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Hanscomb’s range of technical expert witness services

Posted Sun 5th September 2021

Most lawyers globally are aware that Hanscomb is a leading provider of expert witness and expert advisory services to the global construction, engineering and shipbuilding industries and that quantum and delay are two of the services provided but most aren’t aware of the range of technical expertise. So we have listed some of the key issues we can assist with:

A
Acoustics
Agricultural engineering
Agrochemicals
Architecture
Asbestos
Aviation
B
Baggage handling
Batteries
Biomass
Biomass power generation
Boilers
Bridges
Building automation
Building services engineering
C
Cargo
CCS (carbon capture & storage)
Chemical plants
Chemical engineering
Chemistry
Civil engineering
Civil infrastructure
Cladding
CCGT (combined-cycle gas turbine)
power plants
CFD (computational fluid dynamics)
Computer forensics
Concrete structures
Construction management
Construction materials – aluminium, carpets, concrete, geotextiles, glass, masonry, steel, tiling, timber
Contaminated land
Corrosion & coatings
Cranes
Cybersecurity & privacy

D
Data centres
AC & DC systems
Demolition
Desalination

Design
District heating systems
Drainage
Drilling & completion
E
Earthworks
Electrical engineering
Electrical & instrumentation (E&I)
Electrical power generation
Electrical networks & infrastructure
Electrical plant & equipment
Electronics
Elevators & escalators
Emissions
Energy economics
Energy from waste
Energy efficiency
Energy transition
Engine control
Engineering management
Environmental engineering
Environmental audits & permitting
F
Façades
Facilities management
FEED (front end engineering
design)
FEA (finite element analysis)
Fire engineering
Fire investigations
Fire safety systems
FPSOs (floating production, storage
& offloading units)
Fluidised bed combustion
Food & drink
Foundations
Franchising & procurement

Fuel cells & power electronics
Fuel tanks
Fuel technology
Fuel safety
Fuels
G
Gantries
Gas transmission networks
Gas turbines
Geology
Geotechnical engineering
Geothermal power
H
Health & safety
Heat recovery steam generators
Heavy steelwork & structures
Horizontal drilling
HV (high voltage) systems
HV (high voltage) power
distribution
HVAC (heating, ventilation & air conditioning) systems
Hydrodynamics
Hydrology
Hydroelectric power generation
Hydrogen
I
Industrial accidents
Industrial plant
ICT (information & communication technologies)
Instrumentation control & automation
J
Joinery & carpentry
L
Land use
Legionella

LRT (light rail & metros)
Lighting design
LV (low voltage) systems
M
Master planning
Manufacturing
Marine engineering
Materials handling
Masonry
M&E (mechanical & electrical)
Mechanical failures
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical plant & equipment
MEP (mechanical, electrical & plumbing)
Microscopy & NDT (non-destructive testing)
Mining & minerals
Mobile & wireless technology
N
Naval architecture
Networks
Noise & vibration
Nuclear decommissioning
Nuclear power
O
Offshore & onshore drilling
Offshore pipelines
Oil & gas transportation – onshore
& offshore
Oil & gas processing & refining
Oil & gas decommissioning
O&M (operations & maintenance)
Optical technology
Ore extraction & processing
P
Petrochemical plants
Petroleum engineering
Pharmaceuticals

Piling
Pipeline fluid flow
Pipelines
Planning
Plant failures
Plant performance
Pollution control
Power generation
Power transmission & distribution
Pressure vessels
Process engineering
Process plants
Project audits
Project management
Public health engineering
Q
Quarrying
R
Rail systems –  rolling stock,  safety & operations , • signalling & operations
Refrigeration
Renewable energy & power
Reservoirs
Road pavement design
S
Security systems & CCTV
Seismic & finite element analysis
Solar power generation
Stadia
Steel production
Steel structures
Steelwork fabrication
Steam turbines
Structural engineering
Subsea engineering
Subsidence & instability
Subsurface drilling & completion
SCADA

Sustainable drainage
Systems integration
T
Thermal power generation (coal, oil & gas, waste to energy)
Tidal power
Trams
Transformers & electrical networks
Tribology
Tunnels
U
Upstream exploration and extraction (oil & gas)

Unexploded Ordnance
Utility services
V
Valves
Vehicle manufacture

Vetting and security clearance
Vibration
W
Water & wastewater treatment
Water desalination
Water distribution
Water intrusion
Water resources
Water systems
Water treatment
Welding
Wellheads
Wind power generation (onshore and offshore) -foundations, wind turbine blades & wind turbines
Windows
X
X-ray / radiography / ultrasonic testing of welds and other materials