Patrick Williams

Managing Director

Qualifications : BSc MSc MIOA

Patrick Williams is a founding member of Southdowns and, prior to setting up the company with former colleagues in 1996, he was technical director for Noise and Vibration at Ashdown Environmental. He was responsible for the project and technical management of the noise and vibration impact assessment of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in the early 1990s and, since then, has worked on many other railway and infrastructure projects throughout the UK and overseas. Before this he worked at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at Southampton University where he specialised in environmental noise research and obtained an MSc in Sound and Vibration Studies. He has over twenty years experience of acoustics work obtained in industrial, commercial and research organisations, is an experienced expert witness and provides specialist advice on the assessment of noise and vibration from transport, industrial and commercial developments.