Acoustics, noise & vibration consultant • Abatement notices • Architectural/building acoustics • Building services (air-conditioning & ventilation) noise • Construction noise & vibration • Entertainment noise • Environmental noise • Expert witness • Industrial noise • Licensing • Noise nuisance • Noise surveys • Occupational hearing loss • Planning appeals & public enquiries • Sound insulation • Transportation noise

With 26 years’ experience, WeatherNet have expertise and experience in all aspects of weather • Since 1997, WeatherNet have prepared in excess of 2600 weather-related legal reports • In the last 26 years, WeatherNet have provided weather-related reports for the following cases: • Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) • Personal Injury Claims (Falling, Tripping and Slipping Accidents) • Flooding and Drainage Claims • Domestic and Commercial Insurance Claims • Liability • Travel and Transit • Agricultural Incidents • Contract Disputes R...

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

Escapes of water, oil and gas • Composites • Glass and ceramics • Plastics and polymers • Construction injuries • Falls from height • Noise and vibration injuries • Lifting operations • Collision reconstruction

Mechanical engineering • Mechanical failure • Product failure • Pneumatic engineering • Hydraulic engineering • Automotive engineering • Personal protective equipment • Classic vehicles • Accident investigation: agriculture; agricultural machinery and vehicles; construction sites; mechanical; factories; falls, trips and slips; footpaths, pavements, pedestrian; forklift trucks; HGVs; industry; ladders; leisure industry and sports; lifting equipment; lifting; machinery; manufacturing industry; occupational; plant engineering; play areas and playgro...

Environmental noise • Planning & noise • Environmental vibration • Planning & vibration • Building vibration • Building acoustics • Sound in buildings • Sound insulation • Environmental impact assessment • Entertainments noise • Entertainments licensing • Industrial noise • Noise nuisance • Vibration nuisance • Construction noise • Construction vibration • Vibration in art galleries • Vibration in museums

Accident investigation: agriculture; agricultural machinery and vehicles; construction sites; mechanical; factories; falls, trips and slips; footpaths, pavements, pedestrian; forklift trucks; HGVs; industry; ladders; leisure industry and sports; lifting equipment; lifting; machinery; manufacturing industry; occupational; plant engineering; play areas and playgrounds; scaffolding; warehousing industry; welding; woodworking industry Mechanical design • Mechanical appliances • Mechanical engineering, including project management • Offshore mechanical eng...

Structural engineering • Civil engineering • Residential, domestic, commercial, retail, industrial, infrastructure, education, arts & leisure, oil & gas • Buildings • High-rise • Underground structures • Retaining structures • Foundations • Basements • Car parks • Bridges • Ports • Petrochemical facilities • Offshore structures • Wind turbines • Industrial buildings • Heavy civils • Infrastructure • Rail • Airports • Stations • Silos • Domes • Concre...

Accidents at work and on construction sites, including slipping and tripping cases • Disability accommodation reports • Building defects, including investigation of claddings • Construction disputes • Architect negligence cases, including fire design issues • Cost of injury, disability, death • Arbitrator

Construction safety • Occupational health & safety • Personal injury • Slips & trips • Manual handling • Accident investigations • Flooding damage • Geotechnical engineering • Foundations & earthworks • Embankments & cuttings • Soil & rock slope instability • Subsidence, settlement & heave • Treatment of mineworkings • Landfill engineering • Stabilisation works • Retaining walls • Ground improvement • Contamination • Drainage

Expertise: • Safety • Accident investigation • Health & Safety at Work Act & Regulations • Personal injury • Fires • Explosions • Risk assessment • Safety management • Occupational accidents • Product safety • Dangerous goods • Falls • Mechanical or structural failure • Machinery Sectors: • Industrial • Construction • Mechanical • Manufacturing • Factories • Oil • Gas • Offshore • Chemicals • Pipelines R

Acoustics consultancy • Acoustics and vibration • Noise and vibration injuries • Boundary element method (BEM) • Waveguide finite element method (FEM)

All areas of civil & criminal cases relating to occupational health, safety & welfare, for example: • Workplace accidents • Slips, trips and falls • Machinery injuries • Workplace transport and vehicle movement • Warehouse-related and care home-related workplace accidents • Health and social care • Gig economy injuries • Occupational stress and mental health • Ergonomics and work-related upper limb disorders

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...

