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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:-

Incorporated Engineer:IEng.
Member, Society of Operations Engineers:MSOE.
Member, Institution of Plant Engineers:MIPlantE.
Member, The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health:MRSH.
Member, Society of Light & Lighting:MSLL.
Associate Member, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineering:ACIBSE

 
Tony has held design, design supervision and installation supervision positions within the construction industry, on both the consultancy and the construction sides, for over 25 years and as a result, is a Senior Project Development Engineer with wide and extensive construction and industrial sector knowledge and experience.

 
He is an enthusiastic 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; Security; CCTV; Access Control; Building Management Systems;
Public Address and Sound Systems; Data Handling and Transmission Systems;
Lightning Protection; Surge Protection; Stand-by Power; Lifts;
Heating; Ventilation; Air-conditioning; Water Services; Sanitation and Drainage; Gases Distribution.

Industry Sector Experience

Industrial:Engineering; Manufacturing; Clothing; Agricultural; Chemical; Food Processing.
Civil Engineering:Highways, Dry-docks, Flood Defence, 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; Vehicle Roll-over Safety Device; Modular Sewage Treatment 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; Eden Biomes
  • 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 included 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+).