After graduating from the RWTH Aachen university (Germany) with a Master’s degree in applied geology Markus was a Researcher, Lecturer and Ph.D. student at Karlsruhe university (Germany) from 1994 to 1998, where he obtained his PhD in hydrogeology for the evaluation and modelling of small scale discharge processes and their effect on pesticide transport in rural catchment areas. Markus then joined the ENSR consulting firm in 1998 and served as a remediation expert at Schlumberger in Paris. 

From 2000 to 2005 he worked as a technical director at BG Engineers in Lyon, France in the fields of water resources management and land remediation, before joining DuPont’s Corporate Remediation Group to run the company’s remediation programme in Europe, Middle East and Africa, which he has been doing for a number of years, along with safety and environmental resources projects in developing countries. 

Martin’s role is to ensure the sustainable practices and targets we set for site performance are being consistently embedded and delivered. He leads our environment team on legal assurance, environmental protection and promotion of environmental improvements.

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Before he joined us, Martin was Anglian Water’s performance manager in construction and supply chain, where he developed and embedded new approaches to carbon reduction, plus water, waste and environmental management across several frameworks with suppliers.

Martin has a valuable role to ensure our sustainable initiatives are being embedded and delivered at project level. He is the glue that ensures we deliver our targets for sustainable performance.

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Other areas covered by Martin include biodiversity, energy and water efficiency, as well as managing sustainable materials. He has experience of delivering on waste, water, and carbon reduction, as well as strategic stakeholder and supply chain engagement, for example on biodiversity, surface water and sustainable urban drainage controls.

Ann Barker has over 25 years of experience in contaminated land investigation and management in both consultancy and local authority regulation. As a geologist, she worked briefly for the British Geological Survey before moving into research and then into practical investigation of environmental pollution issues in consultancy, leading to a focus on land contamination. Ann was awarded Master of Science for Contaminated Land Management with Distinction at Nottingham University. Having spent most of her time implementing Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 for several years, planning consultations, redevelopment of brownfield sites and strategic regeneration now dominate Ann’s workload.

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Whilst working as a Local Authority regulator Ann has taken a lead role with YALPAG and previously Environmental Protection UK. In 2007 Ann was one of the founders of the YCLF and currently chairs the steering group; she was also a member of the DEFRA Part 2a Expert Panel.

Richard is a Senior Managing Consultant within Ramboll’s Site Solutions Team with over 40 years’ experience in contaminated land and a specialist in bioremediation and chemical treatment. He has been responsible for the technical implementation of a multitude of ex situ and in situ remediation projects for a range of industrial sectors, particularly property, manufacturing, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas. His collaborative research on chromite ore processing residue remediation earned him an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Edinburgh.  He has contributed to several publications on sustainable remediation, delivered technical presentations through CL:AIRE and SuRF-UK, and in collaboration with colleagues within Ramboll, has developed tools for assessing the sustainability of remedial options. A Chartered Biologist by background, he has authored over 50 publications, served on the Soil Science Advisory Committee and has been a regular guest lecturer on remediation at Lancaster University.

Simon has worked in environmental consultancy as a risk assessor for over 20 years.  He’s been a member of SoBRA for over a decade, has chaired the society’s sub-group on asbestos for 7 years and is the society’s current chair.  Simon is the Technical Practice Lead for AECOM’s UK&I Environmental Liability Solutions team and has primary responsibility for the technical delivery of and capability development in remediation services associated with land contamination, and Simon’s career has been dominated by the technical development, practice and advocacy of risk assessment methodologies and risk-based management of land contamination, advising governments and commercial clients, and supporting industry initiatives.

James is responsible for the delivery of strategic infrastructure projects on a number of Harworth Group’s major schemes including Simpson Park - the Harworth Colliery remediation and regeneration, the 200-acre Coalville sustainable urban extension and Harworth Group’s flagship scheme, Waverley.

Across several complex brownfield schemes, James has led the determination of strategy through to on-site delivery of projects including coking works and groundwater remediation, bulk earthworks and enabling works infrastructure. 

Before joining Harworth, he worked at The Banks Group where he managed their portfolio of operational wind farm sites. James has over 15 years of experience working as a developer in the property and renewable energy sectors and a background in civil and structural engineering.

As Head of Stakeholder Engagement and Market Insight at Stantec, Susan Emmett is responsible for promoting a client-centric culture and ensuring the company puts the needs of its clients and the communities they serve at the centre of our work.

