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Managing Director - Darren Staff brings over 22 years of road, sewer and foundation infrastructure design to the national housebuilding industry, ranging from his early “rotring pens and drawing board” days, to the more modern day SUDS  computer software and associated design packages necessary to undertake the specialist services required for Infrastructure design of this nature.

His introduction to engineering design was swift and rapid – Darren spent some years with Yorkshire Water’s Section 104 Adoptions team located in Ryedale District Council and subsequently with York City Council, where a full road and sewer design appraisal of all consultants/developer design submissions would be made.

In-keeping with numerous changes over the years to design criteria from various regulatory bodies, ensured Darren enrolled on the relevant courses and software upgrades to keep up with the “fastrack” environment that was ensuing.

Darren eventually made the move to a well known design consultancy in Yorkshire, where his progression through the ranks made him more aware of the financial, marketing and team management constraints associated with engineering consultancies.

Having spent over a decade serving housing developers in the Yorkshire and surrounding regions designing for Section 38,104 and 278 developments, Darren moved to the North West as Head of Engineering working for one the top five national housebuilders, designing schemes in-house and the overseeing of other external consultants in the field of geo-environmental and remediation issues that were prevalent to brownfield development.

In the seven years spent designing in the North West, Darren has forged good relationships and rapport with numerous personnel within Local Highway’s, Water Utility Companies and the Environment Agency, thus ensuring an efficient and practical approach to scheme design.

Being aware of the “cronic” shortage of multi-tasking design engineers, Darren decided to create his own design consultancy, realising the need for a personal, confident design service meeting the needs of the client which cannot always be met by the larger national consultancies.

“It is the sole intention of DMS Civils Design Ltd to ensure that future clients will be repeat clients, which enables both the client and DMS to move forward with confidence”.

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