James Langstraat, Environmental Consultant, Halcrow

"The Environmental Consultancy course provided an excellent set of practical skills in project, stakeholder and client management as well as a detailed knowledge of sustainability which is a central priority to most clients"

Since joining Halcrow I have worked on the following projects:

• Travel Plan Carbon Calculator (for the Highways Agency) Developed an excel based tool with a web-style interface to estimate the potential carbon savings achievable through implementing a green travel plan
• Sustainability Review (for Transport Scotland) Review to provide recommendations to Transport Scotland as to how they can embed sustainability into their operations and supply chain as a major construction client and asset manager through procurement, contracts, tools and standards
• Carbon Management System (for Transport Scotland) Developing a carbon management system for Transport Scotland inline with ISO 14064 and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. To measure and assess the annual carbon footprint. And a design tool to minimise greenhouse gas emissions through design using a life cycle assessment approach.
• Supply Chain Carbon Footprint of Trans-Pacific Shipping (for British Columbia Ministry of Transportation, Canada) Comparison of four trans-pacific shipping options from China to North American ports to identify the most efficient route in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.
• River Severn Catchment Flood Management Plan (for the Environment Agency Appraising impacts of the generic policy options recommended in the CFMP against the environmental catchment objectives for the River Severn including analysis of environmental assets within current and future flood areas, and assessing the impact of flooding on these assets.
• Waste EIA ES and Scoping Report chapters (for private developers) Assessment of the impact of the development on local waste management capacity and recommendations for waste minimisation and mitigation to be build into the development design.