Dr Andrew Heather is a chartered environmentalist with Eng D
and BSc from Cranfield University. He has eight years of regulatory
experience working with one of the largest water and wastewater
statutory undertakers in England. His particular area of expertise
is in the assessment of regulatory requirements and the impact such
requirements have on capital and operating expenditure. He is
therefore ideally placed to identify the technical regulatory
impacts of change in water utilities or regulators.
Recent focus has been to identify the least whole-life cost to
deliver customer and environmental service in the medium to long
term, within the English water regulatory framework. Andrew has
worked with economic, drinking water quality and wastewater
environmental regulators to understand the regulatory models and
develop plans to meet their requirements. He has also contributed
to UK Government consultation on implementation of the EU Water
Framework Directive, including a project to review the economics of
improving river water quality through either sewage works
improvements or changes to agricultural practice. He contributed to
a consultation on the potential transfer of privately owned sewers
to the water companies, where the Government is assessing the
implications for prices, companies and customers. Latterly he
contributed to a UK parliamentary briefing note on Energy from
Sewage.
Andrew’s other recent work includes taking account of potential
changes such as climate and new quality requirements in addition to
the changing requirement for base asset maintenance. He developed
analytical techniques for implementation of the UKWIR capital
maintenance planning common framework in 2004. His work included
researching the regulatory, environmental, customer service, health
and safety, reputational and operational impacts of investment
plans, and producing a five-yearly asset management plan of about
£1 billion.
He is an active conference speaker and has given guest lectures on
risk and asset management at Abertay, Cranfield and Birmingham
Universities.
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