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Machinery GroupExpert Witness Services
The Company
BMT WBM is a leading edge consultancy with more than 40 years’ experience in the fields of mechanical and environmental engineering and science. We provide a multi-disciplinary service to address any mechanical, water or environmental requirement.Our expertise covers several engineering disciplines from mechanical, structural and controls to fluid power hydraulics as well as, water and environmental engineering, and environmental science. We have built a reputation for solving the more difficult and challenging problems, we value innovation and our staff are recognised as leaders in engineering excellence.The company has offices in Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in Australia, Denver, USA and Vancouver, Canada, providing a worldwide service to customers.
Expert ServicesBMT WBM offers a range of expert services to assist legal and insurance investigations.We have extensive expert witness experience in legal and insurance matters covering a broad range of technical issues, but mainly related with industrial accidents and machinery failures and stormwater and coastal flooding.Our clients include insurance companies, legal firms, loss adjusters, engineers and managers for industrial facilities, ports and mines. We have been involved as expert witnesses and in accident investigations in a range of industries including bulk materials handling plant, mobile plant, process plants, high speed machinery, industrial, road and rail accidents.
Services often extend from expert witness reports to become advice to lawyers, insurers and loss adjusters. BMT WBM visits sites and reviews relevant technical evidence so that it can answer the key questions developed by the lawyers in order to prepare an independent report for the Court.Our current experts and their general capabilities are outlined on the opposite page. Profiles of our experts are presented on the following pages.
Engineering Capability
Mechanical Expert Services
Cause of failure analysis
Steve SaflekosAssociate CPEng (Mech) MIE Aust Principal Engineer
Rob Widders BE MEngSc FIEAust CPEng NER RPEQPrincipal Engineer
Richard BrownBE (Hons) CEng (MIMechE)RPEQ Senior Engineer
John ParkerBE (Mech) MIE AustPrincipal Engineer
Richard DouchkovBE (Mech) Professionals Aust.Senior Engineer
Rob AngusBE (Hons) (Mech) MBA MIEAust CPEng RPEQPrincipal Engineer
Arnold WilliamsBEng Mech (Hons)Principal Engineer
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Investigations of plant and equipment that havecaused injuries and fatalities
Insurance and loss adjustment claim investigations
Flooding
Development impacts
Hydrology
Lead Experts Years Experience
Expert Witness before Magistrates Court
Expert Witness before Supreme Court
Superintendent mediation
Multi-discipline project management
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Neil Collins B.E. Eng, MEngSc PIANC NPER-3, RPEQPrincipal Engineer
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Steve SaflekosAssociate CPEng (Mech) MIEAust Principal Engineer
Steve Saflekos is a principal engineer at BMT WBM with over 35 years’ experience specialising in the design, operation, maintenance and refurbishment of heavy engineering plant, conveyor systems, port related equipment and mining related equipment. Steve has undertaken expert witness roles, superintendent roles, and principal technical advisor roles for numerous projects.
Steve has a background in dealing with large multimillion dollar projects both within Australia and overseas. This experience has provided Steve with skills to perform expert witness services including; superintendent mediation role between clients and suppliers, insurance and loss adjustment investigations, mechanical cause of failure investigations and as well Steve is experienced in providing expert engineering opinion before the supreme court.
Expert Areas• Superintendent mediation role between clients and supplier• Insurance and loss adjustment investigations• Mechanical cause of failure investigations• Expert Witness before Supreme [email protected]
Rob WiddersBE, MEngSc, FIEAust, CPEng, NER, RPEQPrincipal Engineer
Rob Widders is a principal engineer at BMT WBM with over 35 years’ experience. Rob has detailed knowledge related to the design, operations and maintenance of large mechanical plant and process equipment used in the mining and mineral processing industries. Rob has successfully completed numerous expert
witness projects including; Technical investigations into failure mode and root cause analysis of machinery and mechanical plant. Shaft fatigue failure due to inadequate design – motorised bicycle (Court attendance). Waste plant composter fatigue failure due to inadequate design (Conclave attendance). Port Botany vessel berth crew gangway failure. Earth moving equipment quick hitch system – fatigue failure. 100,000t tanker – ballast tank end frame fatigue cracking. Personal injury incidents - factory grate looseness, marina fuel bowser hose drum, pedal boat chain drive, ore grinding mill re-lining, pond weed removal.
