Consultancy and planning

Support to the project owner for Appenzeller Bahnen. The merger of the various Appenzell railways (Trogenerbahn, Rorschach-Heiden-Bergbahn, Bergbahn Rheineck-Walzenhausen and the former Appenzeller Bahnen) resulted in the new Appenzeller Bahnen in summer 2006.

Within the context of the “Natural hazards in Thurgovia” project, a landslip map has been created for the Lützelburg pilot project. In parallel to this, the data have been compiled and made available in order to create the phenomena map for the entire canton.

The project aims to set up an alarm and intervention system to deal with the problems caused by the Rhône flooding. This system must allow the research results to be translated into concrete measures and current risks to be managed until protective measures are completed and dykes reinforced.
This involves defining monitoring, alarm and intervention measures covering each of the tasks that must be performed during a crisis.

CSD ENGINEERS SA was commissioned by RPS Health Safety and Environment (London) to undertake an environmental review for EC HARRIS (Paris) of the Retail Centre Champs Fleuris at Matran (near Fribourg) in Switzerland.

The principal aim of the review was to determine whether there is potential for contamination to be present which would significantly constrain the use of the site, or give rise to the risk of significant environmental liability.

The report may also be relied on by any subsidiary of EC HARRIS and those institutions funding their purchase of the property.

RPS Health Safety and Environment was commissioned by an international purchaser to undertake Phase 1 Environmental Liability Review of 10 Hilton hotels in Europe and RPS commissioned CSD ENGINEERS SA for the audits in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Germany. The principal aim of the review was to determine whether there is potential for pollution or other environmental impacts to be present which would significantly give rise to the risk of significant environmental liability or may cause a significant depreciation of the building price.

The objective was to contribute towards a sustainable industrial production mode in the Brazilian federal state of Paraíba and its neighbour states by applying cost-effective measures in particular with regard to the efficient use of fuel wood, thus to contribute to reduce desertification in the rural area.
The project’s main component included the capacity enhancement of the local partner institution „Serviço Brasileiro de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas (SEBRAE)”. The trained consultants formed a new profit center under SEBRAE called Centro de Produção Industrial Sustentável (CEPIS). CEPIS will provide high quality services to local enterprises in the field of Cleaner Production techniques and Cleaner Technologies.