Andrew Brown

Andrew is a Senior Archaeological and Built Heritage Consultant with over twenty years’ experience working in the heritage sector. He has previously worked for Museum of London Archaeology, Oxford Archaeology and RSK ADAS: he has an extensive knowledge of archaeological fieldwork practice in urban and rural contexts associated with infrastructure development. Andrew has also worked as an archaeologist outside the UK, in France, Australia, Ireland, and Barbados.

Andrew has extensive archaeological field work experience prior to becoming a consultant in 2015. He supports clients to accommodate heritage constraints into the design and construction of infrastructure projects. Andy is experienced in assessing the potential impacts of development on the historic environment and identifying heritage risk to complex development schemes.

Andrew’s current role at Headland is to manage the heritage component of consultancy contracts for corporate and government clients, undertaking historic environment impact assessments, risk appraisal and liaison with clients, local authorities, and sub-contractors. The work helps ensure clients meet their environmental commitments and are compliant with the associated regulatory framework. This includes the production of archaeological constraint reports, historic environment desk-based assessments, EIA chapters, and written schemes of investigations for clients prior to development. The consultancy sectors that Andrew has been involved with include education, renewable energy and UK property. Andrew manages contracts and projects within the Headland project management system from tender through to delivery. This includes setting up tenders, converting successful tenders into projects, managing projects and issuing invoices.

Andrew’s role also includes project managing archaeological fieldwork; collating historic data for the preparation of archaeological desk-based assessments; liaising with local authorities, clients, construction managers, statutory consultees and members of the public; synthesising primary data into reports; and overseeing contractors to deliver projects. He produces fee proposals for technical review, develops client relationships and has previous experience of carrying out technical review of colleague’s key outputs and line-managing junior colleagues.