Stephen is a Chartered Waste Manager within the renewable energy, waste, resources and environment sector with over 20 years at a senior level. Stephen has previously held a Certificate of Technical Competency (CoTC) for composting. Stephen has worked within the private sector at a senior level for several waste management companies and global environmental infrastructure consultancies. Stephen is familiar with most waste treatment and renewable energy technologies. Stephen understands the technology supply chain from design, through delivery, commissioning and operation, acting a...

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

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: ...

Containment systems engineering for landfills, tailings lagoons & heap leach pads • Geosynthetics engineering & use • Geosynthetics testing • Steepwall lining systems for deep quarry landfills • Composite lining systems, including clay, bentonite-enriched soil (BES), geomembranes, geotextiles • Leachate & landfill gas • Earthworks • Safety & risk in geotechnical engineering • Construction quality assurance (CQA) • Waste management & disposal • Ground investigation

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) • Air pollution, including odour nuisance & food tainting • Cargo quality disputes • Cargo contamina...

Microbiology • Infection • Hygiene • Infection control • Hospital-acquired infection • Post-op infection • Device-related infection • Occupational infections Hospital ventilation • Hospital maintenance • Healthcare (clinical) waste microbiology • Healthcare (clinical) waste management and disposal • Environmental microbiology, with particular regard to waste disposal

Makesh is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with 30+ years of global experience in thermal power and utility plant, WtE, biomass, and hazardous and clinical waste infrastructures • Expert in design, commissioning and optimisation of combustion systems, including moving grate, AFBC/CFBC, pulverised combustion and gasification systems • Extensive working knowledge and experience in fuel and waste handling, plant performance, combustion audits, flue gas treatment and technology validation • Provides expert witness, delays and defects services on energy and waste resource reco...

Expert on gasification and pyrolysis of biomass and wastes • Chemical engineering design of advanced thermal conversion systems from feed handling to products (heat, power) • Process engineering design of advanced thermal conversion systems • Due diligence of advanced thermal conversion systems • Techno-economic assessment of bio-energy systems • Practical experience in operation of thermal conversion systems • Process integration of thermal systems • Health and safety - ATEX II, DSEAR, HAZOP

Landfill operations and regulatory compliance assessments relating to environmental permits and trade effluent discharge consents • Landfill infrastructure design, construction and optioneering, including financial assumptions • Landfill odour and emissions, nuisance, leachate, gas management and energy recovery • Landfill site completion, closure and aftercare strategies • Waste sampling, characterisation and classification for regulatory compliance and process optimisation

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

Russell Bralsford is an expert in the fields of domestic and industrial plumbing and heating systems. Having over 50 years of experience in domestic and commercial environments, Mr Bralsford has been engaged by leading law firms, legal practices and insurance companies to give evidence and opine in cases involving poor working practices, personal injury and property damage, and the design and efficiency of plumbing and heating systems. In association with Darren Stubbs EngTech MCIPHE, a senior technical leader with over 30 years of experience in plumbing, heating, and re...

Over 30 years’ environment sector experience as a waste consultant • Expert in public procurement for all types of waste service, including contract drafting, tender documentation, negotiations and bid evaluation • Expert in development of strategies, business cases and tonnage projections • Cross-examined in Waste Local Plan public inquiry, and questioned at DCO Examination in Public • Former secondments to Environment Agency and a waste disposal authority • Conveys complex technical information into plain English

Simone is a proven expert witness with over 10 years' experience in criminal and civil cases. She is a Chartered Waste Manager and has worked in the recycling and waste sector for over 25 years. She has a proven track record of producing clear and evidenced reports that reflect the duties of an expert, and has given verbal evidence in court several times, being commended by the Judge in one case for her clear and considered opinion. She has also supported formal mediation processes. The scope of her expertise covers a wide range of waste legislation and compliance, together w...

Over 30 years’ environment sector experience as regulator and consultant • Expert in waste treatment infrastructure commercial disputes and claims since 2010 • Expert in permit breaches, civil disputes and criminal cases (e.g. Environmental Protection Act, Waste Shipments, Duty of Care) • Cross-examined in Crown Court and International Tribunal • Former Environment Agency investigation and enforcement officer • PACE trained • Conveys complex technical and regulatory information into plain English

Hugh has over 35 years’ experience in civil, structural and multidisciplinary design, engineering and management of major infrastructure and building projects, including design-build, EPC, PFI and BOT projects. He has been responsible for the design and management of many unique building and infrastructure projects, including complex above and below ground structures in difficult ground conditions. Hugh has extensive expertise in civil, structural, geotechnical, transportation, utility, water, wastewater design and marine engineering. He has extensive experience in forensic engineering...

