We provide our clients with a comprehensive infrastructure planning and delivery service, from assessing the viability of potential development sites through to planning, detailed design and delivery.
Our specialists deliver the full spectrum of transport services. Our skilled team can provide initial advice on the feasibility of a development, through to preparing transport assessments and travel plans to accompany planning applications.
Our specialists deliver the full spectrum of flood risk, water and drainage services for both private and public sector clients. From pre-purchase due diligence advice, flood risk assessments and SuDs for development sites, through to appraisal, detailed design and delivery of flood risk management schemes.
Our specialists deliver professional and practical acoustic advice to support planning applications and resolve planning conditions.
We provide clients with a comprehensive service to assess and mitigate the risks arising from, and to, oil and petrochemical storage facilities.
We provide Expert Witness and Proof of Evidence services regarding highways, transportation and flooding for clients to support planning appeals, Compulsory Purchase Orders and Local Development Frameworks.
Our specialist team of air quality scientists have many years’ experience in assessing air quality as part of both planning and LAQM processes.
Our highly qualified and professional team provide professional engineering consultancy services.
We specialise in Infrastructure Planning, Design and Delivery, Transport Planning, Water, Drainage and Flood Risk Management, Noise and Vibration Assessment, Risk Analysis for Oil and Chemical Facilities, Expert Witness and Air Quality and Odour services and we also design civil engineering infrastructure for developers, local authorities, planning consultants and architects in the United Kingdom.
Steve has over 20 years’ experience in the planning and design of transport infrastructure, specialising in the past nine years in advising on the transport aspects of planning new developments.
Steven can provide advice on transport planning and design matters at the pre-purchase stage; advise on scheme design and access, and parking provision; prepare Transport Assessments/Statements and Green Travel Plans to support planning applications; and negotiate legal agreements with planning and highway authorities.
Steve is based in our Essex office.
e-mail:sfield@ardent-ce.co.uk
Andrew has over 15 years’ experience in the construction industry, working mainly in engineering consultancy.
Andrew has a wide variety of experience from large mixed-use developments, residential projects and business projects being involved from initial feasibility, through planning, detailed design and to on-site support specialising in civil engineering and flood risk considerations.
Andrew is based in our South West office.
e-mail:adennis@ardent-ce.co.uk
John has over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry on both the consultant and contractor side, in the public and private sectors.
John’s career began as a graduate trainee with the Mace Group when it was a mere fledgling company in the early 1990s. From there he joined BAM to help set up a Private Finance Initiative team and later a specialist Construction Management team. Later in his career he moved over to the engineering consultancy side, first with WYG where he worked primarily in the public sector, then over to Buro Happold Engineering where he led business development for their London office for nearly 10 years, targeting major regeneration and development opportunities. John now joins us after a year’s consultancy role focused on London’s University estates with the UK’s leading fit-out company Overbury, part of the Morgan Sindall group of companies.
John is based in our London office.
e-mail:jmacmillan@ardent-co.uk
Lee has over 15 years’ of acoustic consultancy experience having worked for private consultancies and engineering firms on a variety of projects throughout the UK. His experience covers a range of projects within the residential, retail, commercial, minerals and waste, and industrial sectors.
Lee is involved in all stages of projects from pre-purchase through to planning assessments and post-application negotiations. These have included major road and rail infrastructure schemes as well as large residential and commercial development projects.
Lee is based in our Midlands office.
e-mail:ldursley@ardent-ce.co.uk
Edward has over 8 years of experience in the Civil Engineering Industry, working on a broad range of projects and providing engineering services to predominately private sector clients.
Edward is experienced in delivering both brownfield and greenfield developments and specialises in flood risk & drainage, highway design and earthworks.
Edward is involved at all stages of projects providing due diligence and pre-purchase advice, reports and technical drawings to support planning applications and detailed drawings packages for tender, approval and construction.
Edward is based in our Nottingham office.
e-mail:efambely@ardent-ce.co.uk
Andrew has over 17 years’ Transport Planning experience in private sector consultancy services, working on a range of schemes across the UK, including residential, commercial, retail, healthcare, educational facilities, care homes and mixed-use development proposals.
Andrew provides transport planning advice from initial due diligence appraisals, through to planning applications and post-planning support. His key focus is on providing safe and cost-effective solutions for the Client that support and complement each development individually.
Andrew is based in our Nottingham office.
e-mail:agilnicz@ardent-ce.co.uk
Andrew has over 7 years of experience in the Civil Engineering Industry, working mainly for Ardent since he joined the company as a Graduate over 6 years ago. He has worked on a broad range of projects and providing engineering services to predominately private housing developers, as well as mixed-use and commercial developments.
Andrew is experienced in delivering both brownfield and greenfield developments and specialises in flood risk & drainage, level design, highway design and earthworks. He is involved in all stages of projects, from the initial pre-purchase advice and due diligence, supporting planning applications with reports and technical drawings, to producing detailed working drawing packages for tender and construction stages.
Andrew is based in our Kent office.
e-mail:awren@ardent-ce.co.uk
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