With a particular focus on the infrastructure and buildings part of Stantec UK, Susan works with clients across both the public and private sectors, including local authorities and developers.

A strategy, engagement and research professional who has spent 20 years working with the property industry and government, Susan joined Stantec earlier this year from Homes England where she was Head of Market Engagement.

Before this, Susan was Head of Housing and Regeneration for the think tank Policy Exchange, and Director of Residential Research for Savills. She began her career as a Business and Financial Reporter at The Times before assuming the role of Deputy Property Editor.

Mark is a Professor of Environmental Chemistry at the University of Plymouth, where he has worked since 2001. Understanding the reactivity and characterisation of aquatic organic nitrogen (ON; both natural and xenobiotic) have been his research priorities and he has developed methods measure very low concentrations of these molecules in both water and sediments. Mark leads the Biogeochemistry Research Centre and his interest in nitrogen has spanned the measurement of trace gases in the Southern Ocean, the environmental fate of pharmaceuticals in water and sediments and investigating the chemistry of artificial soils made from inert waste materials.

Liz is passionate about bringing excavated materials into the spotlight during the planning phase of a project to maximise reuse and sustainability benefits.

She works with industry to improve resource efficiency in construction including the application of the DoWCoP to large infrastructure and multi-phase projects. She is a trainer for CL:AIRE delivering the DoWCoP training courses, co-authored the inaugural IEMA guidance on the assessment of materials and waste in EIA and sits on the CL:AIRE Technology and Research Group.

Ross joined Environment Analyst as an intern following the global financial crisis in 2011. During his decade at the company he has held a number of operational and management positions supporting the newsroom, events programme and market intelligence service. He has been the author of the UK Market Assessment Report for the last six years. 

In his current role as Content Director, Ross is responsible for the ongoing management and curation of industry-leading content to serve our ever-expanding membership community within the environmental professional services sector across the globe. He leads a team of writers and analysts and inputs regularly into our virtual events programme.

Prior to joining Environment Analyst Ross graduated from Swansea University, UK with a BSc in geography and a MSc in environmental dynamics and climate change. 

Pat Hayes was appointed Managing Director of Be First, a pioneering new urban regeneration company, in August 2017. Be First, Barking and Dagenham Council’s regeneration arm, has a mission to accelerate growth in the borough delivering 50,000 new homes and 20,000 jobs in the next 20 years.

 Previously, Pat was Executive Director of Regeneration & Housing with Ealing Council during which time the borough became one of the most successful in London at attracting in new developments and transforming its public housing stock. Pat was responsible for bringing forward the Southall Waterside development, South Acton Estate and the delivery of Ealing Film Works.

 Before joining Ealing, Pat worked for Transport for London as Director of Borough Partnerships and prior to that, spent four years at Lewisham Council as Executive Director for Regeneration and Environment. Pat has also worked for five other boroughs during a 25-year career in local government.

Paul is a Technical Director, and Specialist in Land Condition, at Environmental Resources Management (ERM) who for over thirty years Paul has engaged with corporate clients to support them through closure and transfer of their assets to a third party, helping them resolve liability issues and optimise value through this process.  He has been a critical friend through numerous closure / regeneration projects and engaged in some of the most complex large scale schemes in the UK.

Considers that pragmatic thinking aligned with sound knowledge of the site (its risks) and working with regulators can unlock value and allow the landowner to exit without undue exposure.  On both sides of the table liability considerations can often be compounded with other elements of a deal, and clearly defined technical strategies can be developed to unravel responsibilities and progress regeneration.

Anna Kilty has 10 years experience in the Water Industry and she is a Principal Consultant specialising in Natural Capital and Biodiversity Net Gain at APEM Ltd, a world-class environmental and geospatial consultancy. Prior to joining APEM, Anna was a project manager for the Environment Agency. Her career with the EA covered: flood risk management, water resources management, water resources policy and latterly developing and authoring the supplementary guidance for the Water Resources Planning Guideline on Natural Capital.

Anna has worked with numerous regulators and stakeholders including: Natural England, Natural Resources Wales, Ofwat and the Drinking Water Inspectorate. She has managed and facilitated technical groups including a vast variety of stakeholders.

