Engineering experts offering consultancy services

Mechanical, electrical and environmental consulting engineers, offering a full range of services, specialising in refrigeration and ancillary systems design, specification, contract administration, planning supervision and project management. Commercial and industrial refrigeration; food, process, pharmaceutical and utility industries. Chilled and cold storage, air conditioning and environmental control. Report, advisory work and turnkey design services. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling. Expert witness representation

Cool-Therm (Group) are a water chiller & chilled water specialist and air conditioning services organisation.  Alex Strong is the Technical Director.  Physics degree educated, now with over 17 years of industry experience.  He is a very capable technical engineer, commissioning technician and onsite trouble shooter as well as being technical lead and mentor for a 60+ strong team of passionate people working in our industry.

• Troubleshooting and solving unusual central plant problems
• Energy improvement schemes and advice – chillers & chilled water.
• Second opinions on plant repairs and lifecycle costs
• Dilapidation inspection reports
• Chiller replacement - design, selection & project management
• Data Centres, Process Chilled Water,
• Office Buildings, Hotels, Universities
• F-Gas Registers and Audits
• TM44 Inspections Level 3&4 CIBSE Accreditation

Andrew Gigiel has more than 40 years experience of refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump systems, heat transfer, and the control of food temperature, processes, and quality in the UK and worldwide.

His expertise is in: Thermodynamics, Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heat Pumps, Heat Transfer, Procedures and equipment to control temperature and minimise moisture and quality loss of food.  Food and refrigeration safety, regulation and enforcement.

Consultancy - Wide experience in the design, specification, fault analysis, energy efficiency and assessment of refrigeration processes and equipment.

Troubleshooting - Extensive experience in troubleshooting refrigeration systems and food processes, measuring and analysing performance and recommending remedies.

Legal Expert Witness reports and evidence in court - Andrew Gigiel is a listed expert witness with court experience. He has written 63 Expert Witness Reports in the past 20 years and has given evidence in court on 10 occasions. He also has experience of dispute resolution.

Design of innovative systems - Patent holder for a novel process to recover and remove high boiling point refrigerants (including water) from refrigeration and thermosyphon systems and currently developing commercial systems. An enthusiast for air-cycle and water refrigeration since 1987 he has designed and developed systems for food freezing, retail display cabinets, transportation, building air conditioning and heating and combined heating and cooling of food.

Research and Development - Andrew Gigiel has published 51 papers in internationally refereed journals, 73 papers at National and International Symposium and popular articles.

Energy audits - Assessment of existing plants to improve energy efficiency.

Modelling - Andrew Gigiel has written mathematical models, some incorporated into commercial computer applications, to predict refrigeration performance and food temperatures during processing storage and transport.

Training - Andrew Gigiel trains refrigeration engineers, energy managers and environmental health inspectors on site.

Andy is an independent Chartered Engineer, with over 30 years experience in Refrigeration and Building Services Engineering. Having previously worked for government bodies, major Contractors and private design Consultancies, Andy is able to offer the following services to the industry:-

• Site inspections and reports on refrigeration and cold storage installations, with assistance on resolving issues with incorrect or poor performing plant and unsatisfactory installations.
• Law Certificate qualified as an Expert Witness providing both single and joint services to the courts, with experience of giving evidence. A member of the Expert Witness Institute and registered with Legal Hub as an accredited qualified Expert Witness.
• Extensive design experience with ammonia, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbon and secondary refrigerant installations. Experience with commercial and industrial; food, pharmaceutical, process, data centre, chilled & cold storage and general air conditioning installations.
• Energy & carbon reduction surveys and analysis.
• Services provided throughout the UK and worldwide.

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Bob Long has been involved in industrial refrigeration system design for over 45 years covering many aspects of this diverse industry with proficiency in the use of ALL available refrigerants over a broad field of applications. Specialisation in energy storage has been the company's recent focus with innovative energy management technology branded 'Energy-Vault', winning awards in a number of national technology competitions.

See www.energivault.com

The parent company web page can be found at www.coolideas.info and provides a full turnkey service to users and prospective users of industrial refrigeration.

Professional advice is available through Coolideas consulting service and provides assistance in all refrigeration plant problems, associated with design, operational issues, legal assistance or planning a new project.

Coolideas offers affordable solutions to complex problems and innovative procedures for difficult situations.

• Troubleshooting
• Technical Expert Witness
• Dispute representation and mediation
• Warranty claims
• Comfort cooling, refrigeration and process cooling
• Refrigeration Plant
• Supermarket Packs and alternatives
• Technical reports
• System design
• Cold storage
• Laser cooling
• CNC cooling

Extensive practical experience of a wide variety of refrigeration troubleshooting, development, and design, C&E marking, product technical support, marketing, and Supermarket packs.

