Environmental Consulting
Our Environmental Consulting Department is your go-to address for everything green: from economics and regulation to environmental policy
Our Environmental Consulting Department is your go-to address for everything green: from economics and regulation to environmental policy
Our multidisciplinary team includes environmental engineers and advanced-degree holders in earth sciences, specializing in a diverse range of environmental issues. Driven by a genuine commitment to protecting the environment, they adopt a holistic approach to addressing all environmental needs of our clients in both the private and public sectors
In a time when climate issues headline and become central to encouraging sustainable development in society and the state, environmental economics plays a critical role in balancing economic growth with environmental protection. DHVmed’s environmental economics team specializes in deeply analyzing global environmental policies, providing expert guidance that integrates economic considerations with environmental regulation, including air quality, hazardous and inert waste, wastewater treatment, contaminated soils, and hazardous materials.
Environmental Cost-Benefit Analyses
Economic cost-benefit analyses help you estimate and translate environmental costs and benefits into economic terms, enabling quantitative and qualitative alternative evaluations, risk analyses, and uncertainty mapping. Our consultants specialize in assessing and quantifying external costs and benefits in areas such as air pollution and greenhouse gases (GHG), noise, ecosystem services, and more. These analyses support policy decision-making and alternative evaluations at national, local authority, or facility levels.
Economic Feasibility Studies
Do you have an idea for an environmental initiative or are planning a new environmental project? Our economic feasibility assessments ensure you have all necessary information, from economic viability (including comparison with alternatives) to required investments.
Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA)
Environmental protection is increasingly significant in daily life and legislation. Understanding that the climate crisis poses a global threat leads regulators to update Israeli environmental regulations regularly. Our team evaluates new regulations, their implementation, economic impacts, and necessary adjustments.
Environmental regulation requires deep and thorough knowledge, particularly regarding industrial facilities, local authorities, and the private sector. Our team specializes in regulatory compliance, preparing environmental surveys, policy studies, regulatory documents, and environmental appendices. We assist entrepreneurs and private businesses through approval processes with the Ministry of Environmental Protection, helping them understand and comply with applicable regulations—from regulatory mapping and investment analysis to scenario evaluations and project timeline management.
As consultants to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, we manage permit and license evaluations for Israel’s largest facilities, including power stations, refineries, petrochemical industries, mineral industries, and natural gas platforms. Additionally, we advise on environmental policy and regulations according to European guidelines (IPPC, IED, SEVESO), including Pollutant Release and Transfer Reporting (PRTR).
Our extensive experience includes:
Our strength lies in formulating regulatory policies for waste and hazardous materials, creating policy papers and protocols aligned with international standards, developing local solutions, strategic management, and action plans for hazardous waste according to environmental, technological, and economic requirements.
Our team excels at implementing waste regulation, supporting local authorities in adopting municipal and regional waste management principles. Our consulting services include guidance on establishing waste treatment facilities, strategic consulting, tenders, waste site removal plans, and economic and engineering feasibility assessments.
National infrastructure is crucial for economic resilience and quality of life. Combining these with green commitments provides our winning formula: comprehensive environmental infrastructure support. DHVmed is trusted by plants, waste facilities, energy production, road infrastructure, and rail projects, offering environmental documentation, due diligence, regulatory compliance assistance, practical solutions, environmental procedures, and staff training.
Proper hazardous materials and waste handling requires extensive regulatory knowledge. DHVmed advises government ministries on adopting European regulations, performs risk assessments, calculates risk distances, and creates regulatory guidelines, waste classification, and tailored solutions.
Our environmental consulting team specializes in marine environmental policy, serving regulatory authorities in Israel and the Mediterranean region. We provide ongoing support for marine engineering projects nationwide, from water quality rehabilitation in Eilat to hotel-area development in Netanya. Our work includes guidance on marine engineering and environmental considerations during planning, alternative assessments, and interactions with planning authorities. We also assist in formulating policies for the Ministry of Environmental Protection regarding marine discharge permits from terrestrial sources.
