The Environmental Consultants' Expert
“A Resource for Clients Seeking to Appoint an Environmental Consultant"
The choice of environmental consultancy firms and the expert advice services they offer, is wider than ever. This has made the job of any client in selecting the best advisor more difficult without insider help.
However, any client new to the environmental consultancy scene can easily select a consultancy organisation to meet their needs by following the guidance we provide below, and if you remain uncertain just complete the form below and gain an insider's advice, free of charge...
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RE: Choosing an environmental consultant from the hundreds of organisations registered in web directories can be a thankless task, if a poor selction is made. But how will you know in advance? Read our 6 steps to easy selection of a consultant, or technical expert, and if that has not solved your dilemna, just fill in our form and we will contact you with suggested companies and initial proposals.
From: Steve Evans
he first consideration when choosing a organisation to assist and advise you as an environmental expert, is to be certain about whether you need a consultant (who will provide advice) or contractor (who may provide both advice and also provide the services which provide an end product): There are many times when a client will wish to go direct to a contractor to solve a problem. In those cases the contractor will himself retain a
consultant to solve the technical issues, and bring the project to the start of construction. The are called "design and build" projects, or "turnkey". For simple projects where there are established standards of design and construction, and large projects where the environmental issues are strightforward, this can work well.
However, for projects which have a high degree of environmental sensitivity, and/or complexity, or where there the client's requirements require advice and reporting, but no construction, it is best to appoint an environmental consultancy organisation with a proven track record in the specialist areas in which you will wish them to provide advice.
Remember, that when selecting your consultant that choosing an organisation which is solely an advisor, and does not also provide the services they may recommend will be your best defence against your advice being biased toward selling a product offered elsewhere within the organisation, which you can never be certain to guard against by appointing a contracting organisation which also provides consultancy services.
Ultimately, your best defence against receiving less than impartial advice is to use consultancy organisiations which are independent, and do not also act as contractors.
That way, you can be certain that they will not be inclined to favour selling their own in-house products/ construction services. All clients need to think clearly about this at the outset. It is best that this is not later when board members later quite possibly query the validity of advice expensively procured by the management.
Think about the successful outcome you hope will result from the appointment of your environmental consultant...
Appointing a specialist technical advisor, which is all that a consultant is after all, is the only way very many of today's busineses can hope to solve the many complex and multi-disciplinary environmental problems that they encounter efficiently and without negative publicity and restrictions on their business.
When the chosen advisor (environmental consultant) is well matched by qualification and experience to the task set to him (or her), and best practice processes are followed, the result will not only solve tough on-going problems which would be likely otherwise to jeopardise not only the development, evolution and expansion of the business, but much enthusiasm and commitment from the client's workforce.
It can, and with the right advice almost always does, regenerate the vitality of the commisioning organisation.
The people within you business will appreciate the environmental benefits your company will be supporting and developing. Being seen as leaders in environmental sustainability not only makes sense for the citizens of the world at present and into the future, it has been proven time and again that pro-active management in enviromental matters also makes great business sense, in the current public mood, as well!
At Environmental Consultants Biz... we know the environmental consultancy business globally. We provide you with the steps to successful selection of your best consultant, backed up by our own free selection advice service
Make your own enquiries, using the steps we provide below. Test us out against your own selections, or just let us propose an environmental consultant for our extensive experience in the environmental consultancy field.
You have no risk in contacting us, and a whole lot to gain, so we look foward to speaking to you later.
Six simple steps to selection of the perfectly matched consultant to your needs.
Steps 1 to 5 of Essential Steps to Consultancy Advisor Selection: Define the "brief"
These may not be the only steps you take, you must be the guide on that, but it is surprising how often clients don't consider the following points.
The choice of consultant can be crucial to the success of you project, and these days environmental issues can make or break many business activities.
However, when advised on these issues correctly good environmental management within any business can so easily become a key to success throughout the organisation.
Follow the steps below, followed by consultancy selection experts:
Write down the purpose for which the consultancy work is required
Write down the outputs you require from the work (report, specification, environmental compliance, ecological survey report, planning permission etc)
Write down the stages the project must go through in order to arrive at the output desired (e.g. ecological survey, impact assessment,feasibility study, outline design, obtain planning permission, Environmental Regulator/Agency agreement and Environmental Permitting,detailed design and specification plus drawing production, procurement of the works, construction stage supervision and Health and Safety Regulations compliance, commissioning, etc)
Write down or put together, in a form which can be sent to the consultant all the data, and background information that the appointed consultant will be required to understand and utilize as the starting point for the project. (You will need to send a representative part, or all of the available data to the consultant.)
Write down a programme very approximately and as far as is possible to predict, within which your are hoping that the work will be completed. Include any essential milestone dates.
If you have more than one component to your product, set up another box below it, and in between them add an order link as below:
Step 6 - Researching Consultancy Organisations and Appraising Their Capability
The steps that follow will as in the earlier stages, make or break the success of the task of selection of the most suitable environmental consultant
When selecting your list of consultants, to be invited to either pre-qualify (larger more complex jobs) or quote straight-off, we advise against assuming that an online search will find more than a third of the available environmental consultants available in any field of expertise.
Smaller companies are usually listed but well established and respected environmental consultants, which gain their work by word of mouth and referral still often don't have web sites which will appear in Google searches, for whatever reason.
That means that newcomer clients may miss out on an opportunity of tapping into the expertise of a range of some of the best environmental consultants.
Give close attention to the bulleted points below during your selection of an environmental consultant:
Obtain lists of potential consultants/contractors from the most appropriate professional organisations to which these organisations belong.
Contact as many of these organisations as possible and make request of a priced offer (proposal) to carry out the work using the tender information saved about the house and town for example.
Appraise the competency of those allocated inspection working order for them to act for the the client's organisation
Consider Costs
Form a conclusion on the successful consultant to be chosen and implement it.
However, if you would like IPPTS Associates to propose a consultancy team to you... Just complete the form below and we will contact you with our proposals. Free of charge, and with no commitment from you!
We will contact you within 2 to 3 days, and often much sooner.
Best of success,
Steve Evans
Steve Evans
