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About us

We are a small company which is big on knowledge, experience, and passion. Yorkshire born and bred, we cover the whole of the UK and beyond.

Founded in 2003, we have a diverse range of skills in land quality, ground risk management and land remediation.

We aim to bring every client an honest, collaborative and cost-effective service, to get your projects resolved in a way that is safe for the environment and surrounding population.

We will match your project with our team of project managers, engineers and environmental scientists to ensure efficient, smooth running, always with an emphasis on cost and safety.

As a small company with big experience, you will always be able to talk to the team at the front line of your project.

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Our leadership team

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Geo2_About_Team_Mark Swindells

Mark Swindells
Founder & Director

Mark is our founder and a director, setting up Geo2 in 2003 with a handful of clients and a head full of ideas. Mark is our driving force, overseeing our climb from upstart pioneers to respected industry leaders. Mark is motivated by innovation and is a die-hard problem solver, forged through years of experience designing and delivering bulletproof remediation solutions. Mark earned his spurs managing and delivering remediation projects with QDS before setting out to do it better.

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Paul Stapleton 
Director

Paul is the go-to name in the forecourt sector. Paul takes pride in delivering a quality personal service, fighting tooth and nail to never let a client down. This utter dependability is the bedrock on which our lasting client relationships are formed and has cemented Paul’s reputation as a man who can be trusted to deliver on everything relating to petrol forecourts from an investigation to a site remediation for clients ranging from small retailers through to nationwide chains.

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Adam Wilson 
Director

Adam is our technical lead and systems design man. Hungry for a challenge, Adam is driven by detail, complexity and a desire to have his finger on the pulse of all our projects. Adam has delivered an abundance of jobs for Geo2, bringing home remedial solutions for legacy sites from remote former gasworks through to residential estates.

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Simon Brown 
Director – Development

Simon is our Development Director, with over 35 years in the environmental consultancy industry providing commercially focused advice and solutions tailored to the needs of clients in the property industry from inception and due diligence through to project completion and subsequent asset management. Simon has led and grown teams providing consultancy services across the UK and Europe and brings extensive experience of working as part of leadership teams to create clear visions and culture to drive strategic business growth. He has led and developed numerous initiatives focused on supporting the technical, commercial and cultural development of staff, including the creation of mentoring and coaching systems and is passionate about supporting employees to fully reach their potential to help drive the growth of the business. Simon has also led multiple business efficiency initiatives to improve business performance and has extensive knowledge of commercial and insurance management.

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Gary Chapman 
Director – Remediation

Gary has been successfully remediating sites since 1994 and has a wealth of experience from pre-acquisition through to validation. His expertise is in the most challenging sites where complex issues are present, be they technical, program, spatial or commercial. Gary’s collaborative non-technical and commercially aware manner has turned ‘undevelopable’ sites to viable prospects and abnormal costs into opportunities.

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Richard Lawless 
Director – Consultancy

Richard leads our consultancy offering for Geo2 and brings in excess of 25 years’ leading teams of contamination and geotechnical specialists. He brings a bespoke, pragmatic and forensic approach to contaminated land issues and is passionate about deriving the best possible solution for both the client and environment. He also drives innovation and technical development for the team and regularly presents CPD training to the likes of the RTPI and RICS on land quality issues. Perhaps Richard’s best attribute is being able to develop and retain some of the best talent in the industry by providing an inclusive learning environment, so the team can provide unrivalled service to our clients.

Ground remediation team

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Adam Wilson 
Director

Adam is our technical lead and systems design man. Hungry for a challenge, Adam is driven by detail, complexity and a desire to have his finger on the pulse of all our projects. Adam has delivered an abundance of jobs for Geo2, bringing home remedial solutions for legacy sites from remote former gasworks through to residential estates.

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Gary Chapman 
Director – Remediation

Gary has been successfully remediating sites since 1994 and has a wealth of experience from pre-acquisition through to validation. His expertise is in the most challenging sites where complex issues are present, be they technical, program, spatial or commercial. Gary’s collaborative non-technical and commercially aware manner has turned ‘undevelopable’ sites to viable prospects and abnormal costs into opportunities.

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Trevor Corscadden 
Lead Engineer

Trevor has over 18 years’ experience in contaminated land remediation. If we want something building, fixing or installing, Trevor is the man for the job. As lead engineer he holds the keys to the war chest of remediation plant and equipment and ensures it is ready for action, tailored to the client’s needs or bespoke and built from scratch. Trevor’s experience covers all manner of contaminated land and water treatment techniques including solar powered pumping systems, a DPVE system for the recovery of LNAPL and pneumatic pumping systems for the recovery of DNAPL. If it can be pumped, Trevor can pump it.

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Ben Wilson
Project Manager

Ben takes the lead on delivering large scale, high quality, critical site investigation and assessment work and is our go-to guy for exceptional quality technical delivery. Ben is responsible for managing projects from site investigations to remediation systems and has over 10 years’ experience in contaminated land assessment and remediation. 

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Tom Evans 
Project Manager

Tom always leads the charge, a highly capable site manager with real strength in depth of knowledge and as happy conducting high volume sustainable material management as he is delivering a chemical oxidation. Tom is more than dependable; he is nigh on unstoppable and utterly committed to delivering for our clients.

