During the past 12 months, our infrastructure client portfolio has continued to thrive with major clients onboarding with us including National Highways (formerly known as Highways England) and Laing O’Rourke. Our North Area is growing by the day with over 60 site staff working in the area and a further 3 new offices opened. As part of our continued expansion and organic growth, we are pleased to announce the introduction of Amanda Cunningham, Infrastructure Business Development Manager for the North West and Yorkshire region.

Amanda’s Experience

Amanda has worked within the compliance, health and safety and testing and inspection industry in a Business Development role for over 10 years. She is proactive, commercially minded, and has a fantastic work ethic. A conscientious hard working individual, Amanda will be supporting colleagues and new clients with her expertise in providing best practice solutions and developing Lucion’s market share in the testing and inspection and infrastructure sector. Coming from a compliance/health and safety focused background, Amanda brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to support the growth of the business development team at Lucion Services.

Amanda commented on her new appointment with Lucion:

“Having worked as a BDM for many years in compliance and consultancy, my move to Lucion will enable me to utilise the knowledge and experience I have gained to date and develop relationships within the infrastructure sector.  I am greatly looking forward to the challenge and already feel very welcome and part of a professional, hardworking and successful team.”

Lucion’s Head of Business Development Kim Johnson commented:

“From the first meeting with Amanda I knew she was perfect for the role, looking for an experienced, strong minded and confident individual to head this area of the business, I immediately felt reassured that Amanda could take on the challenge. She brings to Lucion drive and determination to succeed and develop the role, taking on both Testings and Inspection growth for the Northwest and leading the new business growth within our infrastructure team. I'm excited to go on this journey with Amanda.”

Lucion’s Infrastructure capabilities and Sector Experience

We have a vast amount of experience in the North West servicing clients in the infrastructure sector including providing a full suite of hazardous materials inspection, testing, advisory and remediation services required to National Highways supporting them to manage their hazardous materials in compliance with UK legislation and regulatory requirements. Other notable projects we have worked on in the North West region include working with Laing O’Rourke on a £1 billion investment on North West’s main airport.

Through delivering risk and asbestos management services to the infrastructure sector, we understand that different types of infrastructure have very unique requirements such as airside insurance, security clearance, Sentinel Cards for the rail network, National Highways Passports, Streetworks training and through to Chapter 8 compliant vehicle signage for working on highways.

Most of our clients who work in the infrastructure sector rely on our flexibility to be working on their projects during weekends, bank holidays and most of all outside normal working hours when traffic management is at its least disruptive.

Lucion Hazardous Material Testing Capabilities

For many of our infrastructure clients, the ability to test and analyse a vast array of hazardous materials is a must. Our laboratory is one of only 3 in the UK to have a commercially used Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) as a more powerful way of analysing hazardous material samples. Analysis through Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) enables magnification of samples of up to 200,000x, with fibre counting at 2000x, in comparison to 500x magnification when using a Phase Contrast Optical Microscope (PCOM or PCM) method.

As our lab is Europe’s largest accredited asbestos testing laboratory, all of our asbestos testing activities are subject to strict assurance measures to ensure integrity and impartiality. Our BOHS qualified SEM analysts participate in proficiency schemes administered by the Health and Safety Laboratory for external integrity monitoring;

• Asbestos in Materials Scheme (AIMS)
• Regular Interlaboratory Counting Exchange (RICE)
• Asbestos in Soils Scheme (AIS)
• Scanning Electron Microscopy Scheme (SEMs)
• Low Asbestos Content Scheme (LACS)

As one of Europe’s largest multidisciplinary hazardous substances testing laboratories, we have developed a suite of services including the Inspection and Testing of multiple potential hazardous materials. 

Such materials include but are not limited to:

• Asbestos
• Organotin Compounds (including TBTs and microbiological marine anti-fouling compounds) 
• Heavy Metals in Paints
• Mercury
• Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)
• Polybrominated biphenyl (PBBs)
• Polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCN - more than 3 chlorine atoms)
• Short chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs - Chloroalkanes C10-C13)
• Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD)
• Tributyltin Compounds (TBTs)
• Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS)

We provide Hazardous Material - (HazMat) - Surveys, testing of the above materials and removal consultancy, mitigating risk to the health and safety of people and the wider environment.

Additionally, many of our staff are dual-qualified surveyors and asbestos analysts who hold CCNSG safety passports and are trained and qualified to IPAF and PASMA and are trained and experienced in working in confined spaces and working at height.

Wider Services Lucion Offers

Through our testing lab and highly qualified personnel, we can offer:

• UKAS accredited services
• Occupational & Industrial Hygiene 
• Asbestos
• Ceramic Fibres
• Contaminated Land
• Waste Acceptance Criteria
• Maritime IHMs
• HazMat inspection
• Priority Substances (Pollutants)
• Legionella
• Lead
• Anthrax
• Hexavalent Chromium
• Radon
• Sulphur in fuel
• Gypsum

We deliver accredited and certified scientific hazardous materials testing and environmental management services to corporate clients who require regulatory compliance in their buildings and/or assets. We serve over 1,500 clients across 20 sectors and have vast experience working with infrastructure clients across the UK.

If you are looking to partner with a holistic environmental services supplier for your hazardous materials management needs in the North West and Yorkshire region, Amanda is the person to call for all aspects of Testing and Inspection services. Click 'Make an Enquiry' now or give Amanda a call on 07458088225.

You can also connect with Amanda on Linkedin here: Amanda Cunningham, Linkedin.