Providing Guidance for Confident Decision-Making
Delivering Clear, Actionable Risk Assessments
We specialize in offering precise, actionable insights to give our customers the best advice tailored to their specific site. This requires understanding of our customer’s needs as well as expert knowledge of the risks they may encounter supported by clear reports and excellent customer support.
We see the value our Customer Support team and our Consultants bring to customers on a daily basis by allowing any questions to be effectively addressed.
Our Consultants
We have the largest environmental and mining consultancy team in the market, with the calibre, skills and proactive approach to tailor advice to individual circumstances. Many are subject specialists in their own field, with undergraduate, Masters and PhD qualifications.
"Our role is to provide good quality assessments and support you in understanding and taking next steps where risks are identified."
Ceri Sansom, Consultancy Director
The Advantages of our In-House Consultants
Our consultants bring valuable expertise in interpreting complex data, going beyond the limits of simple algorithms. They consider data nuances often missed in automated processes, which tend to be more conservative.
This is particularly important when assessing industrial risks in large industrial areas compared to residential ones. To provide customers with the best solutions, our consultants develop protocols that refine assessments and ensure accurate reporting. Automated tools, while useful, often lean towards overly conservative outcomes due to their need for broad applicability.
Meet our Consultants
We have two teams of specialist consultants who write our Environmental and Mining search reports - with more than 20 staff in total. Between them they have many decades of experience in reviewing data, assessing the risks and being able to communicate that in writing and in person. Here are a short selection of bios to give you a flavour of their expertise.
Kate Goodall, Consultancy Manager
Kate Goodall is the Consultancy Manager here at Groundsure. She lives in Hove, East Sussex but originally hails from Sydney, Australia.
Kate heads up a team of 19 dedicated and talented Environmental Consultants who research, write and peer review residential and commercial reports at Groundsure – everything from the Homebuyers report through to Commercial Review Reports.
Kate has worked in environmental consulting for 17 years starting with a consulting firm in Sydney mainly working on remediation of petrol filling station sites. She moved to the UK in 2009 to complete her Masters Degree in Environmental Assessment and Management at Brighton University.
Cristina Ortega, Specialist Environmental Consultant
Cristina has been part of the Consultancy Team at Groundsure since 2015.
Her main duty is to make sure that the reports are accurately written taking into account all the data available. She is also here to support with other queries including topics like flooding, ground stability and reviewing any other documentation that can facilitate a property transaction.
Cristinas motto is that “communication is key” so please get in touch if you have any questions or queries.
Maxim Thamilarasan, Junior Environmental Consultant
Maxim is an Environmental Science Graduate, he specialized in Soil Science and Site Investigation.
Maxi joined Groundsure in 2021 as a graduate environmental consultant, responsible for delivering residential and commercial search reports as well as related customer queries.
He has a Bachelor’s in Biotechnology, Master’s in environmental pollution and management.
Priangka Bhattacharya, Graduate Environmental Consultant
Priangka is a Graduate Environmental Consultant for Groundsure.
She is an accomplished writer and performer, and enjoys using her skills to contribute largely to writing both the residential and commercial reports that help the workload of Groundsure and satisfy clients.
She also responds to numerous client queries regarding residential reports on day to day basis. Priangka graduated from the University of Hertfordshire in 2022 with a master’s degree in Water and Environmental Management.
Maite de la Quintana, Junior Environmental Consultant
Maite joined Groundsure in 2021 and currently works in the consultancy team.
She holds a degree in Geography and History from Universidad de Deusto in Spain and an MSc in Environmental Management from SOAS, University of London.
Maite has previously worked in the travel and property sectors while taking part in sustainability projects for conservation and development charities.
