Verdé Environmental Group
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About Verdé

22 years of turning
environmental complexity
into clear outcomes.

Verdé is an independent, employee-led Irish environmental group founded in 2002. From a single office in Wicklow, we've grown into a 40-strong multidisciplinary team delivering consultancy, remediation and renewable energy work the length and breadth of the island.

About us

Change is born out of responsibility.

We believe that change is born out of responsibility. We believe in taking responsibility for our past actions, being responsible in how we go about our business and doing things that are good for our environment and those living in it.

Verdé environmental causes
Verdé supporting Greystones Tidy Towns

Community

Verdé in the community

Our Verdé Community initiative aims to provide direct, hands-on assistance to our local communities. The Verdé Environmental Group has started this initiative as a thank you to our local communities for the support that we have received from them over the years.

Our values

Four principles that shape every commission.

We are responsive

01

We are responsive

We strive to deliver all our work on time. We are service-driven and we aim to exceed our clients’ expectations, always.

We are practical

02

We are practical

We focus on our clients’ requirements and using our expertise, we provide them with practical and cost-effective solutions.

We are accessible

03

We are accessible

Our reputation is built on affordable & quality services and the value that we offer our clients continues to win us work.

We care about safety

04

We care about safety

We believe that effective health and safety practices directly contribute to better performance.

Our story

A brief history of the Verdé Environmental Group

  1. Verdé begins, August 2002

    August 2002 · New company launch

    Verdé begins

    Verdé Remediation Services (formerly SpillGo) was set up to be a disruptor in the market, and focused on the provision of oil remediation services to the insurance industry.

  2. Verdé Environmental Consultants, January 2007

    January 2007 · New company launch

    Verdé Environmental Consultants

    Recognising the need for dedicated environmental consultancy to industry and building on our skills in oil remediation, Verdé Environmental Consultants was set up.

  3. Verdé Environmental Group, January 2007

    January 2007 · New company launch

    Verdé Environmental Group

    Verdé Environmental Group is formed as the umbrella company of Verdé Remediation Services and Verdé Environmental Consultants.

  4. Kevin Cleary joins, May 2011

    May 2011 · New appointment

    Kevin Cleary joins

    Kevin Cleary joins Verdé Environmental Consultants as Director, to drive the growth of the environmental consultancy business. Kevin joined from the then White Young Green, bringing years of experience at Director level.

  5. Air & noise monitoring, September 2011

    September 2011 · New service division

    Air & noise monitoring

    Air and noise monitoring and advisory services added to the consultancy suite.

  6. Cork office opened, September 2012

    September 2012 · New office opening

    Cork office opened

    As the client base grows, groundwater resource development services added to the environmental consultancy division.

  7. Groundwater resource, October 2012

    October 2012 · New service division

    Groundwater resource

    As the client base grows, groundwater resource development services added to the environmental consultancy division.

  8. Dr. Gary Canny joins, September 2013

    September 2013 · New appointment

    Dr. Gary Canny joins

    Dr. Gary Canny joins Verdé as Technical Manager.

  9. Oil spill response equipment, June 2015

    June 2015 · New product suite

    Oil spill response equipment

    The Elastec suite of oil spill response equipment, including oil skimmers, booms and other oil spill response equipment was added to the product portfolio.

  10. Project win Nigeria, December 2015

    December 2015 · New territory

    Project win Nigeria

    Verdé’s first major project secured in Nigeria, involving deepsea benthic survey and subsea scanning off the coast of Bayelsa state.

  11. New HQ location, January 2018

    January 2018 · New office

    New HQ location

    To support the ongoing growth of the Group, Verdé open its new office location in Kilcoole, Wicklow, with our HQ opened by the then Minister for Health (and now Taoiseach) Simon Harris.

  12. Verdé Clean Tech, October 2022

    October 2022 · New company launch

    Verdé Clean Tech

    Verdé open its new subsidiary, Verdé Clean Technology, which provides IOT-led energy, environment, solar PV and building management solutions.

Standards

Our Associations and Accreditations

We are proud to be part of industry-recognised associations and to hold our accreditations in Quality, Environmental and Health and Safety standards.

  • IICRC
  • Geoscience Ireland
  • IEMA
  • OFTEC
  • ISO 9001
  • ISO 14001
  • ISO 45001

Say hello

Meet us for a coffee

We're always interested in hearing from people.

Whether its about your new project, or an existing one, or to talk to us about your future career, or to get some advice, we're always happy to hear from you.

Give us a call, and we'll do our best to help.

Head office

Get in touch
Meet the Verdé team for a coffee
Verdé site assessment in Kilkenny

How we work

Founded in the field.

Verdé began with two hydrogeologists, a battered Land Rover and an obstinate belief that Irish industry deserved better environmental advice than a boilerplate template.

Two decades on, we still walk every site ourselves. What has changed is the tooling behind the wellies — LiDAR mapping, remote-sensed water quality, continuous air monitoring, an in-house data platform used across every commission.

We remain privately held, principal-led and answerable only to our clients and the land we work on.

Leadership

Principal-led. On every commission.

A senior principal is accountable for every project we take on — from the first site walk to the final regulator submission. No handoffs, no disappearing subject-matter experts.

Meet the team
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