Experience

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  Muggins Free Home Improvements

  • Huddersfield, England, United Kingdom

  • Semi Retired

    • Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
    • Huddersfield, England, United Kingdom

    Basement kitchen (re)renovation for my stepdaughter, whose (retrospectively Building Regs approved) kitchen was beset by flooding. Doesn't sound much but on this project her Mum and and I took on (and defeated) the biggest names in UK basement waterproofing - who all cried off, claiming we could never design a system that would work for the circumstances we had. So we built a test rig to prove our design and then replicated it full size (on the job) and got our BR Approval Certificate. Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! ;-)

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  Warwick Building and Renovation

  • Norton, Cleveland, UK

  • Self Employed

    • 2003 - 2008
    • Norton, Cleveland, UK

    Domestic building renovation and improvement, viz. survey for, design of and installation of... Extensions, loft conversions, kitchens, bathrooms, central heating systems, roofing, foundations, drainage...in short, anything to do with making homes properly habitable.[This work necessitated adherence to the UK Building Regulations and associated British Standards and Codes of Practice, e.g. those for Wind Loading, Structural Masonry Design, Structural Concrete Design, Structural Timber Design and Roofing. Most builders don't know (or don't want to admit) that these documents even exist...]

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  West's Engineering

  • Darlington, United Kingdom

  • Civil Structural Engineer

    • 1996 - 1999
    • Darlington, United Kingdom

    Design of reinforced concrete structures for UK chemical and pharmaceutical plants, e.g. complex mass concrete bases for power turbines (subject to seismic and self-induced dynamic loading); chimney reinforcement; buried (under-highway) pipeline culverts (on piled foundations in unstable ground); reinforced concrete slabs, rafts and bunds for petrochemical plants.Supervision of construction of the above - as site engineer - involving plane and 3D surveying and setting out; using EDM (total station), automatic levels, my eyes and a sense of humour.

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  DARCHEM ENGINEERING LIMITED

  • Stockton-on-Tees

  • Design Engineer

    • 1981 - 1995
    • Stockton-on-Tees

    First principle design of stainless steel 'engineered insulation', heat shields and radiation shielding (and their support structures) for nuclear power stations, nuclear submarines, aircraft, oil rigs and land-based manufacturing plant.Finite element analyses (stress and heat transfer), metallurgical research and technical reporting/documentation for the above, for in-house product testing and for bespoke investigations for the nuclear power industry.Temperature and behavioural surveys of products (designs) in-situ, in the power industry (coal fired and nuclear power stations) and at nuclear submarine test establishments.