Industrial and workplace safety management • Accident investigation • Risk assessment • Workplace transport • Explosive manufacturing • Chemical safety • Human factors • Health and safety training

Personal injury • Product liability • Professional negligence claims • Environmental health • Consumer protection • Building & construction problems & safety • Playground accidents • Ladder accidents • Structures & structural engineering • Road traffic accident investigation & reconstruction • Agricultural & horticultural • Manufacturing industries • Electrical safety • Chemical safety • Industrial diseases • Musculoskeletal disorders & RSI • Slips, trips & falls • ...

Valuation of plant & machinery for: • Insurance purposes • Open market values • Experience in: • Machine tools • Contractors plant • Brewery industry • Printing • Textiles • Motor vehicles

Over 25 years in environmental and waste management consultancy and provision of expert witness services since 2012 • Expert in anaerobic digestion of waste and non-waste feedstocks, mechanical biological treatment (anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting) of residual waste, and co-mingled dry mixed recyclable, residual waste, and construction and demolition waste material recovery facilities • Broad appreciation of legislation, policy and practices across the waste industry • Experienced in procurement, independent certification of construction and acceptance testing an...

Accident investigation: • Industry & industrial premises • Construction & building • Docks • Agriculture • Transport & road traffic; highway • Offices & shops • Hospitals & nursing homes • Education • Sport & leisure • Domestic • Mechanical engineering: • Machinery defects & disputes • Cranes & lifting equipment • Papermaking machinery • Boiler plant & steam ancillaries • Mechanical handling equipment, including fork-lifts • Consumer produc...

I have been a Chartered Mechanical, Electrical and Building Services Engineer for 40 years. I have a wide experience of mining, process industries, power generation, construction and mechanical and electrical engineering. I have been instructed on a broad range of matters, ranging from pressure vessels to electronic controls. Most engineers know how systems should work, and how to interpret standards. My speciality is in understanding, and explaining to laymen, why engineering systems do not work as expected, and in devising and implementing proportionate remedial measures. I have a good ...

Forensic, highways & construction meteorology • Routine & winter highway maintenance • Road traffic accident investigation & reconstruction • Slips, trips & falls • Ice & frost prediction & detection • Thermal mapping • Snow clearance • Adverse road conditions due to weather • Fog, wind, storm & rainfall analysis • Micro-climatology • Estimation of flooding • Road surveying • Surface water drainage • Weather forecasting

Chartered Architect, Chartered Building Engineer, Chartered Arbitrator, accredited Adjudicator, practising Member of The Academy of Experts I am a Chartered Architect, Chartered Building Engineer and Chartered Arbitrator with over 40 years’ experience across a wide range of building types, scales and professional roles. I hold an MSc in Construction Law and Arbitration from King’s College London and Diplomas in International Commercial Arbitration and International Maritime Arbitration. I practise as an arbitrator and adjudicator and carry out forensic work in rel...

Fire engineering • Fire strategy • Fire risk assessment • External wall analysis (PAS9980) • Human behaviour • Fire investigation • Impact assessments • Fire engineering first principles

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...

Land drainage • Flood risk • Soil surveys • Soil husbandry • Land restoration • Water holdings structures/constructed wetlands • Natural flood management • Diffuse Water Pollution from Agriculture (DWPA) • Particular experience of soils and drainage along cross-country construction projects, such as pipeline installations • Providing consultancy and expert witness for soils and drainage disputes related to land development, land severance and breaches in land drainage law in England and Wales

Fire scene examination to establish the origin (where) and cause (how) of a fire, plus interpretation of fire development and spread • Experience of domestic, commercial and industrial incidents, including fatalities • Post-incident assessment of fire safety provision • Experience of preparing reports and presenting evidence in court for prosecution and defence Gained the Cardiff University/Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate

