SLR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING(IRELAND)LIMITED

Their core work

SLR is a large international environmental consultancy providing advisory services across energy, infrastructure, and environmental monitoring. In H2020, they contributed to ground source heat pump deployment, coastal and deep-sea ocean observation infrastructure, and sustainable urban mobility planning. Their role spans environmental impact assessment, regulatory guidance, and technical consulting for infrastructure-heavy projects.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their early H2020 work (2015–2019) focused on environmental and marine infrastructure — ground source energy, coastal observatories, and deep-sea instrumentation. In the later period, they shifted toward urban mobility and transport planning through SUMP-PLUS (2019–2023), introducing keywords like transformation pathways and SULP guidance. This suggests a broadening from environmental monitoring toward urban sustainability consulting.

SLR appears to be expanding from traditional environmental consulting toward urban systems and sustainable transport advisory, reflecting growing market demand for integrated environmental-urban planning.

How they like to work

SLR has never coordinated an H2020 project — they consistently join as a participant or third party, indicating a specialist contributor role within larger consortia. With 87 unique partners across 19 countries from just 4 projects, they operate in very large international consortia. This suggests they are brought in for targeted environmental expertise rather than driving project direction.

Despite only 4 projects, SLR has built a broad network of 87 partners across 19 countries, driven by participation in large research infrastructure consortia like JERICO-NEXT and EMSODEV. Their connections span most of Europe without a strong geographic cluster.

What sets them apart

SLR brings the perspective of a major private environmental consultancy to EU research projects — a rarity since most H2020 environmental partners are universities or public institutes. Their commercial consulting background means they understand regulatory compliance, permitting, and practical deployment challenges. For consortium builders, they offer a bridge between research outputs and real-world environmental regulatory frameworks.

Highlights from their portfolio

• Cheap-GSHPs
  Their largest funded project (EUR 296,581), focused on making ground source heat pumps cheaper and more reliable — a direct business-relevant energy technology.
• JERICO-NEXT
  Part of a major pan-European coastal observatory research infrastructure network, demonstrating SLR's reach into marine environmental monitoring.