Specific extensive expertise with ore grinding mills, fans, vibrating screens, mechanical steelwork, cooling towers, compressors, pumps and ship structures.
Expert Areas• Mechanical / Structural / Fatigue Design and Analysis, Design Rectifications• Design and Detailing of Mechanical Steelwork• Engineering Critical Assessments, Design Audits• Plant and Equipment Condition and Maintenance Audits• Finite Element Analysis• Site Troubleshooting (strain and vibration)• Weighing of Large Machines• Marine Technology
• Root cause analysis, preparation of legal reports and court attendance
John ParkerBE (Mech) MIEAust Principal Engineer
John Parker is a principal engineer at BMT WBM with over 40years’ experience. John has detailed knowledge related to the design, operations and maintenance of large mobile plant used in the mining industry.
John has been an engineering expert witness for both legal and insurance clients.
John’s relevant skills and experience includes; detailed technical analysis, load measurement and detailed technical report for submission to an independent expert for mediation. John has also acted as expert witness for the designer of a large trenching machine which has operated in Western Australia. The project involved detailed analysis of the bucket wheel, conveyor and support systems, and preparation of a detailed report for the designer’s legal firm for use in a pending court action.
Expert Areas• Independent expert witness mediation• Detailed technical analysis• Technical reporting• Technical expert for large mobile [email protected]
Rob AngusBE (Hons) (Mech) MBA MIEAust CPEng RPEQ Principal Engineer
Rob Angus is a Registered Professional Engineer with over 30 years of experience as a mechanical engineer in the mining, transport and manufacturing industries.
His current role is Operations Director of BMT WBM Machinery Group where he leads and works with a team of approximately fifty engineers in offices in Australia, Canada and the USA. Rob has experience in insurance and loss adjustment investigations as well as providing expert witness advice for mining and process machinery.
Expert Areas• Machine Design, Troubleshooting, Failure Analysis
and Problem Solving• Dynamics/Vibration of Machines and Structures• Field Measurement and Analysis of Vibration and
Strain Gauging• Dynamic Finite Element, Methods analysis• Expert witness services• Insurance and loss adjustment [email protected]
Richard BrownBE (Hons) CEng (MIMechE) RPEQ Senior Engineer
Richard Brown is a senior engineer at BMT WBM with over 18 years’ experience specialising mechanical design, analysis, structural inspection and design audits. He has in depth knowledge of large materials-handling plant and special-purpose machinery, and has conducted numerous detailed site inspections on a major fire damaged plant to determine detailed costing reports for plant replacement and repairs.
Expert Areas• Investigation and assessment reports for insurance
claims• Technical investigations into failure mode and root
cause analysis of machinery• Project management of multi-discipline projects• Plant installation & commissioning• Finite Element Analysis• Project & design [email protected]
Richard DouchkovBE (Mech) Professionals Australia Senior Engineer
Richard Douchkov is a senior engineer at BMT WBM with over 30 years’ experience. He has been involved in failure investigations for large mechanical plant and machinery, including the re-design of sub-systems to reduce the risk of failure recurrence and in order to reduce the risk to personnel.
Richard has also undertaken many in-service testing works on rail vehicles, fixed and mobile plant to experimentally capture real in-service operating conditions and loads.
His role also includes processing of the experimental data to identify the machine fault and/or assess the design life of machines and structures.
