What is an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) or environmental risk assessment is a process of identifying, predicting, evaluating and mitigating the likely environmental, biophysical impacts right from an early planning stage of a project, taking into account inter-related socio-economic, cultural and human-health impacts.

EIA is an effective tool performed by inspections and analysis of scheduled activities ensuring environmentally safe, sustainable development, which helps shape projects to suit the local environment and present the predictions and options to decision-makers to take environmental consideration into account.

Why trust Susnomics for Environmental Impact Assessment Service?

Susnomics Engineering Systems, one of the authorized environmental management services providers, has been instrumental in getting the approval for some of the most flagship projects in the GCC region.

We will work closely with our clients to embed a number of environmental management system features which can make a project ‘environment friendly. These include:

1. Better environmental planning and design of a building project proposal
2. Ensures compliance with environmental standards
3. Cost-saving modifications in project design leading to savings in capital and operating costs
4. Reduce time and costs of approvals of development applications
5. Reduce cost and time of project implementation
6. Increase project acceptance
7. Avoid impacts and violations of laws and regulations
8. Improve project performance
9. Avoid treatment/clean up costs
10. A healthier local environment (vegetation, water sources, agricultural potential, recreational potential, aesthetic values, and clean living in urban areas)
11. Improved human health
12. Maintenance of biodiversity
13. Decrease resource use
14. Fewer conflicts over natural resource use
15. Increased community skills, knowledge and pride

We, at Susnomics, offer comprehensive range of specialized global environmental management expert services for both master planning and individual construction projects from various perspectives and scales such as Strategic, Regional, Sectoral, Project Level & Life Cycle) including

1. Environmental review of Technical literature
2. Environmental sampling, surveys & audits
3. Environmental field works, inspections, tests, measurements, verification & reporting
4. Environmental risk assessment
5. Environmental mapping and modeling
6. Environmental analysis and strategic interpretation
7. Environmental Policy making & planning
8. Environmental monitoring
9. Environmental management program
10. Environmental permits, clearances, and approvals

Why Environmental Impact Assessment required?

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is one of the environmental management system planning, decision-making and management tools for environmental protection, through which climate change could be potentially addressed. It is clear that EIA can and should play a role in tackling climate change as international climate change agreements indicate.

In order to predict environmental impacts of any development activity and to provide an opportunity to mitigate against negative impacts and enhance positive impacts, the environmental risk assessment procedure was developed in the 1970s under a well-defined environmental management system.

Environmental risk assessment thus ensures that the potential problems are foreseen and addressed at an early stage in project planning and design. Creation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) system is vital to conform socio-economic development projects to environmental safety and thereby ensure sustainable economic development.

Global environmental management system is commonly associated with businesses but in fact they are applicable to all areas of life. In short, an impact assessment, which is more than technical reports, a means to a larger intention – the protection and improvement of the environmental quality of life, identifying and evaluating the effects of activities (mainly human) on the environment – natural and social, will look at what possible outcome a specific action can have and how to minimize or prevent any negative outcomes.