Our Services

• Ecological Surveys
• Nature Conservation
• Land Contamination
• Digitisation
• Impact Assessments
• Environmental Communications
• Environmental Audit
• Environmental Management

Welcome to MARENCO, Northern Ireland's leading Environmental Consultants.

MARENCO is Northern Ireland's foremost Independent science-based environmental consultancy. Founded in 1987, the company has a nucleus of experienced scientists offering a professional, multi-disciplinary service on environmental issues.

MARENCO operates on the 'team principle', where qualified scientists from different fields work closely together, pooling their considerable knowledge and experience. To this end we formed the association with Kirk McClure Morton, consulting civil and structural engineers, and Queen's University, Belfast.

Recent clients have included industry, local authorities, government agencies and water companies. MARENCO staff have a wide experience of fieldwork throughout the world, often under difficult or hazardous conditions.

As well as Environmental Impact Assessment for proposed industrial/commercial and residential developments and Environmental Audits/Management System installation in industry and for local authorities, contracts in recent years have covered issues as diverse as major marine wind farm assessments, catchment management projects for the control of pollutant inputs (phosphates, nitrates etc.) from point and diffuse sources, the preparation of Habitats Action Plans/SPA conservation objectives/Management Plans/Review, collation and computerisation of Government Conservation files for designated nature conservation sites (e.g. SACs, SPAs, ASSIs, Nature Reserves). Contaminated Land Risk Assessment and remediation together with planning approval services form another important aspect of our work.

Quality assurance has a high priority within the company and is controlled through inter-laboratory checking with authoritative organisations.

MARENCO is a corporate member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (two of our consultants are IEMA approved Principal Environmental Auditors).

Other scientists hold individual membership of IWEM, IBiol, and FBA. Our conservation ecologists are members of NICSA (Northern Ireland Countryside Staff Association).

MARENCO has established a new service in Environmental Communications.