Environmental specialists Atmos Consulting celebrates its fifth anniversary having built a broad range of the expertise that enables this mid-sized firm to punch well above its weight.
Atmos Consulting delivers ‘big company’ service from local bases that keep it close to its clients and provide a working environment that has established it as an employer of choice in the environmental consultancy industry.
“This is exactly where we wanted to be at this stage, and we are happy to have achieved our goals despite the wider economic downturn,” said Atmos Consulting managing director Stewart Lowther. “We have developed an ethos of offering commercially-sound, smart, practical and proportionate advice and built a strong and stable team.
“We are affordable for small community groups, and have the expertise to manage major projects from feasibility through the planning process and construction, to the management of mitigation programmes.”
Atmos’s team, which has peaked at 52 employees, includes some of the UK’s most experienced field ecologists, who have been called on as expert witnesses for 17 public inquiries across Scotland, England and Wales to date.
The firm also boasts state of the art Geographic Information System based data handling capabilities that streamline projects at all stages.
One recent outcome of its data handling expertise has been Atmos Consulting’s ability to model the cumulative visual impact of wind turbines quickly and cost-effectively, and to produce straightforward visual representations of proposed turbines. Another success has been the development of models dealing with the processing of large bat call datasets.
In common with the whole of the UK environmental consultancy market, the ISO 9001-accredited Atmos Consulting weathered the downward trend in 2011, but is now seeing growth again with future success underpinned by the breadth of its service offer.
Atmos Consulting has maintained its focus on local delivery, and now has offices in Inverness, Edinburgh, Stanhope, Mold and Thetford. Clients range from leading energy companies, large estates, businesses and developers to small landowners and community groups.
“The transition to a low carbon, low waste and energy secure market will be a challenge for the UK for many years to come. We have the right people in the right places to work alongside our clients as they embrace it,” said Stewart Lowther.
