Mark Wheatley is a Biocontainment Engineer, Chartered Building Services Engineer, and specialist in High Containment Laboratory Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance (since 1998). Mark is an independent, international consultant providing services tailored to meeting the highly specialist needs of companies, organizations, institutions, governments and NGOs worldwide. Marks particular specialism is in the investigation, fault-finding and remediation of poorly functioning, failing and/or failed biocontainment facilities. Mark has substantive experience spanning 23+ years of problem solving worldwide, including CBRNE training and preparedness. Mark is currently appointed to MORU (the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok) as the Project manager of the DTRA/BTRP (US) funded project to renovate the RRL FMD laboratory for Southeast Asia located at Pak Chong in Thailand; Mark is also appointed to the Dutch NAC (National Authority for Containment) as the biocontainment engineer on the 5 person WHO GAPIII PEF audit team. In the recent past Mark has acted as the Senior Biocontainment Engineer for DEFRA (UK) and was Key Expert 4 on the EU CBRN CoE Project 46 including providing training to Engineers, Architects and Scientists from 8 ASEAN countries on Laboratory Design, Construction, Operation and Management. Mark was also a contributor to the recently released WHO LBM4 monograph (2020) on Laboratory Design & Maintenance, and is a volunteer on the Sandia national Laboratories (US) twinning programme.