Michael is a member of the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management, is a Chartered Environmentalist, a Member of the Institute of Quarrying, Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, and a Qualified Person. He has occupied senior positions in quarrying, waste management and contaminated land businesses for nearly 30 years.

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Michael has an excellent understanding of environmental legislation and remediation technologies. More recently he has been instrumental in establishing VertaseFLI as one of the UK’s leading landfill reclamation contractors.

Michael is co-author with Dr. Duncan Scott and Steve Wilson of the ICE Journal Award Winning Paper: Reclaiming historic landfill sites for residential development: a UK case study.

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He considers the raising of industry standards and subsequent perception of the remediation contracting industry as crucial for the continued development of the sector. This includes supporting industry trade bodies and regulators on ways to improve the regulatory framework.

Rob leads GHD’s Environment business into new markets across the region, assisting clients with their green investment decisions and ESG and decarbonisation ambitions, as well as supporting them throughout the full lifecycle of their assets. 

Rob was previously the UK Environment Client Pillar Lead and Global Client Taskforce Leader for Environment at WSP, and prior to this he was at Golder Associates for several years, latterly as a Business Unit Leader. He has also held roles at Jacobs and URS Corporation (now part of AECOM).

Claire advises on all aspects of planning and environmental law.  Working with a wide range of clients from across the real estate, manufacturing, energy, maritime and waste management sectors, Claire’s practical approach and guidance enables them to successfully navigate their individual planning and environmental challenges and ambitions within the evolving regulatory framework. 

"Claire is enormously dedicated to her work and her clients.  She is well respected, very straight-talking, easy to get on with and forward-thinking in her approach." 

Samantha is a criminal defence barrister and member of Chartered Institution of Wastes Management specializing in defending companies and individuals in environmental, financial and regulatory matters. She is recognized for her specialist knowledge in waste management and recommended in Legal 500 as “the leading – and best junior – in the area of [environmental law] with a deep technical understanding of the waste industry” and Chambers & Partners say “Clients value her practical and commercial advice as well as her fearless defence skills”. She was shortlisted for Environmental and Planning Junior of the Year 2020.

Samantha has particular expertise in environmental permitting and regularly provides early stage advice in corporate and regulatory investigations, is proactive in case management often challenging the regulator and the regulations and is experienced in working with experts on technical aspects of cases. She is currently co-authoring with other waste experts, The Practical Guide to Waste Management Law.

Mark Schneider has over 20 years of experience in the area of business support and technology transfer, particularly in the Higher Education sector. Mark also spent a number of years working in Luxembourg and Brussels delivering and managing European networks focused on SME support and improving the business focused activities of European universities. More recently, he set up a consultancy company to support the development of economic links between the West Midlands and China. He has a strong environment background, having worked in both the waste and water industries. He has a degree in geology and MScs in Mining Geology and Environment Monitoring and Assessment.   

Anna-Maria is the Environmental Liability Manager for bp. She works across all business units and a wide range of operations to manage existing soil and groundwater liabilities with the focus on the prevention by transforming the environmental due diligence programmes and implementing innovative remedial solutions. Anna-maria is a Chartered Environmental Engineer & Environmentalist with an expertise in soil and groundwater remediation, water technologies, environmental law, and sustainable solutions. She has been working across various geographies and supported major projects in South Africa, EU, Scandinavia, and the UK.  Recently, has been providing the contaminated land expertise to the Teesside Net Zero Project part of the East Coast Cluster CCUS Initiative to support the sustainable regeneration of the area. She is a part of the bp Health and Safety Environmental and Carbon international team and bp representative at the NICOLE Network and the UK Energy Institute.

Privately, she enjoys nature, especially on the rowing boat, and is passionate about the protection of the UK waters.

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After completing his MSc at the University of Aberdeen in 2000, Paul started his career in organics recycling investigating the impacts of green waste compost on arable crop production. Paul then moved into the composting industry, helping to set-up and run a commercial green waste compost facility for the horticultural market. Paul continued to pioneer new composting technologies long into his career, and spent several years managing the organics recycling for a large PFI-funded waste management company producing and marketing both green waste and mixed waste compost outputs.

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Paul joined 4R in 2014, and now leads the groups technical provision. This includes managing our land restoration portfolio, bringing ex-industrial and heavily exploited landscapes back to life using mixed waste organics. Paul has a vast amount of experience and knowledge across the waste management, horticultural and land restoration sectors and uses this to deliver specialist work across the industry.

