David Coutts Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Senior contaminated land practitioner. I have had multiple roles, including team leader, project management, project direction, business building and technical direction. As the team leader successfully was involved in implementing a growth plan, where the team increased by over 100%. The focus now is building the team further to provide wide ranging consultancy that specializes in contaminated land assessment and management across a wide range of sectors and markets.Author of paper… Show more Senior contaminated land practitioner. I have had multiple roles, including team leader, project management, project direction, business building and technical direction. As the team leader successfully was involved in implementing a growth plan, where the team increased by over 100%. The focus now is building the team further to provide wide ranging consultancy that specializes in contaminated land assessment and management across a wide range of sectors and markets.Author of paper "Contaminated land data assessment - the fundamentals". In Remediation Australia Issue 13, 2013.Presentation at ASBG Seminar - Contaminated Land: The New NEPM Conference Melbourne "Impacts on site auditing, monitoring and remediation costs resulting from changes to the NEPM" (July 2013) Show less

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Technical Director - focus on work winning and project delivery as Project Director and Project Manager. Key achievements involved the assessment and remediation of a wood preservative factory in Dublin, multiple site assessment for the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) program in Tameside.Practice Leader for contaminated land site investigation. Responsible for ensuring technical quality of deliverables.

Glasgow

Responsible for the contaminated land team in Glasgow office, and project direction and management.Key achievements: Multiple contaminated land projects for North Lanarkshire Council, South Ayrshire Council, Clackmannanshire Council and West Lothian Council. Large site investigation and risk assessment at the former Alcan smelter in Invergordon, a gas works in Renfrewshire and the assessment and remediation of a former hangar at Glasgow airport.

Glasgow

Initially involved in growing SLR's consultancy base on Scotland. Work winning and delivery of both local and national project. Multiple projects for oil and gas related Clients across UK and other infrastructure development projects in Scotland. Specialist contaminated land quantitative risk assessor.

Glasgow

Appointed to set up the Week's consultancy offering based out of their Soil Testing Laboratory. Undertook all aspects of consultancy work, work winning and delivery. Key achievements included providing consultancy services for the Tay Waste Water Project in Dundee, remediating a former fuel depot in Ayr and undertaking multiple site investigations at railway depots for Railtrack and EWS.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Focus predominantly on specialist technical input and delivery as part of large infrastructure projects such as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Bristol Spine Road, BAA's Prospect park development, Crossways Park in Dartford and was the resident chemist at Llanelli Gas Works remediation.

London, United Kingdom

Project delivery and task management.

Harwell, Uk

Contract Research. Involved in variety of environmental microbiology projects including researching impacts of degradation of wastes on the proposed underground repository at Drigg and investigations on landfill gas enhancements at the Brogborough Landfill Test Cells.PublicationsR Colasanti, D Coutts, SYR Pugh, A Rosevear. 1991. The Microbiology programme for UK Nirex. Experimentia 47, Issue 6, pp 560-572R Colasanti, D Coutts, SYR Pugh, A Rosevear. 1990. Microbiology and… Show more Contract Research. Involved in variety of environmental microbiology projects including researching impacts of degradation of wastes on the proposed underground repository at Drigg and investigations on landfill gas enhancements at the Brogborough Landfill Test Cells.PublicationsR Colasanti, D Coutts, SYR Pugh, A Rosevear. 1991. The Microbiology programme for UK Nirex. Experimentia 47, Issue 6, pp 560-572R Colasanti, D Coutts, SYR Pugh, A Rosevear. 1990. Microbiology and Radioactive Waste Disposal: Review of the NIREX Research Programme – January 1989. Nirex Report NSS/R131). Didcot, UK: Nirex , 1990.Coutts, D.A.P., Grant, W.D., O`Kelly, N., Pugh, S.Y.R., Malpass, J.R., Rosevear, A., Walter, E.R. and Widdowson, D. 1997. Microbiology Research in Support of the Nirex Near-field Chemistry Programme. Nirex Report NSS/R328). Didcot, UK: Nirex. Show less

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Environmental microbiology research.

Phd, Landfill Microbiology

Investigated the inter species interactions of a microbial community isolated from landfill. Focus on landfill gas generation..

Bsc, Microbiology

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