Bat consultant for road developments, Titanic Quarter, National Trust buildings, wind turbines and many other projects.

Professional Surveys include:

• Buildings at Risk’ for the Heritage Council of Ireland and the NIEA Built Heritage
• Sub consultant to RPS Planning and Environment for many years being the bat consultant for the road developments; A1, A3, A4, A5, A6, N1, N14/15, N56
• Runkerry Golf course, Bushmills
• Many other individual large and small developments
• Wind farms and individual wind turbine developments
• Titanic Quarter
• Historic Royal Palaces: Hillsborough Castle (lands in ownership of)
• National Trust buildings in Northern Ireland

Previous and/or current client list

• Airtricity
• AMEY Consultants
• Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council
• Ards and North Down Council
• Banbridge Council
• Belfast City Council
• Bat Conservation Ireland
• BS Designs
• Built Heritage, Northern Ireland Environment Agency
• CONSARC
• Environment & Heritage Service (now Northern Ireland Environment Agency)
• Macadam Design
• MARENCO
• Minerals Branch DETI
• NIEA
• Road Services
• RPS Planning and Environment
• Scott Wilson
• Spouncer Associates
• Taggart Homes
• White Mountain
• WYG
• WDR & RT Taggart

Work Experience

• Surveying since 2001
• 2001 Registered on a ‘Bat Panel of Experts’ with The Heritage Council, Kilkenny, Ireland
• 2002 Contracted by the Environment & Heritage service (Department of the Environment) to conduct a research study, Pre-hibernal & Hibernal Activity of Leisler’s Bats in Northern Ireland
• 2003 to present: Elected to committee of Bat Conservation Ireland
• 2004 Co-authored (with Dr Jon Russ) a report and paper: Roost selection, activity and dispersal of Leisler’s bat, Nyctalus leisleri (Kuhl, 1818) during the pre-hibernal and hibernal periods (PDF)
• 2005 Elected Chairperson of the Northern Ireland Bat Group
• 2006 Elected office holder of Bat Conservation Ireland
• 2007 to present: Elected vice-chairperson Bat Conservation Ireland
• 2009 Bat Atlas co-ordinator for Northern Ireland
• 2009 February to present: Elected member of committee of NIBG
• 2009 February: Elected member of consultative committee for the Centre for Irish Bat Research (CIBR)
• 2009 May: Organiser of the Northern Ireland Bat Group Bat Detector workshop, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, Co. Down
• 2009 August, organiser of the Bat Conservation Ireland Nathusius’ Pipistrelle and Improvers bat detector workshop at The Crom Estate, Co. Fermanagh
• 2011 Elected as an Associate member of the (now Chartered) Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management ACIEEM
• 2012 Contributor to Bat Conservation Ireland Wind Turbine Development Bat Survey Guidelines (in progress)
• 2013 Elected Chairperson and Company Director of Bat Conservation Ireland. Resigned year 2016.
• 2013 and 2015 National Bat Monitoring Programme Bat detector workshop at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum