As your organization transitions towards sustainable forms of energy and growing environmental responsibilities, you need to bridge the gap between current business practices and meeting the global requirements for a better future.
Safety, Environmental & Sustainablity Services
Environment, Health and Safety
Protecting workers and the environment with our international team of environment, health and safety (EHS) experts.
Successful businesses take environmental protection, workers’ health & safety and regulatory compliance seriously. Failure to minimize the impact of your business’s activities will result in censure by employees, regulatory authorities and customers. Increasingly, stakeholders are also looking for evidence to prove you follow best practice.
Auditing and Compliance
Protect stakeholders, the environment and your business with compliance and auditing services from CUALIS.
Products, services and work environments must be safe and conform to relevant standards and regulations. Failure to achieve this will mean a restriction on market access, an increased risk for your staff and reputation and failures in the supply chain as well as potential legislation non-compliance and financial fines. Negative events like these will adversely affect your bottom line.
Construction Safety Services
Manage health and safety risks and comply with regulations during all phases of your construction project.
According to the International Labor Organization (ILO) there are at least 600,000 fatal construction accidents around the world every year – one every 10 minutes. The direct and indirect costs of construction accidents worldwide total more than USD 1 trillion every year. As awareness of the safety risks of construction grows, many countries have implemented strict regulations and standards.
CUALIS provides construction safety services for every phase of your construction project’s life cycle, from pre-design, design and engineering to execution to commissioning and maintenance.
Data-Driven Energy Management
Enhance energy efficiency, reduce costs and drive long term sustainability with data-driven energy management from CUALIS.
Every journey towards energy efficiency begins with a detailed analysis of consumption and performance to identify inefficiencies, understand usage patterns and establish a clear roadmap for improvement. Traditionally, this analysis is conducted through an energy audit, a proven diagnostic tool that provides a comprehensive snapshot of energy usage at a particular instant in time.
While the traditional energy audit is invaluable as a starting point, it may not fully capture dynamic changes or complexities in operations. Therefore, we offer a data-driven energy management solution that complements traditional audits. By offering continuous monitoring, it provides you with deeper insight into your energy usage, allowing you to further enhance efficiency, reduce costs and drive long term sustainability.
EHS Auditing
We offer a range of EHS auditing services to help your business plan, implement and maintain high-quality EHS practices.
Our audits can be tailor-made to reflect the requirements of your business and local regulations, helping you ensure compliance before and during operations. In addition, we can help you model the potential impact of your business operations before they have begun and provide you with remediation plans once they have ceased.
We also have the capability to allow you to outsource your entire EHS management system, giving you peace-of-mind when it comes to EHS compliance.
Energy and Green Building
Reduce energy consumption, manage costs, minimize impacts on the environment and worker’s health and safety, and add value to your real estate with energy and green building services from CUALIS.
Our energy and green building expertise help you to achieve environmentally responsible goals through energy and resource efficiency strategies. It also allows you to ensure a safe working environment is offered to your employees and customers.
We provide solutions that will:
– Reduce energy consumption
– Manage costs
– Minimize environmental impacts
– Add value to real estate
– Create a more comfortable and productive workplace
Our experts work with you to:
- Reduce operational costs by increasing energy and water efficiency
- Increase market visibility and property value by achieving internationally and/or locally recognized certifications
- Showcase your commitment to the environment
Energy Audits
Our expert auditors will give you a clear understanding of how your facility consumes energy. Audits include a physical inspection of buildings and equipment. Depending on the level of detail required, audits may include a simple visual inspection or detailed measurements. The final report will systematically break down how energy is used and where saving opportunities can be achieved.
Typically, our energy audits will:
- Breakdown energy usage and significant energy use by equipment/process
- Benchmark energy performance against similar premises/processes
- Provide an overview of supply and metering strategy
- Analyze the building envelope, services and controls
- Review of the energy management procedures, including maintenance
- Identify energy and cost saving opportunities together with pay back periods of the investment needed to implement the energy saving measures
- Prioritize no or low-cost opportunities to large capital investment opportunities and create action plans
Our energy audits identify business opportunities and help you implement cost-effective measures to reduce energy bills and GHG emissions.
Environmental Site Assessments
Evaluate the potential impact of environmental liabilities on your investments with environmental site assessments from CUALIS.
In today’s volatile market context, the identification of an asset’s environmental risks is imperative prior to acquisition. Environmental site assessments detail a site’s liabilities and evaluate the requirements for clean-up operations, helping you to understand the true value of a site.
CUALIS Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) Services
Our Environmental Due Diligence (EDD) service keeps you fully informed during mergers and acquisitions (M&A) or divestiture processes, helping you to make informed decisions that financially benefit your business. EDDs provide immediate guidance on how to structure your transaction and frame the environmental management of new acquisitions to increase returns.
CUALIS’s provides Phase I, II and III environmental site assessments
Green Building Schemes
We offer a comprehensive range of consultancy, assessment, commissioning, testing and certification services to real estate developers, construction companies, design companies, property owners and managers, building material manufacturers and building users.
