LEGAL ASSISTANCE RELATED TO YOUR AUTHORIZATION CERTIFICATE REQUEST FROM THE MINISTRY OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS OF QUEBEC (MDDEP):

• Site plan
• Manure storage facilities plan
• Environment impact study
• Presentation of the global project to the MDDEP
• Authorization certificate request / project notification
• Municipal and regional agreements
• Public hearing and consultation
• Attestation of compliance

FINANCIAL ASPECT:

• Conceptual plans and project cost estimates

PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS, CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT:

• Detailed plans and specs of buildings
• Tendering process
• Construction site insurance
• Equipment purchase
• Construction coordination
• Site supervision and/or management
• Equipment installation supervision
• Ventilation and heating calibration of buildings

TRAINING :

• Various conferences
• Various articles writing (magazines, newspapers, etc.)

DAIRY PRODUCTION:

• Free-stall or tie-stall barns
• Milking centre (parlours and robots)
• Slatted or solid floors

POULTRY PRODUCTION:

• Chicken housing: meat (broilers), laying (laying hens)
• Turkey housing: turkeys
• Duck housing: ducks
• Others

SWINE PRODUCTION:

• Maternity, gestation, breeding, farrrowing, quarantine
• Public consultation

BEEF PRODUCTION:

• Beef cattle facilities and housing: milk and grain fed calves, cow-calf, veal and cattle finishing
• Litter or slatted barn
• Feedlots, corrals for beef cattle handling and exercising

HORSE PRODUCTION:

• Stable planification
• Indoor and outdoor riding arena
• Arena footing
• Hay and bedding storage
• Site planification
• Ventilation and heating
• Manure storage

OTHER PRODUCTIONS:

• Sheep housing (warm or cold): lambs, pens on litter, dairy sheeps
• Goat housing: goats (meat) on litter, dairy goats
• Ostriches, rabbits, etc.

MANURE STORAGE AND MANURE TREATMENT:

• Solid, semi-liquid and liquid manure, platform or reservoir, earthen (lagoon) or concrete storage, open or roofed
• Separation of solid / liquid manure
• Liquid manure treatment station

SEWAGE INSTALLATION:

• Needs analysis (flows / loads)
• Wastewater characterization program
• Land survey, soil study
• Percolation tests
• Viability and durability studies of various treatment systems
• Plans and specifications
• Cost estimate
• Site supervision, compliance attestation
• Legal investigation, expert witnesses
• Assessment and certification of compliance with environmental standards
• Authorization certificate request from the MDDEP

GROUNDWATER CAPTURE:

• Agricultural compensation program
• Negotiations with agricultural producers

EXPERT WITNESS IN AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURE AND DAMAGE ESTIMATION:

• Insurance claim
• Assessment of construction costs (replacement value, depreciation of value)
• Workmanship defect and construction deficiency
• Expert witness and investigation