Listed below are personal profiles for each of our key team leaders:

Nigel Leehane, Managing Director

Having a considerable breadth of environmental consultancy and related industrial experience, Nigel leads CRA's Environmental Management Services in supporting organisations in improving their environmental and sustainability performance. An experienced auditor, he works at corporate and project level to identify risks and opportunities, and to develop programmes to deliver improvement. He has guided more than 20 organisations in the development and implementation of ISO 14001 environmental management systems as a means of meeting these goals.

Nigel leads CRA's climate change services, including corporate greenhouse gas emissions reporting, GHG strategy and CRC compliance.  He is an experienced trainer and facilitator, and has developed and presented courses and workshops ranging from carbon accounting to advanced EMS auditing and the development of corporate sustainability strategy. His environmental consultancy experience also includes environmental impact assessment, contaminated land investigation, environmental permitting and environmental monitoring.

Nigel is an advisor to the UK Government's Envirowise Helpline, supporting primarily industrial organisations in environmental management and resource efficiency. He works closely with certification organisations, providing technical support to ISO 14001 certification teams and training for firms involved in EMS implementation. He represents the UK on the International Standards Organisation working group which is revising ISO 19011, the standard for auditing management systems.

He has broad industry experience, including primarily manufacturing (including engineering, automotive and aerospace), oil and gas, mining and quarrying, construction, infrastructure and land development. Nigel has worked in many countries, including Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Egypt, Ghana, Bangladesh, Canada, the US and Hong Kong.


Frank Dennis, Director

 

Frank has a wide range of assurance consultancy and industrial project management experience. He specialises in safety, health and environmental management at high hazard sites where he has worked as both operator and consultant.  Describing himself as a competent generalist, Frank has lead projects ranging from environmental impact assessment and permitting to water resources and waste management.  He has also managed large-scale options studies which have involved stakeholder consultation at a national level.

For much of the past 10 years, Frank has been involved with the nuclear industry where he has gained an international reputation in the area of environmental risk and contaminated land management.  He has advised both the IAEA and Atomic Energy Canada Ltd in addition to numerous UK facilities.

Frank has an extensive publications record.  He is a Chartered Geologist, Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner and Member of the Association for Project Management.  He holds dual Canadian and UK citizenship and speaks French and Spanish in addition to English.


Bryan Hughes, Director

Following his undergraduate studies in chemistry at Bangor University, North Wales, Bryan started his scientific career with two UK Pharmaceutical companies in South East England.  He transferred his technical experience to the Environmental sector when he joined BP in the mid 1980s.  Whilst with BP, Bryan headed an applications laboratory that investigated potential commercial opportunities to treat water and industrial effluents using novel technologies developed by BP scientists at their Sunbury research centre. 

More recently, Bryan was a Divisional Environmental Manager at BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace) based in Buckinghamshire. At BAE he managed and advised on a range of compliance-driven environmental issues that were impacting a number of UK manufacturing sites in the 1990s.  During that time he also saw the BAE business go through major reorganisation and significant rationalisation. 

In 2000 Bryan became an Associate Director in the UK Environmental Consultancy business of Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), based firstly at Chester and then Manchester.  With PB, Bryan had responsibilities for project based teams that were involved in environmental permits, environmental compliance and Due Diligence audits; including management techniques for operational control and compliance.  Bryan was also the Key Account Manager for the Royal Mail Group and the client manager and principal contact point for Airbus operations in the UK.

Bryan sees his appointment at CRA as a very exciting opportunity that will utilise his wide-ranging experience and multi-sector track record. 

Adrian Quinn, Manager, Land and Property Services

Adrian manages the Land Team at CRA (Europe) Ltd, which provides market leading advice and client support to industry and commercial developers.  Adrian has a wealth of experience supporting developers, both commercial and residential, the financial sector, Local Authorities and industry (both in expansion and support to the divestiture of redundant facilities).  Support includes design and management of geotechnical and geo-environmental investigations, risk assessment (human health, groundwater and gas), interpretation and remediation of contaminated land, and the provision of value added services including waste categorisation, abnormal foundation costings and mine working investigations.

Adrian has been involved in a number of major regeneration projects including the former Triumph (Rover) Motor Works, Coventry, and remediation design at a former steelworks in Derbyshire, including liaison and preparation of reports for a QC, a statement for planning appeal and management of ground investigations to assess shallow worked seams and opencast workings. Another significant project was Project Manager for the removal of a landfill, at Stratford upon Avon on behalf of the Council, including directing the works, ensuring environmental compliance and re-engineering geotechnical backfills.

Adrian is both a Chartered Scientist and Chartered Geologist whose technical expertise led to him achieving SiLC (Specialist in Land Condition) in 2006.