David Bowles

David Bowles

BEng

Senior Associate

David is a Senior Associate with a broad range of experience of civil and structural engineering.

He has over ten years’ experience of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) design and assessing flood risk. He has led on the SuDS and below-ground drainage design on a wide variety of schemes, including new and refurbished buildings and public realm improvements, taking projects from their inception, through planning and on to completion on site.

David works closely with transport and urban design teams giving him significant design experience on projects involving placemaking and the movement of vehicles and people. This knowledge is of particular benefit to the public realm projects in which David is involved.He also has extensive experience in projects relating to the railways including the review and assessment of historic railway structures that need to be modified to suit modern uses such as was required for the electrification of the Midland Mainline at Kettering and Wellingborough Stations.

More recently he has worked on a number of projects assessing the impact of railway tunnelling on listed buildings and monuments at ground level. The interface on these projects with the firm’s building conservation team has led to a strong interest in the historic development of towns and the infrastructure that serves them which is a particular benefit on urban regeneration projects where there are often numerous hidden constraints related to historic development phases.

Outside of work, David has been involved in the Waltham Forest Flooding Forum which was set up in response to local surface water flooding that occurred in the borough in 2021. The Forum has been involved with the London Borough of Waltham Forest in bringing forward a number of local SuDS schemes incorporating rain gardens and permeable paving to reduce the amount of rainwater runoff draining to the local sewers.