January-February 2012
South West Building & Construction 23 CORNWALL GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL LTD
Client-focused consultancy
CORNWALL Geo-environ- mental Ltd (CG-e) is a client- focused technology driven consultancy that has helped developers and other businesses save thousands.
CG-e, whose clients include
Cornwall Council, Plymouth City Council, the Duchy of Cornwall, West Devon Borough Council and a range of prestigious architects and developers, can provide substantial savings to clients, supplying a one-stop consultancy solution for projects, lowering your embodied energy and reducing the carbon output in your supply chain.
Operating across the South
West from state-of-the-art low- carbon offices at the BREEAM excellent-rated Pool Innovation Centre, the firm offers more than 160 years’ combined experience, using consultants who are recognised experts in their fields - including contaminated land, geotechnics, site investigation, SUDS, ecology and archaeology. The company offers free initial advice, and fixed price, cost- effective reporting and investigation solutions, empowering developers with the knowledge to build in challenging ground conditions. The company has an in-house capability to carry out site investigations on archaeologically-sensitive and environmentally-sensitive sites. The firm uses its own geo-tech aware archaeologists and ecologists for watching briefs, rescue works and realistic risk qualification before drilling. Nominated for the 2011 UCP
innovators of the year award, CG-e are also enrolled on the high growth programme delivered by Grow Cornwall, mentored by Clare Whitney and Jonet Waldock. The company reinvests 50 per cent of its turnover into new technology it develops in-house, including field-to-base data
Peter McCann-Downes.
solutions - which mean they can be up to 70 per cent faster in assembling the data needed for complex reports, savings which are passed on to clients - and a secure client server for instant report downloads and project collaboration. Undergoing rapid growth, CG-
e have incorporated a spin-out enterprise, The Magnificent Science Company, working with Oxford Innovation, to commercialise these unique technologies to sell worldwide. Peter McCann-Downes, director, said: ‘Our massive commitment to innovation has proved to be the cornerstone of our success. ‘We are set to provide many more high quality jobs in the region. Our technology and mitigation solutions are client driven to ensure not only legal compliance but real world working solutions that can actually be implemented. ‘I aim to change the focus of
built environment consultancy back to the client while bringing it into the 21st century with our unique technologies. We plan an aggressive programme of expansion to provide services in EIA, surveying, photogrammetry and flood risk, all of which are currently being trialled for launch, along with more investment in our own cutting edge technology which will make CG-e the UK’s most exciting and fastest growing consultancy.’ To find out more, contact
Concrete coring for Cornwall Council at the Jubilee Pool.
Cornwall Geo-environmental Ltd, Pool Innovation Centre, Trevenson Road, Pool, TR15 3PL. Tel 0845 271 1934 (lines open 7.30am to 7pm Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm Saturday). Freecall fax 0808 280 0529. Email
info@cg-e.co.uk.
Demobilisation of drilling rigs at the Jubilee Pool in Penzance.
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