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Scope of services

Three divisions.Three regulators.

Assessment, audit and construction are usually bought separately. Holding all three accreditations means a commitment made in a study is answerable to the people who have to build it.

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Divisions
ZEMA · MRC · NCC
Contract capacity
Up to K6.0m — NCC Grade 6
Coverage
National

The three divisions

Aerial view of a mosaic of wetland, grassland and winding drainage channels, Lusaka Province, ZambiaZEMA

Advise · ZEMA

Environmental Assessment

Assessment and permitting work prepared to ZEMA submission standard — from screening brief through to an approved monitoring plan.

We scope the study, run the baseline field programme, model the impacts and carry the document through review. Public consultation, stakeholder registers and decommissioning provisions are built into the assessment rather than appended to it.

  • Environmental & Social Impact AssessmentESIA — full study for prescribed projects
  • Environmental & Social Project BriefESPB — second-schedule screening submission
  • Environmental & Social Management PlanESMP — mitigation, monitoring and audit schedule
  • Baseline studiesAir quality, noise, ecology, surface and ground water

Zambia Environmental Management Agency

Benched quarry earthworks meeting a green tree line, viewed from aboveMRC
Representative earthworks imagery

Audit · MRC

Mining Compliance & EPF Audit

Environmental Protection Fund audits signed by an MRC-accredited competent person, with the liability arithmetic laid out line by line.

The EPF assessment decides what a licence holder posts as security. We inspect the disturbed footprint, quantify rehabilitation liability against current rates, and present a defensible figure the Commission and the operator can both work from.

  • Environmental Protection Fund auditMRC-accredited competent person
  • Mining environmental complianceStatutory Instrument No. 29 of 1997
  • Disturbed-area surveyFootprint measurement and rehabilitation costing
  • Compliance gap reviewLicence conditions against site reality

Minerals Regulation Commission

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Representative access-road imagery

Build · NCC

Civil Works Implementation

Licensed construction capacity, so the mitigation an assessment recommends can actually be built by the firm that specified it.

Most consultancies hand over a report and leave. Our NCC Grade 6 registration in categories C, R and MC lets us carry the drainage, the water supply, the haul road or the containment structure through to commissioning — under the same accountability as the assessment.

  • Civil engineering works — Category CBoreholes, water supply, drainage, dams · to K4.0m
  • General road works — Category RSurfacing, drainage, rehabilitation, signage · to K6.0m
  • Mining civil engineering — Category MCWorks within active mining areas
  • Rehabilitation earthworksReshaping, capping and revegetation to closure spec

National Council for Construction — Grade 6

Deliverables

What lands onyour desk.

ZEMA

Environmental Assessment

  1. Scoping report & terms of reference
  2. Baseline field data with sampling coordinates
  3. Impact matrix and significance rating
  4. Stakeholder consultation record
  5. Decommissioning & closure provisions

MRC

Mining Compliance & EPF Audit

  1. Audited disturbed-area schedule
  2. Rehabilitation liability assessment
  3. Compliance findings register
  4. Corrective action plan with owners and dates
  5. Signed competent-person certification

NCC

Civil Works Implementation

  1. Works programme and method statement
  2. Setting-out and as-built survey
  3. Materials testing records
  4. Site environmental control during construction
  5. Commissioning and handover certificate

Standing

Accredited todo all three.

Each licence is current and independently verifiable with the issuing authority.

Current registrations

MRC
EPF Audit AccreditationActive
ZEMA
Consultancy AccreditationActive
NCC
Grade 6 ContractorActive — C, R, MC

Engage a division

Tell us whichphase you are in.

Screening, a full ESIA, an EPF audit falling due, or works that need a licensed contractor — say which, and we will scope it.

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