Bristol Office

Dr Paul Dowson has joined us to lead our Geo-environmental team in the South West with a remit to work with Clients across the UK. Paul has a great reputation in the UK market with over 30 years experience in the field of aquatic pollution, contaminated land and remediation. During the last 12 years Paul has worked for WSP in a number of different Regional and Technical Director roles across the Ground and Water business, regionally focused in the Midlands, South and South West/Wales regions providing professional environmental advice across a wide range of sectors. Prior to joining WSP, Paul spent 14 years with Environmental Resources Management (ERM) in the Oxford office, latterly managing the Contaminated Site Management Team before moving to help set up and manage ERM’s Bristol office in 2006.

Dr Paul Dowson has joined us to lead our Geo-environmental team in the South West with a remit to work with Clients across the UK. Paul has a great reputation in the UK market with over 30 years experience in the field of aquatic pollution, contaminated land and remediation. During the last 12 years Paul has worked for WSP in a number of different Regional and Technical Director roles across the Ground and Water business, regionally focused in the Midlands, South and South West/Wales regions providing professional environmental advice across a wide range of sectors. Prior to joining WSP, Paul spent 14 years with Environmental Resources Management (ERM) in the Oxford office, latterly managing the Contaminated Site Management Team before moving to help set up and manage ERM’s Bristol office in 2006.

Sinéad brings 15 years' experience to the Delta-Simons geo-environmental team; based in the London office, Sinéad specialises in geotechnics.  Having completed an MSc in Engineering Geology at Newcastle University, Sinéad's experience has been developed through a wide range of site investigation and geotechnical design projects within both public and private sectors.

Sinéad has supported multidisciplinary teams on contract management, designing and managing a range of site investigations, undertaking geotechnical design and assessment including quay wall stability analysis, foundation design, slope stability analysis, interpretive reporting and input in detailed geotechnical design for highways construction.

Sinéad also has experience of offshore renewables projects which involved scheduling geotechnical and geophysical surveys for structure and pipeline/cable installation for numerous Tender and FEED projects; interpreting survey data to prepare ground models for design, as well as identifying key risks and potential hazards to structure and pipeline design and installation; undertaking geotechnical design for numerous sub-sea structures, as well as pipe-soil interaction, liquefaction, scouring, ploughability/trenching assessments.