Richard has over 20 years experience working for Local Authorities and Consultants. He started his career working for Kent County Council's Highways & Transportation Department, designing maintenance schemes (footways, carriageway, drainage) on the local highway network. Richard then transferred to work for the County's Engineering Consultancy Division gaining experience in traffic & safety engineering, particularly traffic sign design and road marking layouts. Following externalisation Richard worked as a Traffic & Safety Engineer for Babtie (now Jacobs) undertaking the additional tasks of Road Safety Auditing.
Richard moved to InterRoute (Mott MacDonalds' joint venture with Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Services) to head the Traffic & Safety team looking after the Highways Agency's Area 4 MAC contract. Whilst working for InterRoute Richard was responsible for project management of the M20 Controlled Motorway and Project Cordon schemes to better manage congestion around Maidstone.
Richard is currently working for MMB Associates as Project Manager for various technology schemes.
He has been a member of the IHT since 2001, being a member of the SE Branch Committee since 2006. Richard has previously served on the Recruitment Sub-Committee.

Richard has also taken over the role of Branch Member to Council following the elections at the AGM in 2008

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Danielle graduated from the University of Greenwich in 2001 with an Honours degree in Civil Engineering. She started her career as a Highway Engineer for Owen Williams consultants involved in projects for Brighton & Hove City Council, East Sussex County Council, West Sussex County Council and the Highways Agency. The types of schemes that she worked on include Bus Accessibility, School Safety Zones, Controlled Crossings, Major Highway Design and Site Supervision for highway and structural strengthening schemes.
She worked for Atkins Transport Planning undertaking a wide range of work for Clients such as Transport for London.  She is currently working on the Capacity Enhancement Project of the Docklands Light Railway
Danielle has been a member of the South Eastern Branch committee since 2003 and is also a co-opted member of the Member Services Board.

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Mike Sumpter has been a member of the South Eastern Branch Committee since 1980 and has fulfilled all roles except Hon. Treasurer. Whilst he was branch member of Council he chaired the steering group on the Guidelines “Providing for Public Transport in Developments” and assisted in the development of an NVQ Level 3 in Transport Technical Support.
He retired from full time employment just over 2 years ago after 40 years serving in both the public and private sector, although is still retained as a Consultant to Millard Consulting to carry out Road Safety Audits and other transport related projects.
At the branch AGM in March 2008 he retook on the role as Hon. Secretary, a post he last held in 1987, although he has been Assistant Hon. Secretary for the past 16 years, and has also retained the role as web officer.
In his spare time he is project manager for the extension of the heritage railway ‘Spa Valley Railway’ from Groombridge to Eridge and can also be seen serving cream teas on board the buffet car.

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Richard is, by training, a Municipal Engineer with over 30 years experience in most aspects of municipal works. He has worked for several local authorities in the south east and recently was the City Development Control Engineer at Brighton and Hove City Council dealing mainly with major projects.
Richard holds a First Degree in Civil Engineering and his Masters is an M.B.A.
Richard has been a Member of the Institution since 1985. He was elected to the South Eastern Branch Committee in 1997, chaired the Recruitment Sub Committee 1999 to 2001, was Vice Chair 2001 to 2002, Chair 2002 to 2003 and championed the appointment of younger engineers to the Branch Committee. In 2005 he was part of the Institution team that for the first time organised and held the final of the Colas Premium Award outside London.
Richard mentored and supported Laura Peacock, the winner of the South Eastern Branch 2006 Young Engineers Competition.
At the 2006 Branch Annual General Meeting Richard was elected Branch Treasurer.

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Mark is a Business Manager for Colas Limited and is based at Colas’ head office at Rowfant West Sussex. With 22 years service for Colas, Mark has overall responsibility for all Civil Engineering activities across the South East as well as managing national operations for High Friction Surfacing and development, supply and installation of Variable Message Signs (Primarily for the Highways Agency).

A member of IHT since 1991, Mark joined the Branch Committee in 2007 and became Recruitment Officer in 2008.

Mark lives at Kilndown near Cranbrook in Kent.

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