Atkins Consultants Limited

Woodcote Grove
Ashley Road
Epsom
Surrey
KT18 5BW

Tel: 01372 726140
Fax: 01372 740055 Email: graham.prosser@atkinsglobal.com
Web address: www.atkinsglobal.com

Established: 1938
Professional staff: 13,000
Key personnel:

Eur Ing Phil Hayman BEng, FIMMM, FIMMechE, CEng
Mr Graham Prosser BSc, MIMM, CEng
Dr Siak Manteghi, PhD, SenMWeldl, MIMechE, CEng
Dr Peter Myers, PhD, AMIMechE

Services offered:
  • Independent materials advice, support and investigation
  • Expert witness, forensic engineering and failure analysis
  • Professional site investigation
  • Structural integrity and fatigue assessments.
  • Services to the Iron, Steel and Lime indusstries worldwide, including:
-Techno-economic feasibility studies
- Privatisation and due diligence studies
- Plant development and design
- Plant performance improvement studies
- Environmental impact assessments

Typical projects undertaken:
  • UK - Ladbroke Grove Investigation. Reported to Lond Cullen enguiry on the nature of fuel tank and body shell failures
  • Ghana Electrification Project - materials investigation of structural steelwork
  • North America - failure analysis of cement grinding plant
  • UK - Expert witness regarding fitness for service of jacking system pinions in a jack-up drilling rig
  • Technical and financial due diligence on the development of an aluminium smelter
  • Expert witness for plate and strip steel quality arbitration.
  • Technical review of heavy steel foundry and forge with proposal of low cost investments and changes in operating practices.
  • Feasibility studies and construction management of steel and cement and lime plants.
Overseas experience: United States of America, Canada, Philippines, Malaysia, South Korea, Ghana, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Belgium, Finland, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Thailand, Poland, Iran, Portugal, Morocco, Venezuela, India, South Africa.

Language(s): A range of languages are available in-house

Keywords: Expert witness; independent materials consultancy; failure investigation; due diligence, corrosion, structural integrity; fatigue assessment; welded connections; non-arc welds, non destructive examination.

EXPERT WITNESS: Atkins have extensive experience of the role of expert witness.