What We Deliver

Six disciplines. One certainty.

From first site walk to operational compliance, Helia EHS provides the full stack of technical, environmental and strategic services that Australia’s data centre pipeline demands — built on the same capability we used to originate and direct our own gigawatt-scale development.
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  • Every service on this page has been delivered in-house on Helia's own Project Cobra development — not theorised from an advisory seat.
Our Capability

End-to-end coverage, one point of contact

Data centre projects move across environmental, technical and political terrain at the same time. Rather than handing clients between specialist firms, Helia EHS holds the full picture — coordinating due diligence, approvals, grid strategy, government relations and site EHS under a single accountable team.

  • One team across environmental, technical and government workstreams
  • Direct experience navigating PlanSA, SA EPA, AEMO and Commonwealth EPBC processes
  • Scales from early feasibility through to live construction and operations

01

Site Identification & Environmental Due Diligence

02

Environmental Impact Assessment & Planning Approvals

03

Grid Connection & Energy Infrastructure Strategy

04

Government Engagement & Regulatory Strategy

05

Noise, Air Quality & Greenhouse Gas Assessment

06

EHS Management — Construction & Operations

01

Site & Due Diligence

Site Identification & Environmental Due Diligence

Before land is optioned, Helia EHS screens candidate sites against the environmental, planning and grid constraints that determine whether a data centre campus is actually deliverable — reducing downside risk before capital is committed.

What’s Included
  • Preliminary site assessments and constraints mapping
  • Contamination screening, Phase 1 and Phase 2 ESA
  • Heritage and Aboriginal cultural heritage reviews
  • Ecology and biodiversity impact screening
  • Environmental risk profiling for prospective sites nationally
What’s Included
  • Preliminary site assessments and constraints mapping
  • Contamination screening, Phase 1 and Phase 2 ESA
  • Heritage and Aboriginal cultural heritage reviews
  • Ecology and biodiversity impact screening
  • Environmental risk profiling for prospective sites nationally

02

Approvals

Environmental Impact & Planning Approvals

Helia EHS prepares and manages the assessment documentation and approval pathway itself — the same process our team is running for Project Spark’s own Environmental Impact Statement.

03

Site & Due Diligence

Site Identification & Environmental Due Diligence

Before land is optioned, Helia EHS screens candidate sites against the environmental, planning and grid constraints that determine whether a data centre campus is actually deliverable — reducing downside risk before capital is committed.

What’s Included
  • Preliminary site assessments and constraints mapping
  • Contamination screening, Phase 1 and Phase 2 ESA
  • Heritage and Aboriginal cultural heritage reviews
  • Ecology and biodiversity impact screening
  • Environmental risk profiling for prospective sites nationally
What’s Included
  • Strategic engagement with State & federal agenicies
  • Ministerial briefings
  • Unsolicited proposal frameworks
  • Network operators, planning authorities and environmental regulators
  • Environmental risk profiling for prospective sites nationally

04

Approvals

Government Engagement & Regulatory Strategy

Strategic engagement with State and Federal government agencies, Ministerial briefings, unsolicited proposal frameworks, and coordination with AEMO, network operators, planning authorities and environmental regulators.

05

Site & Due Diligence

Noise, Air Quality & Greenhouse Gas Assessment

Before land is optioned, Helia EHS screens candidate sites against the environmental, planning and grid constraints that determine whether a data centre campus is actually deliverable — reducing downside risk before capital is committed.

What’s Included
  • Preliminary site assessments and constraints mapping
  • Contamination screening, Phase 1 and Phase 2 ESA
  • Heritage and Aboriginal cultural heritage reviews
  • Ecology and biodiversity impact screening
  • Environmental risk profiling for prospective sites nationally
What’s Included
  • Preliminary site assessments and constraints mapping
  • Contamination screening, Phase 1 and Phase 2 ESA
  • Heritage and Aboriginal cultural heritage reviews
  • Ecology and biodiversity impact screening
  • Environmental risk profiling for prospective sites nationally

06

Approvals

EHS Management — Construction & Operations

Before land is optioned, Helia EHS screens candidate sites against the environmental, planning and grid constraints that determine whether a data centre campus is actually deliverable — reducing downside risk before capital is committed.

Our Capability

A developer's Process

We structure engagements the way we structure our own developments — sequenced to remove risk early, and built to keep pace with commercial timelines.

Scope & Screen

We assess the site, the regulatory pathway and the grid position before recommending a course of action — so effort is spent only where a project is genuinely deliverable.

Assess & Approve

Technical assessments, EIS preparation and approval submissions are managed under one coordinated programme, with government engagement running in parallel rather than after.

Engage & Connect

We run grid connection and government engagement directly, drawing on relationships built through our own hyperscale and government dealings on Project Spark.

Deliver & Operate

EHS management carries through construction and into operations, with compliance programmes designed to hold up under audit for the life of the asset.

CERTAINTY

Why Helia EHS

Built by developers, not just advisors.

Most EHS consultancies advise on data centre projects. Helia EHS has built one. That difference gives us a level of practical, commercial and regulatory knowledge that no academic or advisory background alone can replicate.

Practical, not academic

Helia EHS has served as the originating project director on a 1.2 GW data centre proposal — giving us direct experience of every approval, commercial and technical challenge that large-scale developers face in the Australian market.

Deep South Australia capability

We have navigated PlanSA, the SA EPA, the Office of the Chief Government Officer and Ministerial engagement for data centre development — a regulatory environment, and the people within it, that we know intimately.

Connected to the hyperscale ecosystem

Our work on Project Cobra brought us into direct engagement with global tier-one hyperscale operators, energy developers including Neoen, and grid specialists. We bring that network to every client relationship.

Integrated EHS and commercial lens

Our team combines technical EHS depth with commercial project management — meaning we understand both the environmental obligations and the investment pressures that drive data centre development timelines and decision-making.

Live market intelligence

We actively monitor the Australian data centre pipeline — including AirTrunk, Firmus, CDC Data Centres, IREN, and the SA and NSW planning and environmental approval portals — providing clients with a current, grounded view of the competitive landscape.

Certainty delivered

Our brand promise reflects our approach to data centre work: reducing ambiguity, managing risk proactively, and delivering the certainty that investors, operators and government agencies need to commit to major infrastructure.

Let's scope your next development.

Whether you need one service or the full programme — site due diligence through to operational EHS — Helia EHS can structure the engagement around your timeline.
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