Here you will find details of our committee.
Get in touch with the local committee e: eastmidlands@ciht.org.uk
Jwan is a Principal engineer at Operational Safety in Jacobs. She is a Chartered Engineer with over 19 years of experience in the area of highway, traffic and road safety engineering. She holds a PhD, MSc, and BSc in civil engineering.
Jwan has multiple volunteering roles within CIHT, including SoRSA Web Officer, mentor, and professional reviewer.
As an active road safety auditor, she undertakes road safety audits across National Highways and Local Authority Road Networks. Her expertise lies in various aspects of highway engineering, road safety engineering, operational safety, transportation planning, traffic forecasting, speed management and economic assessment of the schemes. In addition, Jwan is competent in using multiple software including GIS tools, database queries, MS Excel, MS Access, AVIS, SPSS, Power BI, Limdep, SATWIN, program coding for COBALT and TUBA along with techniques to deliver the projects successfully.
Jwan in her PhD worked on “Analysing truck position data to study roundabout accident risk in the UK she has over 10 publications in the area of road safety. As part of her research Jwan has presented in a number of conferences including Transportation Research Board in Washington DC, Safer Road Conference, SoRSA Conference, University of Nottingham and CIHT EM annual conference.
Jwan’s main focus is to make the world better for everyone by reducing the number of people killed and seriously injured on roads. She is passionate about providing mentoring and support to CIHT members. Before her PhD, Jwan worked as a highway engineer and lecturer at the university, where she supervised students and delivered lectures related to highway, traffic, and statistical engineering.
Federico is a Principal Consultant, part of the Strategic Consultancy team, at AECOM. He is a Chartered Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the space of road asset management, road surface characteristics, deterioration modelling and pavement LCA.
Currently Vice-chair of CIHT East Midlands Committee, Federico is also CIHT Technical Champion on Climate Resilience, he sits on BSI standards committee B/510/5 on Road Surface Characteristics and is member of PIARC World Road Association TC 2.4 on Road Network Operations and ITS for Sustainability.
Passionate about his job, Federico makes use of his background in research, computer programming and Big Data analytics to model complex physical problems, automate processes and reduce inefficiencies through innovation.
Yulan is currently a PhD student in Civil Engineering at the University of Nottingham. After graduating with distinction from the University of Nottingham with an MSc, Yulan decided to continue her studies. Her research is focused on biomimicry, aiming to apply natural ideas to structures and materials.
Yulan is always keen to learn new things in Civil Engineering and the CIHT has provided her with the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the transport industry and keep up to date with what is happening. She previously served on the CIHT East Midlands committee as the Emerging Professionals Chair.
James Goodwin is an experienced contract manager working for one of the leading UK highways contractors and resides in the East Midlands. He is an incorporated engineer and member of the East Midlands CIHT committee. He is a vocal advocate of the CIHT in the East Midlands and had been a member since 2016.
Lucy joined the East Midlands Committee in 2017 and was elected as Honorary Secretary in 2018 before being elected as Vice Chair in 2021. She is passionate about the highways and transportation industry and revel in being involved with the CIHT. She shares her love for the industry by ensuring that the East Midlands region puts on excellent events and supports its members with their professional development and progression.
Lucy's background is a mixture of private sector consulting and Local Authority Highways in highway maintenance and improvements. She feels strongly about sustainable transport and have developed my career over the last few years to focus on this important topic. Lucy was involved with the development and planning of major cycle and walking schemes in Wolverhampton via the Black Country LEP fund ‘Managing Short Trips’, and the delivery of the Nottingham City Ring Road Shared Cycle Route and Eco Expressway. She moved to Kier in 2016 and specialised in sustainable transport, safety and improvements on the Strategic Road Network.
Naomi is a Design Manager, Road Safety specialist and experienced Assessor in Walking, Cycling and Horse-Riding Assessment and Review, with over 15 years’ experience, predominantly in the private sector. Based in the East Midlands and currently working in Nottingham, Naomi has an MSc in Transport Planning and Management, graduating from Sheffield Hallam University and is a Fellow of the CIHT.
Her passion is road safety and active travel as part of major and complex capital projects and is keen on encouraging the next generation into such a broad and interesting profession. Naomi’s background is transport planning, feasibility and preliminary design with a strong focus and passion for Road Safety.
Naomi has worked predominantly in the private sector with the main part of her career working in MAC and ASC contracts in Area 7 (East Midlands region) and Area 12 (Yorkshire and Humber). Naomi is a successful bid writer and in previous years was part of the successful bid teams at A-one+ winning Area 4 and Area 12.
More recently Naomi moved into an exciting role at BWB Consulting Ltd where she has the opportunity to be involved in a variety of schemes from concept (Development Consent Order) through to detailed design and beyond. The Transport and Infrastructure Design Team that Naomi is part of are involved in include Design and Build schemes with construction partners, Local Highway Authority highway improvement and urban realm schemes, and also infrastructure projects for Strategic Rail Freight Interchanges, such as the East Midlands Gateway Project. Her current role affords her the pleasure of incorporating active travel and sustainable transport into highway design (WCHAR) as well as keeping her competency up to date as a Road Safety Auditor.
Naomi heads up the CIHT East Midlands Events sub-committee, enjoying the benefits of continued professional development and networking with fellow professionals across the field of civil engineering.
