FAQ

Thanks to the synergy between our different lines of business, our teams can provide you with expert consulting solutions and project management for environment, energy, soil and materials, and hygiene, health and safety services.

This blog post does a great job of summarizing why we’re the ideal partner if you have a project that requires environmental solution experts!

Nvira has several areas of expertise, which fall into four main lines of business.

Our Environment experts specialize in:

• Environmental assessment, characterization and rehabilitation
• Characterization of natural environments
• Landscape architecture

Our Energy sector experts work to design, build, renovate and maintain energy production, distribution and sales sites.

Our Soil and materials teams are experts in:

• Geotechnical engineering
• Materials engineering

Finally, our Hygiene, health and safety experts can help you with any kind of project, whether it’s related to industrial hygiene or air quality, and can advise you on creating a safe and healthy work environment.

With so many complementary areas of expertise, our teams of experts can advise you throughout your project’s lifespan, no matter what your needs are.

It’s so easy! Follow this link to discover one of the many ways you can get in touch with our experts.

Send us an email or instant message, or give us a call. We’re here to answer any questions you may have.

Email

• General information: info@nvira.com
• Administration and finances: payables@nvira.com and recevables@nvira.com
• Environment: environnement@nvira.com
• Energy: energie@nvira.com
• Soil and materials: sols@nvira.com
• Hygiene, health and safety: hygiene@nvira.com

Phone

Toll-free number: 1-877-809-5478

We have an instant messaging tool that can be found in the bottom-right corner of any page on our website

Sometimes, soil contamination is so extensive that a site cannot be decontaminated with excavation.

In these cases, an in situ treatment is necessary, which involves decontaminating soil and groundwater without first excavating the material to be treated.

Our Environment teams can support you with all your in situ decontamination needs.

Our landscape architecture team manages projects intended to beautify outdoor spaces, so it was completely natural to us that this expertise would be part of our environmental offering.

Our landscape architecture experts pay special attention to each component of a project so that they can meet the needs of all of the environments concerned.

At Nvira, landscape architecture is first and foremost about supporting our clients throughout the process in order to provide results that exceed expectations. We can help you every step of the way with your landscape architecture projects.

At Nvira, our watchword for environmental disasters is responsiveness.

By being highly responsive and working with environmental solution experts, we are able to mitigate costs and the effects on the environment.

With our 24/7 emergency service, responsive measures and collaborative mindset, we are able to quickly implement proper protocols so that necessary contamination efforts can get underway.

When you work with environmental solution experts to upgrade your service station, you get peace of mind!
Our experts are trained and certified to help service stations make necessary upgrades to ensure your facilities respect the energy and environmental regulations in force. Plus, all of our lines of business work together in close collaboration, and our energy teams often call upon their environment counterparts for service station upgrades.

Our experts can handle all of the preventive maintenance necessary for your oil and gas equipment.

This kind of maintenance helps limit potential emergencies that could significantly impact the environment. While performing preventive maintenance, our experts can detect any problems that might arise, preventing future environmental accidents.

Preventive maintenance also helps extend the longevity of your facilities.

At our ISO 9001:2016-certified analysis laboratory, we offer hundreds of tests to analyze and evaluate the quality of materials. Here are just some of the tests available to our clients:

• Sampling of aggregate sources
• Grading
• Petrographic analysis of aggregates
• Compressive concrete strength
• Compressive concrete strength test
• IPPG (pyrite swelling potential index) analysis
• Different analyses of clay materials
• Proctor tests
• Inherent characteristics of aggregates (Micro Deval and Los Angeles tests)
• Soil permeability

We also conduct a wide range of materials classification tests in accordance with CSA, ASTM, BNQ and LC standards.

It’s very important to ensure that the soil on your build site is suitable for your project. Our teams can advise you on the types and quantities of materials to use. We can perform the following soil analyses for your project:

• Soil bearing capacity
• Clay shear strength
• Water level on site
• Frost line
• Seismic site class
• Reuse of excavation materials
• Rock swelling potential
• Pavement structure to be implemented

Visual inspections have their limits, and a thorough air quality and industrial hygiene test can verify whether the indoor environment complies with the standards and requirements that apply to workplaces. Being proactive can help you prevent problems that impact the building or its occupants.

In addition, though the use of asbestos has declined significantly in Canada in the last few decades, it is still present in many office buildings. Materials that contain asbestos may pose a danger in the workplace, as anyone who inhales the fibres is at risk of developing serious health conditions. Our professionals can detect asbestos and guide you through the asbestos removal process.

Two provincial regulations apply when service stations cease operations. The first of these governs the removal of petroleum equipment licensed by the Régie du bâtiment du Québec (RBQ). The second regulation, part of the Environment Quality Act, stipulates that a site characterization study must be submitted to the Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques (MELCC) within six months of the closure. Our experts can walk you through all the legal requirements that apply under these regulations.

It is important to test soil quality before you buy land to make sure that it is not contaminated and that it is suitable for the construction work you plan to do. The combined expertise of our business lines allows us to coordinate the studies required by financial institutions for loan securitization. Our accredited experts are also able to offer a second opinion on studies conducted by third parties.