About Philippa
Philippa Howes is a Consultant building strong expertise in Construction Quality Assurance (CQA). Having trained under senior colleagues and gained hands-on experience across a variety of sites, she now confidently leads inspection visits, carrying out Annex 1 and Annex 2 testing, core sampling, and visual checks to ensure works comply with approved CQA Plans.
Her experience spans landfill engineering, bund construction, and capping projects, where she combines technical precision with clear communication to support clients in meeting regulatory requirements and achieving compliant outcomes.
Specialisms
| Environmental Impact Assessment | Environmental Permitting | Construction Quality Assurance |
Languages
| English Professional Working Proficiency |
Awards & Qualifications
| MSc Environmental Sciences | MA Geography and Social Anthropology |
Notable Projects
Support CQA works
Philippa has contributed to a range of landfill and quarry engineering projects, progressing from shadowing senior staff to independently leading inspections. At Wilbraham (MEAD Construction), she supervised the construction of Cell A’s 5th Lift, ensuring compliance with required standards. At Barton Mills, she oversaw the installation of basal liners and sidewalls across multiple lifts, helping to maintain quality assurance throughout. She also supported the development of Cell A at Culford Waste’s Ingham Pits, carrying out testing, core sampling, and reporting. With Widdington Recycling, Philippa guided the construction of separation bund layers, ensuring quality control in line with approved CQA Plans. More recently, at Dimmocks Cote (G. Webb), she was involved in sidewall construction, RECAGB works, and Phase 1 capping, helping to deliver efficient and compliant outcomes. These projects have given her broad exposure to landfill engineering, strengthening her technical expertise in CQA.
Environmental Impact Assessment
Philippa led Environmental Impact Assessment projects as an integral part of property valuation. She assisted with valuations in property sales, viewings and stock takes by using land applications. Going further, Philippa dedicated a large part of her work to communicating the advantages of sustainable constructions. She promoted evidence-based methods to align economic return with environmental and social performance of property assets.
Philippa also employed her expertise to support farmers, foresters and land managers in completing applications for Countryside Stewardship Schemes and Sustainable Farming. Her service enabled them to ultimately acquire the grant from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Forestry Commission.
Management Systems Summary
Drawing from her experience, Philippa generated a detailed Management System Summary (MSS) that extends to all operations associated with waste management procedures at Direct Motor Spares Ltd. Our client provides recovery and repair services for accident damaged vehicles. This entails separating repairable vehicles from waste vehicles that should be dismantled for spare parts.
Philippa’s practical advices enhance the operation team’s capacity to systemise processes, control costs and losses and ensure compliance. With a growth mindset, she also gives Direct Motor Spares actionable pointers in forecasting risks and enforcing best sustainable practices.