Consultancy services provided
- Marine Engineering, naval architecture and marine consultancy:
- Small ship & vessel design development
- Vessel surveying, & valuation
- Compliance examinations for MCA brown, yellow & blue code certification (SCMS & MECAL)
- Vessel trials, conduct & management
- Defect list preparation, costing and repair supervision
- Damage assessment and reporting
- Stability documentation
- Propulsion system design & evaluation
- Navigation & port control
- Vessel traffic management systems, (VTS)
- Expert Witness service for marine cases & small vessels
- Energy efficiency & systems studies:
- DETR DESIGN ADVICE grant assisted consultancy
- Electrical power engineering, (marine & land)
- Combined heat & power, (cogeneration)
- District and Community heating systems
- Heat pumps & refrigeration
- Wave energy, wind & solar renewables
- Design, design review & operation:
- Conceptual & detailed design
- Engineering ergonomic studies
- Specification development & preparation
- Tender procedure management; supplier assessment
- Quality assurance, inspection and auditing
- Operating & maintenance policy studies
- Hazard & operability studies (HAZOP)
- Formal safety & risk assessments, (BS 1050:1997; MOD JSP375:1999)
- Reliability & availability studies
- Failure modes & effects analysis (FMEA)
- Criticality analysis (CA)
- Maintenance strategy formulation
- Reliability centred maintenance (RCM)
- Project management
- Setting to work & commissioning
- Acceptance inspections & trials
- Failure investigations & data analysis
- Expert opinion & witness service
- Specialist staff secondments:
- We can sometimes provide a specialist consultant over short & medium periods to enhance an organization’s expertise. However, we are not a ‘body shop’.