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Richard
Moorcroft
BEng (Hons), Loughborough University / PgD Civil Engineering, Coventry University / Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (CEng MICE) / Member of the Chartered Institute for Highways & Transportation (MCIHT) / Institute of Leadership and Management Level 5
Chief Technical Officer
richard.moorcroft@brookbanks.com
About Richard...
Richard is Chief Technical Officer at Brookbanks, where he leads the firm’s technical operations & project disciplines across the UK. Appointed to the role in 2026 following Brookbanks’ partnership with CBPE Capital, Richard brings extensive technical expertise and strategic leadership to the business, having previously served as Group Operations and Engineering Director.
As a member of both the Main Board and Executive Board, Richard champions technical excellence, innovation and collaboration. His focus is on driving quality, sharing knowledge and delivering outstanding technical outcomes across all projects and the wider business.
A Chartered Civil Engineer with over 22 years’ experience in design and consultancy, Richard has led complex residential, commercial and industrial developments, alongside major civil engineering and infrastructure projects. He specialises in taking projects from early-stage feasibility and placemaking through detailed design and delivery, combining technical rigour with commercial awareness and a clear focus on creating long-term value.
Richard has extensive experience directing multidisciplinary design teams and managing the full project lifecycle, including technical delivery, business planning, commercial risk and financial performance. He works closely with private sector developers, land promoters and landowners, public sector organisations and contractors to develop practical, commercially sound solutions that support successful project delivery.
His project experience spans a diverse range of major developments and infrastructure schemes, including Sherford New Town, Godley Green, Eastern Green, Stortford Fields, High Leigh Garden Village, Grove Airfield in Oxfordshire, Bridgwater Major Development, Nexus 25 in Taunton, Peterborough Hospital and the Walton on Trent Bypass at Drakelow Power Station.
Alongside his leadership role, Richard is a Supervising Civil Engineer and Mentor for the Institution of Civil Engineers and a member of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation. He is also a regular contributor to Brookbanks’ podcasts and webinars, sharing his perspectives on housing delivery, planning policy and the critical relationship between planning and engineering.
Through his work, Richard is committed to bringing together technical excellence, commercial insight and collaborative thinking to help deliver high-quality developments and infrastructure that make a lasting difference.
Did You Know?
Richard is an avid motorsport fan and he has raced formula cars competitively for over 10 years.
Sector Experience
Education
Richard has led engineering on education projects ranging from academies built under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme to one of the UK’s largest new schools.
Discovery Academy, Stoke-on-Trent: Civil, structural and highway design for a £20m, 11,000m² two-storey academy. It was one of 18 schools in a £250m BSF programme. The former Willfield site needed extensive reclamation because of old coal mine workings underneath it. The academy now has around 1,100 pupils aged 11–16, and its sports and music facilities are open to the community.
Sherford schools delivery, Plymouth: Engineering input from design through procurement to delivery of Sherford Vale School, the new town’s first primary school, which opened in September 2018. A second wing followed in 2024 after a 10-month build. It doubled the school from one form of entry to two, with room for up to 460 pupils.
Kenilworth School site access: Civil engineering design and Principal Designer for two new site accesses (a ghost island junction and a simple priority junction) and off-site traffic calming. The school is a £44m, 2,200-place school and sixth form on a 36-acre site, and was the largest school construction project under way in the country at the time. The work also covered cost appraisal, value engineering and service diversions, and the design received technical approval from the highway authority.
Healthcare
Former Peterborough District Hospital: Led flood risk, transport, highway, drainage and utilities work to turn a 23-acre former hospital site into 350 homes and a new primary school. The Grade II listed Gables and two other locally important buildings were kept as focal points of the new community. The project went from outline application to land sales in under three years, and the school land was serviced and handed to the local authority.
Infrastructure
Walton-on-Trent Bypass, Drakelow: Project, commercial and highway engineering management of a 1.5km bypass and a 150m bridge over the River Trent with three 50m spans. It replaces a weight-restricted, single-lane Bailey bridge that is about 70 years old and often closed by flooding, and the new road sits above flood levels. Richard coordinated the bridge designers, flood modellers, ecologists, quantity surveyors and planners. Delivery is under an NEC contract, with early contractor involvement, value engineering, two county councils and the Environment Agency. The bypass unlocks a 110ha brownfield former power station site for up to 2,000 homes.
Bridgwater Major Development: A 143ha mixed-use scheme next to Junction 23 of the M5. It includes 2,000 homes, a regional distribution centre of about 770,000 sq ft serving 65 stores and creating around 1,000 jobs, and 100,000 sq ft of B1/B2/B8 space. The works also covered site remediation, a bridge over the railway, a tunnel under it and £35m of enabling infrastructure. The distribution centre achieved BREEAM Excellent and was shortlisted at the LABC South West Building Excellence Awards.
Commercial
Nexus 25, Taunton: Value engineering review of a 25ha (61-acre) business park next to Junction 25 of the M5, with about 1m sq ft of employment space and capacity for over 3,000 jobs. Richard tested masterplan options that found an extra 3.2ha of developable land while cutting infrastructure costs by 24%.
British Sugar, Kidderminster: Highway, drainage, SuDS and earthworks design to regenerate the 74-acre former British Sugar beet factory, which ran from 1925 to 2004. The work included a new highway bridge over the River Stour and the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal. The derelict site is now a new community with a convenience store, care home and leisure centre.
Residential
Richard has led engineering on major residential developments and new communities including Sherford New Town, Godley Green, Eastern Green Urban Extension, Stortford Fields, High Leigh Garden Village, Infinity Garden Village, Grove Airfield, Outwoods Farm and Earls Court Farm, West Worcester.
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