Neo Environmental Ltd are delighted to announce that we are expanding our offices further and have recently opened a new office in Warrington, England.

Due to strong market growth for us in the Northern Powerhouse region over the past two years, Neo believe now is an opportune time to open an office and build on this experience to better serve our existing clients in this region. We are delighted to now have a presence in Warrington at Cinnamon House, Cinnamon Park, Crab Lane, Fearnhead, Warrington, Cheshire, WA2 0XP. Situated between Manchester and Liverpool, Warrington will see us superbly placed to service the growing economy in the wider area.

We would be delighted to meet with any current or perspective clients. You can contact us on T: 01925 661 716 or e-mail: michael@neo-environmental.co.uk to arrange a meeting or discuss any project requirements.

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It was great to have our staff from Glasgow over to the Ballymena office for a day of in-house CPD training. We expect to continue and enhance our cross-office collaboration on projects across the UK and Ireland and the staff in Ballymena are due to make the return trip to Glasgow in the coming weeks.

As would be expected when a training event is held on a Friday staff who could, remained on for a company night out to experience some Irish hospitality! There were a few sore heads heading back to Scotland on Saturday.

The Neo team are back in the office today as the proud winners of the Causeway award “Export Business of the Year 2018” for our work in Ireland including on some of the largest Solar and Storage projects over the last 2 years.

We were shortlisted alongside some amazing businesses and never expected to win – so to say we are delighted would be an understatement, and we are very thankful.

Thanks to Causeway, Ireland Scotland Business Exchange and all the sponsors involved in arranging such a great event.

Causeway, Ireland Scotland Business Exchange, (formerly the Irish Business Network Scotland), is a not-for-profit membership based organisation connecting business people from Ireland and Scotland who wish to identify and explore new collaborative business opportunities.

Neo Environmental Ltd are delighted to have been shortlisted in the category of “Export Scottish Business” at Causeway’s Annual Awards night being hosted this year in Glasgow City Chambers on 15th June 2018 and we look forward to attending.

In late 2017 Neo Environmental carried out an historic building recording for a building in the town centre of Selkirk. It’s a former workshop that is now derelict and in bad condition.

A local charity group (Selkirk Hammermen) own the building and are looking to turn it into a community meeting hall and museum. A historic building recording was required as a planning condition for this as it sits within both a Conservation Area and the Philiphaugh Battlefield.

The renovation of this building is also part of a wider restoration plan for central Selkirk.

Neo Environmental were delighted to have been present in Coleraine last Wednesday for the unanimous positive planning decision on the NW200 hotel, Conference, cottages, spa and demonstration restaurant complex.

Neo Environmental were there to provide environmental and technical input for any queries from councillors and to support Tim Ferguson of Ferguson Planning as well as the rest of the project team. Neo Environmental provided the environmental assessment for the project, which encompassed eight separate disciplines, including landscape and visual impact, ecology, archaeology, transport, noise, hydrology, odour and contaminated land. It was a great result and will provide a great facility in the Portstewart area.

We, for one, can’t wait to see the project completed and enjoy the fantastic views the hotel will offer! Well done to all our team, as well as Colin and Vivien from C&V Developments, Mark from Don Holdings, Ben from Wilson Mullen Architects, the Ferguson Planning team and Cleaver Fullerton Rankin, it has been a pleasure working with you all over the past 15 months.

Glint and glare assessments predict where and when solar reflections from solar panels occur, measured at 1-minute intervals over the course of a given year. The data captured can help the design process by reducing glint and glare, therefore minimising disruption for planned and existing developments, which has far-reaching consequences for the aviation industry.

Solar panels are designed to absorb as much light as possible and not to reflect it. However, glint can be produced as a reflection of the sun from the surface of a solar PV panel, usually described by those who see it as a momentary flash. Glint often needs to be tackled, especially where it can have a significant visual impact, causing viewer distraction errors on ground-based receptors, or affecting visibility for aviation workers.

Glint and glare can impact upon operators of aerodromes and other aviation infrastructure who need to give the issue due consideration. Neo Environmental’s approach to the problem was to develop an assessment to investigate the impact specifically on these aviation assets, focused on the impacts on Air Traffic Control Towers and on the final approach paths of planes coming into land. The data produced by these assessments is vital for safety.

One of the first assessments produced by Neo was conducted for Aberdeen firm Graham Mitchell Architects. They are currently providing architectural and planning services for a new project on behalf of Charles J Marshall (Aberdeen) Ltd., an important local employer looking to construct a solar farm to secure their company’s energy supply, as well as providing additional income for the business.

The application was for a 250kW ground mounted solar farm at the company’s head office in Chapel Works, Bucksburn, Aberdeen. The solar farm is located 2.1km from Aberdeen’s busy International Airport, the hub for the off-shore oil industry. The assessment entailed a particularly detailed analysis from Neo Environmental, which included a number of helicopter landing pads, for which the approach paths had to be plotted and measured.

A total of seven runways were assessed, as well as the Air Traffic Control Tower, which controls the flight paths for all of the commercial flights in and out of Aberdeen. The final outcome of Neo Environmental’s assessment showed that only two approach paths would be affected by glint and glare from the proposed development.

This impact was within the standard limits, and the report concluded that Graham Mitchell Architects should gain full planning permission. The project was approved in February of this year, and construction is expected to begin soon. Additionally, our report provided an assessment of the impact on Radar, Obstacle Limitation Surfaces and Electromagnetic Interference – providing useful data for the airport’s management, and for the solar farm’s architects. Due to the low height of the consented solar farm, this did not become a major issue.

Our glint and glare assessment procedure is data-rich, precise, and comprehensive. Since the first implementation in Aberdeen, Neo Environmental have had numerous commissions for this service for solar farms in Ireland.

For further details on our Glint and Glare services, please contact our Glasgow office on 0141 773 62 62 or info@neo-environmental.co.uk or contact our Irish Office on 00353 (0)45 844250 or info@neo-environmental.ie.

Our team will gladly advise on the glint and glare requirements for your project, whether it is a solar farm, or any structure with reflective properties.

We are delighted to have been included in Scottish Renewables report on the industrial impact of renewables.

All set up for the Solar Ireland conference in Cork, which our Director Paul Neary will be speaking at on environmental considerations for the planning and development of solar farms in Ireland. Neo Environmental have now worked on over 1 GW of commercial solar projects and carried out the full environmental suite of works for the two largest consents in Ireland!

Great to have worked on these projects with Lightsource and to see the largest solar farm in Northern Ireland now connected.

We have been working with companies such as Lightsource on large projects in the Republic of Ireland, where Neo Environmental were involved in the consents for the two largest solar farms to date with Highfield energy and Bamford and Bonner Planning. We completed all of the environmental work for the 70MW and 50M projects.

Neo Environmental have now been involved in the consent of over 200MW of solar farm projects in the Republic of Ireland. Our director Paul Neary will be discussing some of these when he presents at the Smart Solar Ireland Conference in Cork on the 5th of April.

Read More: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/news/northern-irelands-biggest-solar-farm-is-switched-on-35563085.html