Expert in project management, contract management and development in the following sectors: renewables, grid and electricity markets. Experienced expert working as expert and dispute resolver since 2016. Quantum and technical (project and contract management). Specific experience in: • Offshore wind fixed and floating construction • Onshore wind • Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) • Grid (electricity transmission) • See CV for further details. Experience of the following contract forms: • FIDIC • Asset sale and purchase R...

• 20 years of waste and recyclables sector experience • Expert in waste and environmental-related services contracts, including waste and recyclables collection, household recycling centres, street cleansing, public realm and grounds maintenance contracts • Chartered Waste Manager

Over 24 years' professional experience in the waste sector as a consultant, designer and operations leader. • Expert in waste treatment technologies, thermal waste processing and facility operations. • Expert in energy from waste processes, including independent certification, commissioning, supervision and owner's engineer. • Former experience in the process of treating hazardous waste chemicals. • Able to convey technically complex engineering topics in layman's terms.

Assessment and design of silage, slurry and manure handling, storage and application equipment and facilities • Compliance with agri-pollution legislation • Agricultural land management, including soil, manure and vegetation management practice • Bovine livestock Mr Bentley has extensive experience in the assessment, design and optimisation of bovine livestock systems across both dairy and beef enterprises. His work covers cattle housing layout, ventilation and welfare considerations, slurry and waste management systems, feed and handling infrastructure, and overall f...

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

IMechE with 30 years' experience • Specialist in energy from waste (EfW) infrastructure (incineration, gasification, pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, waste to fuels) procurement, development, technical and commercial due diligence, including as Owner's Engineer • Expert witness, delays and defects in insurance claims (two waste gasification plants) and disputes (three biomass gasifiers) • Expert witness considering Best Available Techniques (BAT) in EfW dispute in International Court of Arbitration (ICC) • Expert witness considering design defects in an a...

David has wide-ranging experience in the wastes management industry as an operator, consultant and developer. During his 30+ year career he has instigated and supported the development of many waste treatment facilities through the project lifecycle, from conception through to construction, site supervision, commissioning and ongoing management and operations. • Waste infrastructure • Business development • Landfills • Site supervision • Due diligence • Contract management • MBT • Composting

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...

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...

A Chartered Engineer with a background in chemical process engineering, now focused on project management and delivery. 15+ years of project engineering and process design experience within the oil and gas industry working for international design contractors on world-scale projects for major oil and gas companies, and a further 10+ years of design, project engineering and commissioning experience with contractors and consultants within the UK municipal water treatment industry. Additional experience within the chemical manufacturing, nuclear and energy from waste industries. Has previous...

I discovered Heat & Mass Transfer whilst a student marine engineer. It set me on a career dedicated to thermal systems analysis, design and construction. I was first retained by the Department of Energy, then by the DTI Design Advisory Service and the Production Engineering Research Association (PERA). I have since undertaken 50 plant design and build projects alongside 60 process consultancies, and have successfully completed more than 20 expert witness instructions. I am a Chartered Mechanical Engineer (MIMechE), Member of the Institution of Engineering Designers (MIED), and of t...

Town & country planning: • Environmental impact • Environmental protection: • Environmental management • Environmental monitoring • Water: • Water resources • Water quality • River pollution • Effluent pollution, analysis & treatment • Air: • Odour pollution & nuisance • Agriculture: • Agricultural engineering • Agricultural construction & use regulations • Health & safety accidents • Irrigation systems

Provision of expert witness services in areas such as: • Waste management and treatment • Landfill sites • Environmental and health effects of waste management facilities and contaminated land • Assessment of risks from contaminated land, including risks to water and to human health

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...

Anaerobic digestion • Odour & emissions from compost & related facilities • Environmental & societal pollution • Agricultural pollution • Waste management & recycling • Facility design & operation • Production of compost & composted waste • Use, quality & fertiliser value of compost & digestate for horticulture & agriculture • Mushroom & hydroponic production systems • Cannabis cultivation • Microbial content, contamination & pollution of compost SKYPE: targetrenewables.raks