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Pete Phillips 
Project Manager

Over the last 7 years Pete has cemented his role as an ever ready, get up and go allrounder and the sort of team player most teams can only dream of. Rising through the ranks to project manager on the back of scores of forecourt investigations and ground remediation projects, Pete has been at the forefront of many a chemical oxidation and has doubtless injected a greater volume of chemical oxidants than almost anyone. 

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Adam Ridsdale 
Project Manager

Adam takes a lead in the planning and delivery of site investigations and hands-on engineering of remediation systems nationwide. Adam juggles his role as a skilled site engineer with a real gift for data analysis, growing and developing an emerging digital first future for Geo2.

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Nathan Jones 
Engineer

Nathan is our year in industry student from the University of Leeds. The most junior member of the team, his support is invaluable to our busy team. He can be found digging trial pits, drilling boreholes and any other sitework that needs to be done along with helping to complete reports for clients.

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Petrol forecourts team

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Paul Stapleton 
Director

Paul is the go-to name in the forecourt sector. Paul takes pride in delivering a quality personal service, fighting tooth and nail to never let a client down. This utter dependability is the bedrock on which our lasting client relationships are formed and has cemented Paul’s reputation as a man who can be trusted to deliver on everything relating to petrol forecourts from an investigation to a site remediation for clients ranging from small retailers through to nationwide chains.

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Steve Jackson
Operations Manager

Steve is our Operations Manager, making sure we have the right people, in the right place, at the right time. Steve brings a problem solvers mindset and a can-do attitude to the most complex and challenging sites. He has worked on a wide range of contaminated land projects, from forecourts and filling stations to gasworks and industrial sites and has a rare talent for keeping plates spinning and balls in the air.

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Siobhán Hyde 
Project Manager

Siobhán has over ten years’ experience in contaminated land assessment, remediation and environmental consultancy. A great organizer Siobhán sits at the heart of the team and plays a vital role in project delivery from initial planning works all the way through to regeneration and validation. With a focus on quality management and training the junior staff to the highest standard, Siobhán is a key piece of the puzzle at Geo2 HQ.

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Paolo De Marchi 
Engineer

Recently qualified, Paolo is our man on the ground – with his fabulous Italian charm he’s building up a wealth of experience, particularly in the forecourt sector and covers everything from monitoring and sample collection to report writing. 

Geotechnics team

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Pete Skinner
Technical Director

Pete is our national geotechnical lead and has over 25 years’ experience in geotechnical and environmental engineering within consultancy and construction for both public and private sector projects within the UK. Pete has expertise in a wide range of geotechnical and environmental site assessment techniques as well as geotechnical design for shallow and deep foundations, retaining walls, ground improvement, earthworks, slope stability, roads and pavements, rail structures and basements.  He provides a hands on, practical and pragmatic service to our clients.

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Frankie Exley-McTaggart  
Geotechnical Engineer

Frankie is an experienced, highly enthusiastic geotechnical engineer. He loves getting into the field to understand ground conditions close-up and providing advice on the spot.

Frankie has obtained a wealth of experience and geotechnical knowledge, including delivery of National Highways schemes in accordance with CD622, preliminary foundation design, settlement analysis, geotechnical due diligence assessments and earthworks monitoring.

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Land quality team

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Richard Lawless 
Director – Consultancy

Richard leads our consultancy offering for Geo2 and brings in excess of 25 years’ leading teams of contamination and geotechnical specialists. He brings a bespoke, pragmatic and forensic approach to contaminated land issues and is passionate about deriving the best possible solution for both the client and environment. He also drives innovation and technical development for the team and regularly presents CPD training to the likes of the RTPI and RICS on land quality issues. Perhaps Richard’s best attribute is being able to develop and retain some of the best talent in the industry by providing an inclusive learning environment, so the team can provide unrivalled service to our clients.

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Chris Everitt 
Technical Director

Chris is our technical lead for contaminated land risk assessment and gets involved with our most challenging schemes and also drives our training and development programme.  With twenty-five years’ experience across a range of sectors, Chris understands that it’s all about the ‘so what’ for his clients. He believes that the collection of quality data, and the creation of a robust ground model are the foundations for an effective assessment of risk, tempered by the commercial realities of clients. Chris is a stickler for quality, accuracy, and the timely delivery of client support, but always makes time to ask the difficult questions, look for the bigger picture, working effectively with the client team to achieve the best outcome for them.

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Mike O’Halloran 
Associate Director

Mike has 18 years’ experience working within the geo-environmental sector within the north of England as well as a range of experience on investigations and environmental assessments across the UK.  Mike prioritises providing best value advice to his clients and aligns himself to their commercial objectives and has helped deliver a variety of schemes from small residential to large commercial property portfolios. He provides advice throughout the project lifecycle regarding client’s environmental liabilities, geotechnical constraints, coal mining risks, remediation and validation.

