Richard during site visit to Maputo water intake,
Mozambique.Richard Noakes is a chartered engineer with
an MSc in Water Resource Systems Engineering from the University of
Newcastle, and a BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering from the University
of Swansea.. He has worked for Mott MacDonald for 19 years and has
26 years of professional experience.
He is an experienced project manager specialising in water supply
and wastewater worldwide, having particular experience of strategic
planning, feasibility and due diligence studies, and project
preparation for donor agencies.. His principal fields of expertise
are in project appraisal, water supply and treatment, project
procurement, project finance, rural water supply and water network
rehabilitation. Richard has worked in Romania, Russia, Bulgaria,
Pakistan, Oman, Thailand, Malawi, Indonesia, Mozambique, China,
Latvia, Sri Lanka, the UAE and Iran. In recent years he has managed
major wastewater projects in the UK, and capacity building and
restructuring projects within municipal utilities in Eastern
Europe. He has also led teams preparing water and wastewater
projects for successful funding applications through the EC, and
led public private partnership (PPP) schemes in Pakistan,
Mozambique, and Oman.
Richard was recently the manager of the
Wing Water Treatment and
Transmission Extension – a major project for Anglian Water to
provide an additional 90 Ml/d of treated water. He was responsible
for teams designing treatment works, pumping stations, transmission
pipelines and environmental mitigation works. He is now
specialising in business development in Central & Eastern
Europe and undertaking specialist inputs for water supply and
wastewater projects worldwide.
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