Employee and Affiliate Biographies
Steve Pearmain, Managing Director
BSc, MSc, MIEnvSc, CEnv
Steve is a Chartered Environmentalist and recognised environmental specialist with 15 years experience providing a diverse range of environmental services across a broad range of sectors and international jurisdictions. He has been instrumental to the successful delivery of numerous challenging & high profile environmental projects; including the sustainable regeneration of the London 2012 Olympic Park site. During his tenure as Head of Land Quality at Atkins Global Steve was responsible for a business unit with a yearly revenue stream of c.$10million and the Line Management of 58 technical staff across a range of disciplines and grades.
Steve established SLP Environmental in Bangkok in January 2008 with the objective of providing the SE Asian marketplace with premium quality environmental consultancy services. He is a firm proponent of technical excellence and environmentally responsible development, and his mission is to provide innovative, cost effective and sustainable environmental solutions that both deliver his clients objectives and benefit the natural environment and local communities. Steve has worked in three continents and combines internationally acquired expertise and experience with an in-depth understanding of SE Asia’s environmental policies, regulatory frameworks and cultural sensitivities. Steve has authored numerous environmental articles and presented at conferences and seminars on the subject internationally.
Liz Pearmain, Director
BSc, MSc, MIEnvSc, CSci, CEnv
Liz is a Chartered Environmentalist and Chartered Scientist with nine years experience in the environmental consultancy sector. Prior to joining SLP Environmental Liz worked for Waterman Environmental on a number of major and high profile regeneration projects. Liz is a fully qualified land quality assessment expert whose specialisms include environmental due diligence, site characterisation, waste minimisation, QRA modelling and major scheme Project Management.
During her career Liz has provided environmental due diligence liability assessments for mergers, acquisitions and divestitures for a wide range of corporate, property and financial sector clients including; Bovis Lend Lease, Standard Life, Land Securities, Golfrate, Grosvenor and HSBC. Liz also has extensive experience in managing and delivering major multi-disciplinary urban regeneration and environmental improvement schemes.
Recent high profile projects include the Paradise Project - A regeneration project covering 18 hectares in the heart of Liverpool City Centre in preparation for Liverpool becoming the European Capital of Culture in 2008, and the project management of a multi-disciplinary master planning project at a former research facility site designated for redevelopment as a zero carbon Ecotown.
Liz's waste minimisation credentials include undertaking an Operational Waste Audit and producing a Waste Strategy Report for Borough Market, London. These works included the determination of the baseline and development of a Waste Strategy to deliver both sustainable waste minimisation practices and ultimately cost savings for the client.
Liz also has experience in Health, Safety and Environmental legislation having fulfilled the role of Health and Safety Representative for Waterman Environmental. The role involved the management of site and workplace health and safety matters, preparing for external audits, implementing new procedures, producing new risk assessments/project plans/method statements and attending Management Board Health and Safety Committees.
Gavin Bollan Affiliate, Air Quality and Sustainability Specialist
BSc MIEnvSc MIAQM
Gavin is an air quality and environmental sustainability specialist having worked in the environment industry since the early 1990s as a chemist and a scientific consultant. In the capacities of industrial chemist, emissions technician, occupational hygienist and monitoring adviser, he has operated, prepared guidance for, designed, maintained, and repaired a huge array of air and water quality sampling and analytical equipment.
Since moving to a project management role, he has undertaken and overseen a diverse range and scale of projects, from securing a pollution control permit for the UK’s smallest metals refinery to overseeing the air quality chapters of the UK’s largest development planning application; making use of a wide suite of technical assessment and quantitative modelling tools.
Gavin has developed capabilities in carbon quantification over the last seven years and developed the technical framework for carbon trading in European Union member states. During his career he has initiated and led the development of numerous carbon footprinting devices. Gavin is currently Head of Business for Air & Sustainability with Atkins and an approved SLP specialist affiliate, leading a team of 20 air quality, carbon and multi-aspect sustainability appraisers.
Guy PomphreyAffiliate, Remediation Specialist
BSc, MICE, CEng
Guy is an internationally recognised process based remediation specialist and is currently involved in two of the largest and most complex remediation projects being undertaken globally. These projects include the application of technologies including soil washing, thermal desorption, bioremediation and stabilisation on the 2.5 sq.km London 2012 Olympic Park site and 1 sq.km Avenue Coking Works site.
Guy was also the Project Manager responsible the remediation of Sir John Rogerson’s Quay Gasworks in Dublin, which involved the export and treatment of nearly 400,000t of soil using both soil washing and thermal desorption techniques. On the Olympic Park site approximately 1.3 million tonnes of soil needs to be cleaned of contamination including petrol, oil, tar, metals/metalloids, and sustainability considerations mean that 90% of the contaminated material needs to be recycled and reused on site. To this end two Soil treatment Centres containing numerous process based remediation technologies are being constructed on the site.
The Avenue Coking Works project involves the treatment of 200,000m3 of tar and entrained sediments, a 350,000m3 waste tip and 600,000m3 of impacted soils. Intensive pilot scale trials have been undertaken and it is currently anticipated that the remediation works will involve a combination of ex-situ soil washing, bioremediation and thermal desorption. Guy is currently the Managing Director of DEC UK Ltd and an approved SLP specialist affiliate.