Environmental management

Environmental protection and management are the oldest areas of operation for Hendrikson & Ko, dating back to the year 1992, when AS Quercus, its predecessor, was formed. Most typical activities included offering consultations to enterprises concerning various environmental issues ranging from licensing to auditing and evaluating environmental impact. Since the formation of Hendrikson & Ko, the number of projects for both the state and local governments has been growing rapidly. We have conducted roughly a thousand projects for around four hundred clients. We have worked with most infrastructural state institutions and all ministries. With our international operations we have reached to a number of countries in Europe and beyond. Steady cooperation is going on in the directions of Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Azerbaijan, Russia and Great Britain.

Some more exotic locations we have worked in include Oman, Cambodia and Afghanistan.

By client type, our company profile can be divided as follows:

• Production and industrial enterprises: environmental audits, research, license applications incl. combined licenses, evaluation of environmental impact.
• Energy enterprises: research, location planning, licensing, technological evaluations
• Infrastructural enterprises: planning, investigations, project leading, license applications, audits
• Trading companies: license applications
• Agricultural enterprises: environmental audits, research, license applications incl. combined licenses, evaluation of environmental impact
• Real estate developers and planners: modeling and research of noise and air pollution, reviews and evaluations of environment conditions, (strategic) evaluation of environmental impact, planning and conducting of surveys
• Local governments: research, (strategic) evaluation of environmental impact, Natura evaluations, surveys
• Embassies and Chambers of Trade: consultations to enterprises and investors entering a market
• National organisations of environmental and natural protection: research, regulations for protections, agendas
• Other state organisations: research, agendas
• International organisations (OSCE, NATO, European Commission): research, project leading
• International networks: participation in research projects

The main strength of the environmental department is an unrivaled amount of experience in Estonian context as well as readiness to search for solutions. Another asset is our wide profile – out team has a varied range of different academic qualifications. We have chemists, physicists, botanists, ecologists, zoologists, hydrologists, geographists and lawyers. Should it be necessary, we are able to expand our base quickly with the help of other departments of Hendrikson & Ko or some of our closer or more remote partners. Our team is active academically, many of us have retained close ties to the university, our department has several specialists with doctorate or magistrate degrees, several of them actively involved with research and studies. Our ties with the university also give to Hendrikson & Ko a good basis for product development and methodic activities – with the physicists of Tartu University we have developed an internationally recognized modeling packet AEROPOL, our experts have compiled various methodological materials on the request of government organizations and published scientific articles. In 2011, the Estonian Environmental Institute, a non-profit, was formed to aggregate the activities in the field of applied sciences done by Hendrikson & Ko and their partners and to enhance cooperation with universities and international networks.

Owing to our flexibility, dedication and professional qualifications, we have managed to gather to our client base a number of enterprises and organizations with whom the cooperation has lasted through the time when we were just starting out. They have helped us to grow from a small office in Tartu to an organization offering internationally recognized services. Our market position could probably be illustrated best by the fact that according to the Estonian Ministry of Environmental Affairs, we were the enterprise conducting the largest number of environmental impact evaluations in Estonia in the period of 2001 to 2005.

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