Manchester Office

Richard is Unit Director for the northern regions, and has over 18 years' consultancy experience in contaminated land, remediation and environmental due diligence. Richard is responsible for leading the Delta-Simons Geo-environmental operations team in Manchester, Leeds and Durham, providing contaminated land, geotechnical and environmental due diligence services and support to a growing client base.

Kelvin is a chartered geologist and SiLC, and has 26 years of experience providing client focused solutions to resolve environmental challenges. Kelvin has extensive experience in due diligence and compliance auditing, environmental planning and assessment and redevelopment of land subjected to contaminative use within the property development, manufacturing, chemical, oil and gas and public sectors.

Richard is Unit Director for the northern regions, and has over 18 years' consultancy experience in contaminated land, remediation and environmental due diligence. Richard is responsible for leading the Delta-Simons Geo-environmental operations team in Manchester, Leeds and Durham, providing contaminated land, geotechnical and environmental due diligence services and support to a growing client base.

Sabine joined Delta-Simons Manchester regional team in July 2016, bringing nine years of geo-environmental knowledge, along with a range of experience on environmental and geo-environmental site investigations across the UK.  Sabine’s project experience includes working towards the discharge of contaminated land planning conditions associated with residential housing estates, high-rise apartments, commercial, industrial, public buildings, refurbishments and change of use.  Sabine has good experience in detailed quantitative risk assessments, environmental permitting and baseline conditions, coal mining, brine pumping, waste classification, acquisition and divestment due diligence.

Joshua Rigby is an Associate with over 10 years’ experience in environmental consultancy and is the Team Leader for the Water Services business stream. Josh is a flood risk and drainage technical specialist and project manager and has delivered numerous complex flood risk management and drainage projects across the UK. Josh has undertaken and led the delivery of many detailed Flood Risk Assessments (FRA), Flood Consequences Assessments (FCA), Drainage Strategies, Surface Water Management Plans, Flood Management Plans, culvert studies and due diligence projects for a range of high-profile public and private clients. 

Josh is responsible for the technical review and authorisation of flood risk and drainage strategy reports prepared by the business and has significant experience in tender proposals, project management, optioneering, policy appraisal and reporting.

Alex Houldsworth is a Principal Consultant at Delta-Simons Environmental Consultants Ltd with over eight years’ experience in environmental consultancy, specialising in Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Due Diligence. She has experience of project managing due diligence of both large and small property and corporate transactions from all sides of the deal including acquisitions, divestment and refinancing. Alex has been involved in projects across a range of sectors, including manufacturing, logistics, chemical, pharmaceutical, aviation, food and drink, automotive, construction and commercial and has experience working on due diligence projects in the UK, Europe, Russia, India and China.

Based in the London regional office, Alex joined Delta-Simons in 2018, and her key skills lie in project and programme management, understanding the practical application of UK and EU EHS legislation and being able to differentiate between minor and material EHS risks to clients.

Catherine joined Delta-Simons in 2018, and has been working in EHS roles in industry, consultancy and local government for the past 14 years. She has spent the last five years working at an automotive manufacturing plant where she initially led the Environmental department, and most recently headed up the Health & Safety team. 

Prior to this, Catherine worked as an environmental consultant specialising in management systems, compliance and waste management for a variety of sectors. She also spent 18 months seconded to an LNG plant in South Wales where she project-managed the implementation of the onsite lab which determined the quality of the gas being brought in from Qatar.

Catherine is a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) and is also a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute for Waste Management (MCIWM). She currently holds a NEBOSH General Certificate for Occupational Health and Safety.