We provide:
- Feasibility studies
- Green building consultancy services and design support for international standards, e.g. LEED, BREEAM, DGNB and country specific standards to ensure a smooth and effective certification process of your building
- Auditing Services against the EDGE green building standard for emerging countries
- Fundamental and enhanced third-party commissioning, required for specific green building standards (e.g. LEED)
- Building energy and lighting simulation and modeling
- WELL performance testing for achieving building certification against the WELL standard – focuses on impacts on human health and wellbeing
- Indoor air quality sampling and testing – includes biological investigations using second generation ATP-metry technology
- Energy Management Systems and Certification – EN16001 and ISO 50001
- Green building material performance testing
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Solutions
We offer services relating to:
- Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) – validation of GHG projects (carbon offset projects) and verification of GHG emission reductions/removals achieved
- Compliance verification – verification is performed under our ISO 14065 accreditation for a range of local, regional and global emissions schemes. Our credentials and sector specific experience in mandatory schemes are based on a track record of providing verification services in the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)
- Disclosure and reporting – we provide GHG emissions inventories and product verification against internationally accepted standards and a client’s own methodologies, including ISO 14064-1, GHG Protocol
- Carbon footprints – the first step for any business. Our advisory services help you:
- Develop a verifiable organizational or product carbon footprint
- Identify cost saving opportunities via the development of low carbon business strategies and a GHG emissions’ reduction roadmap
Impact Assessments
To help you determine the impacts of your business activities, we offer in some geographical locations:
- Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA) – which includes the impact on local communities
Impact assessments may also include Dispersion Modeling, to give you a complete picture of the potential impact of your project.
Following assessment, our specialists will provide guidance on how to comply with relevant environmental regulations and reduce your impact on the environment and local communities.
CUALIS Zero Waste to Landfill Standard
Verify your commitment to minimizing waste and progressing further toward sustainable development.
Zero Waste is a holistic continuous improvement process. It refers to the conservation of resources through the responsible production, consumption, reuse and recovery of products, packaging and materials.
Zero Waste to Landfill
Why choose the CUALIS Zero Waste to Landfill Standard?
The CUALIS Zero Waste to Landfill Standard evaluates your organization’s efforts to minimize waste and avoid adding to landfills. Meeting the requirements of the standard allows your organization to demonstrate your commitment to the sustainable use of resources and will enhance your brand reputation.
Sustainable Water Management
We offer a wide range of services to help you introduce and benefit from sustainable water management.
We offer:
- Water analysis
- Hydrogeological studies to measure and monitor water resources
- Water footprint calculations allowing you to disclose your footprint with confidence
- Water audits with direct measurements (i.e. ultrasonic flow meters, open channel flow meters, tank filling)
- Recommendations on technical and operational changes to achieve water savings with related cost benefit analysis
- Certification against the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) standard
- Training on the AWS standar
Workplace Exposure Risk Assessment
Our multidisciplinary Health and Safety (HS) specialists offer a range of services to help businesses ensure compliance with current HS regulations and advice.
Services include:
- Hazard identification – we inspect your day-to-day operations and process changes to identify conditions, objects, activities and/or events that may pose a threat to personnel, materials, equipment or structures, thus reducing productivity
- Identification of risk groups – one hazard may be categorized in more than one risk group. Our experts will help you understand the need for segregation of risk groups to improve the value of your risk assessment and provide better focus for control activities
- Evaluating risk levels – prioritizing hazards in terms of risk determines which must be controlled first. Our HS operatives consider each article or process using three main questions:
Hazard – what can go wrong?
Severity – how bad could it be?
Likelihood – how often might it happen?
- Documentation – our specialists will ensure you have the correct documentary evidence to prove hazard identification, identification of risk groups and evaluation of risk levels have all be performed correctly – fulfilling regulatory and organization management system requirements
- Periodic review of risk assessments – providing ongoing support to businesses to ensure hazards have not changed in their risk group or level and that new hazards have not been introduced
- Application of different models – our specialists can help you choose the optimal workplace exposure risk assessment model for your business. Techniques might
include data-driven (quantitative) and qualitative processes, such as observations, discussions, interviews and brainstorming
Working with our specialists, you can be assured your workplace exposure risk assessments will be accurate and cost-effective, allowing you to better manage your resources and returns on your prevention investments.
Supply Chain
Solutions to enhance your supply chain’s capabilities while ensuring flexibility and transparency.
With industrial supply chains being more complex than ever before, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ensure the quality, cost effectiveness, delivery and continuity of products. Supply chains now require enhanced capabilities along with greater flexibility and transparency.
To help you successfully manage your supply chain, CUALIS offers a range of services, covering inspections, expediting, supply chain logistics, consulting and supply chain risk management (SCRM).
Supplier Evaluation and Qualification Solutions
Our supplier evaluation and qualification solutions provide robust, real-time and data driven supplier onboarding with on-going risk analysis for long-term performance.
Global supply chains are under increasing pressure to satisfy customer requirements meaning supplier quality, operations, sustainability and safety are more important now than ever before. Products must be delivered on time and meet quality standards. This means supporting the onboarding of trusted suppliers, aligning corporate sustainability and safety goals, and ensuring transparency for better risk management.
CUALIS supplier evaluation and qualification solutions offer a modular approach tailored to your specific needs.
It leverages technical experts to get real and actionable answers and combines interactive reporting, data analytics and benchmarking on a user-friendly digital platform. Its flexibility means it can easily be scaled-up, deployed quickly and repositioned. Ultimately it helps generate output for robust, balanced and systematic supplier improvement projects.
Supplier Expediting Services
Expedite delivery of materials, products or equipment to ensure your project is completed on time and on budget.
In complex projects, timely delivery from suppliers is crucial to avoid disruptions, cost escalations and strained customer relationships. Managing an intricate supply chain can be challenging, and late deliveries can have far-reaching consequences. Our supplier expediting services provide the solution, offering both desk and field expediting options to monitor, assess and ensure that your suppliers meet their commitments on time.
Supplier Inspections
Control the quality of materials, components and equipment from your supply chains and keep projects on time and on budget.
When you outsource to suppliers, it is essential to ensure that the products supplied meet quality standards and that your suppliers adhere to laws and regulations. QA/QC inspections of supplier goods and services can help you to prevent potential issues early on and so avoid delays, extra costs, including fines due to lack of compliance, and loss of consumer confidence in your brand.
Our inspections and supplier evaluations help you control quality, ensure regulatory compliance and protect your reputation.