Environmental construction supervision for battery storage and grid projects
Environmental construction supervision for battery storage and grid projects: ecological support through all construction phases and clean documentation.
Battery storage and a stable grid infrastructure are central to renewable energy. Building them requires ecological responsibility. With our ecological construction supervision, your project runs according to plan both technically and in terms of nature conservation. We support all construction phases with professional expertise and ensure compliance with environmental conditions.
Storage and grid projects are often compact, but they affect the surroundings through access roads, cable routes and connection lines. Under nature conservation law, depending on the federal province, relevant matters include buildings on grassland, larger excavations and fill, the clearing of trees and shrubs, the sealing of natural soil and interventions on the banks of watercourses. Whether a nature conservation permit or notification is required for cable lines depends on the federal province, the route and the protected areas affected, particularly in sensitive habitats such as bogs, wet meadows and dry and semi-dry grassland. Special protection provisions apply in nature reserves; whether an intervention is permissible depends on the respective provincial regulation and any exemption permit, and in European protected areas it has to be examined whether the protection purpose is impaired. The nature conservation authority mainly assesses the landscape, the natural balance, the communities of plant, fungus and animal species and the recreational value of the landscape.
Ecological construction supervision begins before construction starts with a review of the permit decision and documents, a specification of duties based on the construction programme, and the briefing of site management, foremen and excavator operators. The responsible supervisor is named to the authority in good time. During execution, regular site visits with minutes follow, and at the end an acceptance record and a final report that demonstrates fulfilment of the ecological requirements. Instructions usually go through the client, because the supervision has no direct authority to instruct the contracting firms; in case of imminent danger, the supervision initiates the immediate measures provided for in the permit decision and the contract and informs site management and the client without delay. In permit decisions for battery storage, protection measures for the European hamster and the steppe mouse, amphibian escape aids and the control of neophytes are required, for example. After construction ends, an effectiveness check can follow, which also provides indications for operation. Professionally independent supervision without conflicts of interest, ecological specifications in the tender documents and notes for the operating manual round off the picture; success monitoring of the measures implemented is also part of it. Before the construction area is cleared, where European hamsters or European ground squirrels occur, it is checked whether burrows are active; the procedure is to be defined species-specifically and must comply with the permit decision and professionally recognised methods. Reports contain the location and designation of the project, construction progress with clear documentation, special incidents, planned work and a statement of whether the requirements were met, including reasons for deviations.
We protect sensitive species and habitats, coordinate measures with the authorities and document all environmentally relevant steps. Our biology team covers birds, bats, amphibians, reptiles, insects and botany and coordinates early with the construction department. The basis is provided by the detailed nature conservation surveys and the nature conservation specialist report. On site we work together with local building supervision for storage projects. The results feed into the final inspection documentation (Kollaudierungsoperat).