Our expertise extends beyond Israel’s borders, advising the UN’s Barcelona Convention Secretariat on pollution reduction in the Mediterranean Sea basin. DHVmed assists in preparing methodology and policy documents for the convention’s secretariat, including updated emission inventories (NBB), updating national plans to reduce terrestrial marine emissions, and monitoring plan implementation.
DHVmed offers a team of experts in air quality, meteorology, climatology, and climate change. Our professionals have extensive experience managing air pollution, odor issues, and greenhouse gases in industry, transportation, agriculture, waste management, and regulation. We develop environmental policies for industrial emissions, oversee facility compliance under the Clean Air Act, analyze emissions monitoring data, and manage Pollutant Release and Transfer Reporting (PRTR).
Odor nuisances negatively impact daily life and health and are legally regulated. DHVmed conducts precise odor surveys, identifying pollutant hotspots. Surveys locate significant emission sources and geographically map pollutant dispersion using advanced meteorological analyses and atmospheric dispersion models approved by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
Our team provides comprehensive air quality solutions under one roof, including leading air quality and climate change projects for the Ministry of Environmental Protection, consulting for Israel Railways and Israel National Road Company, analyzing emissions for local authorities, and supporting local air quality improvement plans. We identify and quantify air pollutant emissions from transportation, agriculture, waste, and household sectors.
We specialize in fieldwork and modeling air pollution impacts using advanced tools like AERMOD, CALPUFF, CALROAD, SCREEN, and HYPACT. Our experts analyze emission sources, odor, greenhouse gases, and environmental impacts through the innovative Safe Air system, offering real-time air quality data. DHVmed also formulates environmental policies and prepares permits and licenses for major Israeli facilities, including power stations, petrochemical, mineral industries, and natural gas extraction platforms.
Climate change impacts range from individual to national levels. Our team quantifies greenhouse gas emissions across sectors, performing Life Cycle Analyses (LCA) and assessing emission reduction scenarios to achieve emission balance.
Our air quality and environmental economics experts evaluate air pollution’s health impacts and economic costs, providing critical insights for policy decision-makers at local and national levels.
We assist local authorities, municipal clusters, and industries in developing greenhouse gas reduction and climate adaptation strategies, identifying energy efficiency opportunities, assessing climate risks, and preparing adaptive responses.
Awareness of contaminated soils and their health and water resource impacts has grown significantly. DHVmed provides environmental consulting on soil and groundwater contamination, guiding government and private-sector projects from initial investigations, historical surveys (Phase I), and soil surveys (Phase II), to remediation plan preparation and oversight. We also advise government ministries on adopting international policies and regulations for contaminated soils and water protection.
We ensure water quality compliance with public health drinking water regulations. Since 2013, DHVmed has conducted required sanitary engineering surveys for drinking water suppliers, municipalities, and private companies. We perform investigative surveys following incidents and periodic preventive surveys, including hazard mapping using advanced GIS, contaminant analysis, water quality assessments, hydrogeological reviews, statutory plan reviews, compliance assessments, and actionable recommendations.
Properly managing industrial wastewater discharge is essential for protecting public health and the environment. Our integrated regulatory team provides advanced technological solutions compliant with international regulations, including IPPC, IED, SEVESO, and Germany’s WWO. We guide major Israeli industries in comprehensive environmental regulation covering wastewater, waste, contaminated soil, surface runoff, and hazardous materials.
The team was instrumental in shaping Israel’s Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) law, designing reporting systems and sector-specific guidelines, and continues to support the Ministry of Environmental Protection in monitoring PRTR compliance.
When assessing hydrogeological impacts of runoff infiltration on aquifer water quality in quarries or sites, a pollution survey is required. Surveys identify potential surface runoff pollution sources and contaminant types upstream in drainage basins. They involve mapping software, aerial and map analyses, site visits, and monitoring report assessments, categorizing sources into point and non-point pollution
