Lawrence Bowden

Background

About Lawrence Bowden

18 years experienced brownfield regeneration practitioner and Principal/ Senior Director/ Office Manager for Geosyntec Consultants Limited based in the Manchester area. Chartered Geologist, Chartered Scientist, European Geologist, Qualified Person (QP) under the CL:AIRE scheme, Specialist in Land Condition (SiLC) and Suitably Qualified & Experienced Person (SQP) under the national quality mark scheme (NQMS). Environmental geochemist with key technical skills in human health, controlled waters and gas risk assessment, waste characterization and management and mining legacy management. Experienced Project / Technical Director and risk assessor having worked on numerous challenging brownfield land, landfill, up/ downs stream petroleum, chemical/ industrial sites, mining and waste sites. Skills are used to provide sound advice to clients during all aspects of the project lifecycle seeking opportunities to integrate development planning and other aspects of multi-disciplinary service delivery to make sure strategies are robust and add value. Thrive in working on large complex multidisciplinary projects where the successful interplay of different disciplines is essential for project success, including: transport, civils, structures, ecology, flood risk, odour nuisance, planning and masterplanning, architecture, heritage, archaeology and transport. Involved in most sectors nationally including: redevelopment, commercial, logistics, mission critical, nuclear, residential, mining legacy. Land contamination specialist leading the technical team for the Mersey Gateway Bridge Project, technical lead on the 30+ site Greater Manchester Waste PFI, lead designer for non-coal passive mine water treatment schemes for the Coal Authority including the first full-scale scheme at Haggs, North Pennines.