All areas of disputes involving piling, diaphragm walling and foundation engineering (method, technical, quantum, delay, contract)

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 • Airports • Car parks • Industrial buildings • Remedial works

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

Structural engineering analysis & design • Building structures • Long span structures • Bridges • Car parks • Modular structures • Temporary structures • Precast and in-situ concrete • Structural steelwork • Stadia, sports, grandstands & leisure • Cladding • Roofing • Fatigue • Prestressed concrete • Post-tensioned concrete • Deflection • Shells, plates & domes • Sculptures • Special structures • Demolition • Erection • Piling

Environmental acoustics specialist also with extensive expertise in architectural acoustics. Specific expertise in the following areas: • Acoustics-related development planning issues • Environmental noise and vibration monitoring and assessment • Acoustic design of buildings Project-specific experience includes: • Residential, commercial and mixed-use development • Industry, infrastructure and mineral extraction • Healthcare, education and religious buildings • Leisure and entertainment venues

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 • Pile testing • Earth retaining structures • Reinforced earth walls • Gravity retaining wall • Gabion walls • Precast concrete...

Design of earth-retaining structures • Basement design • Site investigation • Slope stability • Geotechnical monitoring • Numerical analysis of geotechnical structures • Ground improvement • Foundation & pile design • Reinforced earth

Geotechnical engineering • Piling • Ground improvement

Materials specialist, investigating matters involving: • Concrete technology • Warehouse floors & hardstandings • Failure of concrete repair works • Concrete durability & specification • Concrete placing, bleed & shrinkage cracking • Paints & coatings for concrete • Air entrainment of concrete & performance in freezing conditions • Construction in hot climates • Underground concrete construction • Concrete test methods & data interpretation • General forensic examination of construction failures

Foundation failures, including heave & subsidence-related problems • Building defects of structure & fabric, including concrete, steel, timber & masonry buildings, whether prefabricated or in situ • Footbridge & cycle bridge-related problems of deck & structure • Concrete failures due to contamination, chloride attack, carbonation, sulphate attack, alkali-silica reaction, together with pollution-related problems & their effect • Prestressing & related problems, including prestressed & post-tensioned in situ concrete •...

Railway noise • Railway vibration • 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

I have worked in an expert witness practice since the mid-1990s, initially on a part-time basis, in the area of noise and vibration, with a focus on occupational injuries such as NIHL, tinnitus, RSI, VWF and CTS. This involved site inspections, testing, computational analysis and report preparation. In 2016, the practice became a limited company and I became a full-time Director and Principal Consultant. I have since provided the courts with over 300 single joint expert witness reports, mainly in NIHL cases.

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...

All aspects of geotechnical engineering, ground investigation, earthworks, foundations, piling, geotextiles, unforeseen ground claims • Author of SHW series 500 Drainage and Earthwork 600 series plus associated DMRB Vol 4 CUBS Expert Witness - Cardiff University Business School 2023

Structural connections • Tensile structures • Lightweight structures • Mobile structures • Limited lifespan structures • Engineering for public art • Construction with aluminium • Building materials • Buildings: collapse, construction, structural failure, subsidence • Traditional buildings • Reinforced concrete buildings • Fibre-reinforced concrete • Glass-reinforced concrete • Piling • Foundations: settlement and structural failure • Retaining walls • Structural glass • Structural masonry • Structural timber • Structural steel buildings • Structural...

Expert in the design, construction & forensic analysis of defects & failures in geotechnical works including: • Deep basements • Deep foundations • Bored piles • Secant piles • Diaphragm walls • Continuous flight auger piles • Barrettes • Rock anchors