Meet our qualified professionals.

Lauren Elston

Lead Environmental Assessment Practitioner

BScience Honours (Environmental Management), 2014, University of South Africa (UNISA)

BScience (Environmental Science, Oceanography & Atmospheric Science), 2005, University of Cape Town (UCT)

Lauren is a registered environmental assessment practitioner with the Environmental Assessment Practitioners Association of South Africa (Reg. No. 2020/981). Lauren Elston is a Senior Environmental Consultant with 17 years’ experience in the environmental management and impact assessment industry. She specialises in Environmental Impact Assessment, Air Quality Management, Water Use Management and Environmental Auditing.

Her core expertise includes environmental impact assessment and management of projects in the renewable energy, waste, agricultural, infrastructure, industrial, mining, and mixed-use development sectors in South Africa. In, Lauren has experience in Water Use Licences, Atmospheric Emission Licences, Waste Management Licences, Mine Closure, and the development of Environmental Management Programmes.

Colleen McCreadie

Managing Director & Lead Environmental Assessment Practitioner

BComm Honours Economics, UCT, 2000

BA Economics & Political Studies, UCT, 1995 – 1997

Colleen is a registered environmental assessment practitioner with the Environmental Assessment Practitioners Association of South Africa (Reg. No. 2018/166). Colleen has 18 years’ experience in environmental management. Her core areas of expertise include environmental impact assessment, project management and post-authorisation management of projects in the industrial and agri-industry sectors across South Africa.

Sectors of experience include galvanizing, foundries, oil / hydrocarbon storage and processing, energy-to-gas biodigesters, pyrolysis, fruit processing and poultry farming and associated agri-processing. Colleen has assisted numerous clients to minimise their environmental impacts and find solutions to environmental compliance challenges in practical ways. Since Colleen is great with numbers and economics, she assists companies with Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reporting, and emissions calculations and reporting on the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory System (NAEIS).