{"id":7867,"date":"2022-08-31T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/?post_type=leadership&#038;p=7867"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:27:48","slug":"richard-keightley","status":"publish","type":"leadership","link":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/our-experts\/richard-keightley\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Keightley"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7867\" class=\"elementor elementor-7867\" data-elementor-post-type=\"leadership\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2508c56 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-eae-slider=\"85454\" data-id=\"2508c56\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2888aa3c\" data-eae-slider=\"37232\" data-id=\"2888aa3c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29e2ebae elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"29e2ebae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Richard is a Principal Associate based in our London office. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management, a Chartered Water and Environmental Manager and Chartered Environmentalist. Richard has investigated over 150 cases since he joined Hawkins in 2017, primarily in relation to flooding, drainage and water ingress issues.\u00a0Examples include: flooding from rivers, sea, surface water and groundwater; defective foul and surface water drainage systems; failure of infrastructure such as pumping stations, reservoirs and canals; the impacts of developments on flood risk to third party properties; and basement water ingress issues. Much of his work involves acting as an expert witness in civil claims, and advising on matters in relation to the requirements of national planning policies, building regulations and relevant design standards. In a recent High Court judgement, the judge favoured Richard\u2019s evidence to that of the other expert witnesses, describing him as an\u00a0\u201c<em>impressive witness<\/em>\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201c<em>a careful expert witness using language with precision<\/em>\u201d.<\/p><p>Prior to joining Hawkins, Richard was a Principal Consultant at a multi-national water and environmental engineering consultancy, where he delivered projects for the Environment Agency, local authorities and developers. His projects included flooding investigations, flood risk assessments, options appraisal for flood defence schemes, flood forecasting, climate change impact assessments and contingency plans for infrastructure failures.\u00a0<\/p><p>Prior to this, he worked at a water and sewerage company where he was responsible for the strategic management and development of drainage and water supply networks.\u00a0He had roles as a Senior Investigation and Design Engineer, investigating operational issues including flooding, water leakage and pollution incidents, and as Modelling Manager, leading a hydraulic modelling, asset condition\/deterioration modelling and geospatial analysis team.\u00a0 Before this, Richard was a Flood Risk Engineer at a multi-national civil engineering consultancy, where he specialised in hydrological\/hydraulic modelling, flood risk assessment and flood mitigation design.\u00a0 He managed projects to support planning applications and the preparation of Local Plans for clients including the Welsh Government, local authorities and major housebuilders.\u00a0 His projects ranged from single-dwelling developments to mixed-used developments with over 1500 homes.\u00a0 This work built on the experience gained in his previous role as a Hydrologist at a national water and atmospheric research institute.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Keightley is a forensic investigator at Hawkins London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38564,"parent":0,"template":"","service":[],"location":[41],"management":[],"experties":[62],"region":[79],"class_list":["post-7867","leadership","type-leadership","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-london","experties-built-environment","region-uk-ireland"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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