SANTA CONSULT
Environmental Engineering and Management
Consulting firm.
CORPORATE PROFILE AND CAPABILITY STATEMENT
Accra, Ghana.
2003
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SANTA CONSULT
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
FIRM
Location:
TALK OF THE TOWN HOTEL
COMMUNITY 2, TEMA
POSTAL ADDRESS:
P.O.BOX NB119
NII BOI MAN
ACCRA
GHANA
TELEPHONE:
(TEL: 233-22-205540
(027) 7402338
FACSIMILE:
0233-22-205161
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CORPORATE PROFILE AND CAPABILITY STATEMENT
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Santa Consult consists of a dedicated group of professionals with a strong
background and capability in offering consultancy services primarily in the
Environmental Engineering and Environmental Management, Mineral
Exploration, Geological, Hydrogeological and Geotechnical sectors.
Our ability to call upon a wide range of high calibre individual personnel in
these sectors ensures that clients will get timely services and advice of the
highest possible standard.
Established in the year 2002 the consortium consists mostly of Africans with a
minimum five-year experience working with international companies under
various settings in Africa.
2.0 OUR VISION AND MISSION
Our mission is “To be a leading firm committed to delivering high quality
professional advisory services on the environment and also meet the natural
resources information needs of our clients, at a reasonable price, and in a
manner that does not compromise sound professional and personal ethics.”
The exposure to various geological, environmental, socio-political settings and
issues coupled with western education, international experience and references
of our staff has put us in a position to provide advice in a practical and most
cost effective manner to our clients.
We have a supporting staff complement that includes highly experienced
professionals and graduates at various levels.
The firm has a branch in Tema and Sunyani. Santa Consult is also a member of
the Ghana Association of Consultants.
3.0 INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATION
Santa Consult is links Danish Environmental Consultancy firms such as Makoni
Associates and Geokon A/S.
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4.0 RANGE OF SERVICES
Our range of professional services include the following:
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Water Supply, Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
Water Resource Management
Design of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Management Systems
Environmental Auditing
Environmental Reporting
Environmental Policy and Programmes Design and Implementation
Soil/Groundwater Contamination Assessment/Groundwater Remediation
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Institutional Capacity Building
Industry and Clean Technology
Geological Services
Water Supply, Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
We undertake planning and design of water supply and sanitation systems. We
also carry out feasibility study, appraisal and evaluation of water supply and
sanitation services in both rural and urban areas for institutions and donor
agencies. In the area of rural water supply, Santa Consult is mainly involved in
Borehole drilling and siting. We conduct hydro geological investigations using
geological and geophysical methods. We are also involved in borehole drilling
supervision which includes, borehole logging, borehole design and construction,
pump testing, borehole development, water quality analysis and pad
construction.
Pump installation and borehole redevelopment are other
activities we carry out.
Santa consult also offers services related to solid waste management, such as,
design, characterization, risk assessment, treatment methods, development of
strategies for minimization and re-use, compliance with environmental
regulation and other related issues.
Water Resources Management
Santa Consult provides comprehensive expertise in a wide range of decision
support tools to understand and simulate a variety of hydrological aspects
ranging from broad-scale river basin issues to detailed hydrological system
modeling and hydrodynamic investigations as well as watershed design.
Santa Consult is capable of designing separate and integrated urban water
quality systems (Sanitary and storm water systems) management.
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Design of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants
We design wastewater treatment plants for industries, hospitals and
communities. We also design water treatment plants for communities as well
carry out water quality monitoring services for clients.
Environmental Assessment
We have recent and up to date tools that can be used to carry out EIA with
less subjectivity. Santa consult also runs a number of training courses for EIA
as well as provide training, tailored specifically for the needs of individual
organizations or programmes, and welcomes enquiries for the development of
such courses.
Santa Consult provide unique advice to organizations about how to develop
and carry out their Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and policy
appraisal.
Environmental Auditing
We can assist you in setting up audit systems, as well as carry out acquisition
audit if you need information on the environmental liability of a proposed
acquisition or partnership; and we can report on environmental “weak points”
that may need consideration.
We can provide on-the–job training for auditors and help you put together
internal audit teams that can be rotated within your site or different sites.
Environmental Management Systems
We advice you on formal and informal environmental management systems
and indicate a possible strategy most appropriate for your business operation.
Should you have environmental management systems in place, we can
evaluate and audit such systems and report to you on their effectiveness, areas
of improvement, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and treats from an
environmental perspective.
Environmental Reporting
Santa Consult can train your staff in environmental reporting or prepare an up
to date environmental report for you, which can give your firm a competitive
advantage.
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Environmental Policy and Programmes Design and Implementation
We are capable of evaluating your existing policy structures and advice on how
to bring in environmental considerations to make you one of the
environmentally responsible leaders in your business sector.
We also provide training, briefing and support to assist with this process and
also develop appropriate action plans and objectives for your business.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
We are able to carry out:
 Data analysis and Database Development and Management (Oracle)
 Complete all- purpose GIS Database development such as map making
(tourist, geological, seismic, etc)
 GIS based Watershed systems Design
 Contaminated site investigation and site selection for waste dumps,
mapping out of ecological zones such as wetlands as well as facility
siting (schools, industries, market, etc)
 Emergency response planning using optimal path analysis and accident
analysis
 Simulating environmental effects such as pollution and floods
Industry and Clean Technology
We will advice you on:
 Water minimisation and reuse in industry
 Industrial solid waste and wastewater treatment and utilization of byproducts
 Hygienic concerns
 Process simulation of production units and processes
 Setting up a mass balance for your company to reduce waste and
maximize raw material use.
