The document summarizes several projects completed as a consulting engineer, including environmental impact surveys of gas compression stations, design of a natural gas compression station, rectification of an underperforming cooling tower, bringing an incinerator up to safe operating standards, mechanical design for an offshore substructure, an expert witness report on a boiler collapse, refurbishing mechanical services for a dry dock, testing a gas turbine installation, design of a steam system for a brewery, delivery of a clinical waste incinerator, and conducting energy surveys to identify opportunities to reduce clients' energy consumption. The roles included lead engineer, project leader, mechanical engineer, and energy specialist.

1. PROJECTS: CONSULTING ENGINEER
Transco compression station environmental impact survey (2003)
Objective: Deliver surveys of four of Transco’s 80 bar.g compression stations, within manhour
budget and to client satisfaction. Identify main environmental impacts, and design
cost-effective mitigation measures.
Achieved: Surveys delivered on time, and with novel (yet practical) impact reduction
solutions.
Role: Lead engineer.
Power station fuel compressor station (2002 – 2003)
Objective: Deliver a natural gas compression station, to extremely demanding client
specifications, for GE’s first Frame 9H gas turbine installation.
Achieved: Station built to budget and on time. Demonstrated, by site test that the
installation met all the specifications: 10-second response time, +/-0.5% pressure
stability, <65dBA noise, and much else.
Role: Leading mechanical, process, instrumentation, and civils design team. Procure
compressors, from specification through vendor coordination and to final on-site
testing.
Power station cooling tower rectification (2002)
Objective: Find a minimum-cost method to rectify a mal-performing cooling tower, nominally
80MW capacity.
Achieved: Successfully diagnosed the cause of the performance shortfall by site survey and
detailed measurement. Process design and detailed design of rectification
measures, including fluid flow analysis both with and without rectification.
Subsequent tests in the rectified condition showed performance to specification.
Role: Lead mechanical engineer.
Hospital clinical waste incinerator (2002)
Objective: Meet client’s need to bring existing, but not commissioned, waste incinerator to a
safe-to-operate condition, and meet client’s contractual obligations. Minimise cost
and schedule. Close client’s contract as speedily and as economically as possible.
Achieved: Satisfied client, very content with the support they got at the end of an extremely
difficult contract. Extensive survey of existing installation, including HAZOP and
detailed sizing calculations. Rectifications designed and costed, contractors
identified, and works initiated.

2. Role: Project leader. Principal consultant and site representative.
Offshore substructure (1999 – 2000)
Objective: Deliver mechanical design for a concrete gravity substructure for Shell.
Achieved: Successful installation of the substructure, within 2m of required position.
Excellent revenue for employer, 2% under budget and on time.
Role: Lead mechanical engineer, for a team of up to three engineers. Representative for
the design team in the client’s offices, spearheading technical and commercial
negotiations.
Expert witness report for the collapse of a steam boiler (1999)
Objective: Improve client’s position in the negotiation of damages claim following equipment
failure.
Achieved: Identified cause and assigned fault, delivered expert witness report, provided
technical input to “without prejudice” negotiations. Client’s position very
materially improved, by being able to dismiss other party’s technical investigation.
Role: Mechanical engineer.
Dry dock mechanical services design and implementation (1999)
Objective: Refurbish the mechanical services to Nigg dry dock, to enable construction of large-
scale concrete gravity sub-structures (“CGS’s”) in this previously dis-used facility.
Achieved: Full site survey of existing installations, upon which to base lowest-cost
recommendations and design of the refurbishment. Procurement, installation, and
testing of the refurbishment, including 2MW of de-watering pump capacity.
Leading to satisfied client, and later use for the successful construction of two
CGS’s.
Role: Lead mechanical engineer.
Test of Siemens oil-fuelled gas turbine installation (1998)
Objective: Protect the client’s interests by full test and acceptance of a combined cycle power
station at Shenzen, China.
Achieved: Audited and approved the test protocol, witnessed vendor tests, carried out
normalisation and error assessment of results, provided recommendation for
acceptance following an agreed re-statement of the facility’s performance.
Role: Mechanical engineer.
Brewery, China (1997 – 1998)

3. Objective: Deliver the design for a coal-fired steam system to a 100,000hl/year brewery, at
minimum cost and to an extremely tight schedule.
Achieved: Optioneering and design of a system based on locally-sourced equipment, over-
coming the challenges of highly variable demand on a coal-fired boiler. System
subsequently implemented and successfully commissioned, within schedule and
8% under budget.
Role: Lead mechanical engineer.
Clinical waste incinerator delivery (1993 – 1994)
Objective: Deliver a 1T/hr clinical waste incinerator, with waste heat recovery and integrated
power generation – a UK-first.
Achieved: Delivery of this complex system, within an extremely tight site (footprint >80% of
site area), and to strict noise abatement requirements. Demonstrated compliance
with all regulatory and client requirements by n-site test.
Role: Followed the project from inception to final commissioning, in various roles. Site
identification, concept design, contractor selection, detailed design, site
supervision, commissioning.
Energy surveys (1993 – 2000)
Objective: Find opportunities to reduce the client’s energy consumption, by detailed site
survey.
Achieved: Too many surveys carried out to list them individually. Invariably found
opportunities to improve the client’s bottom line. My special contribution was the
use of fundamental engineering principles, plus a sense of what is practical, to offer
solutions that delight the client by their low capital cost.
Role: Energy specialist. Facilities surveyed include breweries, a chocolate factory, clinical
waste incineration facilities, high-rise commercial buildings, the National Physics
Laboratory, and district heating schemes.