Marcus is Managing Partner of JTP with responsibility for the strategic planning and management of the practice. He is an architect and urban designer with substantial experience, working with private and public sectors to lead the design and delivery of major new mixed-use neighbourhoods, large-scale regeneration, and strategic placemaking projects in the UK and internationally.

Marcus' recent projects include The Green Quarter, one of London’s largest regeneration projects delivering a dynamic new village for West London; Alconbury Weald, the regeneration of a 580-hectare airfield in Cambridgeshire; and Central Winchester Regeneration, where he led the design team in working closely with the community and local businesses, to develop a shared vision for a new uniquely Winchester pedestrian-friendly quarter in the heart of the city.

A passionate believer in environmental and social sustainability, Marcus brings this passion and experience to all his projects. He is a committed placemaker and drives design excellence and innovation throughout the practice through community planning, charrette methodology and internal design reviews.

Paul Bardos is the managing director of r3 Environmental Technology Ltd with interests in contaminated land and waste management, renewable energy, brownfields and sustainability assessment. 

He is the chair of SuRF-UK. He is also a Visiting Professor at Reading University, and international “GSR” expert for the Ministry of Environmental and Ecology, China, a short term consultant for the World Bank and a Chartered Environmentalist.

As a Chartered Resource and Waste Manager, Chartered Environmentalist and Fellow of the Institute of Quarrying, Chris supports clients in development, infrastructure, minerals, and waste. He leads projects which include the designing out of waste for significant infrastructure, regulatory consenting, due diligence, and the management of the complex interface between planning, EIA and waste regimes. Ultimately, he aims to encourage clients to consider waste early in a project lifecycle to achieve long term compliance and sustainability benefits.

Chris is currently overseeing Stantec’s role as the Research Contractor on a CIRIA project to produce good practice guidance on the management of surplus soil and aggregate from construction. He’s also an active participant in industry forums and is an advocate for information sharing across industry to ensure we move to a future where certain ‘wastes’ can be reused legally and safely as a valuable resource as part of the wider Circular Economy and sustainability drivers.

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Bradley has 14 years of experience within the real estate sector and is Director at LSL Partners, principally responsible for development and construction associated with new and existing projects.

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He previously worked at London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) as a Head of Development, where he was  responsible for Stratford Waterfront, a £700m GDV scheme part of the East Bank Cultural quarter on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

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Prior to joining LLDC, Bradley spent 3 years at Vastint, the Real Estate arm of IKEA. He was responsible for the residential element of Sugar House Island, a 1,200 home scheme in East London. He was previously Project Manager at Capco focusing on the Earl’s Court Regeneration, and Project Director at Argent LLP responsible for the delivery of the first residential–led mixed use schemes on the King’s Cross Central masterplan, Arthouse and T1.

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Bradley originally trained as a civil engineer, receiving a BEng with Honours in Civil Engineering at Bath University, and received an MSc in Real Estate Development from the University of Reading during his time at Argent.

Graeme leads on urban soils and contaminated land within the Soil Health Policy team at Defra. The Soil Health Policy team is working on a number of different initiatives in order to deliver on the government’s 25 Year Environment Plan ambition to achieve sustainably managed soils by 2030. This includes the recently announced Soil Health Action Plan for England, which will focus on preventing soil degradation and improving soil health, and look at how land management practices and planning can be adapted to help protect soil from the impact of climate change.

Graeme recently joined Defra following a 15 year career in local government where he worked in a range of policy areas including Housing, Community Safety and Contaminated Land. Graeme is passionate about environmental protection issues and has an Environmental Science BSc Hons Degree from the University of Leeds and a Graduate Diploma in Agriculture from the Royal Agricultural University.

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Dr Richard Gill is a Soil and Groundwater Scientist at Shell Global Solutions International B.V. based in the Netherlands, where he provides soil and groundwater technical support to Shell businesses in Europe and Africa, and represents Shell on a number of collaborative industry organizations [Concawe at EU-level, and SAGTA in the UK] to develop sustainable and risk-based solutions to soil and groundwater challenges.

He is also a contributor on Shell’s global soil and groundwater R&D program; his current research interests are sustainable remediation and innovative technologies applied to remediation and site investigation. Richard graduated with a PhD from Sheffield University, UK on the topic of electrokinetic-enhanced bioremediation in heterogeneous settings.

