We recently took the opportunity to celebrate the first chance that we have had in a long time of having all of our teams face-to-face in one location. 🕺 We spent a little time together undertaking some ‘interesting’ challenges set and supervised by RSK’s Anna Clewlow. 👑 Excessive competitiveness, quality demonstrations of leadership and motivation […]

We were delighted to hear that we had won the ‘Innovation of the Year 2022’ award at the UK & Ireland Spill Association awards dinner on 10th November 2022!   ‘Innovation is what drives the industry forward, especially during times of economic restraint – this award is for a product or a service that has […]

RSK Raw is delighted to have welcomed two new starters to our teams in the last month! Phil recently joined us in Wales. His extensive geotechnical and geoenvironmental experience strengthens our comprehensive  consultancy service offering in the region and nationwide. We also welcome Izzy, who has recently joined our Malvern team, providing environmental technician support […]

RSK Raw extends a warm welcome to recent new starters in our teams across the UK…   Alex has joined our Midlands team, bringing extensive geo-environmental and geotechnical experience and supporting the provision of our complex site investigation and remediation schemes across the UK. Callum recently joined our Glasgow team, bolstering our environmental sampling and […]

Season’s Greetings from us all at RSK Raw! We take this opportunity to thank our colleagues, our supply chain, and our clients and customers for their support and hard work during this challenging year. We wish you all a peaceful, safe and happy Christmas and a wonderful new year! Whilst our offices will be closed […]

One of our teams really demonstrated our caring ethos last week when undertaking works to remove contaminated soil on an operational, residential care home site. The team were determined to ensure the residents, and those that so diligently care for them, were not adversely affected by the necessary works to remove contamination from a courtyard […]

The third in the ILC Home and Commercial Environmental and Agricultural Claims webinar series goes live on 3rd June at 11am. This webinar focuses on agricultural claims, including: Types of environmental claims encountered in the sector How has diversification affected claims? Receptors, stakeholders and regulators in the agricultural claims process Challenges in managing claims in […]

Ruaraidh McKinnon, Business Manager at RSK Raw, has been appointed to the board of the UK Spill Association following its annual members meeting. The UK Spill Association represents companies, organisations and individuals working in the UK oil spill industry. Ruaraidh McKinnon In his new position, Ruaraidh will be the board representative for Inland Spill and […]

Sometimes, regularly working in an industry known for challenging scenarios can really pay off! Our teams report the continued use of temporary work area partitions, to further socially distance field personnel from clients and other workers, is proving a huge success, effectively providing additional protection for vulnerable homeowners. Of course, now our working lives have dramatically […]

Recently, A homeowner showed some impressive initiative after noticing kerosene on the ground around the boiler. By contacting the International Spill Accreditation Scheme and getting hold of RSK Raw’s number, our local team in Cambridge were able to get out to the property that very day, letting insurance take over after that. And the homeowner’s quick thinking really […]

A leaking external boiler, adjacent to the house, caused a homeowner a little agitation recently. Luckily, our Malvern team promptly carried out a walkover survey and were able to mitigate risks to the house structure, internal air and groundwater abstraction borehole with the speedy removal of contaminated materials. It just goes to show that when an unexpected problem […]

Recently, South East Water needed our assistance with a fly-tipping incident close to their drinking water abstraction site. Sadly, conditions proved to be rather damp for the Camberley team who were managing and mitigating risk on-site.  Even after a rather late night and 3 consecutive days in the muck, it’s great to see nothing could muddy their cheery approach […]

Recently, our Exeter team have been busy building bridges – and that’s not only in the metaphorical sense!   They were faced with the challenging task of completing remediation works at a property where ongoing building works made the main entrance unusable. Not only that, a stream at the back of the property was blocking their […]

Storm Ciara has caused mayhem up and down the country and such severe weather can often cause damage to heating systems. There are precautions which can be taken, so don’t leave it until it is too late!   Oilcare.org.uk, a joint initiative between the UK environmental regulators, trade and professional bodies and industry, offer some useful tips.   […]