Areas of expertise and work activities include:

• Safe handling and equipment design for hydrocarbon / flammable refrigerants
• Application of hydrocarbon refrigerants for systems
• Analytical risk assessment of systems and equipment using hydrocarbon / flammable refrigerants
• Experimental and numerical performance evaluation of systems with alternative refrigerants and components
• Direct and indirect emissions analysis and modelling of systems and operational activities
• Determination of means for emissions reduction of systems and equipment

Star Technical Solutions (STS) is the technical advisory service of Star Refrigeration Ltd. Its purpose is to provide expert, impartial and independent advice to users and owners of cooling plant and systems and to the wider refrigeration industry.

With a team of 6 full time technical staff, and access to the knowledge base of Star Refrigeration, it brings together wide ranging and expert knowledge of the refrigeration, HVAC, heat pump and insulated envelope industries.

The main resource and strength of STS lies in the unique combination of practical experience, academic qualification and proven inventiveness of its experienced staff.  Its main services are:

• Supporting customers in meeting their legal obligations, eg compliance with the Pressure Systems Safety Regulations (PSSR) 2000, the Dangerous Substances & Explosive Atmosphere Regulations (DSEAR) 2002, the F-GAS Regulations and the CDM Coordinator role under the CDM Regulations.
• Wide ranging consultancy covering trouble shooting, expert witness work, energy surveys, performance assessments, HAZOP studies, system concept design, specification preparation, tender evaluation and prototype building / testing.
• Bespoke client training

The main areas in which STS has particular expertise include:

• ammonia refrigeration
• carbon dioxide refrigeration
• new refrigerants
• ammonia heat pumps
• pressure vessels & heat exchangers
• standards and codes
• freezing
• general troubleshooting
• lubrication
• energy conservation
• pressurised systems
• efficiency improvement
• chill & cold store insulation system design
• equipment conversion in refrigeration and a/c plant
• expert witness work

Experts in minimising life costs, in operational, energy, maintenance, and plant replacement solutions for refrigeration plant & food process systems and allied industries (chemical power, food retail etc). Food factory consulting engineers and management consultants.

Lifetime experience on Food Freezing covering spiral freezers for ready meals, meat, fish, poultry, dairy & ice cream, bakery including refrigeration plant. Delivered numerous new installation consultancy to clients ensuring high specification and at optimum capital and revenue cost.

Absorption refrigeration systems & applications of CHP and tri-generation and integration with VCR conventional plant. Food, agricultural and waste applications.

Fully conversant with current Government energy and legislation opportunities, new refrigerants ammonia CO2.

Expert witness - refrigeration food processing and energy systems.

Authored and co-authored over 30 referenced food freezing& refrigeration &energy related papers/subjects.

R&D contractors and solution developers, interest in smart agriculture and smart built environment. Strong team of Indian software and engineers.

Laboratory testing facilities. Accredited energy conservation Engineers opportunity identification & solution providers.

FJB are a fully independent engineering consultancy specialising in the design and project management of cold stores and food manufacturing facilities.

Whilst FJB are multi-disciplinary, we have specialist in-house refrigeration expertise and provide the following services - 

• Process Layouts
• Planning Applications
• Refrigeration Design
• M & E Design
• Turnkey Project Design
• Expert Witness
• Freezing Expertise
• Carbon dioxide and Ammonia
• Practical Advice and Designs

Jane is a practical refrigeration engineer with over 35 years experience in the commercial RAC industry. Initially from a refrigeration equipment manufacturing background, she set up Cool Concerns in 1991. The business has a wide customer base (end users, contractors, suppliers and manufacturers) and provides practical and cost effective solutions. It specialises in all aspects of Hydocarbon and Carbon Dioxide systems. Jane is a past president of the Institute of Refrigeration and continues to be actively involved with its activities and on-going development.

General consultancy for commercial refrigeration in the UK and overseas including:

• Advice on refrigerant leakage reduction in line with the principles of the Real Zero project.
• Reduction of equipment running costs, for example by improving energy efficiency and reliability.
• Reduction of the environmental impact of RAC equipment.
• Advice on the safe application of hydrocarbon refrigerants, including area classification and compliance with ATEX.
• Advice on systems using carbon dioxide (R744) as a refrigerant.
• Help with standards compliance (such as EN378) and regulations (such as PER/PED).
• Preparation of technical documentation.
• Preparation of specifications for equipment, installation and commissioning, service and maintenance.
• Evaluation of RAC components and systems.
• Development of management, engineering and administration teams within RAC companies.
• Expert witness work and dispute resolution.
• On-site troubleshooting with practical solutions.
• Plant commissioning and re-commissioning to optimise plant operation.

Training on all aspects of commercial refrigeration including:

• Real Zero (refrigerant leak reduction) training.
• Hydrocarbon refrigerants half day session and C&G 6187-21 training and assessment.
• The BRA Carbon Dioxide (R744) short course.
• F Gas training and assessment (C&G 2079-11,12,13 & 14).
• Five day RAC service and maintenance course.
• Energy efficiency training.
• BRA brazer training and assessments.

