Environmental assessment & control • Technical litigation & arbitration • Process & project engineering • Safety & loss prevention • Accident investigation & forensic engineering • Planning inquiries • Safety risk assessment • Major accident risks • Accident prevention • Risk management • Emergency planning • Oil, gas & petrochemicals • Environmental management • Land use planning

Building services • Air conditioning systems • Boiler plant & heating systems • Condensation in building fabric • Drainage & plumbing • Environments for museums & works of art • Fees for consulting engineers • Close controlled environments • Swimming pool plant & equipment • Engineering evidence

Chartered Engineer • Extensive experience in design, installation, operation & maintenance of mechanical building services engineering: • Air conditioning, refrigeration, heating, ventilation, smoke ventilation, noise control, acoustic performance, water & compressed air systems • Experience covers commercial, industrial & domestic fields, with projects including power stations, car manufacture, data centres, laboratories, office blocks, hotels & hospitals

The effect of work upon health • Management of occupational health programmes • Health & safety policies • Ventilation for control of contaminants • Control of substances hazardous to health • Health effects of the indoor environment • Stack emissions & their measurement

Causation studies • Corrosion failure investigations (metals, non-metals) • Assessment of corrosion risk • Corrosion control • Corrosion testing & material selection • On-site inspection, investigation & audits • Investigations related to oil & gas, petrochemical, chemical process, manufacturing, engineering & civil & construction industries • Engineering metallurgy • Failure investigation • Material selection

Health & safety in general, & occupational health in particular, e.g. dust, vapour, gas, biological cases, infectious diseases, allergies, asthma, machinery safety • Previously employed as HM Inspector of Factories, HM Specialist Inspector (Occupational Hygiene) & Occupational Hygiene Manager, BNFL, Sellafield

Evaluation of odour & volatile organic compound abatement systems • Environmental impact of emissions • Dispersion modelling • Odour & dust management plans • Waste & effluent treatment & recovery • Industrial ventilation • Dust & fume control • Independent quantitative measurement of odour in accordance with BSEN 13725:2003 (UKAS Accreditation no: 4729) • Quality assured measurements & reporting • Experience of applications for permitting, planning inquiry, public inquiry & courts

Noise & vibration: • Road traffic • Railways • Aircraft • Construction • Industry • Mineral extraction • Landfill • Entertainment & recreation • Motor sports • Gun clubs • Hearing damage • Hand-arm vibration & vibration white finger • Sound insulation • Development proposals for housing, retail & commercial uses • Air quality: • Traffic emissions • Dispersion modelling • Pollution monitoring • Process emissions • Dust

Occupational hygiene • Industrial disease litigation • Pollution, atmospheric • Safety, chemical • Safety at work

Occupational hygiene • Risk assessments • Asbestos • Air sampling • Respiratory problems (asthma) from exposure to dust, solvents, gases, vapours, isocyanates & effects on skin (dermatitis) • Site inspections for exposure to hazardous substances • Production of engineer reports, etc.

Dust monitoring & control in quarries, landfill sites, construction & other industrial operations • Quarry restoration & after-uses • Design & feasibility of opencast coal mines & quarries & related geotechnical matters, including: • Advice on mineral reserves & the adequacy of site investigations • Advice on ground conditions for excavation, including ripping & blasting & equipment selection • Stability of excavated slopes in mines & quarries • Safety of tips, lagoons & stock piles • Building stone reserves

Nuisance from dust, odour & noise • Environmental permitting under IPPC, appeals & statutory notices • Technological pollution controls, including determination of BPM, BPEO & BAT • Atmospheric emissions monitoring & air quality modelling • Environmental management systems & audits • Experienced in wide range of industrial processes, commercial, educational & residential development

As Associate Sustainability Consultant for Hilson Moran, Paul is competent to accept instructions in: • Nuisance from odour, dust & other amenity impacts relating to waste management, composting & industrial facilities • Air quality & odour monitoring & modelling • Flood risk & surface water management issues • Paul is experienced in finding environmental solutions to achieve planning permission for developments in some of the most challenging of urban environments

Contaminated land • Toxicology • Risk assessment • Incineration • Odour • Food • Dioxins • Heavy metals • Pesticides • Dust • Air quality • Radiation • Pollution • Chemicals • Asbestos • Water quality

My past career has included 8 years in industry & 7 years as a Specialist Inspector of the HSE where my specialism was process safety & flammable materials. I can therefore accept instruction in most cases where health & safety legislation is concerned, i.e. storage, use & processing of flammable materials, & the combustion aspects of carbon monoxide poisoning, etc.

Air pollution, including odour nuisance & food tainting • Accident investigation • Major hazards • Fire • Explosion • Toxic gas • Chemical spills • HSWA • COMAH • COSHH • DSEAR • Industrial injuries from chemical & process hazards • Risk from transport, storage, handling & treatment of chemicals, including hazardous waste • Environmental impact assessment • Accidents to the environment • Planning inquiries (risk & air pollution issues) • Cargo quality disputes • Cargo contamination incidents ...