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Coastal & Environmental Services (CES) believes that the key to successful professional practice lies with its staff. Our consulting and administration staff are therefore well qualified. Of our total professional staff component of 29, 23 are graduates who together have an impressive total of approximately 47 degrees. Many are registered with Professional Organisations such as South African Institute of Ecologist and Environmental Scientists, the South African Council for natural Scientific Professionals, Certified Environmental Assessment Practitioners and Members of the Royal Society of South Africa.

Dr Ted Avis, Professor Roy Lubke, Dr Alan Carter, Mr Bill Rowlston, Mrs Cheryl Avis and Dr Kevin Whittington-Jones are the directors of CES. They are supported by a highly trained staff complement, the majority of whom have completed a Masters or Doctorate theses.

Dr Ted Avis, Managing Director, is a leading expert in the field of Environmental Impact Assessments, having project-managed numerous large-scale EIAs to international standards (e.g. World Bank and International Finance Corporation). Ted has also project managed and provided professional input to the State of Environment reports and Strategic Environmental Assessments produced by CES.

Professor Roy Lubke, CES Director, is a retired Associate Professor in the Department of Botany, Rhodes University, and Director of Coastal & Environmental Services. He contributed to the preparation of the SA Association of Botanists vegetation map by mapping the vegetation in a large part of the Eastern Cape. Professor Lubke has been involved in numerous EIAs and has extensive experience in ecological and vegetation studies and the identification of indicators for SoERs.

Dr Alan Carter, Director of the CES East London, has extensive training and experience in both financial accounting and environmental science disciplines with international accounting firms in South Africa and the USA. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and holds a PhD in Plant Sciences. He is also a certified ISO14001 EMS auditor with the American National Standards Institute and the British Standards Institute.

Mr Bill Rowlston, CES Director, has considerable experience in a wide range of water related fields, especially at the more strategic and policy level.  He has eleven years experience in the formulation and analysis of policies and strategies for water resources management, including nine years involvement with the development and formulation of the National Water Policy, the National Water Act and the National Water Resource Strategy, which was established in South Africa at the end of 2004.  In addition to providing a range of expert skills.

Mrs Cheryl Avis, Financial Director, has extensive experience in finance over the years with a focus on corporate banking. She has been a Certified Associate of the Institute of Bankers for 20 years. In 1998 Cheryl assisted with the financial set-up of CES as a close corporation and became increasingly involved in the financial direction thereof.

Dr Kevin Whittington-Jones, has a PhD in Environmental Biotechnology and his areas of expertise include integrated pollution and waste management, technology assessment, waste water treatment and beneficiation and environmental management systems.

Mr Mahesh Gopal and Mrs Jenni Gopal are members of CES.

Mr Marc Hardy, Principal Consultant. His professional interests include environmental impact

reporting for linear, energy and large infrastructure projects, strategic environmental policy

development and reporting – mostly relating to Environmental Management Framework’s (EMF’s)

compliance monitoring and environmental auditing. He has extensive experience of environmental

management and regulatory processes.

CES also has a number of Senior Consultants:

Dr Greer Hawley,  has been involved in a number of diverse activities. The core academic focus

has however, been directed in the field of taxonomy both in the plant and fungal kingdom.

Dr Cherie-Lynn Mack, has research experience in industrial and domestic wastewater treatment

technologies, with particular emphasis on the coal and platinum mining industries.  She has

experience in water quality analysis and industrial wastewater treatment research.

Ms Naomi Richardson, he has been involved in marine studies including harbour water and

sediment quality monitoring, studies on the impacts of dredge spoil, land reclamation works,

moorings and jetties. She has also worked in the freshwater environment, focusing in particular on

downstream and cumulative impacts of aquatic pollution.

CES has many additional consulting staff who offer skills and experience in Environmental Management Plans, Scoping Studies, Public Participation, Coastal Zone Management, Waste and Waste Water Management and Sanitation, and Environmental Law.

LOCATION and offices

CES is based in Grahamstown, the heart and academic centre of the Eastern Cape. Our long association with various universities in the region allows us to source and interact with a range of specialist academics.
 

CES is complemented by its East London office. This office is permanently linked electronically to Grahamstown using advanced Information Technology and supported by an up-to-date Computer Network, with fast links to the Internet making electronic communication reliable and efficient.

CES is an equal opportunity employer and the demographic profile of the staff is as follows:

CES is a Qualifying small enterprise in terms of the B-BBEE Act with a Level three B-BBEE status. CES is strategizing with Global Solutions to develop a BBBEE plan, which will see CES 100% compliant by the end of March 2009. thereby scoring a score of 65 points.

Why Use CES?

• CES has extensive experience in southern Africa.

• CES has a wide range of in-house expertise, which is complemented by our various associates.

• CES is competitively priced and our staff complement allows us to take on projects ranging from scoping reports to very large multidisciplinary EIAs.

References:

CES provided amendments to DEDEA for a small scale residential development in Cobbay, portion 17 of the farm Gorah (398), Kenton on Sea. The proposed development consists of ten residential units. CES produced vegetation sensitivity and community maps along with SetPlan Port Elizabeth. Due to the ecological sensitivity of portion 17, the development units were overlaid onto the maps to ensure they were located out of any of the sensitive areas. The members of Cobbay CC found CES to be professional and punctual in the work that was produced.

 “The Chibuto EIA represents the culmination of a long complex multidisciplinary study. New standards were set – the integration of biophysical, social and regional planning issues is arguably the most significant of them, which will set a new benchmark for studies elsewhere in the world. The credit for this work lies largely with the CES team in Grahamstown.

Dunbar Dales, Director Corridor Sands Limitada Maputo, Mozambique

“Coastal & Environmental Services prepared an Environmental Impact Assessment on behalf of Kenmare Resources Plc in accordance with World Bank Guidelines. The study covered all environmental issues including various baseline studies, a socio-economic assessment and a conceptual resettlement plan. In our opinion the EIA was performed to a high standard; this message was also relayed to us during our discussions with the development funding institutions we are dealing with. Kenmare is planning to employ CES to undertake an Environmental Management Plan as the project advances to the next stage.”

Eamonn Keenan, Development Project Manager, Kenmare Resources Plc