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Aecom appoints a new managing director of civil infrastructure, Costain announces a new energy sector director and Rendel welcomes a new senior geotechnical engineer in the latest people moves from across the geotechnical sector.
Aecom has appointed Mark Southwell as managing director of civil infrastructure.
A civil engineer by profession, Southwell has 30 years’ experience in the transportation sector working as a client, in consultancy and as a contractor. He joins the company from Jacobs where as vice president he was responsible for leading around 900 people in the rail and geotechnical unit.
Atkins has welcomed back Tony Bowerman as senior geotechnical engineer.
Bowerman will work as part of the Atkins ground engineering and tunnelling team with a particular focus on earthwork and retaining structures design, investigation and asset management. He previously worked at Atkins from 2016 to 2021, first as a graduate geotechnical engineer and later as full-time geotechnical engineer. He was most recently a Mott MacDonald senior geotechnical engineer.
Cognition Land and Water has promoted intern Alfie Davidson to a permanent role as geoenvironmental scientist.
Davidson will start his new role in September after a six-week internship with the company, where he worked on the Barking Reach Power Station tunnel decommissioning project, among other things.
Costain has announced Laura Hughes as its new energy sector director.
Hughes joined the business on 2 August and will lead the team as energy sector director. Hughes was most recently Fugro’s UK country director, leading its ground engineering business.
Geotechnics has welcomed Zach Lloyd and Sarah Frankland to its Chester team.
Lloyd has been working at Geotechnics for the last two years and is starting on the company’s graduate engineering scheme. Frankland has recently joined the company as a graduate engineer after graduating with a geology and physical geography degree from the University of Liverpool.
GSS Piling has promoted Paul Burr to operations director.
Burr joined GSS Piling in 2005 as project manager and later became piling operations manager in 2015.
University of Nottingham has promoted Luke Prendergast to associate professor in civil engineering.
In his new role Prendergast will specialise in offshore and transportation geotechnics. He joined the Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics at the University of Nottingham as assistant professor in 2018, prior to which he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, from 2016 to 2018 and at University College Dublin from 2015 to 2016.
Ramboll UK has welcomed back Stephen West as head of ground engineering UK.
West returns to the company’s UK division after spending more than a year as head of geostructures at Ramboll DK, where he set up the company’s new geostructures department in Copenhagen. Prior to his move to Denmark, West was Ramboll UK technical director of geotechnics from 2006 to 2012.
Rendel has appointed Vanessa Burton as senior geotechnical engineer.
Burton began working at international engineering design consultancy firm Rendel in April of this year as geotechnical engineer and was made senior geotechnical engineer in June of this year. She joined the company from Mott MacDonald, where she was most recently an assistant engineer.
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