Building & construction problems Negligence (construction) • Professional negligence (architecture & construction) • Home improvement disputes • Cladding disputes • Contractual disputes (construction) • Contractor/subcontractor disputes (construction) • Improper contract administration (construction) • Cost disputes (construction) • Professional fees claims • Programming & time disputes (construction) • Claims investigation (property insurance) • Professional indemnity (construction)
Mr Ali in MIRFIELD
Chartered Bridge Engineer with extensive experience of bridge engineering. • Bridge design to old historical standards (BS5400 and earlier) • Bridge design to current eurocode standards • Prestressed concrete and steel composite bridge design • Strengthening of substandard bridge structures • Remedial works for bridge structures • Bridge maintenance works • Bridge inspection works and training • DMRB and NR standards • Defect identification • Bridge management • Bridge defects cause
Professor Buenfeld in LONDON
I have provided expert opinion and advice regarding concrete and concrete structures to lawyers, government departments, owners, designers and contractors from around the world. Non-compliance, construction defects, premature deterioration (especially corrosion), residual life estimation and repair are recurring themes relating to buildings, bridges, tunnels, dams, coastal and offshore structures and industrial facilities, including power stations and water and waste treatment plants.
Mr Klinefelter in DISS
Construction/civil engineering - delays, including the following disciplines: • Highways • Structures • Marine • Building • M&E • Facades • Infrastructure • Airports • Rail • Civil engineering • Construction • High-end residential
Mr Murphy in READING
Forensic delay and time element analysis with over 34 years' experience across conventional and renewable energy, data centres, infrastructure and industrial construction • Critical path and programme evaluation, extension of time assessment, delay in start-up and business interruption claims, reinstatement scheduling, and insurer advisory services • Extensive EPC experience under FIDIC, NEC and JCT contracts • Holds international appointments across the UK, Europe, MENA, the US and Asia
Dr Richards in LONDON
Structural engineering including: • Subsidence • Structural stability • Structural design of all major construction materials • Vibration of structures • Domestic, residential, commercial properties • Highway structures • Disputes in design • Housing disrepair (structural engineering) • Compliance with Building Regulations and Codes of Practice • High-rise construction • Foundation design (structure)
Mr Morris in EDINBURGH
Building services engineering, mechanical & electrical • Commercial vehicles • Mechanical components & machinery failure investigations • Engineering design
Mr Hoyle in ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH
Detailed forensic investigation of accidents, incidents, materials and mechanical failure • Product liability/fitness for purpose • Application of health and safety legislation and associated standards • Hazard identification and assessment of risk • Incorporated Engineer with practical experience in the Lifting Equipment and Lifting Operations Regulations (LOLER) and Pressure Safety Systems Regulations (PSSR) inspection industries • Competent in lifting equipment, work equipment, Machinery Directive and general workplace risk from small business to large-scale in...
Mr Jolly in GLASGOW
Specialist in civil & structural engineering • Building structures • Nuclear-related structures • Inspections & appraisals of civil work & structures • Roads & drainage for industrial & housing developments • Experience in planning & building warrant submissions • Power industry, including renewable energy, power stations & substations • Embankment failures • Causes of flooding of land & property • Accidents on construction sites • Tripping accidents • Approved certifier of design...
Eur Ing Symonds in BROMSGROVE
Structural engineering design • Building contracts • Settlement or subsidence problems • Insurance relating to buildings • Civil engineering • Structural failures • Drainage • Accidents: industrial & commercial
Mr Hambly in LONDON
General civil & structural engineering • Reinforced concrete design • Foundations design • Settlement & subsidence • Bridges • Drainage • Waterproofing • Roofing
Mr Blake in CROPTON
Subsidence cases • Workmanship issues in construction, both commercial and domestic • Drainage issues • Paving • Concrete • Brickwork defects • Defective design 40 years' experience of the construction industry in the UK and Middle East.
Mr Pereira in RICHMOND
Subsidence, heave, settlement and ground movement • Damage from back extensions and loft conversions • New house and extension foundation design • Foundation and pile design (bored piles, CFA piles, mini piles, secant and contiguous piled walls) • Retaining walls and failed retaining structures • Basements and basement impact assessment near neighbouring properties • Boundary and level difference disputes (banks, embankments, cuttings) • Ground investigation and site investigation adequacy • Geotechnical analysis and design • Slope stabilit...
Mr Moodie in LONDON
Electrical contracting • Electrical installation • Electrical drawing & design services • Electrical building service engineering • Electrical estimation Attended courses in: • expert witness report writing • confidence in the courtroom
Mr Jackson in LEEDS
I am a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with significant experience in the construction and engineering industry. My expertise covers professional negligence, contractual disputes, contract administration issues and costs disputes. I am the holder of an expert witness training certificate issued by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
Mr Byng in COVENTRY
Chartered Quantity Surveyor acting on building, civil engineering and railway construction contracts throughout the United Kingdom, the European Union, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Australasia and China • Over 30 years’ experience of procuring and managing building and civil engineering contracts to completion, creating projects for the design, construction and delivery of major engineering infrastructure projects, procured traditionally and by PFI or PPP methods, including expert determination of disputes arising from PFI contracts • Negotiating mergers of consultancy fi...
