Project Examples sustainable direction has the privilege of working with our clients on interesting and challenging opportunities to improve their environmental performance and via this their financial results and often their social responsibility as well. SDL invests in training our people so that we can provide the current best practice combined with our detailed experience of working on a wide range of environmental business, engineering, science and management projects.

The experience that SDL's staff and associates bring covers over 25 countries, and a wide range of business sectors. What distinguishes us is our focus on delivering value to each project along the way, as we want to work with you again.

The following examples demonstrate some of this experience, we hope it is of interest.

• Oil & Water Ltd - Preparing PPC revision, planning revision and water company negotiation - Client Benefit - client able to focus on business growth

• UNESCO - IHE Delft - Training in EIA for MSc students from over 20 countries as part of their water environmental engineering training - Client Benefit - improved understanding of environmental benefits information and study on behavioural barriers to use - Client Benefit - improved working method and new perspectives

• Wolseley - Waste Contract Negotiation Support - Client Benefit - significant savings

• Sevalco Ltd - Defined a Production Management tool to balance production with dispersion conditions for improved operation - Client Benefit - Saved £xM

• Government of Malta - Providing Training Courses on EMS, EIA and SEA - EU requirements for accession countries - Client Benefit - International best practice examples for Malta

• Eli Lilly, Ireland - Review of best practice water segregation and treatment for this major environmental project upgrade - Client Benefit - Environmental Master Plan for 5 year capex programme

• Invista - Determined novel abatement techniques for this emission, leading to process selection and specification and preparation of tenders and operation of a Pilot Plant - Client Benefit - novel approach saved time and money

• Feasibility Study to BankÕs Engineer role - MOL refinery near Budapest and ING - Client Benefit - Saved significant investment, off balance sheet financing and delivered on time

• Volvo Mobility Systems, Project Director and Manager for a Global Waste Sector Feasibility Study for VMS to help develop the strategy for VMS, extended to a pilot project in Poland - Client Benefit - Balanced Scorecard approach clarified issues

• Hydropower Philippines- Coordinated the environmental studies for 11 possible run-of-river hydropower stations in the Visayas Islands to ADB requirements - Client Benefit - prevented loss of virgin rain fores - Environmental Statement, for a 150 MW Power Station.

• East Midlands Electricity / British Coal - Client Benefit - First ES study to calculate GHG emissions, 1989