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Serendipity Chartered Engineers

t: + 44 (0) 1534 565 829 / + 44 (0) 7797 791 025 e: simon@serendipitycharteredengineers.co.uk

Welcome to Serendipity Chartered Engineers

• A practicing technically competent Chartered Electrical 
• Engineer with over forty years’ experience 
• Expert witness, mediation and determiner expertise 
• Works with accuracy, integrity and reliability 
• Unwavering commitment to impartiality & independence 
• A practising articulate and ethical mediator, keen 
advocate of alternative dispute resolution 
• Highly developed proactive interpersonal skills, very 
experienced at obtaining and disseminating information 

Accreditations 

• Engineering Council Registered Chartered Electrical Engineer 
• Fellow of Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers 
• Member of The Academy of Experts 
• Member of Expert Witness Institute 
• Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 
• Member of Society of Light and Lighting 
• Associate member of Association of Personal Injury Lawyers

Technical Electrical Specialisms 

• Complex non-essential and essential electrical infrastructures 
• Emergency power standby generation and uninterruptable power supplies 
• Conventional and specialist computer and pharmaceutical clean earthing systems 
• Wind turbine, solar photovoltaic and air source heat pump systems 
• Telecommunication, computer data infrastructures, radio communication systems 
• Interior, exterior, emergency, road, laser and feature illumination 
• Luminaire photometric, photobiological, IP rating, component and safety laboratory testing 
• Analogue addressable, aspirating fire alarm systems, automatic smoke vent (AOV) systems 
• Conventional, fireman’s and firefighting lift installations 
• Closed circuit television, intruder alarm, access control and hold up systems 
• Building management systems 
• Electric underfloor and wall mounted heating systems 
• Lightning protection systems 
• Smart motorway lighting, power, loop detection, emergency telephone systems 
• Conventional road lighting and power systems

Expert Witness, Forensic, Mediation, Determiner, Expertise 

• Mediation, determination, litigation, technical and contractual assistance to legal profession 
• Liaison with Claimants, Defendants, Advocates, Solicitors, Insurers, Loss Adjusters and Police 
• Single and Joint Expert Witness in accordance with Part 35 Civil Procedure Rules 
• Court attendance, cross examination of expert witness reports, Summons and Affidavits 
• Electricity Supply Authority metering, check metering, tariff and noise disputes and settlement 
• Obviousness, validity/invalidity, state of the art, Patents disputes 
• Wayleave, boundary trespass and ransom strip disputes 
• Compilation of desk top study and site investigation expert witness reports 
• Compilation of detailed forensic expert witness reports 
• Building inspections to verify compliance to British Standards and Codes of Practice 
• Compilation of bankable studies, Scott schedules, damage and loss schedules 
• Compilation of case timeline and critical paths of events 
• Identification of causation, production of remedial work strategies 
• Quantum and commercial analysis of cost claims and losses 
• Provision of technical, programme and cost assistance to Loss Adjusters 
• Due diligence and dilapidation surveys 
• First Tier Property Chamber further directions, desk top studies, hearings and site inspections 
• Client’s representative, report compilation, administrating case budgets and programme 
• Legislative compliance of building plant and equipment to national and international standards 
• Pro bono expert witness and forensic engineering cases 
• Claimant after the event (ATE) insurance case loss fees/and case win defendant pays fees 
• Engineer and manager training and advice when summoned to attend court

Tabseer Group, Saudi Arabia, Technical Auditor - Europe 

Tabseer Group is registered with the following Middle Eastern organisations: 

• Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which comprises of seven Middle Eastern countries 
• Organisation for Standardisation (GSO), which provides the Gulf Conformity Mark (Gmark) 
• Gulf Accreditation Centre (GAC), which grants product technical conformity certificates 
I provide technical support and inspection services to industrial and economic sectors of the GCC to 
ensure manufactured and imported luminaires, electrical equipment and accessories etc. have been 
fully tested and comply with relevant international technical regulations and codes of practice. 

Insurance Cover 

• Expert witness, mediation, and arbitration professional indemnity insurance 
• Public and products liability insurance

Data Protection Law Registration 

• Jersey Office of the Information Commissioners Office registration: 102566 
• United Kingdom Office of the Information Commissioners Office registration: ZB499329

 

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