Services

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’.