About FSA Consulting
FSA Consulting is a
professional consultancy providing agricultural, environmental
and engineering services to intensive livestock industries,
broadacre farmers, abattoirs and industry.
Our vision is to provide
ethical, independent, high quality, innovative and
practical solutions that enable our clients to improve
their profitability through more efficient and sustainable
use of natural resources. Our mission is
to consistently provide all clients with high quality
outputs representing value for money, in a timely
manner and through the development of practical and
innovative solutions.
The FSA Consulting multi-disciplinary team includes
highly qualified agricultural and environmental engineers
and agricultural and environmental scientists with
diverse experience. Staff members hold
the following accreditations:
- Registered Professional Engineer
- Certified Practicing Engineer
- Certified Practicing Agriculturist
- Certified Professional Soil Scientist
Staff members belong to the following professional
organisations:
- Institution of Engineers
- American Society of Agricultural Engineers
- Society for Engineering in Agriculture
- Australian Institute for Agriculture and Technology
- Australian Soil Science Society Inc
FSA Consulting is a partner in the National
Centre for Engineering in Agriculture, a corporate
member of the Australian Water Association and
an associate-member of the Australian
Lot Feeders’ Association
Our main work areas include:
Our technical competencies include:
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental management planning
- Environmental monitoring
- Preparation of development applications for
intensive livestock facilities
- Designing effluent treatment facilities
- Sizing reuse areas for sustainable reuse of
water and nutrients
- Odour research, modelling, assessment of off-site
odour impacts and odour reduction strategies.
- Development of Environmental Codes of Practice
and Guidelines
- Design of intensive livestock housing, feedlots
and livestock equipment
- Irrigation engineering including ring tank design
- Soil mapping and land resource mapping, including
salinity assessments
- Land and Water Management Plans
- Vegetation Management Plans
- Composting organic by-products
- Earthworks design and calculations for agricultural,
mining and civil projects
- Agricultural and environmental research and
development
- Agricultural and environmental training
Comprehensive team experience and sophisticated
computer software are used to support these competencies.
Intensive
Livestock Services
FSA Consulting is Australia’s predominant
environmental consultancy for intensive livestock
industries. Our success in this area is based on
our wide-ranging experience in environmental assessment
and management. This includes the world-leading environmental
research into odour measurement, nutrient estimation
and effluent and manure reuse undertaken by our staff.
However, we also have extensive practical experience,
having prepared development applications or supporting
environmental evaluations for some 450,000 standard
cattle units of feedlot capacity and one million
standard pig units of piggery capacity.
We deliver a professional, independent service using
the latest computer technology, up-to-date resources
and diverse experience.
The services we provide in this area include:
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental management planning
- Environmental monitoring
- Preparation of development applications for
intensive livestock facilities
- Design of effluent treatment facilities
- Design of intensive livestock housing, feedlots
and livestock equipment
- Development of environmental codes of practice
and guidelines
- Sizing reuse areas for sustainable reuse of
water and nutrients
- Odour research, modelling, assessment of off-site
odour impacts and odour reduction strategies.
- Design of intensive livestock housing, feedlots
and livestock equipment
- Feedlot construction and operating cost estimates
for cattle feedlots
- Quality assurance manuals for feedlots, including
EU requirements
- Advice on composting organic by-products
- Environmental Research and development
- Industry and regulator environmental training
Environmental
and Natural Resource Management Services
FSA Consulting has considerable expertise in providing
environmental and natural resource management services.
Our success in this area is based on our extensive
experience in environmental assessment and management.
We have undertaken consultancies for industries as
diverse as intensive livestock, aquaculture, broad
acre farmers, meat processors, timber mills, mushroom
compost producers and sewage treatment plants!
We deliver a professional, independent service using
the latest computer technology, up-to-date resources
and comprehensive experience.
The services we provide in this area include:
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental management planning
- Environmental monitoring
- Development of environmental codes of practice
and guidelines
- Odour modelling, assessment of off-site odour
impacts and odour reduction strategies.
- Soil mapping and land resource mapping, including
salinity assessments
- Land and Water Management Plans
- Vegetation Management Plans
- Advice on composting organic by-products
- Environmental research and development
- Environmental training for industry and regulators.
Water Supply and Irrigation
Design Services
- Irrigation engineering including ring tank design
- Soil mapping and land resource mapping, including
salinity assessments
- Land and Water Management Plans
- Vegetation Management Plans
- Sizing reuse areas for sustainable reuse of
water and nutrients
- Earthworks design and calculations for agricultural,
mining and civil projects
- Land and water management training.
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