Industry news, GGS updates and headlines on ground-gas monitoring, environmental monitoring and risk management. Leave us a comment, we’d love to hear from you.
Stay on top of the environment industry headlines, updates and events with the GGS newsletter. Click here for our latest update and previous editions.
23Apr / 2018
Continuous monitoring has revolutionised ground gas risk assessment allowing for a detailed understanding of the conditions of a site. The introduction of continuous ground gas flow monitoring brings another line of evidence that is relatively easy to understand and interpret. What impact will this have on ground gas risk assessment?
12Apr / 2018
Radon gas is a natural hazard that we can’t see, feel or smell. Consequently, most people are unaware of it and the risks often don’t get the attention they deserve.
27Mar / 2018
Are the current methods of assessing risk in contaminated land sufficient to deal with new challenges, or are there new techniques that could deal with multiple contaminants on large and complex sites.
23Mar / 2018
Earlier this month, despite the efforts of “The Beast from the East”, we made it to London for the GGS sponsored conference, Ground Gas 2018.
01Mar / 2018
It is with great pleasure that we announce that GGS is speaking at Brownfield and Contaminated Land 2018 at Titanic Belfast on Thursday 19th April.
26Feb / 2018
GGS is proud to announce that it now has the largest fleet of on-borehole continuous monitoring devices, including continuous flow, of any UK consultancy.
22Feb / 2018
The ACUMEN project offers an excellent template for local authority landfill operators both in the UK and beyond on how to create revenues and reduce environmental impacts from their closed landfill portfolios.
20Feb / 2018
In January this year, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) published ‘High Radon Areas and Lung Cancer Prevalence in Ireland’. This is the first study in the Republic to confirm a strong link between living in areas with high levels of radon gas and an increased risk of a lung cancer.
07Feb / 2018
The introduction of continuous monitoring brought with it a parallel increase in demand for ‘receptor monitoring’. Previous to this, post-construction monitoring was not favoured by designers as it had the possibility of demonstrating that their plan was substandard. What changes will continuous receptor monitoring now bring for the construction industry?
09Jan / 2018
As we move into a fresh new year full of hope and promise, GGS welcomes a new member to our management team. After 11 years working at the Environment Agency, Matt Askin has joined GGS as Onshore Petroleum Manager. We had an in-depth chat with Matt about his career so far, why he chose to join GGS, and his ambitions and the key challenges of his new role.
