Mission Statement
The Directors all share the same vision, to provide a high quality, cost effective and pragmatic geotechnical, mining, geological and environmental service to our clients. We take pride in our work, we enjoy our work, and we are very committed to provision of timely services at a reasonable cost with clearly presented solutions.
We will operate as a niche small to medium sized technical consultancy practice and grow the business gradually, in a sustainable manner. Our long term aim is to provide a national service delivered by local offices, run by technically proficient staff with a strong business acumen.
Our aim is to maintain a vibrant and dynamic working environment where clients and employees expectations are always considered, responded to and achieved. As a group of people we are committed to our core values and constantly measure ourselves individually and collectively against our own personal high standards and the expectations of clients. Our core values are:
We firmly believe that we are here to provide pragmatic technical solutions
We entered this business because we are scientists and we want to continue being passionate about our work
We will always provide a good service
Earth Environmental & Geotechnical - Our Story
The company was established by three Directors, all of whom have been lifelong friends and partners, who always had a desire to work together and establish an environmental, geological, and geotechnical practice that could offer an expert driven, cost effective and pragmatic service to prospective and existing clients.
He has worked as a Geologist/Engineering Geologist for a variety of small to medium sized engineering/environmental consultancy practices, remediation companies and landfill operators prior to management of remediation contractors and consultancy practices in the North West and Midlands areas. Work has been varied ranging from mining studies, landfill design, environmental auditing, geological investigations, site investigations, slope stability assessments, ground improvement, foundation design, assessment of soil/groundwater contamination risk, ground gas assessments and has always despite entering the world of business development/hitting “targets” continued to remain keenly interested in geotechnical and contaminated land advancements.
He is passionate about protecting our environment and has always been keen to restore derelict sites to a beneficial use and firmly believes that being a competent consultant only comes with sufficient experience and the possession of a vocational interest in the subject. Contaminated Land work in particular involves a good understanding of geology, soil mechanics, hydrogeology, statistics, chemistry, toxicology, hydrology, mining, cartography, civil engineering and a whole range of other disciplines.
He is the Managing Director of the company and is responsible for business development and managing the contaminated land and geotechnical portfolio of work. He is regularly seen on site as part of any site investigation as his philosophy is that the “designer” should always observe the ground conditions.
Paul likes to maintain a hand on approach and is still sometimes seen operating a drilling rig and providing clients with borehole logs within 24hours, due to the use of site based logging software. Paul is a very practical geotechnical engineer having spent much of his career logging soil and rock profiles and developing foundation or ground improvement solutions. His workload at Earth Environmental & Geotechnical is varied and encompasses responsibility for site investigation services, health and safety, business development and provides expert geotechnical advice to clients.
Elizabeth Czarnecki studied for an undergraduate Environmental Science degree at Birmingham University and later for an Environmental Science MSc at Manchester University. She then was employed at a company based in Congleton, GeoDelft Environmental, the UK arm of a Dutch research institute company that provided risk management, software development and site investigation services for blue chip clients such as Shell UK, National Grid and Railtrack Plc. Elizabeth soon became involved in the writing of environmental diligence reports for the petrochemical sector and managed a team of field engineers who carried out work across the UK & Eire.
She is chiefly responsible for providing Phase I/Phase II Environmental and Due Diligence reports to clients and for management of the company finances and administration.
Since his time at the PSA, Simon has developed his career and knowledge of ground engineering in various SI Contractors and Consultants. He has over 26 years experience in ground investigation and geoenvironmental consultancy and contracting. During his time at Soil Mechanics he was a company regional lecturer on soil and rock description.
Earth Environmental & Geotechnical - Client Testimonials
Just a short note to say thank you for your efforts in our various recent council projects. Your technical knowledge, accommodating ethos and fair pricing structures have proved priceless to our environmental value chains we offer to local authorities in the area and have allowed us to deliver successes where others fell down. We have built a solid working relationship over the last 12 months and will always endeavour to utilise you on projects involving environmental work. Adam you are a particular credit to the company so additional thanks to you.
Pannone appointed Earth Environmental to carry out a pre-purchase environmental audit at a vehicle rental business in Leeds. The report identified that a large UST had not been commissioned and asbestos work was outstanding. Adam’s advice included discussions with the local petroleum officer and options for tank testing and ground investigations. We were impressed by Adam’s practical approach, the quick response time and excellent value for money.
