Summary of Experience:

• Failure and Condition assessment
• Load testing and instrumentation
• Expert Witness

Principal Engineer, Manager and latterly Partner in the Investigation and Cladding Department of Sandberg, conducting specialist examinations commonly after failures, building condition assessments, preparation of interpretative reports on cladding systems, condition surveys of concrete structures and the inspection of many construction components and finishes involving a wide variety of materials. Load testing of building elements.

Preparation of reports and provision of expert opinion and witness services for litigation on the subjects of render, tiling, plaster, concrete, brickwork, sprayed fire protection, water penetration, paint and timber.

Planning, supervision and monitoring of small and large scale structural load tests on concrete, masonry, timber and metal elements utilising a variety of loading techniques including dead weights, hydraulics and construction of water tanks. Design, fabrication and installation of electronic data logging systems.