Services:
**Energy and Industrial Facilities**
- Major coal, co-generation, gas-fired energy plants, chemical plants, and renewable energy facilities, including wind, solar, and biomass.
- Repair and maintenance facilities for energy and industrial sectors.
**Mechanical and Electrical Equipment**
- Large rotating machinery, such as steam and gas turbines, compressors, pumps, motors, and generators.
- Reciprocating engines powered by liquid and gas fuels.
- High-pressure steam and water systems, including heat recovery steam generators, boilers, and reticulation networks.
- Large electrical equipment: transformers, motors, switchgear, electrical networks, and safety protection systems.
- Renewable energy technologies: wind turbines, solar farms, and biomass digestion/combustion systems.
- Mechanical equipment, including compressors, pumps, gearboxes, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, valves, cranes, and control systems.
**Materials Handling Systems**
- Conveyors, crushers, silos, tanks, stackers and reclaimers, chutes, and ducts.
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### Plant Experience
- Power plants fueled by coal, oil, gas, and biomass.
- Chemical plants, steam and gas turbines, boilers, high-pressure vessels, and piping systems.
- Compressors, pumps, heavy-duty equipment, and high-speed rotating machinery.
- Renewable energy systems, including wind turbines and solar parks.
- High and low voltage electrical equipment, transformers, and electrical networks.
- Industrial equipment for bulk materials handling, conveyors, and storage systems.
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### Power Generation Experience
- Senior management roles in large coal-fired power stations.
- Project management for multi-national power station projects, including biomass, coal, oil, and combined cycle plants.
- Expertise in high-pressure systems: boilers, piping systems, compressed air, fuel gas systems, and rotating equipment.
- Specialized knowledge in vibration analysis, component design, and materials.
### Professional Roles
- Senior Plant Engineer, Project Manager, Operations Manager, Plant Manager, and Owner's Engineer.
- Managed multi-disciplinary, and complex construction projects internationally.
-Expert Witness testimony in various court hearings and international arbitrations.
- Comprehensive project development: conceptual engineering, design, procurement, costing, contracting, construction, commissioning, start-up, testing, and commercial operation.
- Management and operations of power stations and energy plants, including engineering, construction, maintenance, production, staffing, and environmental health and safety.
- Senior Mechanical Engineer with over 30 years of experience in project management, design, construction, operations, and maintenance.
- Consulting engineer specializing in expert evidence, insurance risk surveys, forensic investigations, and root cause analyses.
Investigations and Analysis into failures of steam and gas turbines, reciprocating engines, large pumps and hydro-turbines. Expert Services include: Root cause investigations into major failures, accidents, reduced life cycle and premature end-of-life of equipment. Investigations include: Physical examination of plant, collection of evidence, and interviewing plant staff and witnesses to the event.
Leading multi-disciplinary teams in conducting theoretical and laboratory analysis into failure events. Legal Reports in compliance with CPR35 providing details of the incident, my own findings, analysis, and opinions. Reports are used by legal professionals in conducting court cases. Investigations into major and complex losses and failure investigations for the London Insurance Market.
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Qualifications:
Chartered Engineer (CEng) United Kingdom * Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE) United Kingdom * Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mechanical Engineers, (BSc(Hons)(MechEng) University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Consulting Engineer and Expert Witness, International Arbitrations and Expert Witness testimony in Court Hearings. Leading investigations into plant and equipment failures, patent disputes, business interruption, root cause investigations, costing, damage assessment for the insurance industry, drafting of expert and legal reports, and providing evidence as an expert witness. Risk Surveys on renewable energy and thermal power stations.
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Experience:
Senior Plant Engineer, Project Manager, Operations Manager, Plant Manager, and Owner’s Engineer.
- Managed multi-disciplinary, complex construction projects. See 'Services'.
Categories:
Construction Defects , Energy , Construction
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