News & Updates

2nd March 2010

Simon Curwen, Managing Director of QDS, had the honour of collecting the Sustain Award for Land at a glittering function in Chelsea Football Club.  The awards were presented to an audience of some 400 professionals across a wide range of industries and, as the name suggests, focus on the sustainability  credentials of a project. The project - Remediation of a former dye manufacturing facility in North West England - has already been successful with a Brownfield Briefing Innovation Award in Autumn 2009.  The project was a joint entry by QDS and ERM.

 

October 2009

QDS Environmental Limited, in partnership with ERM, triumphed at the Brownfield Briefing Remediation Innovation Awards of 2009 winning the award for 'Best use of a combination of remediation techniques'.  The award was recognition for the remediation of a former dye manufacturing facility.

Gold ROSPA award win  

The ExxonMobil Disinvestment programme has won a ROSPA Gold Award for the second year in succession. The award is in recognition of the quality of the safety programme on the project. 

Accreditations

QDS Environmental Limited is very proud to announce that it has recently received accreditation from SAFEcontractor, a programme which recognises very high standards of health & safety practice amongst UK contractors.  QDS is one of the latest group of successful companies to join the leading edge scheme, designed to help industry improve its safety record.  The company’s application to SAFEcontractor was driven by their desire to further demonstrate their safety standards across the business.  SAFEcontractor accreditation will further enhance the company’s reputation within the construction industry.

In addition, QDS is pleased to say that it has just achieved Accredited Contractor status under the UK Spill Contractors Accreditation Scheme.  QDS has been accredited in three categories:

 - Standards compliance for oil spill responders

 - Fresh Water spills

 - Ground Water spills

Other awards

QDS has continued to impress the industry by being winners, highly commended and shortlisted in 7 awards during the last 12 months.

 

QDS were shortlisted in three categories at the recent 2008 Awards :

“Best Use of a Single Remediation Treatment Technique”, for the successful treatment of a Flame Retardant impacted aquifer using Chemical Oxidation techniques. The judges praised the project for its high quality design and engineering, as well as its demonstration of innovative thinking in the application of a tried and tested technique to a large and complex site. 

“Most Innovative Remediation Method” for the use of multiple remediation techniques to remove large quantities of liquid coal tar from the Teddington Gasworks site. The judges felt that this was an excellent project, showing a real treatment train, and which demonstrated novelty through the complexity addressed by a combination of systems.  

“Best Conceptual Design”, for the Flame Retardant project. The project is the largest application of Fenton’s Reagent ever in the UK and the judges commented that it was QDS’ detailed knowledge of the remedial options that enabled it to find the key to an otherwise intractable problem, on this project for consultants WYGE.

In addition the Teddington project was shortlisted for the Best Use of a Combined System  in a submission by the project consultant Southern Testing.    

The IChemE Water Award  – Highly Commended

QDS was shortlisted for the IChemE Water Award at the 2008 awards for innovation and excellence across industry. 

“Remediating chemical sites is no easy task, especially for persistent and soluble contaminants, and when you have a river running through your site.  QDS was given such a task when it was asked to clear up a former flame retardants production site, where trichloro-ethyl-phosphate (TCEP) and trichloro-propyl-phosphate (TCPP) had spread into a plume contaminating 15,000 m³ of land, including groundwater and the local river.  The project turned into the largest ever application of Fenton’s chemical oxidation process, where dilute hydrogen peroxide, acid and ferrous iron solution were injected into the ground to create a strong oxidation reaction that degrades organic contaminants.  A super-oxide radical desorbs contamination from soil particles, while the reaction has been stabilised so that as little peroxide as possible is wasted.”

QDS won the Highly Commended medal for its work on the above project. 

Site Supervisor of the Year Award 2008 (ABB and Exxon Mobil) Presented to Dr Paul Adams of QDS Environmental Ltd.

This award was presented to Dr Paul Adams, QDS Project Scientist by the Exxon Global Disinvestment Manager, with Judith Hackett, CBE Chair of the Health and Safety Executive in attendance.

The award recognised excellence in overall site management, site health and safety, cleanliness, productivity and documentation of activities and safety records.  Paul has been quick to point out that the award would not have been possible if it wasn’t for the hard work of the Project Engineers and Scientists working with him on this project.  QDS Environmental was also short-listed for contractor of the year at the same awards.

QDS shortlisted for Land and Water awards at Sustain Awards - March 2009

QDS were also shortlisted for two awards at the Sustain Awards 2009.  The awards recognise and celebrate excellence in sustainable practice across the full range of industries. QDS were recognised in both the Land and Water categories for our sustainable approach to remediation.  

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