Mr Faily in MANCHESTER
Civil engineering • Reinforced concrete structures • Pipelines and drainage works • Scaffolding and work at height • Use of ladders • Piling • Subsidence • Rising damp • Highway design • Minor structures • Slips, trip and falls • Personal protective equipment • Construction site practice • Earthworks and earthmoving equipment • Excavators and cranes • Contractual disputes • Structural surveys • Building defects • Construction regulations • Bridge design • Bridge construction
Mr Barber in MARPLE
Experienced in sewerage and land drainage matters to include: • drainage investigations • drainage design • preparation of drainage contracts • supervision and management of drainage contracts • management of consulting engineers • hydraulic modelling and masterplanning of sewerage networks. Experienced in allegations of professional negligence against consulting engineers Experienced in allegations of bad workmanship against contractors
Mr Stevenson in LONDON
Structural engineering • Civil engineering • Engineering design • Steelwork • Reinforced concrete • Masonry • Buildings • Basements • Movement • Cracking • Failure • Collapse • Waterproofing • Water ingress • Roofs • Floor slabs • Foundations • Piling • Underpinning • Retaining walls • Deep basements • Diaphragm walls • Heave • Subsidence • Ground movement • Deflection • Vibration • Railway stations • Underground stations •
Mr Barham in LONDON
Nick is a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer with over 25 years’ experience in the construction industry. He started his career working on construction sites whilst studying civil engineering, obtaining a first-class honours degree. He then worked at a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy in the UK, qualifying as a Chartered Engineer in 2009. Nick then began focusing on forensic engineering and dispute resolution work at a specialist consultancy in the UK, and has been working as an Expert Witness, in the UK and internationally, since 2012. He is a Director at Rimkus, a global ...
Mr Swayne in PRESTWOOD
I have extensive experience in the design, specification, supervision and/or project management of mechanical and electrical engineering services installations, on a wide variety of commissions, including healthcare projects. During that time I have undertaken design audits and/or detailed technical appraisals of both new and existing mechanical and electrical engineering services installations, prepared expert witness reports and provided advice to clients and their legal representatives in respect of duties concerning technical and/or contractual aspects related to mechanical and ele...
Mr Alyah in KINGSTON UPON THAMES
Mr Alyah is a Chartered Electrical Engineer with 38 years of experience of being instructed in the USA, UK, Europe, ME, Asia and Australia to prepare expert reports and give expert evidence on disputes involving power generation, including turbines (gas, steam and hydro), solar (PV and CSP), wind, energy storage (battery, thermal) in addition to electrical transmission and distribution systems (transformers, substation equipment, switchgear, cables) and other equipment. Additionally, Mr Alyah carried out hundreds of RCA investigations of major and complex engineering incidents inc...
Mr Holden-Smith in CLITHEROE
Chartered Quantity Surveyor | Chartered Construction Manager | Forensic Delay Analyst | Registered Adjudicator | Registered Arbitrator Forensic delay analysis in construction • Quantum of construction claims including, but not limited to, commercial construction works, loss and expense claims and damages
Mr Mills in NORWICH
I can accept instructions and provide expert opinion on matters related to Systems Completion, Commissioning and Start-Up (CSU), and overall project delivery across a range of industries and project types, including: • Renewable energy • Onshore and offshore oil and gas • Downstream petrochemicals • Pharmaceuticals • Nuclear new build and decommissioning • Process plants and facilities • Greenfield and brownfield modifications • Plant and facility shutdowns/turnarounds • Data centres With extensiv...
Mr Giles-Carlsson in CHEADLE
Expert witness and forensic investigation services relating to civil engineering failures and disputes. Areas of expertise include: • Collapse of steel, masonry and reinforced concrete structures and buildings • Construction site, workplace and other health and safety investigations, including the review of responsibilities under CDM, risk assessments and safe systems of work • Wind-induced collapses • Failure of retaining walls • Roof collapses • Structural damage • Review of structural strengthening and remedial works ...
Mr Barmpopoulos in LONDON
Geotechnical engineering • Geotechnical analysis • Geotechnical design • Geotechnical assessment • Heavy civils • Buildings • Bridges • Basements • Maritime structures • Industrial slabs • Infrastructure • Road pavements • External paving • Site investigation • Desk study • Ground investigation • Groundwater • Seepage • Foundations • Shallow foundations • Footings • Raft foundations • Deep foundations • Bored piles • Driven piles • Rock sockets &...
Mr Clark in LEEDS
Academy of Experts & Registered Expert Witness Consulting Engineer with more than 50 years' experience in the UK, Middle East, Far East and SE Asia. Design of numerous low- and high-rise commercial, industrial and public buildings and structures, as well as basements, foundations and retaining walls involving: • masonry • concrete • steel • timber. Investigation of defective: • design • materials • construction • fabrication • manufacturing. Investigation of: ...
Mr Evans in LONDON
Structural engineering • Civil engineering • Residential, domestic, commercial, retail, industrial, infrastructure, education, arts & leisure, oil & gas • Buildings • Retaining structures • Foundations • Basements • Car parks • Wind turbines • Industrial buildings • Heavy civils • Infrastructure • Portal frames • Tanks • Liquid retaining structures • Structural analysis • Structural assessment • Structural surveys • Structural design • Structural strengthening • Struc...