  Hydrological Parameters

• Monitoring of Meteorological Parameters through the use of  Sensors and  Data Loggers

• Software for monitoring of  Sewerage Treatment with capability for fault diagnostics with built-in test facilities.

• Project Management System with support for project schedule, maintaining the status of implementation schedule, milestone tracking, recording contractor wise network details, monitoring contract progress, generation of periodic status report etc.

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