Narrative Description of Project: Defence Housing Authority is an upscale real estate and property development organization administered by the Pakistan Army, which develops housing for current and retired military personnel. The objective of the project is to build state of the art housing society that will fulfil the standard of living of the army personnel, upper and middle class society so that they can live in a comfortable environment with state of the art facilities.
Location Within Country: Kahuta Tehsil, District Rawalpindi
Name of Client: Defence Housing Authority
Year: 2018
Name of Senior Staff (Project Director/Coordinator, Team Leader) Involved:
- Engr. Saadat Ali, Environmental Engineer/Team Leader
- Mr. Ali Abdullah, Enviro-civil Engineer
- Mr. Muhammad Wajahat Saeed, Environmental Engineer
- Ms. Tehreem Fatima, GIS Expert and Environmental Engineer
- Ms. Eram Sifat, Environmental Engineer
- Ms. Najla Shafqat, Environmental Engineer
- Mr. Aamir Saeed, Flora and Fauna Expert
Description of Actual Services Provided by Staff:
The services included:
- Collected Baseline (Physical, Biological and Socio-economic) of the project area
- Identified and assessed all major and minor impacts during Pre- construction, Construction and Operation phases of the Project;
- Identified all significant impacts that may require detailed assessment;
- Proposed mitigation measures to minimize, eliminate or to compensate the potential adverse impacts identified.
- Prepared Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan
- Prepared Plantation Plan.
- Prepared Environmental Impact Assessment Report of the project