Façade design • Façade performance • Performance testing • Façade specification • Building regulations • Material and product selection • Glass • Overhead glazing • Cladding • Rainscreen cladding • Curtain walls • Unitised façades • Stick curtain walling • Windows (non-domestic) • Fenestration • Weatherproofing • Water ingress • Leakage • Installation • Workmanship • Building envelope interfaces • Defects analysis • Failure investigation • Fire safety specification • Operating and maintenance requirements

Fenestration & Building Envelope Consultant • Glass • Glazing • Frames in wood, steel, aluminium, PVC, etc. • Curtain walling • Conservatories • Overhead glazing • Safety verification • Conservation glass • Stained & coloured glass • Rainscreen cladding • Thermal imaging • Thermography infrared surveys • Building defects • Water ingress • Thermal performance • Accredited & Registered Mediator

Consultant Forensic Engineer & expert witness undertaking the investigation of engineering incidents & personal injury accidents for commercial, legal & insurance clients • Provision of independent & impartial expert witness evidence • Mechanical, metallurgical & non-metallic materials (i.e. polymer, composite, rubber, glass & ceramic materials) based investigations • Forensic investigations both on-site & laboratory based • Component failure analysis, including expertise in fractography & electron microscopy (SEM) •...

Experience covers failure investigations on: • Metals: ferrous & non-ferrous • Non-metals: plastics & glass • Welding & fabrication • Lifting equipment, cranes, hoists, chains, nylon slings & hooks • Fire damage • Plant & machinery component failures • Construction materials & components: bolts, rebar, glazing units, etc. • Surface coatings: metallic, organic or thermally sprayed • Non-destructive testing • Historic structures & materials: bronze, cast iron & wrought iron • Corrosion problems: inland & marine • Marine failures:...

Architecture • Building defects and regulations • Glass and glazing systems • Health and safety

An architect with 37 years' experience on a range of building types & sizes. I advise upon claims against architects; investigate defective building fabric, especially external walls & flat & pitched roofs, condensation & air leakage & disputes concerning inspection, valuation & certification. I act in mediation, arbitration & adjudication, as an SJE, & give evidence at the TCC. I work throughout the UK for insurers, loss adjustors, building owners, contractors & material suppliers. I am included on the List...

Architecture • Planning • Building regulations • Cladding • Facades • Fire protection • Fire • Professional negligence • Defects • Remedial works • Water ingress • Damp • Roofing • Condensation • Basements • Curtain wall • Glass • Joinery • Partitions • Flooring • Corrosion • Acoustics • Contract administration • Design • Co-ordination • Appointment • Listed buildings • Waterproofing

Civil engineering • Steel erection & cladding • Reinforced concrete structures • Steelfixing & shuttering • Pipelines & drainage works • Scaffolding & work at height • Use of ladders • Tunnelling & tunnelling equipment • Marine work & offshore construction • Augered & impact piling • Grouting • Construction site practice • Earthworks & earthmoving equipment • Excavators & cranes • Contractual disputes & cranes Building • Structural surveys • Building defects • Subsidence & underpinning • Reinstatement following fire, flood or storm • Rising damp...

Building surveying: • Structural surveys & valuation • Boundary disputes • Party wall administration • Building defect diagnosis • Construction & contract administration • Building disputes • Subsidence damage • Leasehold dilapidations • Duties of a Chartered Surveyor or Valuer & negligence • Double glazing & conservatory disputes • Fire damage • Fire precautions & means of escape • Kitchen & joinery installation disputes Simon Levy is the Principal of an active, multi-disciplined practice of Chartered Building Surveyors and Designers....

As a wood scientist with over 30 years' expert witness experience in the wood products industry, I am well placed to investigate and report upon its many uses: in flooring, joinery, construction, etc.; both in terms of compliance with EU Standards and to provide opinion based on industry best practice. Cardiff University Law School Certified Expert Witness, conversant with CPR 35, dealing with solicitors, counsel and giving evidence in court. See http://www.timberconsultancy.co.uk

Provides professional services in the following field of expertise: • Construction defects • Building contract and property title disputes • Landlord and tenant dilapidations • Section 11 housing disrepair

Consultancy specification & design of curtain walls, cladding, solar shading, overhead glazing, atrium glazing & bolted glass • Weatherproofing of the building facade, cladding & overhead glazing • Facade & roof specification & design • Structural design of facades, cladding & components in glass, aluminium & stainless steel • Durability of facade, roof & cladding materials

Adhesives • Body fluids, alcohol in • Bitumens & asphalts • Corrosion & metal treatment • Detergents & wetting agents • Surfactants • Forensic science • Paints • Sealants • Printing inks • Packaging materials • Plastics • Rubbers • Colour measurement • Skid resistance & slip testing • Double-glazing failures • Patent infringements • Road markings Additional email: [email protected]

Investigation & testing of building & civil engineering materials & components Charles Darley Associates are independent materials testing consultants. Expertise is available in a wide range of materials and components including blockwork, cladding, reinforced and pre-stressed concrete, flooring, glazing, plaster, render, roofing systems and screeds. Dr Darley specialises in failure investigation, appraisal of latent defects and deterioration and assessment of physical damage.

Environmental & housing legislation relating to domestic properties • Personal injury claims pertaining to property, pathways, commercial & industrial accidents • Homebuyer surveys • Reports on kitchens, bathroom & window installations, building works, etc., under consumer law & grant-aided work • Damp investigations on domestic & commercial property • Specialist testing • All expert witness reports comply with CPR requirements • Consumer/contractor disputes on residential property

I accept instructions from defendants and claimants via solicitors on most health and safety topics. I have particular experience in health and safety legislation, fatal accident investigation, manufacturing, construction, banking, education, healthcare, charity, retail and pharmaceuticals. My skills include: risk assessment, training, work at height, fall prevention, safe systems of work, safety documentation and policies, fire safety and protection, COSHH, manual handling and work equipment.

The forensic investigation of failed mechanical parts and machinery from general industrial/manufacturing, electrical power generation/transmission, petrochemical, automotive, water and construction industries • Collapse of cranes and large structures • Detailed experience of metal casting, reciprocating engines, gas turbines and other rotating machinery • Investigation of escapes of water/oil in domestic and commercial environments • Investigation of fractured glazing