Sara is a Transport & Infrastructure Planning Associate Team Leader with BWB. She has over 25 years experience in transport planning, working for a variety Nottingham based private consultancies and is a member of CIHT.
Her main areas of interests are sustainable and active travel and the development implementation and monitoring of travel plans.
In her current position she oversees teams in Nottingham and Birmingham and assists with project resourcing and financial management for the service as a whole. She is responsible for ensuring her team provide the correct technical support for their clients, including providing high level advice for strategic land promotion, Access Appraisals, Transport Assessments / Statements, Travel Plans, preliminary access and junction design, junction modelling, WCHAR Assessments, S106 negotiations and post planning advise.
She also assists with the development of their more junior team members and business development / networking opportunities within the East Midlands. She is a Wellbeing Ambassador at BWB and part of that role includes raising awareness and opening up discussion relating to Wellbeing by creating Sharepoint and Teams Communication pieces, and promoting internal events.
Sara is a member of the Women in Planning East Midlands committee. Their aim is to promote a diverse, equitable and inclusive planning industry, providing accessible networking and development opportunities within the East Midlands. As a committee member, she is responsible for identifying, marketing and promoting their regional events. This includes securing speakers, venues and sponsorship for events. Creating flyers (using Canva), sending out emails (using Mailchimp) to their subscribers, creating events using Eventbrite and Eventcube and promoting events on LinkedIn.
Tony joined as a Committee Member for the East Midlands Region in 2021. His passion for the Highways and Transportation industry runs deep in him and that has influenced his decision to join CIHT in the first place. His desire to serve in the CIHT is born out of a passion to support the institution in its various outreach and events to the industry and its professional members in their progress and development.
As a BSc. Graduate of Land / Engineering Surveying who went on to gain an all round experience ranging from Land / Topographic Surveys, Setting-Out / As-Built Survey to working as Site Engineer and Project Manager, Tony also has experience in the UK as well as working abroad in various roles over the past 19 years.
His passion for the industry led him to study an MSc in Civil Engineering and Construction Management. On graduation he joined Derby City Council Traffic and Transportation department but he now works for National Highways as a Site Supervisor where he intends to drive home the Professional standards of the profession.
Rufus holds a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from KNUST Ghana. He is a current member of the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC) research group at the University of Nottingham (UoN), where he earned his Master's in Transportation Infrastructure Engineering and a PhD in Civil Engineering.
Rufus currently serves as a sessional lecturer at the University of Nottingham International College, where he teaches Foundation and Pre-Master's modules in the Engineering and Science Department.
Behzad is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Technical Director at Jacobs with 20 years experience in the industry. He is a Fellow of CIHT and a Visiting Professor at Aston University. He served as Chair of the CIHT East Midlands Committee in 2019-2021. Behzad is also a CEng Reviewer.
Vivian is a Chartered Engineer and Technical Director for Arcadis with over 25 years experience in the industry. He is a Fellow of CIHT and a CEng Reviewer.
Nick Thom started his career with Scott Wilson in 1978, spending 3 years in the design office, 3 years on a highway construction site, 3 years at the University of Nottingham on PhD research and 4 years with Scott Wilson Pavement Engineering. Since 1991 he has been a member of staff at the University of Nottingham. He specialises in the analysis and design of pavement and rail track and teaches highway, airfield and railway engineering.
His role includes research, current projects being on road surface damage, concrete pavement deterioration, use of recycled aggregate, asphalt fatigue and rail track drainage.
Frank is nearing the completion of his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Nottingham, where he specialises in the automation of road design and maintenance. In addition to his doctoral research, he serves as an Engineering tutor at the University of Nottingham International College and coordinates the Engineering, Science, and Society pre-masters module.
Frank is deeply fascinated by automation, focusing on simplifying the design of road materials and pavement structures, as well as their construction, inspection, and maintenance. His recent projects include developing advanced asphalt mixtures using physics engines and implementing digital fabrication techniques for asphalt concrete repair.
Before his PhD research, Frank held the position of Head of the Roads Unit in local government, where he oversaw the strategic planning, development, and maintenance of urban road infrastructure in municipalities. He played a pivotal role in district assemblies, offering valuable expertise in shaping road policy formulation.
Frank joined the CIHT on 5th October 2020. With extensive experience in teaching, research, and fieldwork, coupled with a passion for STEM education, Frank is committed to supporting CIHT East Midlands in raising STEM awareness in schools and encouraging more young professionals to join the CIHT.
Dr. Anand Sreeram is an Assistant Professor in Transportation Engineering at the University of Nottingham, UK and the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC). He has an internationally recognised track record of research and scholarship in the pavement and highway engineering field. His current research interests include sustainable infrastructural materials and technologies, advanced material characterisation, smart and resilient infrastructure, high performance materials for pavements and multiscale modelling.
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Emma is the Sustainable Travel Lead for the University of Nottingham where she is responsible for everything from managing the University's hopper bus network, to overseeing the installation of new electric charging points on campus, to delivering the University's travel plan.
Prior to joining the University, Emma spent 15+ years in the private sector, predominantly as a transport planning consultant working on projects across the UK.
Her main areas of interests are the development, delivery and evaluation of travel behaviour change projects, and ensuring that sustainable travel principles are built into development planning projects.
