Our services

Aurecon's planning and environmental management solutions, and nature advisory expertise, realise the aspirations of our clients with measures that address performance and resilience across a project or asset’s full life cycle, enabled by digital tools and processes.

Planning and approvals

Aurecon is a leader in delivering strategic planning advice, assisting clients to navigate the statutory approval process to obtain the environmental and social licence to operate for transport, energy, aviation, defence, industrial, resources and chemicals, water and port projects and assets, and master planning for major landholdings and precincts.

Our planners work with clients to develop strategies, assess options, and undertake impact assessments to optimise the value of land-use decisions, shaping and planning this process. To help secure approvals and improve environmental performance, we use geospatial information platforms to centrally store, map and analyse environmental data in addition to engaging visual media and digital tools.

One example is digital environmental impact assessment reports that present complex technical data as interactive and user-friendly information on a digital platform. These transform tabled data and project information into annotated maps and 3D visualisations.

Our services are valuable for large-scale landholdings through to infrastructure assets and include:

Urban planning policy and strategy development
Site master planning
Site and route options selection
Approvals strategies
Major project approvals
Environmental Impact Assessment
Land access
Cultural heritage (archaeology) assessment and management

To optimise land use and obtain the environmental and social licence to operate, contact environmental planning and approvals lead, Stephen Cole, or urban planning lead, Courtney Hollerich.

For New Zealand-based planning and approvals, contact Environment and Planning Director, Louise Strogen.

Environmental design and management

Aurecon’s application of environmental and social sciences shapes sustainable cities and regions through our design and advisory projects. Our industry knowledge extends through markets and throughout local, state and federal jurisdictions. This knowledge allows us to look beyond compliance, towards design and management solutions that unlock opportunities for clients to achieve nature-positive outcomes.

We apply digital engineering solutions, integrated geospatial technology and use digital real-time environmental monitoring to enhance our ability to investigate, plan, design, deliver and operate sustainable assets and projects. Our services include:

Environmental compliance management in design, construction and operation
Environmental management plans (EMPs), including Construction EMPs and Operational EMPs
Environmental monitoring and measurement
Environmental designs for water, infrastructure and waste
Environmental due diligence

To ensure assets are compliant with environmental requirements and operate in harmony with natural environments, contact our environmental design and management lead, Peter Fawcett.

We connect physical infrastructure with biodiversity, land and soils, and water, through human-centred design and nature-based thinking to reimagine new value in the climate transition economy.

Natural capital advisory

Clients face a number of challenges in seeking sustainable solutions that realise environmental aspiration across supply chains. By valuing land, water, biodiversity and natural assets as capital, organisations can begin to generate value in a way that provides social benefit, enables internal and external capital investment, manages risk and enhances reputation.

To create and realise value through natural resources, contact natural capital lead, Colm Molloy.

Biodiversity

Creating spaces and places where biodiversity can thrive within the parameters of project and asset objectives:

Ecology and biodiversity
Terrestrial flora and fauna
Aquatic ecology
Bushfire management
Nature-based offsets and markets

To connect the impacts and dependencies of living ecosystems with the intrinsic value of life, contact our biodiversity lead, Kylie Galway.

Land and soils

Solutions for the optimisation of land quality and use, preservation of value in natural and built form assets and the protection of human and environment health:

Contaminated land assessment and management
Human health and ecological risk assessment
Remediation, restoration and redevelopment
Soil and land suitability/capability assessment
Strategic cropping assessment

To understand impacts on land and soils and how to optimise land quality, contact our land and soils lead, Stuart Taylor.

Sustainable water

Providing holistic, integrated and multidisciplinary expertise to shape sustainable water cycle management, maximising the value of water for all people and the environment in our solutions and advice, including the following service offerings:

Catchment hydrology and hydrogeology studies
Integrated water management
Water sensitive urban design
Water quality and ecohydraulics
Water security, resilience and climate change
Waterways and riparian management

To create and protect value in water, contact sustainable water lead, Dan Evans.

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