Institutional Capacity Building and Training
Santa Consult has the unique advantage of offering better training in all areas
of environmental and resource management fields at a reasonable cost. Some
of these are providing training and courses to employees of organizations and
companies to improve their performance in natural resource and environmental
management duties.
Geological Services
We provide geological related contract services at all stages of mineral
exploration projects and geological maps and database development.
Santa Consult can also conduct feasibility studies on minerals deposits.
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5. CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Santa consult is the environmental consultant to Shell Ghana Limited. Some
specific consultancy assignment performed Include the following:
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Year:
2002*
Assignment: Environmental Impact Assessment of Dualisation of AccraKumasi Road
Client:
Ghana Highway Authority
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Year:
2002*
Assignment: Environmental Impact Assessment of Apedwa-Anyinam Road.
Client:
Ghana Highway Authority
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Year:
2002
Assignment: Design of Wastewater Treatment plant for cocoa processing
Client:
Afro Tropic Cocoa Processing Company Limited.
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Year:
2002
Assignment: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment of Achimota Road
Transport Terminal.
Client:
Department of Urban Roads, Ghana
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Year:
Assignment:
Client:
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Year:
Assignment:
Client:
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Year:
Assignment:
Client:
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Year:
Client:
2002
Soil and Groundwater Contamination Assessment of Farrar
Avenue filling station
Shell (Ghana) Limited /Sahara Energy Resources
2003 *
Environmental Impact Assessment of Tetteh Quashie
Interchange and Tetteh Quashie Circle- Mamfe Road.
Ghana Highway Authority
2002 *
Environmental Monitoring of DFID Bridge projects in Western
and Central Regions
Department of Feeder Roads
2003
Assignment: Environmental Assessment of Kumasi Amakom
filling Station
Shell (Ghana) Limited
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* Assignment carried out in collaboration with A-Environmental and Development Management
Consultants
KEY PERSONNEL
Santa Consult has highly experienced professionals and graduates at various
levels. The following are our professional staffs:
CEO/Environmental Engineer
David Tsetse
BSc(Hons) MSc
Environmental Engineer
Harrison Kissy
BSc(Hons) MSc
Geologist
Kwabena A.N Mensah
BSc(Hons) MBA
Hydrogeologist
Bismark Norgbe
BSc(Hons) M.Phil
Geotechnical Engineer
Peter Damoah-Afari
BSc (Hons), MSc
Geologist
Stanley Y. Blankson
BSc(Hons) MBA
Water Resource Engineer
Felix Jerry Akpabey
BSc(Hons) Mphil
Sociologist
Mrs Rhodalene Amartey BA(Hons),MBA
Environmental Engineer
Frank Adjei-Banin
BSc(Hons)
Environmental Scientist
Albert Agudu
BSc(Hons
ABOUT US
Home:
Santa Consult consists of a dedicated group of professionals with a strong
background and capability in offering consultancy services primarily in the
Environmental Engineering and Environmental Management, Mineral
Exploration, Geological, Hydro geological and Geotechnical sectors.
Established in the year 2002 the consortium consists mostly of Africans with a
minimum five-year experience working with international companies under
various settings in Africa.
Vision and Mission
Our mission is “To be a leading firm committed to delivering high quality
professional advisory services on the environment and also meet the natural
resources information needs of our clients, at a reasonable price, and in a
manner that does not compromise sound professional and personal ethics.”
The exposure to various geological, environmental, socio-political settings and
issues coupled with western education, international experience and references
of our staff has put us in a position to provide advice in a practical and most
cost effective manner to our clients.
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Partners
We work closely with a network of high quality partners to ensure that our
clients have an extensive knowledge base at their disposal. Details of some of
these are given below.
GEOKON EDB A/S is a Danish software
development company specialising in environmental management
systems for environmental authorities. Geokon have developed a
contaminated land management system known as GeoEnviron. The
system, which is closely integrated with a GIS, allows local
authorities to organise information on potentially contaminated sites
and prioritise their investigation and remediation in a consistent and
transparent manner.
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http://www.geoenviron.co.uk/
Makoni Assosiaates:
Makoni Associates is an Environmental Management Consulting firm based
in Denmark.It specialities include but not limited to the following
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Soil and Groundwater Contamination Risk Assessment
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Environmental Due Diligence Audits
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Environmental Management Systems
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Environmental Impact Assessments
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Geographical Information Systems
Environmental Data Management Systems
http://www.makoni.com/
STM Environmental Ltd.
STM Environmental consists of an independent team of environmental
professionals offering consulting services to the public and private sectors in
the UK.
STM’s core service is the development and supply of custom software
solutions (GIS, site prioritisation and data management systems) for
contaminated land risk assessment and management (both soil and
groundwater) and wider strategic environmental analysis.
We are also able to offer consultancy services in the areas of
contaminated land risk assessment, environmental due diligence,
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environmental management systems (ISO 14001 & EMAS) and
environmental impact assessment.
http://www.stmenvironmental.co.uk/
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