Why are surveys important in environmental impact assessments?
posted 10th October 2024
Environmental impact assessments (EIA) are important to ensure that your building project complies with environmental regulations, reducing negative impacts on social and natural resources, while ensuring you enhance sustainability. Surveying plans an important role in environmental impact assessments, providing you with reliable and accurate information on the existing and potential conditions of your building site and surroundings.
Choosing a Suitable Location
If you are torn between a number of different plots of land to buy and build on, an environmental impact assessment can be valuable. Using MB Survey Solutions, our surveyors can help you identify the best location for your building project, focusing on topography, land availability, vegetation, heritage, wildlife, and accessibility. You can use these surveys to compare different plots of land, determining their environmental aspects and feasibility before you start building. When you choose the best location, you reduce your environmental impact, reducing the need to take mitigation measures.
Land selection is so important to any building project. We can help you find the best site based on a host of criteria. We can assess land topography, analyse soil characteristics, along with evaluating a variety of other environmental factors.
Make Informed Decisions
Environmental Impact Assessments offer in-depth understanding of various factors, such as the soil characteristics, topography of the land, and any environmental sensitivites. With this insight, you can make informed decisions by comparing potential sites, based on their benefits and challenges.
How to Use Surveys to Support Environmental Impact Assessments in Building Projects
An effective and accurate survey can provide baseline data on existing environmental conditions, including land use, air quality, biodiversity, social aspects, water quality, noise levels, and climate. This data is important to create a reference point to measure any impacts and changes that are caused by your building project. It helps to monitor environmental conditions during and after the build.
Surveying offers essential baseline data about your building site, along with its environment. This data serves as a reference when gauging the potential environmental shifts caused by your building project. Surveying helps to monitor these conditions throughout your building project, helping you make timely interventions, if needed. This helps to ensure your project remains sustainable and environmentally conscious.
Impact Analysis
Surveying assists in the analysing of potential environment impacts of your project using a variety of state of the art tools and updated methods, including geographic information systems, modelling, mapping, remote sensing, and visualisations. Surveyors identify these sources, along with their duration, magnitude, and extend on various environmental components, assessing the likelihood of their impacts.
Building Project Implications
Surveying plays a vital role in evaluating potential implications your project may cause to the existing environment. We are able to pinpoint potential sources and gauge the extend and longevity of the elements. It provides insight into their significance, along with the probability of any effects. This helps you make sustainable project decisions now and in the future.
Conclusion
Surveys play a vital role in environmental impact assessments, helping you understand your land environment to make informed decisions regarding your building project. Are you looking for an experience, reliable, and accurate survey for your environmental impact assessment? Contact MB Survey Solutions today.