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Experience and Qualification
Tony Thurgood has considerable practical experience and knowledge of the construction industry, having reached works manager "on the tools" and also holds engineering qualifications to HNC level and the following professional, industry related, qualifications:-
| IEng. | Incorporated Engineer: |
| MSOE. | Member, Society of Operations Engineers: |
| MIPlantE. | Member, Institution of Plant Engineers: |
| MRSH. | Member, The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health: |
| MIET. | Member, Institution of Engineering and Technology: |
| MSLL. | Member, Society of Light & Lighting: |
| ACIBSE | Associate Member, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineering: |
SAP, SBEM and Domestic Energy Assessor Accreditation CSCS Site Manager Accreditation
Tony has held design, design supervision and installation supervision positions within the construction industry, on both the consultancy and the construction sides, for over 35 years and as a result, is a Senior Project Development Engineer with wide and extensive construction and industrial sector knowledge and experience.
Tony continues to be an enthusiastic proponent of renewable energy utilisation as well as being a project investigator, experienced in pre-works investigation, project development and in on-site multi-service installation co-ordination, involving experience of most aspects of environmentally based building engineering servicing across a wide range of industry sectors.
Technical Task Experience
Systems investigation, design and / or project installation co-ordination has been carried out in the following discipline areas:-
Power Distribution; Lighting; Fire Detection and Suppression; Building Security; Building Management Systems;
Public Address and Sound Systems; Lightning Protection; Stand-by Power;
Heating; Ventilation; Air-conditioning; Water Services; Sanitation and Drainage; Gases Distribution.
And with M&E Design & Build experience in following Industry Sectors
| Industrial | Engineering, Manufacturing, Agricultural |
| Civil Engineering | Highways, Dry-docks, Water / Sewage Treatment |
| Commercial | Offices, Retail, Warehousing, Transportation |
| Leisure | Holiday, Sport, Entertainment / Visitor Attraction, Theatres, Aquaria |
| Medical | Hospital wards, Specialist units, Clinics, Residential Care Housing |
| Process and Product Development | Floodlighting Luminaire, Special Electrical Accessory design, Modular Sewage Treatment Plant, Bio-mass plant |
Strengths
Project technical appraisal; innovative solution finding; wide inter-active industry view; strong views on inter-service co-ordination and final project maintainability, energy utilisation and conservation.
Milestones
As a freelance M, E & Plant Engineering Services Engineer, Tony Thurgood has:
- been responsible for front-end studies on major development projects up to £45m;
- advised on the technical suitability of the ideas and sketch designs behind a multi-million planning submission;
- advised a national company on the amendments to their works and processes to meet with safety and BS5750 requirements;
- been design-team leader on a £50m fit-out contract bid for a major national construction group;
- been the site resident M&E supervising and co-ordination engineer for the refurbishment and up-grading of several major listed buildings in The Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport, Plymouth, again for a major national contractor;
- been the site resident M&E supervising and co-ordination engineer on the upgrading of a steelworks in Lincoln which included the installation of a new cupola and raw materials handling plant;
- been the site resident M&E supervising and co-ordination engineer for the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth where the plant including all of the aquatic life support systems in addition to the normal public buildings systems (M&E Value £2.75m+)
- was the site M, E & Plant Engineering Construction Supervisor on "The Eden Project" in Cornwall (M&E Value £6.75m+).
- developed and supervised the installation of a total alternate energy building at "The Eden Project";
- supervised the co-ordination of all M&E services on 2 new hospitals in Plymouth and 4 new primary schools in Exeter;
- carried out 4 small projects and one large project feasibility studies for area upgradings at Plymouth University.
- working as Engineering Design Manager for Bio-mass Boiler Company responsible for ensuring that installation design proposals can be accomplished. Projects from 45KW to 2.5MW.