Enviros Consulting Return to Wexford County Council’s Killurin Landfill Site for Restoration Works

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Summer 2007 saw the environmental engineering consultants Enviros Consulting return to Wexford County Council’s Killurin Landfill Site, for further capping and restoration works.
This year sees the penultimate stage, of a 4 year involvement of Enviros with local authority Wexford County [...]

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Geophysics: What is it?

The widely used definition of geophysics is that provided by Sheriff in the Encyclopedia of Exploration Geophysics.
For the purposes of this site, we refer more specifically to the following definitions - these focus on Environmental and Engineering Geophysics:

Geophysics is: The subsurface site characterization of the geology, geological structure, groundwater, contamination, and human artifacts beneath the Earth’s [...]

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Training Skills for Work in Landfill CQA

We have been asked where the necessary skills can be obtained for Landfill Construction Quality Assurance work.
The core skill needed for Landfill CQA is an good appreciation of soils mechanics, as most of the CQA work relates to civil engineering earthworks, so a good grounding comes from the Soils Mechanics tought within any practically based Civil Engineering [...]

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