Recognised for our concise, high quality advice, our multi-disciplinary team will help deliver your project soundly, professionally, and with minimum risk.
We also want you to enjoy working with us.
If you want to put faces to names…..
- Greg Shillabeer
Director - Will Guest
Finance Director - Dr. Paul Phillips
Technical Director - Stuart Davidson
Operational Director (Glasgow) - Clare Walters
Technical Director (Planning)
Greg Shillabeer
Director
Greg Shillabeer has 20 years of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and development experience, both as a consultant and in a developer role with Scottish Power. Prior to establishing Arcus, Greg headed up the Renewable Energy Section of a multi-national consultancy organisation with responsibility for the strategic direction of the UK Renewable Energy business. Greg has a broad EIA background covering the renewable energy sector which includes wind farms, hydro schemes and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants as well as experience in other industry sectors including waste, minerals, and transport.
Greg established Arcus in January 2006 and has developed the business into a mature and well respected planning, environmental and engineering consultancy. By applying his project management, technical assessment and public inquiry experience, Greg helps the Arcus team to work in a manner which consistently applies a quality and bespoke approach to projects. As the company Director, Greg maintains an up-to-date knowledge of the markets in which we work to ensure the team provides the best service and advice to our clients. Greg also takes a strong role in the management and support of the team, motivating team members to provide the services required and setting an example for high levels of client care and quality deliverables.
Will Guest
Finance Director
Will has overall control and responsibility for all financial aspects of the UK and South African operations. He also oversees the company secretarial duties and support functions. Will has over 10 years’ experience working in the energy industry and worked in the regulated energy distribution sector prior to joining Arcus. He is a chartered management accountant.
Dr. Paul Phillips
Technical Director
Paul has responsibility for ensuring the high quality of output on which Arcus’ reputation is based. Paul is Arcus’ EIA service leader, coordinating and developing a team of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) consultants and managing Arcus EIA project portfolio. He has played an integral role in developing and shaping numerous wind farm applications over the last 6 years, including some of the largest onshore wind farm applications in the UK. Paul is currently acting in a project developer role on a major energy development project in Scotland for an overseas client and acting as project director on EIA projects.
Paul has more than 15 years’ environmental management experience, including work in EIA, Environmental Permitting, due diligence, auditing, and strategic environmental assessment of natural resource management. He is an IEMA Registered EIA Practitioner.
He has a thorough knowledge of the renewable energy sector, gained as an EIA project director and project manager, having worked on over 50 onshore wind farm projects across the UK, and with increasing involvement with offshore wind.
In addition, Paul has considerable former and ongoing experience in other sectors, including thermal power stations, chemical works and refineries, multi-use masterplan developments and road developments.
Stuart Davidson
Operational Director (Glasgow)
Stuart leads the Arcus Glasgow office, and is responsible for the delivery of the Arcus output within Scotland. With more than 10 years’ experience in consultancy, Stuart has managed projects throughout all stages of the development cycle, from feasibility and site inception through to operation and planning for decommissioning. Stuart’s background stems from EIA coordination and consenting, and he has developed his experience through leading a number of complex projects, including onshore wind, hydro, solar, infrastructure and demonstrator schemes. Having worked on over 100 renewable developments throughout his career, Stuart uses his understanding of how to tackle complex issues to ensure that clients receive a solution-focused service when working with the Arcus team. He is also a Registered EIA Practitioner with IEMA.
Supplementing his experience in consultancy, Stuart has a first-hand understanding of client requirements and expectations, gained through multiple developer secondments in both the onshore and offshore wind sectors.
In addition to the delivery of project work, Stuart is also responsible for developing Arcus’ renewables business.
Clare Walters
Technical Director (Planning)
Based in our York office, Clare is a Technical Director and leads the planning team on projects throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland. A Planner with over 20 years’ experience, she has developed a reputation for solving complex planning issues and has achieved planning permission for a wide range of developments across the property sector including residential developments, leisure and mixed use schemes as well as consent for over 200 MW of renewables projects which are now operational.
Previously, Clare worked as a Private Sector Planning Consultant with GVA Grimley and GL Hearn, specialising in planning and property development. She also has 10 years’ experience as a Development Director, managing the planning and development of a portfolio of renewables projects from inception through to construction.
She is a Member of the RICS Planning and Development Division and a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv).
