Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Study for Expansion of Warehouse Facility

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Study for Expansion of Warehouse Facility

 

PROJECT INFO

Project start: 2017

Project Completion: 2017

CLIENT INFO

Client: GULF WAREHOUSING COMPANY

SERVICES PROVIDED

Environmental  

PROJECT DETAILS

Gulf Warehousing Company (GWC), a Qatari Shareholding Company registered in the year 2004 with the vision to provide a planned and professional logistic services addressing material handling and storage for the various industries in Qatar. The management intend to expand its warehouse facilities to support the logistic needs of various expanding and new industrial operations and development and also to cater the increasing inventory demands of GWC operations. 

The existing facility includes warehouse, open storage yard. In addition to this, GWC proposed to include a canteen building in the existing plot and proposed facility would include an open laydown storage area for storage of goods that are non- flammable type. 

GWC management has retained the services of Qatar Design Consortium (QDC) to carry out the baseline environmental study and prepare an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study report.  

In order to relate the existing environment with the proposed project activity, it was imperative to carry out detail evaluation of the baseline environmental characteristics including: Ambient air Quality, Noise Level, Soil Quality, Groundwater quality, and Odour.  Applicable regulatory requirements were reviewed and compiled before commencing a structured and detailed baseline studies and a refined modelling analysis has been conducted using AERMOD.