The transport team at one of the Midlands fastest growing engineering consultancies has more than doubled in size recently, adding graduate and associate level recruits to both its Ibstock and Birmingham offices.
M-EC Consulting Development Engineers has appointed Simon Prescott as an associate transport engineer, Saima Khan as transport engineer and Sarah Rotheram as graduate transport engineer. Saima has joined director, Alex Bennett and associate director, Neil Benison in Birmingham while Simon and Sarah are based at the firm’s head office in Ibstock, Leicestershire.
“Our transport work has increased steadily over the last year, especially since we launched the Birmingham and Milton Keynes offices a year ago, and so we have been keen to expand this key division,” explains director, Alex Bennett. “These new appointments bring with them key skills which will enable us to better serve clients as the business grows.”
M-EC’s transport team provide detailed assessments, designs and audits in line with current legislation to meet the objectives of planning, highway authorities and developers. Their particular areas of expertise are highways design, travel planning, accessibility audits, transport assessments and safety audits. Further capabilities involve acting as expert witnesses, presenting and defending technical evidence, including under cross-examination conditions, across a range of construction disciplines.
Alex added: “Transport is an integral part of any development, so it’s essential our work provides sustainable, realistic and comprehensive recommendations that ensure successful outcomes. With some of our current schemes representing major new, mixed use development and therefore requiring complex assessment and strategy, the timing was right to increase the team. Our new recruits have a wealth of experience and are already proving value additions to the transport division.”
M-EC’s latest transport projects include the full suite of assessments on proposed developments at Perryfields Road, Bromsgrove (1,300 homes/mixed use); Bishopton Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon (500 homes); Westfield Farm, Earl Shilton (350 homes/mixed use) and Lime Lane, Derby (250 homes).