Our highly experienced and dedicated team was set up in 2010 and specialises in hydrogeological services to the mining industry and hydrological, hydrogeological and geological advice to the renewables and infrastructure sectors in the UK. We have developed established links with a number of leading associates to offer a broader suite of professional services directly linked to the water and soil environment. We now have offices in both Edinburgh and Bristol and offer a dedicated team of field technicians that can provide high quality data efficiently and economically throughout the UK.

Lucy is senior environmental consultant with over eleven years of experience in environmental consultancy. She specialises in water resources, water quality, peat, geology, contaminated land, EIA and project management.

Lucy has been responsible for the design, implementation and management of site investigations and monitoring programmes for a variety of developments, due diligence assessments, divestment packages and decommissioning. Lucy is proficient at undertaking hydrological assessments for a variety of developments including wind farms, hydroelectric schemes, biomass plants, linear projects and restoration projects. She has been responsible for the design, implementation and overseeing of drainage managements plans and monitoring for a variety of construction sites. She is also specialised in peat assessments including surveys, management plans, peat slide risk assessment and peatland restoration plans.

Lucy is a senior consultant and project manager with experience in managing internal teams locally and remotely as well as sub-contractors. Lucy has a wealth of experience in both the design and practicalities of a development, its constructability, meeting planning conditions, liaising with regulators, finding solutions, and the construction process in practice.

We work with various associates in numerous disciplines however there are some key specialists who we regularly work with who include:

Clare Wharmby – Carbon Specialist  with over 16 years’ experience in environmental management, in both consultancy and academic sectors. Clare is the director of Carbon Forecast Ltd which provides climate change assessments for EIA projects. She has completed over 25 windfarm assessments across the UK using the Scottish Carbon Calculator for wind farms on peat lands, including sites where peat extraction has also taken place. She has been actively involved in Carbon Landscapes and Drainage (CLAD) Group and has input into the development of the carbon calculator from a practioner viewpoint. Clare has also delivered climate change and sustainability assessments for other large scale energy projects, including waste to energy and biomass. Clare lectures on EIA and climate change at the Scottish Rural University College and Heriot-Watt University.

John Ferry – Hydrogeology Specialist with over 30 years of experience providing strategic and detailed technical advice on the hydrogeology and hydro-ecology of development projects and operations, often large scale and rural. He is also active in land and water quality legacy issues. John has an innovative approach to and a strong interest in natural capital and ecosystem services. He has been involved in a wide range of risk and liability assessment roles and has acted as expert witness. Johns work has a strong focus on issue resolution through interaction and negotiation with Regulators, Developers Contractors and other stakeholders.

Ben and Alison Averis – Botanical Consultants, each of us with over 30 years of experience in a wide range of botanical survey and monitoring work including vegetation mapping using the National Vegetation Classification and other classifications, survey and monitoring of vegetation condition, survey and monitoring of rare species, and surveys of bryophytes (mosses and liverworts), all of this for many organisations in various parts of the UK in connection with nature conservation matters and development proposals.  Ben also provides teaching on plant species identification and the classification of plant communities.  Ben and Alison are among the co-authors of An Illustrated Guide to British Upland Vegetation (Joint Nature Conservation Committee, 2003) and Ben is the author of Plants and Habitats (2013).

Andy Mills – Peat Slide Specialist with over 15 years’ experience of mapping and interpreting peat geomorphology and landslides in the UK and Ireland. He was technical lead in preparation of the Best Practice Guide for the Scottish Government in relation to peat landslides and acted as lead reviewer for the Scottish Government’s contracted checking team for peat stability assessments submitted to the Energy Consents Unit as part of Section 36 applications for wind farm developments.

Neill Malone – Flood Risk Modeller with over 11 years’ experience in environmental and engineering consultancy. Neill’s main specialism is assessing flood risk for proposed developments, advising on SuDS and using Infoworks CS and Windes to assess runoff from impermeable areas. He also has skills in specifying, conducting and overseeing surveys which are used to construct hydraulic models, such as topographic and CCTV surveys.