Mr Seamus Lefroy-Brooks

BSc(hons) MSc CEng MICE CGeol FGS CEnv MIEnvSc FRGS RoGEP UK Registered Ground Engineering Adviser SiLC NQMS SQP DoWCoP QP

Detailed description

Seamus is past chair of both the AGS (Association of Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Specialists) and the Land Forum / National Brownfield Forum. He was named by DEFRA for assisting with the Environmental Protection Act Part 2A statutory revisions and was one of the twelve experts subsequently appointed to the government’s National Expert Panel for Land Contamination Seamus was one of the founders of The Society of Brownfield Risk Assessment (SoBRA). He has sat on various CIRIA and BSI steering groups and is notably one of the authors of the present BS4845 relating to landfill gas . Seamus is past chair of the CL:AIRE Technology & Research Group, which oversees all CL:AIRE projects and programmes including the DoWCoP and GVPS schemes. Since 2014 Seamus has been leading the initiative to deliver the National Quality Mark Scheme (NQMS) for the management of land affected by contamination. He was honoured to have been invited to tender for overseeing the Environment Agency-led investigations into possible land contamination caused by the Grenfell Fire. In 2017 he delivered a key-note presentation to the inaugural meeting of the Geological Society Contaminated Land Group at Burlington House. Seamus has been significantly involved in the recent initiatives in relation to asbestos in soils. He is a member of the Joint Industry Working Group (JIWG) on Asbestos in Soils and served on the Working Group (WG2) of the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) Committee for Fibre Measurement (CFM). He is acknowledged by the HSE for his work assisting with their recently updated HSG248 guidance.

Organisation: LBHGEO Ltd.

Member of: Institution of Civil Engineers Institute of Environmental Sciences Society for the Environment Geological Society Society for Brownfield Risk Assessment