SLR Consulting strengthens UK team with Xavier Brice

Xavier Brice has been put in as a director at SLR Consulting. He joins the sustainable planning and infrastructure team.

SLR is a  world environmental and advisory consultancy, with a team of greater than 5,000 professionals working from a community of workplaces in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Center East, and Africa. In recent times, as demand round sustainability and vitality consulting has risen, the agency has utilised a variety of offers to ramp up its experience and capability.

Xavier Brice, the previous chief government of Stroll Wheel Cycle Belief and a key architect of London’s biking revolution, will now head up these efforts, because the agency’s new director of sustainable planning and infrastructure. The function will combine disciplines throughout planning, infrastructure and atmosphere, enhancing the supply of sustainable place choices at each stage of the constructed atmosphere lifecycle. 

Brice commented, “After ten years, I noticed a pure level to step apart and allow recent management. I used to be eager to return to cross-sector work, and my function at SLR permits me to function throughout public, personal and political environments, broadening my focus past journey alone. I’m becoming a member of a rising enterprise with the chance to assist form its course, constructing on my longstanding curiosity in place, not simply motion, and supporting the creation of resilient infrastructure via a extra built-in, systems-led strategy.” 

Brice will lead the expansion of an built-in sustainable constructed atmosphere providing throughout Europe, the Center East and Africa, with a concentrate on adaptability and long-term approaches to placemaking. He’ll draw on expertise from Stroll Wheel Cycle Belief (previously Sustrans), the place he served as CEO for a decade. Throughout his tenure, he performed a big function in remodeling strolling, wheeling and biking throughout the UK, together with overseeing the supply of greater than 500 miles of recent and improved Nationwide Cycle Community routes. Previous to this, he was instrumental at Transport for London (TfL) in creating the methods that outlined the capital’s fashionable biking infrastructure. 

Mike Axon, world director of transport at SLR Consulting, added, “As we transfer in the direction of a brand new period of planning, the place imaginative and prescient leads and supply follows, we’re delighted to welcome Xavier into this necessary function. His observe report of delivering national-scale change will assist deliver better alignment throughout our planning and infrastructure companies, strengthening how we ship built-in, strategic options for our shoppers.”