Mission
To provide sustainable, comprehensive and compliant environmental and civil engineering solutions that protect Zambia’s natural resources while enabling responsible industrial growth.
The firm
Canopy Consulting Limited is a Zambian-registered, multi-disciplinary environmental and civil engineering firm. We exist to close the gap between environmental compliance and the infrastructure that delivers it.

Intent
To provide sustainable, comprehensive and compliant environmental and civil engineering solutions that protect Zambia’s natural resources while enabling responsible industrial growth.
To be the leading integrated environmental consultancy and civil works contractor in Zambia, recognised for technical excellence, integrity and innovation.
Operating model
Three words, in the order the work actually happens. We audit what is already on the ground — disturbed footprint, existing liability, current compliance position. We advise on what the law and the receiving environment require. Then we build the works that answer it.
That sequence is only possible because the accreditations sit in one company. A ZEMA-registered consultancy cannot pour a drain. An NCC contractor cannot sign an EPF assessment. Canopy does both, so the study is written by people who know what it costs to construct, and the works are built by people who know why the clause is there.

Standing
MRC
Minerals Regulation Commission
Accredited competent person for Environmental Protection Fund audits under Statutory Instrument No. 29 of 1997.
Valid — 2026
ZEMA
Zambia Environmental Management Agency
Registered to prepare and submit Environmental and Social Impact Assessments, Project Briefs and Monitoring Plans.
Active
NCC
National Council for Construction
Licensed for Civil Engineering Works, General Road Works and Mining Civil Engineering Works.
Active — C, R, MC
How we work
Findings are argued from measured data with stated method and location. Where a figure is uncertain, the assessment says so, and says by how much.
The firm that writes the mitigation is licensed to construct it. Nothing is lost in the handover between consultant and contractor, because there is no handover.
Regulatory conditions belong in the design, not in a management commitment appended afterwards. Containment, drainage and closure are engineered, not promised.
Consultation with traditional leadership and affected households is recorded in a register, carried into the assessment, and answerable at review.
Work with us
If your project needs an assessment, an audit and the works that follow, you can buy all three from one accountable party.