MPW R&R provides consulting, forensic and expert witness services. We specialise in organisational risk, construction health and safety / CDM and structural safety.MPW R&R helps the construction industry and their regulators to manage risk. If something goes wrong and a project ends in litigation, we can help insurers and legal teams by acting as an Expert Witness.CONSTRUCTION HEALTH AND SAFETY & CDM 2015We help construction organisations understand what is required of them so they can comply cost effectively with CDM 2015 and manage construction health and safety risks. • Advice and training on the use of CDM 2015• Reviewing how CDM 2015 has been applied• Forensic investigations• Evaluating regulatory initiatives• Acting as an expert witnessSTRUCTURAL SAFETY & SERVICE LIFEWe help infrastructure owners and construction organisations manage the safety and service life risks associated with ageing concrete structures.• Defects, deterioration, durability and service life of concrete structures (ASR, corrosion, frost)• Asset management systems, guidance & standards• Forensic investigations• Acting as an expert witnessORGANISATIONAL RISKWe provide risk management solutions for organisations in construction and infrastructure to help them improve performance, reduce risk, gain from regulatory compliance and be cost-effective.• Identifying and assessing the key risks• Running organisational risk diagnostics• Identifying and prioritising improvement initiatives• Developing roadmap change plansREGULATORY SOLUTIONSWe help regulators improve their effectiveness by targeting their activities and resources in the most cost-effective ways.• Profiling and mapping the industries they regulate• Evaluating regulatory initiatives• Reviewing regulatory effectiveness• Developing new tools to improve effectiveness

One of a team of four responsible for running Frontline Consultants. I was responsible for the risk and regulation consulting services.• Built Frontline’s risk and regulation services from scratch.• Acted as an expert witness in criminal prosecutions of construction organisations, preparing reports for the Court, liaising with other experts, giving evidence and being cross-examined in Court• Led a team to complete the independent evaluation of CDM 2007 for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Investigated the construction industry’s implementation of CDM 2007 by consulting with over 400 organisations to see what changes had been made from CDM 1994 on both small and large sites. Two reports were published by HSE in April 2012; these informed HSE’s position when developing CDM 2015.• Completed a review of how CDM 2007 was used in the construction of London 2012 on behalf of HSE, the Olympic Delivery Authority and the Institution of Civil Engineers. The findings were published and presented, and helped transfer lessons to the wider construction industry.• Led a review of how health and safety in the construction industry has been regulated and the changes in construction practice that have taken place since 2001. This identified changes in practice and culture that led to significant improvements in health and safety performance on larger sites.• Led a comparison of how a range of UK regulators operate to help another UK regulator improve its cost effectiveness.

One of a team of four responsible for running BOMEL Consultants. I was responsible for leading the risk and regulatory services.• Responsible for leading the Technical Support Call-off Framework Agreement with HSE and led around 40 projects for HSE.• Acted as an expert witness on a criminal prosecution resulting from a worker falling from a multi-storey building and a civil case providing expert opinion on cement material issues relating to a ship collision.• Led a review of construction industry practices and costs of compliance with CDM 1994 by consulting with around 600 organisations. This formed a baseline to help HSE evaluate the costs and effectiveness of CDM 2007 several years later.• Led a comprehensive review of construction health and safety. Produced reports addressing overall construction safety, hand-arm vibration, workplace transport and falls from height. • Developed a Global Risk Toolkit to assess construction safety risks and their associated costs over the full project lifecycle.• Led a team on a multi-partner study (involving international oil & gas and shipping companies and regulators) to integrate human and organisational factors into risk management in major hazard industries. This helped the organisations to understand why incidents and accidents had happened and how they could improve their risk management.• Led investigations into the containment failures at the Buncefield oil storage depot. Provided the Environment Agency / HSE with an overview of the applicable design, construction and maintenance standards for the containment of petrochemicals.• Led the design of three concrete offshore structures for contractors. Carried out forensic investigation of the damage to one unit caused by mishandling during storage in Holland to help insurers identify the cause of the damage and estimate the remedial costs.• Successfully upgraded BOMEL’s Quality Management System to meet ISO 9001:2000 at the first attempt.

• Prepared proposal, presented project to the EC and gained funding for 1.5M Euro project. Lead partner for team consisting of 14 European organisations (rail and road authorities, car park owners & local authorities) to produce asset management manuals for investigating and assessing deteriorated concrete structures. First time that detailed guidance had been provided for maintaining ageing structures.• Led BCA input into developing Hong Kong Building Safety Inspection Scheme, a comprehensive asset management guide aimed at identifying, prioritising and managing steel and concrete structures with safety concerns. Produced investigation and assessment methodologies and modifications to BS 8110 for use on corroded structures. The guide focused investigation effort on highest risk structures to deliver cost-efficient and consistent safety levels.• Prepared 2-stage proposal and won funding from DETR for project to investigate design at the serviceability limit state in relation to BS 8110 & EC2. Led 3-partner team and advisory group to reduce the cost of concrete construction.• Led a study into the use of whole life costing with concrete structures. Identified the whole life cost implications of not achieving specified construction quality. • Planning Supervisor for project where new grouting procedures were developed and tested on a 60m post-tensioned concrete bridge. Results were instrumental in the Highways Agency lifting the moratorium on post-tensioned concrete bridges.• Oversaw project on the performance of concrete in fire. This included fire tests on concrete members and development of a non-linear finite element analysis program to estimate the load-carrying capacity of concrete exposed to fire.• BCA representative on a range of forums including: a BSI committee, IStructE Codes, Research and Environmental groups and a range of trade associations• Presented research papers at a range of industry and academic conferences and forums

• Site supervision of the construction of steel composite, reinforced and prestressed concrete bridges, highway works and the repairs of multi-storey car parks.• Inspection, testing and investigation of defects and deterioration on multi-storey car parks, chimneys, oil refineries, industrial structures, power stations, trailer parks and steel, reinforced, prestressed and post-tensioned concrete bridges.• Design of alterations to steel and concrete building structures, remedial works to power stations and new water-retaining structures.• Led a team to develop conceptual designs for the strengthening, repair and re-cabling of a deteriorating suspension bridge.• Undertook research and produced a report on the state of the art in bridge deck behaviour, design and assessment and wrote the Highways Agency’s Departmental Standard (BD 81) ‘Use of compressive membrane action in bridge decks’.

• Worked as an assistant to one of the leading figures in concrete technology supporting research into concrete mix design, early-age thermal cracking and durability including carbonation-induced corrosion, frost damage and the alkali silica reaction.• Supported expert in a claim resulting from deterioration due to the alkali-silica reaction in a reinforced concrete hospital.