Environmental engineering is a broad concept and as a profession provides a technical link between traditional engineering and environmental science.  This area of work relates strongly to both engineering skills (such as water resource studies and geotechnical assessment) and also broader environmental skills (such as physical environmental science, ecology and planning).  SMEC has developed skills in many areas of engineering and environmental science that were at one time separate areas of concern.

SMEC's range of environmental engineering capabilities include:

• environmental auditing;

• public environmental reporting;

• pollution monitoring, control and management systems;

• water resource assessment including hydrologic and hydraulic studies and modelling;

• hydrodynamic modelling of estuarine and coastal systems;

• contaminated site assessment and remediation;

• collection, analysis, management, and computer storage of data;

• solid waste management;

• waste water management;

• water re-use and irrigation design and management;

• transport and traffic planning.

A variety of computer software is available to support these capabilities.

SMEC has substantial environmental engineering resources in all Australian offices and has recently been commissioned for high profile national projects in environmental auditing and reporting.