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Tom Horner 
Associate Director

Tom joined Geo2 with over 20 years prior experience within the geo-environmental sector, in which he has been responsible for the delivery of numerous geo-environmental assessments, on a variety of brownfield and greenfield sites, across the UK and internationally.  Tom's primary area of focus has been the logistics, industrial and retail sectors, in which he has provided commercially focussed technical advice to a range of developers and contractors.  Tom is very much a team player and takes immense pride in helping steer a close-knit group of colleagues to achieve great outcomes.

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Lizzy Moorhouse 
Principal Consultant

Lizzy is a highly experienced geo-environmental consultant, fantastic communicator and project manager. Lizzy proactively manages projects on behalf of our clients and runs a highly effective and efficient team. She has a wealth of experience in a range of difficult ground conditions and deriving solutions to facilitate redevelopment or transactions.  She particularly enjoys a challenging contaminated site!

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Jessica Rowe 
Principal Consultant

Jessica has a wide range of experience managing and delivering geotechnical and contaminated land projects across the residential, commercial and energy sectors.  With a keen eye for detail and a commitment to excellence, Jessica consistently delivers high-quality results, earning the trust of clients, colleagues and co-professionals. She is also passionate about developing the next generation of geo-environmental professionals and encouraging the study of earth sciences via outreach at all levels. 

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Gemma Tatton 
Principal Consultant

Gemma is an experienced Geo-Environmental Consultant with a positive outlook who is passionate about providing pragmatic, cost-effective solutions to clients. Gemma takes great pleasure in managing projects through from desk study stage, all the way through to remediation and verification. In her career to date, Gemma has been involved in a wide variety of brownfield and greenfield sites, with a primary focus on the logistics and industrial sector. She is a highly efficient, organised project manager and a strong team player who enjoys being part of a tight-knit team.

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Alex Tabb 
Principal Consultant

Alex brings over eight years of experience in the geo-environmental sector, specialising in Detailed Quantitative Risk Assessments (DQRAs), project management, and client support. Alex's extensive experience spans various aspects of the industry, and he has recently taken on business development responsibilities while maintaining his expertise in geo-environmental matters. Alex serves as the Chair of Constructing Excellence - East Midlands and leads the Generation for Change (G4C) group in the region. Alex is known for his drive and dedication, taking pride in managing projects from inception to completion. He is acutely aware of the challenges within the construction industry and is passionate about driving meaningful change.

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Rachel Dixon 
Senior Geo-Environmental Consultant

Rachel is an enthusiastic Geo-Environmental Consultant with a good track record of delivering high quality projects across the UK and Ireland. From leading on large scale ground investigations to effectively managing multiple phases of works on multi-site portfolios; she enjoys interacting with clients, fostering good working relationships, and approaching every task with positivity and a smile!

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Megan O'Kelly 
Geo-Environmental Consultant

Megan is a driven Geo-Environmental Consultant who has enhanced her skills over the three years she has worked within the industry. Conducting ground investigations for geochemical and geotechnical purposes she has showcased her organisational and management abilities in collecting crucial data for geo-environmental assessments. Megan’s advanced skills in data analysis, particularly in interpretating soil, groundwater and ground gas results, demonstrates her ability to derive valuable information from complex datasets. Whether it’s phase 1 assessments, phase 2 site investigations, geotechnical interpretative reports, review of third party reports or remediation and verification strategies, Megans ability to convey information clearly and concisely is essential and something she takes great pride in. 

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Anna Higgins 
Geo-Environmental Consultant

Anna possesses advanced expertise in site investigation, monitoring, report writing, data analysis, and laboratory skills. With a master's degree in environmental monitoring, modelling, and reconstruction from Northumbria University, she is a seasoned research professional with two years of industry experience. Her organisational skills ensure site works run smoothly, as well as supporting in project management. Anna is enthusiastic, keen to learn and enjoys a challenging site.

FAQS

Time is a great asset in land remediation and there is a trade-off between the price and the programme. Early involvement with Geo² at the inception of projects allows client to invest time in minimising the cost and scope of remediation rather than incurring expensive delays responding to abnormal ground conditions. Early involvement allows a client to access a full range of remediation options maximising cost savings and shrinking the programme.

Geo² take pride in delivering a reliable service and a quality product to the Client. We frequently offer lump sum fixed fee ground remediation to Clients providing cost confidence.

Geo² don’t mark our own work. We work with the regulators to provide third party approval providing confidence in a job well done and a job done right.

Office team

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Tracey Hughes 
Office Manager

In her multifaceted role, Tracey plays a pivotal part in ensuring the seamless operation of the office, looking after our team and making sure that the day to day doesn’t get in the way. Tracey is the linchpin to our organisation, behind the scenes but just as essential as our lead engineers.

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Jo Foster 
Marketing & Comms Manager

Jo is our Marketing and Communications Manager at Geo2. Her role is to share our story, spreading the word through a comprehensive marketing strategy and showcasing what we have achieved, what we can do and where we are going next! If you are reading this, then you have seen Jo’s handiwork already!

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Join our team

Our team is passionate about what we do, we love solving complex problems and making our clients happy. We are always interested in hearing from like minded professionals who wish to take their next career step with us.

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For an initial assessment of your remediation needs, use our Remediation Options Selector