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Environmental Science Institute

The Environmental Science Institute (ESI) provides technological services to national and regional stakeholders to enhance the environmental performance of industrial products and services. ESI has established partnerships with industry and other stakeholders through collaborative research, development of new products, consultancy and training in the environmental field. It also hosts the National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC) of Zimbabwe.

ESI Goal

To provide environmental research, consultancy, advisory services and training for improved and sustainable environmental management and resource utilization by providing tools and solutions for informed decision-making.

  • To develop and apply technologies, processes and/or products for sustainably solving environmental challenges.
  • To research on and contribute to sustainable natural resource management, protection of natural resources and the environment.
  • To provide technical assistance in environmental management and cleaner production services and conduct environmental and social impact assessments for development projects.
  • To provide technical consultancy and advisory services in environmental education, management and climate change.
  • To participate in national, regional and international collaborative research activities.
  • Industrial Hygiene Assessment
  • Air Pollution/Emissions Monitoring and Management
  • Effluent Monitoring and Management
  • Solid Waste Management
  • Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA)
  • Baseline Surveys: Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) Implementation and Audits
  • Environmental Policy Formulation
  • Development, Promotion and Transfer of Environmental Policy Sound Technologies
    (EST)
  •  Land Reclamation and Bio-remediation

ESI also provides tailor-made services that are related to the environment.

Natural Resources Management Division:

  • Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA)

  • Natural Resources Management (soil, water, minerals, forests and biota)

  • Habitat Restoration

  • Ecological Research

 

Industrial Environmental Management/Cleaner Production (IEM/CP):

  • Industrial Ecology
  • Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
  • Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) and Sustainable Consumption
  • Emissions Monitoring and Management (dust, particulates, gases, fumes)
  • Effluent Analysis and Management
  • Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)

 

Environmental Technology Division:

  • Water Treatment
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Resource Recovery, Reuse and Recycling
  • Wetlands Restoration and Bio-remediation

 

Waste Management Division:

  • Solid Waste Management
  • Hazardous Waste Management
  • Integrated Waste Management

 

Environmental Training/Capacity Building & Education Division:

  • Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) Technologies (CPT)
  • Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA)
  • Environmental Law/Legislation
  • ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
  • Waste Management
  • Curricula Development
  • State of the Environment Reporting
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Contaminated Land Remediation
  • Air Quality Monitoring Management
  • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

These training programmes can be customised for organisations, corporate governance, institutions and groups.

 

Analytical Services Division:

  • Water Quality Assessments
  • Wastewater Analysis
  • Contaminated Soils Analysis
  • Air Quality Analysis
  • Improving environmental performance of products and services
  • Developing and commercializing alternative ways of treating water and wastewater. Work includes research on UV drinking water disinfection, electro-coagulation of water and wastewater treatment technologies, use of water ionizers, membrane filtration and ozone based water disinfection.
  • Developing products from wastes. Work includes research into organic fertilizer production from industrial and animal waste materials such as tobacco chips and guano, biogas production and integrated industrial/urban solid waste management.
  • Climate change phenomenon and its impact on natural resources. Innovative integrated rehabilitative environmental management. Work includes remediation of contaminated land, soil and water bodies, and monitoring for fugitive heavy metals.
  • Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) and sustainable consumption.

  • Water optimisation in beverage and sugar industries to attain global standards.

  • Water treatment, sanitation and hygiene.

  • Wastewater treatment facilities design and construction.

  • Contaminated water and soil remediation.

  • Industrial hygiene (Occupational Health and Safety).

  • Field air quality assessments (flue gases and dust).

  • Modelling flue gases and dust emissions from industry.

  • Implementation of climate change mitigation and adaptation.

  • Establishment of wet, soil and air testing laboratories.

CLIENT, PROJECT & DESCRIPTION

  • UDCORP

Proposed Knockmallock Housing Project in Chegutu, Mashonaland West Province

  • Industrial Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ)

Proposed Lupane Students Accommodation Complex RIOGOLD Dalny Mine Open Pit Cast Mining Expansion and Heap Leaching Plant Installation in Chakari, Mashonaland West Province

  • World Vision

Environmental Impact Management Plan for Upgrading Existing Water Supply Project Gac-Wvi-Trace Project in Tongogara Refugee Camp in Chipinge District

  • Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond 
    Company (ZCDC)

Diamond Exploration in Chihota Communal Lands, Marondera District, Mashonaland East Province

  • Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond
    Company (ZCDC)

Diamond Exploration in Portal E, Chimanimani, Manicaland Province

  • Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond
    Company (ZCDC)

Exploration, Mining and Processing of Diamond in Portal D, Marange

  • Africure Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in Mt. Hampden, Zvimba District, Mashonaland West Province

  • Manicaland Bioenergy (Pvt) Ltd

Combined Heat and Power Bioenergy Plant in Nyanga, Manicaland Province

  • Invictus Energy – Geo Associates
    Pvt. Ltd

Oil and Gas Exploration in Mbire and Muzarabani Districts, Mashonaland Central

  • Care International

Zimbabwe Baseline Survey for ANCP Chivi WASH project

  • Radiation Protection Authority of
    Zimbabwe (RPAZ)

Construction of a National Disused Radiative Sources Repository in Hatcliffe, Harare

  • Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond
    Company (ZCDC)

Diamond Exploration in Mutambara, Chimanimani District, Manicaland Province

  • Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond
    Company (ZCDC)

Diamond Exploration of Approved part of Portal Q Chiadzwa, Mutare District, Manicaland Province

  • Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond
    Company (ZCDC)

ESIA and Biodiversity Study for Diamond Exploration in Chimanimani

  • RioZim

ESIA and Biodiversity Study for Gold Exploration, Mining and Processing- CAM Motor Mine, Kadoma

  • RioZim

ESIA and Biodiversity study for Gold Mining and Processing- Dalny Mine, Chakari

  • Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond
    Company (ZCDC)

ESIA and Biodiversity study for Diamond mining and Processing in Marange

  • Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond
    Company (ZCDC)

ESIA and Biodiversity study for Diamond Exploration in Penhalonga

  • Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond
    Company (ZCDC)

ESIA and Biodiversity study or Diamond Mining and
Processing in Marange

  • LAFARGE HOLCIM

ESIA and Biodiversity study for Limestone Exploration in Mudzi Rural District

  • Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission
    and Distribution Company - ZETDC

Plant Drain System and Containment Effluent Treatment Study Management Plan

  • LAFARGE HOLCIM

ESIA and Biodiversity study for Limestone Exploration in Goromonzi Rural District

  • Sunway City (Pvt) Ltd

ESIA and Biodiversity study for Widening of Chizhanje Road, Mabvuku turn off in Harare

  • Sunway City (Pvt) Ltd

Wetland and Biodiversity study for Ventersburg Estate

  • Lambourne Limestone (Pvt) Ltd

ESIA and Biodiversity study for Limestone mining in Chegutu

  • Water Treatment and Chemicals(Pvt)
    Ltd

ESIA and Biodiversity study for construction water treatment chemicals laboratory in Mt. Hampden

  • OXFAM

Rural Sustainable Energy Development in Zimbabwe

  • AMCAST (Pvt) Ltd

ESIA and Biodiversity study for gold processing plant in Mazowe

  • Sunway City (Pvt) Ltd

ESIA and Biodiversity study for servicing of residential stands in Ventersburg Estates in Ruwa – Greater Harare

  • Hwedza Rural District Council

ESIA and Biodiversity study for the proposed construction of Hwedza Primary School

  • Marange Resources (Pvt) Ltd

ESIA and biodiversity study for the Marange Resources Diamond Processing Plant

  • Marange Resources (Pvt) Ltd

ESIA and Biodiversity study for the Marange Resources mining concession in Marange - Mutare

  • Plan International (NGO)

ESIA and Biodiversity study for the construction and rehabilitation of waiting mothers homes and boreholes in Manicaland

  • Practical Action (NGO)

ESIA and Biodiversity study for the Mini-Hydro project in Nyamwanga district, Honde Valley, Manicaland

  • Practical Action (NGO)

ESIA and Biodiversity study for the Mini-Hydro project in Hlabiso district in Chimanimani, Manicaland

  • Cluff Africa Resources/Makrock

ESIA and Biodiversity study for Exploration of Coal and Coal Bed Methane , in Hwange

  • Turnall Fibre Cement.

Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production

  • Crystal Candy

Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production

  • Tanzania Tobacco Company

Environmental and Occupational Health Monitoring project

  • Zambezi Gas Pvt Ltd

ESIA for exploration of coalbed methane on a 19,700 hectare Special Grant in Hwange

  • Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA)

ESIA and Biodiversity study for the Proposed Wenimbi- Marondera Water Pipeline Project

  • Smallholder Micro-irrigation
    Development Support Programme
    (European Union)

Customised EIA Training Course for Irrigation Projects

  • Lafarge Cement Company

Fallout dust emission monitoring Seed Co (Pvt Ltd Zimbabwe Dust, noise and light assessment

  • Mozambique Leaf Tobacco (Tete)

Dust, gas emissions and wastewater assessment

  • Wattle Company, Zimbabwe

EIA for a proposed mini-hydropower station in Nyanga

  • Health & hygiene, Zimbabwe

EIA for a proposed cotton bleaching plant in Rusape

  • Sasfuel Chem. Pvt Ltd

EIA for a proposed diesel depot in Karoi

  • Lafarge Cement Company

Biodiversity Survey

  • Delta Beverages Southerton Lagers Plant

Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Project

  • Macdonald Bricks, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Dust and gas emissions assessments monitoring Montgomerry Brick Making Plant

  • World Vision Zimbabwe

An Evaluation of the ECHO Funded Water and Sanitation projects carried out in 10 districts

  • Unibusiness (Pvt) Ltd

ESIA for a proposed bonded diesel warehouse in Beitbridge

  • Wenimbi pipeline

ESIA in Marondera.

  • Zambezi Gas Pvt Ltd

ESIA for a proposed coal mine on a 19 700 ha special grant in Hwange

  • Causeway Dam

Environmental Impact Assessment.

  • ESA-EU project

The joint ESA-EU initiative Global Monitoring of Environment and Security (GMES) specialises in monitoring the environment for sustainable development and security

  • Technologies in Leather Industries

Assessing the Uptake of Cleaner Production

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