Who we are

ESIA-CONSULT is a micro-SME that provides dedicated bespoke environmental planning services. 

Image acknowledgement: Ladybird on shingle: Bridget Durning
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Martin A. Broderick, Founder and Senior Director

Visiting Professor, School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

BSc (Hons) Galway Ireland,
MPhil Exeter UK,
Fellow of ISEP (formerly known as IEMA) (FISEP)

Martin leads on all technical aspects of the services provided by ESIA-CONSULT.

Martin has extensive professional expertise in infrastructure and its delivery i.e. major housing, roads, solar, minerals & waste. He is a highly experienced and respected planning expert in a career dedicated to delivering authoritative sustainability advice and thought-leadership at the highest level in the public and private sector. He is skilled in Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), Planning and Environmental & Social Due Diligence (ESDD), across multiple sectors: major energy infrastructure, transport, housing, minerals, waste and linear infrastructure. He is a recognised expert in sustainability (Fellow of IEMA, now known as ISEP), with a deep understanding of how to sustainably deliver complex projects to those impacted by major infrastructure, in order to create a better place for people for present and future generations.

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Dr Bridget Durning, Director

Associate Professor, School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK

BSc (Hons) Liverpool UK,
PhD Exeter UK,
Chartered Geologist (CGeol) and Fellow of the Geological Society of London.
Member of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA).
Member of National Infrastructure Planning Association (NIPA).

Dr Bridget Durning is an academic, sustainability and impact assessment specialist. As well as a being a Director of ESIA-Consult, she also teaches and researches at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. Her research and consultancy interests are in post project evaluation of the delivery of infrastructure, encompassing exploring practices in impact appraisal and cumulative effects assessment and the implementation of impact management tools and processes. As Director of ESIA-Consult, Bridget ensures that quality standards are kept high.

Sector experience and examples of past projects

UK

Sector experience

  • airports

  • energy: windfarms (offshore and onshore); solar; gas; nuclear

  • ports and harbours

  • underground infrastructure (tunnels, gas storage)

  • roads

  • natural resource extraction

Examples of projects

Martin has acted as Examining Inspector for more than ten NSIP applications in England and Wales including:

  • Manston airport, England

  • Brecha Forest onshore windfarm connection, Wales

  • Abergelli Power Station (299MWe gas turbine), Wales

Other examples of experience in major projects:

  • Provision of advice to local planning authorities in Southern England on EIA screening and scoping for solar developments below 50Mw

  • Advice to Port of Tilbury (London) on EIA related issues in NSIP application including project level cumulative effects assessment

  • Advice on EIA issues to developer of proposed Thames tunnel (London)

International

Project experience in over 25 countries including:

  • Abu Dhabi

  • Azerbaijan

  • Oman

  • Kazakhstan

  • Kosovo

Examples of developments:

  • Khalifa Port, Abu Dhabi (project leader for production of EIA)

  • Port of Baku, Azerbaijan (developing an environmental monitoring system)

  • Port Sultan Qaboos (PSQ), Oman (team leader undertaking environmental and social due diligence for funding institution)

  • Iron ore mines in Kazakhstan (team leader undertaking environmental and social due diligence for funding institution)

  • Motorway in Kosovo (team leader for ESIA design and construction of 107km motorway)