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Jim Crawford
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Expertise
- Electrical Services
- Hazardous Areas
- Mechanical Engineering
- Cathodic Protection
- Power Generation
- Reciprocating Engines
- Old Machinery
Experience
Mr. Crawford has extensive experience of the Electrical, Mechanical and Instrumentation Engineering associated with Civil Engineering and Building projects. This includes hospitals in the public and private sectors, public buildings, bridges, motorways, marine works, water supply and wastewater treatment, electrical generation including embedded generation and distribution at high voltage. He also has experience of offshore installations and a range of electrical related disciplines ranging from cathodic protection to telemetry.
He designed the electrics of a large maltings, which pioneered the use of microprocessor control in the industry, and obtained a MAPCON grant for the project, which was selected by DTI as an example to be followed. Other specialities include large variable speed drives, flameproof equipment and electrics associated with explosives manufacturing plant, ship installations and marine works and specialised subjects such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging and associated shielded rooms.
Mr. Crawford has provided many Expert reports covering most of the disciplines detailed above and has experience of investigations of mechanical and electrical failures and of fires.
Other Appointments
Past Director of the Offshore Certification Bureau.
Personal Data
- Position: Technical Director
- Year of Birth: 1940
- Languages: Mother tongue English
Professional Qualifications and Registrations
- Chartered Engineer
- Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
- Fellow of the Association of Consulting Engineers
- Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and Technicians (formerly the Institution of Electrical Engineers)
- Member of the Institution of Lighting Engineers
- Member of the Bureau of Engineer Surveyors
- Member of the Institution of Plant Engineers
- UK Register of Expert Witness
Selection of Experience
Forensic and Expert Witness
Investigations into power, ILS and landing and taxiing systems for Manchester Airport Runway 2.
Design of lighting for streets, roads and motorways.
Combined Heat and Power Schemes with Embedded Generation
Various expert witness reports including those on Fire, Process Plant, Building Management Systems, plant such as cranes.
Investigations into the suitability of an opening bridge (roll back bascule bridge) for continued operation for a further five years. Option appraisal of various schemes. (Technical and financial considerations)
Design of Topsides installation on Shuaiba Oil Pier, Kuwait. (Facility for loading four supertankers extending one kilometre out to sea).
Survey of Main Trunk Sewer using non destructive potentiometric techniques, and to measure degree of corrosion.
Non-destructive testing of steel pipeline (River Ore Sewer), partly buried and partly on plinths above ground using ultrasonics and electropotential techniques. Redox and chemical analysis also employed.
Refurbishment of multi-storey office block for Prescription Pricing Authority: Project Management and Design.
Design of large Ferris Wheel.
Analysis of cost implications arising of changes in user requirements of Channel Tunnel. Areas examined - centralised control system, data transmission, compounding effects of increased power, aerodynamic losses and cooling requirements.
Installation of water cooled type MRI scanner in Private sector hospital.
Drawing up dismantling storage and rebuild procedure for MRI Scanner (water cooled type) for export including method statements approved by manufacturer, negotiations regarding payment for storage, legal advice on ownership and rights to use of space occupied by the equipment etc.
Replacement of MRI Scanner with state of the art Helium cooled super-conducting type.
Paralleling of mini hydroelectric scheme with National Grid.
Replacement of main switchboards and transformers in hospitals whilst maintaining hospital services by use of temporary generators.
Installation of MRI Scanner in private hospital.
Project Management of extension to bottling for spirits for James Burrough Distillers to form largest site of its type in UK. Disciplines included geotechnical, civil, structural and M&E.
Major state of the art fire alarm installations for hospitals and hospital sites.
Standby generation schemes.
Refurbishment of services for public buildings.
Conversion of Victorian terrace to form Department of Computing Science in University of Glasgow: Air Conditioning, Ethernet and Cambridge Ring local area networks.
Services for Telephone Exchange for University of Glasgow. (Largest private exchange in Scotland).
Conversion of Victorian house to form Headquarters of Medical Research Council, Glasgow.
Replacement of M&E Services for hospital complexes including: electrical switchgear, ring mains, gas outlet pipework, boilerplant, 100% standby electrical generation and integrated buildings and site fire alarm installations.
Replacement of multi-section MV switchboards fed by 11000/433 transformers whilst maintaining supplies.
Computer control of PETN explosives factory for ICI Nobel's Explosive division.
M&E Services of Buckie Maltings including 3 x 50,000,000 Btu/hr burners, rotating floor kilns, microprocessor control of conveyor systems and malting recipes.
Coal fired boiler plant for Chivas Brothers.
Sewage pumping scheme intercepting large number of separate sewers and pumping to a primary treatment works, Burgh of Helensburgh.
Pumps and controls for pumping stations, water treatment plants, storage reservoirs and valve chambers for Loch Lomond Water Supply Scheme. Telemetry via VHF and radio links. Cathodic protection of 60" diameter trunk main.
Seconded to Shell UK Exploration and Production as Shell Representative on platforms CD on the Leman Field and platform J on the Indefatigable Field..
Electrics for swing bridges, lifting bridges and River Leven Barrage.
Design of Control Room for Scottish Ambulance Centre, Glasgow.
Employment Record
- 2001 to date: Cadogans. Director
- 1996 to 2001: Cadogans (formerly Rendel Palmer & Tritton (Scotland)). Associate Director.
- 1988 to 1996: Rendel Palmer & Tritton (Scotland). Director.
- 1991 to 1995: Offshore Certification Bureau. Director.
- 1983 to 1988: Hancox & Partners. Partner.
- 1978 to 1983: Cowan & Linn, Consulting Engineers. Head of Electrical and Instrumentation Department.
- 1970 to 1978: Crouch & Hogg, Consulting Engineers. Senior Engineer.
- 1964 to 1970: Crouch & Hogg, Consulting Engineers. Assistant Electrical Engineer.
- 1961 to 1964: Ekco Ensign Electric Ltd. Engineer for Scotland.
- 1959 to 1961: British Lighting Council. Assistant Engineer.
- 1958 to 1959: North British Locomotive Co. Ltd. Student Apprentice.