Experience of giving evidence under cross-examination both as a party expert and a single joint expert • Able to accept instructions on: • Professional negligence by architects & building surveyors • Building conservation & listed buildings • Building contract disputes • Failures of contract administration • Programming & time disputes • Design, architectural & construction defects • Building design • Claims for professional fees • Construction professional indemnity claims • Accredited Adjudicator • Charte

Acoustics, noise & vibration consultant • Environmental noise & planning relating to commercial, industrial & residential development • Planning inquiries • Licensing hearings & appeals • Environmental Protection Act hearings & noise nuisance assessments • Road & rail transportation noise • Leisure & entertainment noise • Sound insulation of buildings • Vibration • Gym due diligence & solution diagnostics • Hearing loss claims

We accept instructions from prosecutors, appellants, defendants and claimants in criminal and civil work on most health and safety topics. Our expertise extends to manufacturing and service industries, construction, commercial, offices, education, entertainment, local government, health services, retail, fairgrounds, public works, airports, Crown services and utilities. Topics include: • Work at height • Systems of work • Safety documentation • Risk assessment • Guarding of machinery • Works transport • Lifting operations • Aviation • Domes...

Criminal and civil investigator and expert witness for accidents, asbestos, construction, universities and much more. • 10 years as HSE Inspector (undertaking prosecutions) • 13 years at Newcastle University - Head of Safety • Freelance since 2012 Multiple award winner since 2015 • Lawyer Monthly Expert Witness awards since 2017 • International Legal awards annually since 2018 and many more, see http://safety4hed.co.uk/awards/ Reports normally available in 3 weeks.

Investigation of industrial & leisure accidents of almost every kind • Preparation of detailed court reports supported by photographs & plans • Manufacturing plant & machinery • Sports, play & leisure • Slips, trips & falls • Manual handling • Woodworking machinery • Work-related upper limb disorders • Consumer product defects • Noise & deafness • Construction work • Fork-lift trucks • Agricultural machinery • Road traffic accidents • Ladders & scaffolding • Fires & explosi

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.

Expertise Criminal and civil investigator for accidents and incidents • Health and Safety at Work, etc., 1974 and Regulations • Personal injury • Risk assessment • CDM • Quarries • Agriculture • Asbestos • Falls Sectors Construction • Highways • Police and Fire Service • Agriculture • Tree surgery Regulatory Former HSE Principal Inspector (undertaking and approving fatal investigations and prosecutions) • Former Asbestos Licensing Pri

Dan is Managing Director at Advanced Invasives and an Honorary Research Associate at Swansea University. He has been instructed as an expert in more than 40 legal cases UK-wide, ranging from rural landholdings through to multimillion-pound development sites. Uniquely, Dan is both a full Member of The Academy and a Certified Expert Witness. His specialist areas of expertise include: • Invasive plant identification, survey and mapping; establishing contamination with determination of spread and dispersal. • Assessment of Japanese Knotweed growth and spread with relati...

Accident investigation • Permit to work & isolation • Machinery safety & guarding • Work at height & falling objects • Workplace transport • Confined space entry • Construction Design Management Regulations (CDM) • Safety management systems • Culture & behavioural safety • Experienced in the assessment of requirement for, procurement, training, fitting, use, storage & maintenance of PPE & RPE

Over 30 years' experience covering: • Safety Management Systems • Safety Engineering • Major Hazards • Quantitative Risk Analysis & Assessment • Process Safety • Explosions • Safety Critical Elements • Fire Safety Engineering • Fire Protection • Fire & Gas Detection • Safety Audits • Planning Applications & Safety Cases • Emergency Response Sectors: • Oil & Gas Onshore & Offshore • Petrochemicals • Pipelines • Subsea • Railways & Underground Transit System...

