Environmental Essentials

What Environmental Essentials does

Environmental Essentials is a UK-based environmental compliance services firm headquartered in Stafford, founded in 2004. According to its own short description, the company provides asbestos consultancy, surveying, analytical, and training services, addressing regulatory obligations around asbestos management for property owners, construction contractors, facilities managers, and public-sector estate holders. The firm operates as a private, for-profit business with 101-250 employees and holds the domain environmentalessentials.co.uk.

The company's revenue mechanics are not disclosed in the input; service delivery relies on certified asbestos surveyors and analysts conducting site inspections, sample collection and laboratory analysis, and structured training courses for client staff. It is co-owned by founders James Riley (Co-Founder, Board Member, Co-Executive Director) and Richard Powner (Founder/Owner). In January 2016, Environmental Essentials received approximately $4.6M of growth capital from Business Growth Fund (BGF), with BGF as the lead investor, providing external capital to support what is inferred to be capacity or geographic expansion within the UK regulated asbestos-services market.

No information on pricing models, named customers, partnerships, marketing channels, patents, or proprietary technology was available in the source data, and the firm's own website returned only a verification/loading screen rather than substantive content, materially limiting visibility into current operating posture.

Name

Environmental Essentials

Website

https://environmentalessentials.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Environmental Essentials is a UK-based firm founded in 2004 and headquartered in Stafford that provides asbestos consultancy, surveying, analytical, and training services to property, construction, and facilities-management clients needing regulatory compliance support.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Health and Safety Services

NAICS

Testing Laboratories and Services (54138), Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Environmental Consulting Services (54162), Engineering Services (541330)

SIC

Services-Testing Laboratories (8734), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Abrasive, Asbestos & Misc Nonmetallic Mineral Prods (3290)

akta.pro primary industry

Asbestos/Lead/Mold Inspection, Testing & Consulting (BPALALAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Environmental Compliance, Monitoring & Field Services (Sampling/IAQ/Inspections) (IMAIAGAF), Regulatory Compliance, Permitting & Project Management (HazMat Abatement) (BPALALAG)

Keywords

• Asbestos consultancy
• Asbestos surveying
• Asbestos training
• Environmental compliance services
• Asbestos analytical testing

Headquarters

HQ city

Stafford

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Core offering

Environmental Essentials provides a range of asbestos consultancy, surveying, analytical, and training services. The firm supports property owners, contractors, and duty holders in identifying, assessing, and managing asbestos-containing materials in compliance with UK regulations. Its offerings combine field-based inspection work, in-house laboratory analysis, and structured training courses delivered to commercial and public-sector clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Asbestos Consultancy Services Specialist asbestos consultancy support for UK duty holders, advising on asbestos management plans, compliance with the Control of Asbestos Regulations, and risk-based remediation strategies for commercial and public sector estates.
• Asbestos Surveying Services
• Asbestos Analytical Testing Services
• Asbestos Training Services

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• SOCOTEC UK: SOCOTEC is the UK's leading asbestos analytical and consultancy services provider, directly competing with Environmental Essentials across asbestos surveying, bulk sample analysis, training and air monitoring for the same commercial, social housing and industrial clients.
• Lucion Group: Lucion (formerly Lucion Environmental Services) is a UK-focused asbestos, environmental and land quality consultancy with a directly overlapping service offering in asbestos surveys, analytical testing, training and remediation project management.
• Acorn Analytical Services: Acorn Analytical Services is a UK asbestos, legionella and health & safety consultancy operating in the same niche, providing surveys, analytical services and UKATA-accredited training to comparable commercial property and facilities clients.
• RSK Group: RSK is a UK-headquartered integrated environmental services platform whose geosciences and built environment divisions directly serve asbestos, hazardous materials and land quality clients with overlapping consultancy and analytical capability.
• Pennington Choices: Pennington Choices is a UK property compliance specialist offering asbestos surveying, consultancy and training services — directly comparable in service mix and target customer base to Environmental Essentials.

Broad incumbents

• SGS UK: SGS is a global inspection, verification, testing and certification firm whose UK environmental health services include asbestos-related testing and compliance work, comparable in function but not in scale or specialization.
• Tetra Tech: Tetra Tech is a global consulting and engineering firm whose environmental services practice includes hazardous building materials management in the UK, broadly comparable to Environmental Essentials but as part of a far larger portfolio.
• WSP UK: WSP is a global professional services consultancy whose UK environmental and building services practices offer hazardous materials and asbestos advisory services alongside much larger infrastructure and engineering work.
• Arcadis UK: Arcadis is a global design, engineering and environmental consulting firm with UK hazardous materials and compliance advisory services that overlap with Environmental Essentials' consultancy and remediation oversight work.
• Bureau Veritas UK: Bureau Veritas is a global testing, inspection and certification giant with UK operations that cover asbestos and EHS services as part of a much broader portfolio, overlapping at the project level rather than competing as a niche specialist.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/environmentales
• Facebookfacebook.com/EnvironmentalEssentialsLtd

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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