Once again, one of our teams donated muscle power and transport to St Mary’s Hospice’s annual tree-cycling initiative in Birmingham and it was great to have our colleagues from RSK Asbestos equally committed to hauling Norway Spruce!  Thanks to all the people who made a donation and signed up, the scheme will be collecting over 4,500 trees […]

Recently, Fiona Townley, from our Malvern office, ably represented RSK Raw at Burlington house in London for the Society of Brownfield Risk Assessment (SoBRA)’s joint conference with the Royal Society of Chemistry Toxicology Group.   The topic for this year’s annual Christmas event was ‘Current Issues in Contaminated Land Risk Assessment’, resulting in a fascinating day […]

A recent RSK Raw project that certainly deserves highlighting involved a collaboration between RSK Raw and our fellow RSK associate, Structural Soils.  Investigating the extent of kerosene contamination to groundwater in an underlying chalk aquifer gave RSK Raw’s Camberley team their 2nd opportunity to work with the team from Structural Soils, whose work with a multifunction rig, […]

It has now been a month since RSK Raw joined the RSK family, gaining the support of 66 businesses and more than 3,100 colleagues. RSK Raw, led by managing director Neil Stothert, joined RSK’s contracting division. Neil updated us on what has been going on since the acquisition and RSK Raw’s plans for the future. […]

Recently more RAW scientists from across the UK attended an aviation spill response training course, providing them with enhanced awareness of the unusual hazards that we may encounter following an aviation accident, and enabling them to respond and provide environmental advice in the aftermath of an incident. The training also equips our team to undertake risk assessments […]

Last weekend, in what has become an annual tradition, staff from RAW’s Malvern office took part in Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice’s ‘Treecycling’ fundraising campaign for the fifth time. The scheme relies on generous volunteers, this year including Simon, Kim, John and Henrik from RAW, giving up their time in early January to collect redundant Christmas trees from […]

Things are coming together nicely at our shiny new Manchester premises, giving the team better storage for plant, tools and equipment and a much-improved working space for our scientists and consultants. We are all moved in now (bar some finishing touches!) but, if you want to get in touch, don’t worry as our contact details have […]

This week marks a successful first year for both our Salisbury and Bodmin offices, celebrated in Salisbury yesterday with a birthday cake! The project teams in these two offices have responded to nearly forty spills this year, and Salisbury are currently recruiting four new team members to ensure they can continue to provide the same […]

Last Friday, RAW accepted the ‘On Your Feet Britain’ challenge, a national day encouraging people to stand more and sit less in an effort to promote good health and wellbeing. Unhindered by the weather, RAW’s Malvern team successfully took on the task of climbing the 1,394ft of the Worcestershire Beacon at lunchtime, substituting repeated trips up […]

This year, the leading European oil spill conference and exhibition, Interspill, will be held at ExCel in London over 13th to 15th March. Oil spill industry professionals, regulators, and those with academic interests, will meet to discuss ‘potential issues to be raised from any future oil spills, including Spill Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Restoration’. You can visit us throughout […]

RAW Malvern was taken by surprise by unusually large amounts of snowfall this weekend! However, the team were back in the office first thing, keen to show our more northerly teams that they could handle the weather, even it wasn’t the common occurrence that it is for our Edinburgh and Inverness depots!   

RAW appears alongside Prime Minister Theresa May in the environment edition of the 2016/17 Parliamentary Review. Established by former minister The Rt Hon David Curry in 2010, The Parliamentary Review’s September release is now a key fixture in the political calendar. RAW features alongside the Prime Minister and a small number of outstanding organisations in a […]

RAW is very proud to be sponsoring this year’s annual Scottish Contaminated Land Forum (SCLF) Conference for the fourth time. The event takes place on Wednesday 6th September 2017 at the University of Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow and aims to facilitate knowledge transfer in the contaminated land sector. Dr Haydn Cole, one of our Principal […]

RAW UK is very pleased to announce that it has agreed an exclusive co-operation venture in China with Shanghai Zhuo Yu Environmental Engineering Company Limited, a subsidiary of Shanghai Construction Group. RAW UK has been developing business in China for 7 years and this venture brings all that experience together with Shanghai Construction Group’s undisputed engineering […]