Backed by a career spanning over 20 years of experience in engineering sectors, Iwan is an innovator and Director of Deetu, the multi-award-winning technology and innovation hub of the multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy BWB Consulting.

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With their “Do things differently” approach, Deetu has led numerous high-profile engagement and communication strategies that have successfully broken down barriers to traditional consultation and delivered meaningful results within various sectors and markets by challenging the norm.​

This year their engagement and consultation work on the regeneration of Nottingham’s waterside has won them three national awards, including the Brownfield Award for Best Public Engagement And Participation.

Within AECOM, David provides technical direction and advocacy for site investigation, conceptualisation, risk assessment and remediation projects across the UK and internationally.  He has written and delivered contaminant hydrogeology training for both regulator and client.  He has worked closely with the Environment Agency on a number of projects, delivering joint conference presentations and has also undertaken Expert Witness support.

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David has developed and utilised three-dimensional visualisation models of contaminant distribution and subsurface geology to help conceptualise sites and to present information to clients and regulators.  Recent projects have won awards for project preparatory work; scoping or operation of a site investigation; and project closure/verification.

Daymion is a Director with WSP and UK Head of Ground and Water with 30 years’ experience in decommissioning, earthworks, and land remediation. He has extensive experience in Development and Infrastructure Sectors across Europe, Australia, and South East Asia. He has directed demolition and land remediation work at major  industrial, military,  power and fuel facilities, managing the process through design, implementation and statutory approval with a focus on sustainable strategies. In recent years he has worked extensively on closure and regeneration of coal fired power stations with the transition to net zero.

Alice is an Environmental Consultant with Ramboll in London, specialising in contaminated land projects, having joined as a graduate consultant in 2017. She’s regularly involved in the management and delivery of, multi-disciplinary projects, providing sustainable solutions on a wide variety of sites, from commercial property developments to residential high rise, inclusive of private and social housing. Alice has worked on a number of gasworks redevelopment projects in London, which include risk assessments, ground investigations and development of sustainable remediation strategies. 

Alice is also a member of the Environment Analysts Early Careers Advisory Board, a shadow board for the Sustainability Delivery Group. The group has an initial focus on improving outreach activities within the industry and understanding which factors are most important with regard to retaining early career professionals within the industry.

Petra is a Hydrogeologist within the Contaminated Land and Hydrogeology (CLAH) practice in Atkins with over eight years of experience in academia and consultancy. During her Marie Curie Research Fellowship within the ADVOCATE Project (http://advocate-eu.group.shef.ac.uk/), she gained significant experience in bioremediation of groundwater. Petra works on land contamination risk assessments and hydrogeological assessments for infrastructure projects, developing conceptual site models. She is acting as a Digital Lead for the CLAH practice, delivering Digital Transformation. She is passionate about good data management and automation of data processing. She has introduced CLAH to the use of GIS data on a large scale.

She is also actively working on improving the use of AGS data (ground investigation and monitoring data) within the geo-environmental business. Petra has recently worked on a research project on “Unlocking contaminated land data for new housing” (https://theodi.org/article/case-study-unlocking-data-on-brownfield-sites/) and is the lead author for the shortlisted Brownfield Awards submission (https://www.brownfield-awards.environment-analyst.com/atkins2).

Dr Paul Nathanail took up his role as Technical Director of Contamination Assessment and Remediation with GHD in July 2020. Paul has already worked on projects in Australia, Middle East, Ireland and the West Indies – as well as the Lake District, Northumberland and Fulham. He has also been working to help organisations understand and better manage their liabilities from PFAS – the forever chemicals.

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He has recently been working on how to ensure innovative remediation integrates with sustainable remediation and maintains a social licence to operate.  He chaired the ISO working group that wrote BS ISO 18504:2017 and has published on operating windows and regularly teaches on remediation in British universities and audiences around the world – though not in person for the past few months.

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Paul currently chairs the National Brownfield Forum and is deputy chair of the board of directors of SILC Register.  He is a director of CABERNET and chairs his local neighbourhood forum. 

Michael joined Local Partnerships as Project Director for Housing in January 2020 following four years driving public sector collaboration projects as Regional Programme Manager for the Government’s One Public Estate Programme.