Expert Areas• Mechanical Design and Analysis• Finite Element Analysis• Strain Gauging• Computer Aided Design• Trouble Shooting and Problem Solving• Root cause failure analysis• Preparation of legal [email protected]
Arnold WilliamsBEng Mech (Hons)Principal Engineer
Arnold Williams is a principal engineer at BMT WBM. Over 24 years continuous service to the industry, Arnold has gained detailed expertise in the areas of design, operation, maintenance and the causes of failure of large equipment, industrial plant and process equipment used in the mining, construction materials handling and mineral processing industries. This expertise has allowed Arnold to act as a subject matter expert in court proceedings, loss adjustment matters and root-cause/failure investigations. Arnold has provided advice to the Supreme Court of NSW, numerous insurance companies and owners and operators of large machinery. Arnold has recognised expertise in stress and fatigue analysis, vibration, wear and operational dynamics, loading assessments and thermal engineering.
Expert Areas• Matters relating to aspects of design, performance or failure of mechanical and
structural components• Matters relating to operation of plant and equipment• Root cause analysis of failures of structures and machinery• Assessment of loss and remediation works• Trouble Shooting and Problem Solving• Remnant life assessment of mechanical and structural [email protected]
Neil CollinsBE MEngSc, PIANC, NPER-3, RPEQPrincipal Engineer
Neil has over 30 years’ experience in engineering and is an acknowledged expert in flooding, stormwater and coastal processes. He has worked with the Planning and Environment Court Qld, Land Court Qld, Supreme Court Qld (damages actions), Land & Environment Court NSW, Commissions of Inquiry (various States) and has provided many expert peer reviews. Neil was heavily involved with the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry with reports for six local authorities for LGAQ and also provided expert advice for Ipswich City Council. Neil was also the independent hydraulic expert to the Queensland Government for the North Bank Project.
He has worked on major infrastructure projects as a Hydraulic Specialist including Sydney Third Runway, Sydney Harbour Tunnel, Gateway Bridge and Arterial and several coal ports in Queensland and in
Indonesia, Power Stations in Queensland and Thailand, hydro-electric schemes in PNG and port dredging management at Cairns, Townsville, Weipa and Mackay.
Expert Areas• Flooding and floodplain management • Emergency response planning stormwater management• Hydrology
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BMT WBM Brisbane Level 8200 Creek StreetBrisbane Queensland 4000PO Box 203 Spring Hill QLD 4004Tel +61 7 3831 6744Fax +61 7 3832 3627Email [email protected]
BMT WBM Denver Suite 1208200 S. Akron StreetCentennialDenver Colorado CO 80112United StatesTel (+1) 303 792 9814Fax (+1) 303 792 9742Email [email protected]
BMT WBM MelbourneLevel 599 King StreetMelbourne Victoria 3000PO Box 604 Collins Street West VIC 8007Tel +61 3 8620 6100Fax +61 3 8620 6105Email [email protected]
BMT WBM Newcastle 126 Belford StreetBroadmeadow New South Wales 2292PO Box 266 BroadmeadowNew South Wales 2292Tel +61 2 4940 8882Fax +61 2 4940 8887Email [email protected]
BMT WBM Northern RiversSuite 6 20 Byron Street Bangalow New South Wales 2479Tel +61 2 6687 0466Fax +61 2 6687 0422Email [email protected]
BMT WBM Perth Level 320 Parkland RoadOsborne Park WA 6017PO Box 1027 Innaloo WA 6018Tel +61 8 9328 2029Fax +61 8 9486 7588 Email [email protected]
BMT WBM SydneySuite G213-15 Smail StreetUltimo Sydney New South Wales 2007Tel +61 2 8960 7755Fax +61 2 8960 7745 Email [email protected]
BMT WBM United Kingdom1st FloorInternational HouseSt Katharine’s WayLondonE1W 1AYTel +44 (0) 20 8090 1566Email [email protected]
BMT WBM Vancouver 401 - 611 Alexander StreetVancouverBritish Columbia V6A 1E1CanadaTel (+1) 604 683 5777Fax (+1) 604 608 3232Email [email protected]
BMT WBM has a proven record in addressing today’s engineering and environmental issues.We aim to continue to enhance our services, capabilities and areas of application to meet the community’s future development and environmental protection needs.
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