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

Environmental noise and vibration impact assessment for construction and operational phases of residential, student, commercial, industrial, infrastructure and mixed‑use developments • Planning, licensing and development control support including appeals and hearings • Construction noise and vibration assessment, monitoring

Explosives technology & related systems, including the appropriate procedures & their methods of application, plus the health, safety & associated legal considerations in relation to: • Special effects (film, television & battle simulations) • Fireworks • Pyrotechnics • Bomb disposal • Explosive ammunition • Shotfiring in the construction industry, demolitions, quarrying, excavation, land clearance, scientific research • Terrorist & other improvised explosive devices • Accidental explosions & explosives use/misuse

Building construction problems: • Negligence • Professional negligence (architecture & construction) • Home improvement disputes • Contractual disputes • Contractor & sub-contractor disputes • Improper contract administration (construction) • Claims investigation (property insurance) • Town & country planning: • Listed buildings • Architectural design: • Building conservation • Listed buildings • Design defects (faults) • Architectural defects ̶...

Occupational health & safety • Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) • Noise surveys • Ergonomics & manual handling • Slipping accident investigation • Ladders & scaffolding • Cranes & lifting equipment • Play areas & equipment • Machine tools • Workshops • Machine guarding • Bearings • Consumer product defects • Consumer product safety • CE marking & product compliance • Helmets • Personal protective equipment (PPE) • Laser safety • Non-ionising radiation • Ele

Monitoring, assessment and control of: • Industrial noise & vibration • Noise-induced hearing loss • Vibration white finger

John has over 30 years’ experience as an acoustic consultant, covering all aspects of acoustics. These include environmental noise and vibration surveys, planning noise and vibration impact assessments, architectural acoustics, building services acoustics, acoustic testing, computer modelling and simulation, and construction/demolition monitoring. John provides expert witness services, representing developers, local authorities, publicans and others from the entertainment industry. He has presented evidence for planning and licensing matters, including in the High Court and to Sel...

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 ...

Quality, Safety, Health, CDM, Environment, Sustainability, Security and Risk Consultant with a career in public and private organisations covering the construction, civil engineering, facility management, consultancy and insurance service sectors. Highly experienced in the following management standards: ESG, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, NSI Gold, SIA ACS, Construction Line, Safe Contractor, Safe T Cert, etc.

Occupational safety & health representation • Accident/incident investigation • Risk assessment & analysis • Management systems • Safe work systems • Human factors • Engineering failures • Compliance • Due diligence • Expert witness • COVID 19 risk assessment, audit & compliance checking • Review of systematic failures and consequences investigation Alternative email: [email protected]

Structural engineering • Buildings • Retaining structures • Foundations • Basements • Car parks • Structural analysis • Structural design • Structural strengthening • Remedial works • Structural failure • Collapse • Robustness • Durability • Cracking in concrete • Corrosion • Concrete deterioration • Ground movement • Temporary works • Workmanship • Water ingress • Dynamics • Vibrations • Wind loading • Wind damage • Steel • Reinforced conc

Very experienced practitioner specialising in health and safety/food safety matters since 1988, including 9 years as an enforcement Environmental Health Officer and Appointed Health & Safety Inspector • Particular areas of expertise include investigation of workplace injuries and fatalities, risk assessment and risk management • Further expertise as a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner with respect to food contamination, HACCP, food processing, pest control, alleged food poisoning and food-borne injury/ill health Author of Food Emergencies - A Practica...

Expert witness and forensic investigation services relating to measurement and analysis of noise- and vibration-related incidents and disputes • Areas of expertise include noise-induced hearing loss, hand-arm and whole-body vibration exposure, planning disputes, noise nuisance and building regulations, and specifications compliance for commercial and residential developments, including noise impact assessments • Assessment of noise under Control of Noise at Work Regulations and implementation of hearing conservation programmes • Assessment of hand-arm and whole-body vibration...

Environmental noise impact assessment • Measurement of noise & vibration • Sound insulation • Road traffic noise • Railway noise • Noise, nuisance • Industrial noise • Noise, planning • Building acoustics • Recreation noise

Construction/civil engineering - delays, including the following disciplines: • Highways • Structures • Marine • Building • M&E • Facades • Infrastructure • Airports • Rail • Civil engineering • Construction • High-end residential

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.

General civil & structural engineering • Reinforced concrete design • Foundations design • Settlement & subsidence • Bridges • Drainage • Waterproofing • Roofing

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 ...