Year

Client

Description of Project 

2004-2005

UNEP

Environmental site assessment capacity building as part of the programme to improve environmental governance in Iraq

Prepare and deliver capacity building Workshops in Amman, Jordan and Geneva for UNEP to introduce the theory and practice of Environmental Site Assessment to Iraqi environmental professionals delegated by the Iraqi Ministry of Environment.  Workshop 1 included a one-day 'hands-on' initial ESA of a quarry and cement plant near Amman.  Workshop 2 included training in the use of field monitoring and testing equipment for use by the delegates at 5 selected pilot conflict-damaged contaminated sites in Iraq.  Sampling and analysis plans for the pilot sites were jointly prepared early in 2005. The 4th workshop on risk assessment will be in June 2005.

2004

UNEP

Environmental awareness raising workshop for the UNEP Iraq rebuilding programme

The preparation and delivery of 5 one-hour talks on environmental subjects at a capacity-building workshop for Iraqi environmental engineers as part of the country rebuilding programme commissioned by the Post-Conflict Assessment Unit of UNEP in Geneva.

2001

BWB Partnership

Senior Technical Reviewing and Mentoring

Acted as a senior technical reviewer and mentor in the environmental group of a leading Midlands-based UK-focussed engineering & environmental consultancy becoming involved in the completion and issue of reports for four projects and working closely with a number of the company's environmental consultants. The role also involved mentoring in the approach to conducting and reporting two environmental due diligence assessments - leading on one and shadowing on the second.

1985-2003

Various

Expert Witness Experience

Acted as an expert witness in public inquiries and as a technical expert to ensure the withdrawal of planning appeals (won on all occasions: * gave evidence):

- Pitsea Landfill public inquiry (1976)

- Isle of Man refuse incinerator* (1990-1991)

- Lodden Valley landfill extension* (1991-1992)

- Isles of Scilly landfill for Duchy of Cornwall (1990-1991)

Employed (1996-1998) as the Appointed Expert for the Solvay Group in a post-demerger arbitration dispute with the former merger partner Laporte Industries. The role involved proving that contamination at the operating site occurred during or before the period of the merger. The parties settled just before formal arbitration proceedings were scheduled to commence.

Managed (1993-1994) the team of experts for the UK Royal Insurance company which was challenged in the High Court by Coalite Chemicals to indemnify for losses associated with the alleged release of dioxins and furans onto farmland adjacent to their plant in Derbyshire. The claim was settled one day before going to trial.