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Michael has held a number of senior roles in housing and local government over the last 25 years and has also provided private sector consultancy services. He has extensive project and programme management experience and is a Prince 2 qualified practitioner. He has managed several major change and service re-design initiatives and is a qualified business analyst.

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Michael’s career has included: Head of Service roles within two North West Metropolitan Councils, Assistant Director within a large North West City Council, Assistant Director role within a Combined Authority, a Housing Development Manager role within a South West rural District Council, and risk, governance and Board level experience, currently as a non-executive Director for a North West Registered Social Landlord sitting on the Risk and Audit Committee.

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Michael has a first class honours degree in Social Policy, a Masters degree in Quantity Surveying and postgraduate diplomas in Housing and Management studies. He has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing for over 20 years.

Amanda joined Brownfield Briefing as a freelance Conference Producer in 2011. Following its acquisition by Environment Analyst in 2014, Amanda continued to research, write, and deliver our expanding series of virtual and in-person conferences, webinars and training events.

In her current role as Community & Events Director, Amanda is responsible for the on-going development and delivery of a varied programme of industry-led content designed to add value to our membership offering and provide learning and networking opportunities for our different member communities, including the Brownfield & Regeneration Network and Sustainability Delivery Group.     

Prior to working in the environmental and brownfield sector, Amanda was a Conference Director in the energy & utilities division of IIR Global Conferences.

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Paul leads the geo-environmental and geotechnical team nationally within Hydrock.  With nearly 25 years’ experience in the land quality sector, he has extensive experience in delivering complex multidisciplinary projects within the residential, property and construction markets. 

He is experienced in working at all stages of a development’s lifecycle from acquisition, through to planning, construction and verification.  This exposure means Paul is adept at providing clients with cost focused, pragmatic and deliverable solutions.

With Hydrock, Paul’s track record includes the delivery of the enabling works for the UK's first three storey distribution warehouse in Docklands, providing strategic acquisition advice for a major logistics infrastructure development in central London and supporting National Trust on the sympathetic redevelopment of Clandon House that was severely damaged by fire in 2015.  In addition, he has completed geo-environmental and geotechnical assessments for notable projects such as, Prince Philip Park, a former military camp in Hampshire, The Biscuit Factory in Bermondsey, 65-70 White Lion Street, Islington, the former Kodak factory at Harrow and the proposed mixed-use development at Fort Halstead in Kent.

Paul has also supported a number of London boroughs to help them de-risk sites identified for future residential, commercial and retail developments.

Paul is a registered SiLC, SQP and QP.  He also actively supports the Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) and was recently part of the working group delivering the Brownfield First: Supporting Levelling Up document promoting the sustainable use of brownfield sites.

Dr Claire Stone has been working within the environmental testing sector for over 20 years, with more than 10 of these in a Quality Role, she is our Group Quality Director overseeing our Environmental, Geotechnical and Food laboratories.  Claire has vast experience in laboratory testing and environmental regulation, she plays a key role in the business ensuring the laboratory is at the forefront of developing markets, keeping up with industry best practice and looking at what areas of development the laboratories should focus on, to assist with that she sits on several groups and committees such as EIC, SoBRA, SCA and Regional Contaminated Land Forums. Claire has BSc and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry and has been instrumental in setting up the Asbestos Dustiness Method.

Dr Wagland has expertise in the properties of solid waste materials, the recovery of resources, the energy potential of UK waste streams and enhanced landfill mining. His expertise spans waste and fuel characterisation techniques, waste treatment technologies and energy recovery processes (including anaerobic digestion, incineration, gasification and pyrolysis).

Dr Wagland’s work on UK-wide assessment of waste contributed to substantial government investment in a demonstrator advanced thermal treatment facility aimed at accelerating the development of the UK capability in advanced thermal conversion.

Pat Willoughby has extensive experience working in strategic planning, housing and regeneration for a variety of public and private sector organisations.  She was a planning director of David Lock Associates leading multi-disciplinary teams in the preparation of master plans, development frameworks and strategic planning strategies.  As planning partner at Wei Yang & Partners, she was the principal author on their shortlisted submission for the Wolfson Prize on garden cities.  Most recently, she led the local authority and LEP partnership preparing the strategic growth plan for Leicester & Leicestershire.  At the West Midlands Combined authority, she works with local authorities and LEPS to support the delivery of new homes and jobs.  Place-making and inclusive growth lie at the heart of this work and remediating and re-using brownfield land is critical to its success.