Egis UK environment head appointment: implications for project teams and EIA delivery
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Egis has appointed Afshan Rasheed to lead a new UK environmental consultancy practice, positioned alongside its existing energy, water and transport teams. The unit will deliver environmental impact assessment and wider environmental services across Egis’s major infrastructure and engineering portfolio, embedding sustainability criteria from early optioneering through to construction delivery. Rasheed, who has previously held senior roles at major engineering consultancies, is tasked with scaling specialist environmental capability and building high-performing, multidisciplinary teams across the UK business.
Technical Brief
- New UK environmental practice is structurally embedded alongside Egis’s energy, water and transport business units.
- Afshan Rasheed is tasked with scaling in-house environmental impact assessment (EIA) capability across major infrastructure schemes.
- Rasheed’s prior roles focused on integrating environmental specialists at scale into large multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Her brief includes building “high-performing teams”, indicating recruitment and upskilling across multiple UK offices.
- Environmental input is mandated from earliest planning stages through delivery, affecting option selection and construction methodologies.
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