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Land Condition Early Careers Network

Make connections and develop your professional skills and knowledge

Supporting the next generation of land condition professionals

The Land Condition Early Careers Network (ECN) is a network of land condition professionals in the early stages of their careers. It exists to develop members’ knowledge and skills in a supportive and accessible environment.

The Network is housed within the wider Land Condition Community, giving early career professionals opportunities to learn from and collaborate with experienced professionals.

Steering Group

The Land Condition ECN is led by a Steering Group of early career professionals, who ensure the network’s offering is useful and engaging for their peers. They plan and host webinars on a range of topics and produce a quarterly newsletter. They also represent the early careers perspective in working groups within the Land Condition Community.

Chair - Leanne Carr
Senior Geo-environmental Consultant

Chair - Leanne Carr

Senior Geo-environmental Consultant
Leanne is a Senior Geo-environmental Consultant within the London Decommissioning and Restoration team at Worley Consulting. During her career she has worked with various sectors including rail, commercial and residential, and has experienced a range of challenging sites, from large scale regeneration projects on infilled docklands to gasworks, landfills and petrol stations. Leanne became a Chartered Scientist through the IES and is a Registered Risk Assessor with SoBRA.
Alexis McCauley Pearl
Project Manager

Alexis McCauley Pearl

Project Manager
Alexis is a Project Manager at CL:AIRE specialising in the creation, expansion, and completion of sustainable land management projects, particularly as they relate to the Definition of Waste: Development Industry Code of Practice (DoW CoP). In addition to routine project management activities, Alexis steers international working groups, drafts technical documents, and assists in new training course development.
James Kellett
Graduate Engineer

James Kellett

Graduate Engineer
James is a Graduate Engineer with Card Geotechnics Limited (CGL). In his role, based in CGL’s London office, James has gained hands-on experience in a range of projects. His work spans both geoenvironmental and geotechnical disciplines, and he enjoys working on a mix of complex ground investigations and interpretative reporting.
Nicola Dawson
Lead Geoenvironmental Engineer

Nicola Dawson

Lead Geoenvironmental Engineer
Nicola is a Lead Geoenvironmental Engineer at Soiltechnics. Her work spans from greenfield assessments to the complex remediation of contaminated brownfield sites, often involving close collaboration with regulators, local authorities, and clients. With additional training in project management, risk assessment, and ground gas, she is committed to sharing knowledge, raising standards, and fostering an inclusive, supportive industry.
Rohan Gardner
Geoenvironmental Consultant

Rohan Gardner

Geoenvironmental Consultant
Rohan is a dedicated Geoenvironmental Consultant who strives to deliver a positive impact to his projects, clients, and the wider contaminated land community. He has worked on various multi-disciplinary projects in the UK and Europe across the infrastructure, energy, aviation, residential and commercial sectors. Has expertise in assessing sites for due diligence purposes and for potential redevelopment and has gained experience across various stages of contamination assessment.
Siân Silcock
Environmental Consultant

Siân Silcock

Environmental Consultant
Siân is an Environmental Consultant specialising in contaminated land and environmental risk assessment. Throughout her career so far she has been involved with a broad range of projects, including fuel & gas sites, timber treatment facilities, landfills, and residential developments, undertaking a variety of assessments and investigations in order to support the clients’ needs.
Annie Harding
Senior Geoenvironmental Consultant

Annie Harding

Senior Geoenvironmental Consultant
Annie is currently working as a Senior Geoenvironmental Consultant at Arcadis and is involved in a number of exciting land quality projects within the nuclear industry. Over the course of her career, Annie has been involved in a range of land quality projects including large scale earthworks remediation projects, site conceptualisation and risk assessment, and ground investigation projects for school redevelopment schemes.

Can I join the Early Career Network?

IES members in the first ten years of their land condition career are eligible to join the ECN. Eligibility is not age-based and is open to those who have moved into the sector later in their career.

IES members can join through the ‘Manage my Communities’ section in the Members' Portal. If you are not yet a member, consider joining us today to access the Network and other benefits.

 

LC ECN Resources

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Analysis
Fri, 15 May 2026

Best Practice Data Collection for Contaminated Land Investigations: Early Careers Network webinar

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Analysis
Thu, 2 April 2026

REnvP and REnvTech Q&A: Land Condition Early Careers Network

Format: 31/08/2026
Format: 31/08/2026
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Events

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Webinar
20 Oct 2026 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm Europe/London

Contaminated land remediation: How the Planning Inspectorate fits in

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Panel Discussion
05 Oct 2026 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm Europe/London

A Day in the Life: air quality panel discussion

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Webinar
29 Sep 2026 12:30 pm to 01:15 pm Europe/London

PFAS litigation and laboratory analysis

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Amy Bond
Amy Bond
Communities & Membership Engagement Officer
Amy Bond

Amy Bond

Communities & Membership Engagement Officer
Amy is responsible for supporting the IES Communities and leading on the implementation of our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Plan. She has previously worked at a charity supporting university students to engage in socially impactful volunteering, and in an asset-based community development role at a local authority. Amy has a BA in English and an MSc in Global Sustainability Solutions, both from the University of Exeter, and is passionate about the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration.

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