RD&T provide technical services and specialist consultancy in the following areas:

• Design, development and testing of domestic, commercial and retail refrigeration systems
• Design and development of novel concepts and protoypes through to final optimisation and testing
• Development of novel refrigeration systems and components
• Design optimisation using advanced modelling tools
• Optimisation of temperature control and energy consumption in chilling, freezing, storage and transport operations within the food cold chain
• Optimisation of food refrigeration systems and operations

I am a Chartered Engineer with a lifetime’s experience from the refrigeration and cold storage industries. I make use of this knowledge to provide expert witness services and expert evidence reports, following site investigations where appropriate.

Experienced in the effect, monitoring and solutions in respect of “Frost Heave” associated with cold storage and blast freezer installations.

Provide site investigations and reports concerning malfunctioning plant and faulty installations.

I am a member of the Academy of Experts and trained in Adjudication. I also act as a joint single expert to the Courts.

I am therefore available to advise on matters of litigation and take part in/or offer Adjudication, Arbitration and Mediation services

I can mediate between parties to resolve technical issues and avoid the high costs of litigation.

Mike Creamer is Founder and Managing Director of Business Edge Limited, a company formed in 1990, which provides Technical Consultancy, Air Conditioning/Refrigeration Training and Certification and specialised services to the industry. Mike is the inventor and developer of a unique high-speed, patented oil-free Centrifugal Vapour Compressor.

Specialist areas of expertise & services include:

• Design of air conditioning and refrigeration products and systems
• Specialists in conducting thermodynamic and electrical calculations
• Performance analysis of water chillers, refrigeration packs, VRF systems etc
• Trouble-shooting and determining causes of plant failure
• Strip down and analysis of failed compressors and components
• Settlement of technical disputes
• Technical expert witness work including site surveys, research, technical reports, technical drawings, calculations etc
• Unique ClimaCheck Performance Analyser providing total evaluation of plant cooling capacity, COP, System Efficiency Index (SEI), compressor isentropic efficiency, refrigerant charge, controls functionality, running costs and reliability
• Business Edge is the UK Project Solutions Partner for the Samsung range of Modular Water Chillers and Terminal Units
• Flushing and cleansing of AC&R systems with corrupted oil, particles, acid and water damage using F3OS technology
• Development of building control system specifications
• Calculation of heat gains and heat losses for buildings, cold rooms, swimming pools etc.
• Design of cooling and heating systems with water chillers, heat pumps, thermal storage and solar heating
• VRF Systems and Water Chillers up to 3000kW/3300Volt Motor Drives
• Plant evaluation, repairs and re-comissioning
• Data Centre & Critical Cooling Application experience
• Experienced on Military and Nuclear Power Station sites (Security Clearance attained)
• Extensive Chemical Dehumidification experience including Psychrometric Engineering
• Variable speed / inverter control of Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Systems
• Refrigerant Retrofits - technical evaluation, data acquisition & analysis services

Mike Creamer is the Author of the long running Masterclass Air Conditioning Technology Series, running for 14 yuears within the ACR News Journal and is also author of technical articles written for Service Engineer and ACR Today Journals. Mike has written over 145 technical articles covering Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Building Services Technology.

Mike and Business Edge Limited have secured the following awards:

2009 ACR News Awards:

• ClimaCheck – Refrigeration Product of the Year
• Business Edge Limited – Consultant of the Year

2009 Cooling Industry Awards:

• Mike Creamer – Environmental Pioneer Individual – Refrigeration (highly commended)
• F3OS System – Finalist in Field Service Innovation of the Year
• ClimaCheck – Finalist in Environmental Product of the Year – Refrigeration

2011 RAC Awards:

• Mike Creamer - Environmental Pioneer

2014 ACR News Awards:

• Mike Creamer - Alan Moor Award
• Business Edge Ltd - Training Initiative of the Year

2014 ACR National Awards:

• Business Edge Ltd - Best Training Provider

2015 HVR Awards:

• Mike Creamer - Consultant of the Year

2015 ACR News Awards:

• Mike Creamer - Consultant of the Year
• Business Edge Ltd - Consultant of the Year

Full CV and extensive personal history available on application.

Independent, multi-award winning international refrigeration, energy and environmental consultants with over 30 years’ experience in industrial refrigeration, air conditioning and process cooling for the food and beverage manufacturing, storage and distribution, and process industries.

Stephen Gill Associates have been awarded the following:

2014 National ACR Awards – Consultant of the Year

2014 National ACR Awards – Environmental Champion

2014 ACR News Awards – Consultant of the Year

2013 HVR Awards – Consultant of the Year

Range of services offered in the UK and to multi-nationals with sites around the globe include:

• Technical audits and feasibility studies, preparation of specifications and tender documents.
• Project management
• Plant performance and efficiency analysis; assessment of existing plants to identify areas for improving efficiency.
• Heat recovery, and heat-pump applications for processing plants.
• Energy audits and energy monitoring.
• Ammonia Risk assessments and H&S audits/policy writing.
• Preparation of Written Schemes of Examination.
• Support with meeting legal obligations with the Pressure Systems Safety Regulations (PSSR), the Dangerous Substances & Explosive Atmosphere Regulations (DSEAR), the F-GAS Regulations and the CDM Coordinator role under the CDM Regulations.
• Preparation and monitoring of maintenance schedules and analysis of plant running costs.

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