APEM Group’s Transformative Year in Australia: Milestones, Growth, and Future Prospects

APEM Group has been operating in Australia since 2020, including supporting Australia’s first proposed offshore wind farm, Star of the South. Since then, we have expanded our presence and increased our services in the country. In January 2024, we welcomed a new Country Manager to further strengthen our operations and drive growth in the region.

February 2024: First office opens in Melbourne

This marked a significant milestone for the Group in establishing a permanent presence in Melbourne as the regional hub for the Asia Pacific region.

April 2024: Building an unrivalled specialist Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and approvals team

We strategically expanded our team in Australia with a new Environment Team, with decades of unparalleled experience producing high-quality EIA and approvals for major infrastructure projects. We offer leading offshore wind EIAs, provision of strategic and technical advisory services, and conduct comprehensive marine wildlife surveys. Our expertise extends to data analysis and impact assessments for seabirds and marine mammals, ensuring that all environmental considerations are addressed.

Underpinned by APEM Group’s extensive global offshore wind experience, the team are delivering successful project approvals for the developing offshore wind industry and broader renewable energy sector in Australia.

June 2024: Biosis joins APEM Group

Biosis, one of Australia’s leading ecology and heritage consultancies, joined APEM Group in June 2024, bringing a wealth of expertise and a significant presence across Australia. With 150 new colleagues in 10 offices across Victoria and New South Wales, Biosis enhances APEM Group’s capabilities. Their solutions-focused approach in delivering ecology and heritage services allows APEM Group to expand into diverse sectors such as infrastructure, energy, water, design, construction, and government.

Since 1983, Biosis has empowered clients to make informed decisions regarding ecology, heritage, and environmental approvals. Their team of experts in Aboriginal archaeology, botany, environmental approvals, Geographic Information System (GIS), historical archaeology, historical heritage, and zoology strengthens APEM Group’s service offerings. With a reputation built on 40 years of experience and over 20,000 projects, Biosis enables APEM Group to deliver comprehensive services to clients across various industries, including government, resources, energy, design, construction, and tourism.

September 2024: Attexo becomes part of APEM Group

Attexo, an Australian renewable energy-focused strategic advisory and environmental consultancy, joined the Group in September 2024. This further expanded our presence in Australia, with another 60+ new colleagues, and an office location in Queensland.

Attexo brings collective project experience to APEM Group, enhancing our capabilities in utility-scale renewable energy developments, gas and water pipelines, electricity generation and transmission, mining, and transport infrastructure projects. Our expanded network includes key stakeholders, technical specialists, and project partners, enabling us to effectively navigate project approvals and legislative challenges.

The acquisition of Attexo enhances our team with experts in environmental approvals and assessments, management, monitoring and compliance, ecology and biodiversity offsets, land, community and stakeholder engagement, and project development. Together, we are poised to broaden our services, attract new clients, and enter diverse sectors, driving the growth and success of APEM Group.

We have relationships with the key stakeholders, technical specialists and project partners to tackle project approvals and legislation challenges.

Our team are experts in environmental approvals and assessments, management, monitoring and compliance, ecology and biodiversity offsets, land, community and stakeholder engagement, and project development.

October 2024: Continued growth and investment in Australia

To develop and support our technical teams, we have experienced in-country professionals in Finance, Legal, People and Culture, IT and WHSEQ, who are backed by our global support teams.

March 2025: Supporting offshore wind projects across Australia

The first quarter of 2025 saw APEM Group supporting our seventh offshore wind project across Australia. These include five projects that have either finished, are currently conducting, or are about to start offshore digital aerial surveys, including Star of the South and Greater Eastern Offshore Wind. Additionally, we have undertaken feasibility license application studies, provided strategic advice to two other developers, and continued expanding our technical service offerings to other consultancies and developers.

April 2025 and beyond

APEM Group’s Australian presence now extends to over 220 employees based in 13 locations and five states across the country.

APEM Group in Australia is gaining momentum and recognition, as we build credibility with regulators and stakeholders and begin work on flagship renewable energy developments across Australia.

As we continue to invest in our business and Australia as a strategic area of growth for APEM Group in the APAC region, we are looking forward to more success in the months and years ahead. Keep an eye on our LinkedIn feed and our Insights pages for more news.

We are excited to be exhibiting at Australian Offshore Wind Industry Forum in Melbourne on 3rd June 2025 and hope to see many of our clients and partners there to discuss the evolution of this new industry in the Australian context.

Acknowledgement of Country:

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

About APEM Group:

With locations across the globe, APEM Group provide independent environmental consultancy and expert scientific advice to a wide range of industries including water, renewables, infrastructure, power and utilities, ports and harbours as well as to regulators and governments around the world.

We provide a range of services to clients including our world leading digital aerial wildlife surveys, environmental impact assessments, marine, water & terrestrial ecology, geospatial insights, shipping and navigational risk assessments and landscape visualisation.

Our offshore experience spans more than 75 offshore wind farms globally (over 50 GW of consented offshore wind farms) with designs and solutions to address survey requirements for our clients.