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Edenvale Young Team

Meet the Edenvale team .If you require an electronic CV then please don’t hesitate to contact the Edenvale team at info@edenvaleyoung.com

John Young

John Young Director BEng, MSc (Eng), CEng, MICE, MCIWEM

John Young is a Chartered Civil Engineer. During his career he has worked for consulting engineering companies in many parts of the World including Hong Kong, The Philippines, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Chile and the Caribbean. Projects included the development of coastal resorts, sea cities, islands and ports. He has given presentations at Ministerial level in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and to the Institution of Civil Engineers in London and Riyadh ..more

Chris Whitlow

Chris Whitlow Director BSc, PhD

Chris has a PhD in Applied Mathematics / Fluid Mechanics and extensive experience in computational river and water quality modelling. He was instrumental in the development of industry standard software (ISIS) for real-time hydraulic modelling, operational models and flood forecasting. Chris is s founding Director of Edenvale Young with excellent links to the acadamic and fluvial modelling community. ..more

Peter Aylett

Peter Aylett BSc

Peter graduated from Bath University in 2005 and joined Edenvale Young Associates in February 2006. Peter has been responsible for the development of a wide arrange of fluvial and coastal models using ISIS, TUFLOW, ISIS-TUFLOW, NFFS and MapInfo. This includes breach modelling at Martello Lakes in Hythe and tidal innundation for two sites adjacent to Orwell Quay in Ipswich. In recent months he has been involved in the development and presentation of modules for training sessions..more

Maria Jarquin

Maria Jarquin BSc, MSc (IHE Delft)

Maria Jarquin is a Civil Engineer with a degree in civil engineering from the Universidad de Costa Rica and a Master Degree in "Hydraulic Engineering and River Basin Development" from the UNESCO Institute of Hydraulic Engineering in Delft, Netherlands. Maria joined Edenvale Young in October 2007 and has worked on a range of projects including the detailed civil design of the temporary jetty for abnormal loads at Fujariah and Monmouth Strategic Flood Risk Assessment..more

Martin Crees

Martin Crees BSc PhD

Martin has spent the majority of the last 25 years working for the Environment Agency (EA) in the fields of Flood Warning and Flood Forecasting. Martin was responsible for the design, implementation and on-going development of the respected CASCADE Flood Warning system in the Thames Region of the EA. From the development of this system he gained considerable experience in the areas of real-time telemetry collection and display, handling and use of radar rainfall, flow forecast modelling and flood warning, incorporating these ideas into a unified product. ..more

Dan Piggott

Dan Piggot BSc (Hons)

Dan Piggott graduated from the University of Plymouth with a degree in civil and coastal engineering and joined Edenvale Young Associates in September 2008.  He has already been responsible for developing a number of ISIS and ISIS-TUFLOW models as part of flood map update project for the Environment Agency (North West Region). ..more

Gerald Morgan

Gerald Morgan MEng

Gerald graduated from Bath University in 2008 and joined Edenvale Young Associates having previously worked for the company on various assignments since 2004 as an industrial placement student. He has worked on the a number of Flooding Project Appraisal studies including the design of flood alleviation works at Welshpool and Knighton. Following a post graduate internship with Edenvale Young he has returned to university to start a PhD at bath University (see the news item)..more

Andrew Craig

Andrew Craig BSc Eng (Civil)

Andrew has 14 years experience in computational river modelling using ISIS, in particular its application in real time flood forecasting. He has prepared and implemented numerous hydraulic models for flood forecasting, initially in GeoGUI and later NFFS. Key forecasting models have included the River Eden (Carlisle), River Mersey (Manchester), River Thames (Farmoor to Sutton Courtenay, ..more

Adam Luqumani

Adam Luqmani MEng

Adam graduated from Bath University in 2008 and joined Edenvale Young Associates having previously worked for the company as an industrial placement student. He has worked on the a number of coastal projects in Bahrain including the Busaiteen Reclamationa nd is currently working of the design of quaywalls at teh Bahrain National Assembly. ..more

Adam Luqumani

Claire Bailey MEng

Claire graduated from Bath University in 2009 and joined Edenvale Young Associates having previously worked for as an Assistant Structural Engineer for a structural engineering consultant in Bristol. She has completed Edenvale Young's training programme in ISIS, ISIS-TUFLOW and is commencing work on the development of flood alleviation schems in Cardiff and Caerphilly. ..more

Tom Skailes

Tom Skailes BSc (Hons) MSc (DIC) CGeol FGS

Tom has an MSc in Engineering Geology and has over 20 years experience in ground engineering practice and consultancy. He has been based in Bath for over 15 years and has worked extensively on projects both within the southwest and across the UK. He has also worked on a variety of projects in Europe, the Middle and Far East and the United States. ..more

. Leanne Chesters

Leanne Chesters BA

Leanne joined the team in September 2007 and is Edenvale Young's Practice Manager. Leanne organises Edenvale Young’s successful seminar series and helps to make sure the office run smoothly..more

Paul Garrad

Paul Garrad BSc PhD

Paul has a PhD in river modelling and sediment transport and 23 years experience in hydrology, hydrometry and river modelling. Following his PhD he worked for SEPA as Assistant Hydrologist and followed this as a senior and then principal hydrologist for consultants on hydrology and water resources modelling including work in Thailand, Ukraine, Hong Kong and Africa. ..more

Martin Walker

Martin Walker BSc CEng MICE

Martin Walker is a Chartered Civil Engineer with over 20 years experience who has gained a very wide degree of experience in civil, structural engineering and project management. He has worked on major industrial and commercial schemes leading multi-disciplinary design teams. Martin is a Director of Wellan Ltd and an associate consultant to Edenvale Young.

Latest News

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  • Edenvale Young Away Days

    In a rare two day weather window in September 2008 the Edenvale Young team took on the vaguries of the Bristol channel in a team building exercise on the beautiful wooden sailing ship; the Tangaroa which they sailed from Bristol to Cardiff.
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  • Gerald Morgan starts PhD

    Gerald Morgan started his PhD in October 2008 investigating the development of breaches in earth embankment flood defences at Bath University.
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  • The key to climate proofing our cities

    John Young was part of a pioneering conference that was organized by Treework Environmental Practice to discuss the key issue of climate proofing our cities.
  • Maria Jarquin joins the Edenvale Young team

    Edenvale Young's International consultancy expanded in October 2007 with Maria Jarquin joining the team and providing additional expertise in civil engineering hydraulics and design..