Paul Bennett-Hughes, Partner

Paul is a Chartered Geologist and petrographer with more than 20 years of experience in the petrographic examination, testing and forensic analysis of a wide range of artificial and natural materials.

• Specialist in concrete petrography and quantitative analysis of hardened concrete
• Petrography and allied microscopic techniques
• Scanning electron microscopy and X-ray microanalysis
• Specialist testing of materials such as grout, render, mortar and historic construction materials
• Concrete distress and deterioration assessment using NDT techniques
• Project management of site and laboratory-based test programmes.

Co-author of Concrete Society Technical Report No 71 on Concrete Petrography and a working group member for BS 1881-122: 2016, Procedure for the petrographic examination of concrete. Paul is a member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Section Committee of the Royal Microscopical Society and The Geological Society’s Applied Petrography Group.

Paul joined Sandberg in July 2021.