SLR to unearth developer opportunities across the Midlands

Sustainability consultancy SLR Consulting has expanded its providing across the Midlands with the launch of a brand new archaeology hub. The transfer comes amid rising demand for heritage companies across the area.

In 2024, SLR Consulting acquired Wardell Armstrong – gaining a full area of specialists with a mixed group of over 70. This nationwide community contains the group behind the globally acclaimed ‘Uncovering Roman Carlisle’ venture – an award-winning, internationally vital excavation that found a high-status imperial advanced on Hadrian’s Wall that featured on Nationwide Geographic.

Now, the agency has unfold that progress into the Midlands, in a transfer the agency says “bridges a crucial geographic hole”, bringing a tier-one fieldwork functionality and big infrastructure expertise instantly to native regional builders to meet rising demand.

Rory Bates, constructed surroundings sector lead for Europe at SLR Consulting, commented, “Increasing our archaeology group in the Midlands is a practical step to meet rising regional developer demand. Our shoppers navigate advanced planning and danger environments, and having a devoted group that gives each consultancy and fieldwork domestically is a serious benefit. By combining this hands-on heritage experience with our broader constructed surroundings disciplines – like GIS and environmental advisory – we can assist de-risk tasks early on, making certain industrial developments progress easily whereas nonetheless delivering actual social worth and neighborhood profit.”

Main the growth is Gareth Davies, who joins as archaeology technical director. With three a long time of economic and tutorial expertise, he’ll head up the newly built-in Midlands group across Nottingham and Birmingham. He’s joined by GIS specialist Ben Turner and senior archaeologist Jessica Stevens, additional strengthening SLR’s regional functionality.

Davies added, “I’ve joined SLR at an thrilling time for the enterprise because it continues to develop its archaeological providing each across the Midlands and nationally… Industrial archaeology shouldn’t simply be a compliance field to tick; we’re demonstrating how archaeological information can actively inform design, environmental enhancements and habitat information. As the Midlands group continues to broaden, we’re targeted on sustaining the high quality and character of our service, whereas demonstrating how archaeology can contribute positively to areas corresponding to social worth, heritage engagement and sustainable improvement.”

Headquartered in the UK, SLR is a worldwide environmental and advisory consultancy, with a group of greater than 5,000 professionals working from a community of places of work in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Center East, and Africa. Working across greater than 50 technical disciplines, the agency works with shoppers in enterprise, regulatory and authorities settings to navigate the rapidly-shifting context of sustainable enterprise.