Simon Barrows Email & Phone Number

IntroductionPracticing Chartered Electrical Engineer, Expert Witness and Forensic Expert Witness, focused on working with independence, with high integrity and impartiality, an articulate mediator with over forty years’ experience, highly developed proactive interpersonal skills, very experienced at obtaining and disseminating information, extensive technical knowledge of all aspects of building services engineering, numerate and financially astuteElectrical Technical Specialisms• Non-essential and essential electrical infrastructures• Emergency standby generation and uninterruptable power control logic and supplies• Building management systems• Sustainability wind, photovoltaic and air source heat pump systems• Telecommunication and computer data infrastructures• Interior, exterior, emergency, laser, and feature lighting• Fire alarm and smoke ventilation systems• Closed circuit television, intruder alarm and access control systems• Conventional and fire fighting lift installations• Lightning protection, conventional, specialist clean and computer earthing systemsExpert Witness and Forensic Engineering Expertise• Mediation, arbitration, litigation, technical and contractual assistance to legal profession• Liaison with Claimants, Defendants, Advocates, Solicitors, Insurers & Loss Adjusters• Single and Joint Expert Witness in accordance with Part 35 of the Civil Procedure Rules• Attendance at court, cross examination of expert witness reports• Obviousness, validity/invalidity, state of the art, Patents disputes• Wayleave and boundary trespass disputes• Compilation of desk top study and site investigation expert witness reports• Compilation of detailed forensic expert witness reports• Building inspections to determine compliance to Electrical British Standards & codes of practice• Compilation of Bankable Studies and Scott Schedules• Identification of causation, production of remedial work strategies• Quantum and commercial analysis of cost claims and losses• Due diligence and dilapidation surveys• Legislative compliance to national and international standards

Listed skills include Construction, Construction Management, Procurement, Contract Management, and 10 others.

• Managing Director

  Serendipity Chartered Engineers

  Nov 2021 - Present - Jersey

  QualificationsChartered Engineer CEng (1999)Member of the Society of Light and Lighting (2007)Fellow Chartered Institution of Building Services (2009)Member of The Academy of Experts MAE (2011)Member of The Expert Witness Institute MEWI (2014)Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators MCIArb (2019)Expert Witness SnapshotChartered Electrical Engineer, over forty years’ experienceExpert witness and consulting engineerExpert representation, acting as an expert witness in numerous casesExpert ServicesDesk top study and site investigation expert witness report compilationMediation, arbitration and litigation, assistance to legal professionIntrusive and non-intrusive site investigationsTrouble shooting and professional negligence investigationsLegislative compliance to national and international standardsTechnical ExpertiseCritical, essential, and non-essential switchgearMains, sub mains and final circuit cable distributionMission critical standby generation, load banks, static and rotary UPSPhoto voltaic, wind turbine, and CHP sustainable technologyConventional, emergency, interior and exterior lightingAspirating, laser, analogue and conventional fire detection systemsAccess control, intruder alarm, CCTV systemsTraction, hydraulic and machine room-less liftsCat 5 and fibre optic Information technology cable infrastructuresWitnessing testing and commissioning procedure