no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . june 2012 slr consulting ltd type private limited company industry environmental consulting founded 1994 headquarters aylesbury oxfordshire united kingdom revenue 24.9 million 2011 number of employees circa 1 100 website www.slrconsulting.com slr consulting is a privately owned international environmental consultancy with offices in europe north america australasia and africa . in 2013 it reported revenues of 24.9 million . 1 contents 1 history 1.1 founding 1.2 expansion 1.3 acquisitions 1.4 alliances 2 operations 3 key projects 4 references 5 external links history edit founding edit the firm was founded as secor ltd in 1994 by alan sheppard john leeson and david richards whose initials subsequently formed slr . after establishing the company in oxford united kingdom in 1994 david oversaw the growth of the business from a small uk operator into one of the fastest growing and most profitable environmental consultancies in the uk with international operations across africa australasia canada europe and the usa . in 2000 the senior management team completed a management buyout and the company s name was changed to slr consulting limited . 2 in 2004 they secured funding from isis equity partners who invested 4.85 million as part of a 13 million investment including other partners and took a significant minority stake in the company . 3 in 2008 3i invests 32.5 million in the firm and replaced isis equity partners with a significant minority stake . 4 david richards was until his death on 6 november 2013 at the age of 55 chief executive officer during the period 1994 2013 . in line with the group s succession plans neil penhall formerly managing director of slr consulting and an executive director of slr management assumed the role of ceo . citation needed expansion edit the firm expanded its offices starting with bath nottingham and redditch in the uk in 2001 and then over the years additional offices in england scotland 5 wales ireland northern ireland singapore new zealand south africa canada and the us . 6 by 2014 there were 65 global offices and around 1100 staff . acquisitions edit they made a number of acquisitions beginning with the uk based waste management engineering limited in 2005 . then followed the uk based landscape architect company insite environments ; 7 the canadian company seacor environmental inc. 8 the uk based company fmh consulting engineers ; 9 the irish dublin based environmental consultancy csa ; 10 the specialist mineral planning landscape and land management firm bowman planton ; 11 the uk based architecture and planning solutions 12 alaska based hoefler consulting group ; 13 australia based heggies pty limited ; 14 uk based company andrew mccarthy associates ; 15 south african based greeneng 16 and metago . 17 in namibia it acquired bittner water consult cc a sustainable groundwater consulting firm 18 and a speiser environmental consultants a namibian based specialist consultancy with expertise in eias . 19 in october 2013 cooper partnership chartered landscape architects was acquired in bristol uk ; and in early 2014 the acquisition of hfp acoustical was completed adding offices in calgary alberta and houston texas . in july 2014 south african based consultancy cca environmental pty ltd was also acquired . good company to work for . alliances edit the firm has formed international alliances in 2007 they renewed an agreement with the maltese firm ais environmental ltd ; 20 and signed an agreement with the german energy from waste specialists born and ermel . 21 afterwards they signed a collaborative agreement with greek environmental company epem 22 and abu dhabi based edessa . 22 operations edit slr provides global consultancy advice and support on strategic and site specific issues to business regulatory and governmental clients . they specialise in the oil & gas renewable & low carbon mining & minerals waste management planning & development infrastructure and industrial sectors . key projects edit east pit & margam south wales uk 23 24 city campus northumbria university uk references edit slr holdings limited private company information businessweek . investing.businessweek.com . retrieved 2014 03 07 . slr holdings limited private company information businessweek . investing.businessweek.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . isis investing in brighter future for slr . free online library . thefreelibrary.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . isis divestment of slr holdings . cleantechinvestor.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . slr cleans up with pollution company deal the scotsman . scotsman.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . locations slr . slrconsulting.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . slr increases masterplanning services with insite acquisition planning resource . planningresource.co.uk . retrieved 2014 02 20 . pdf http www.bcbusinessonline.ca files files bcb0411 slr2.pdf ; . retrieved june 8 2012 . missing or empty title help dead link environment analyst slr acquires bath based consulting engineers fmh . environment analyst.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . consultancy market guide 2008 pdf . endsreprot.com . retrieved 2014 03 07 . http environment analyst.com 1042 slr acquires two waste consultancies ; . retrieved june 8 2012 . missing or empty title help dead link environment analyst slr acquires two waste consultancies . environment analyst.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . generational equity announces sale of hoefler consulting group to slr international corporation . gecpress.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . 3i backed slr buys heggies environmental consultancy in australian acquisition . growthbusiness.co.uk . retrieved 2014 02 20 . environmental firms combine their power exeter express and echo . thisisexeter.co.uk . retrieved 2014 02 20 . environmental business international . ebionline.org . retrieved 2014 02 20 . slr acquires environmental mining consultant metago news the engineer . theengineer.co.uk . retrieved 2014 02 20 . environment firm slr consulting expands in africa the journal . nebusiness.co.uk . retrieved 2014 02 20 . environment analyst slr acquires second namibian enviro consultancy . environment analyst.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . http findarticles.com p articles mi 6784 is 2007 june 12 ai n28434624 . findarticles.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . external link in title help slr consulting extends energy from waste services news materials recycling world . mrw.co.uk . retrieved 2014 02 20 . a b ends directory slr consulting ltd . web.archive.org . retrieved 2014 02 20 . lws01 . oakregenerationgroup.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . bbc news east pit and margam mines regeneration plans on show . bbc.co.uk . retrieved 2014 02 20 . external links edit official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title slr consulting & oldid 741506886 categories companies based in oxfordshirehidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from june 2016cs1 errors external linksorphaned articles from june 2012all orphaned articlesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from march 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 september 2016 at 23 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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