HVAC Technical manager
Harrods
Total years of experience :23 years, 10 Months
Working with the old and the new.
Harrods not only is a fantastic store with world renown, it has a huge amount of mechanical and electrical plant and equipment.
My role keeps me and my excellent team busy, dealing with the general day to day as well as considerable amounts of new projects.
Harrods is a constantly evolving environment with unique challenges which is something I thoroughly enjoy.
Resolving issues with clients, finding solutions and assisting team members.
Providing support to the whole of the company IOC (Infrastructure Operations Centre).
Teaching consultants and engineers HVAC&R fundamentals and Building Controls Technologies.
Delivering courses on
Refrigeration
Thermal Transfer
Heating
Cooling
Ventilation
Tridium (Niagara AX Frameworks and JACE controllers)
Building Controls Engineer (Tridium/Niagara AX & Trend) & Trainer
Provide consultancy, engineering and training for the building controls industry.
Tridium/Niagara AX Engineering
Trainer for Industry
- Tridium EMEA - Niagara AX
- ECA & BCIA - HVAC courses and building technology.
I teach Niagara AX for Tridium Europe, Distech Controls and to industry in general. I also deliver courses to industry on HVAC, Refrigeration, Renewables and Sustainables.
My role as Senior Engineer for climatic systems required me to assist and advise each of the project teams. My primary role being to help get NedTrain’s latest 250 million €uro project, the DDARm (a double deck rolling stock refurbishment) started. I provided presentations and advised in technical meetings from client to engineer level, wrote engineering specifications and had overall responsibility for climatic design and engineering. Although I was a temporary replacement for the original senior (absent due to illness), my role and responsibilities were not reduced or mitigated. I found this an enjoyable challenge, especially due to the immersion into a full Dutch working environment.
I taught students of an electrical engineering vocational nature.
EMTA Awards Limited (EAL) - Computer Maintenance, Electrical & Electronics
City & Guilds 2351 & 2330 (Electrical Installation - Theory & Practical).
City & Guilds 1851 (Electronics & Alarms - Theory).
City & Guilds/EAL National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) Levels 1, 2 & 3.
IMI - Key skills (Numeracy, Communication and ICT).
My contract was initially to act as design engineer and commissioning manager of various building control systems. My original remit being to integrate each of the Global Switch (Amsterdam) systems (primarily chillers, water pumps, cooling systems and air ventilation) into a complete system with monitoring via PCs over an open systems network. Then I progressed to overseeing the commissioning of the systems and make sure that they worked as the contract and specification demanded. During this phase I generally had a small team of 2-4 engineers under my immediate control plus a full installation team (for modifications). I attended and where necessary directed, all control systems meetings along with my Project manager.
My remit was extended to modify the Global Switch (Paris) systems and then further extended to provide initial designs of the systems control of the Global Switch (Madrid) plant. I attended onsite meetings and altered and adjusted designs as required.
During the last six months of the Amsterdam project my project manager left, where I took over control of the project management for IBS.
The project (ExCeL - London Docklands) had various managers for each of the areas of construction, my role being package manager for the building management systems. This meant that I overviewed designs, implementation, installation, commissioning and functional testing. I attended site meetings, on and offsite testing and demonstrations at all levels and had effective control of the BMS company (Sauter) who were sub-contracted to install the systems. With the inclusion of Sir Robert McAlpines staff, I had, at any one time approximately 50-70 individuals under my immediate command.
My initial remit was to inspect, comment and constructively alter (via my instruction) drawings and designs for the Millennium Dome exhibitions emergency/life safety systems (Emergency Lighting, Sprinklers, Fire Alarms (including audio and visual implementation)).
This was later extended to the whole dome including the external buildings.
During my employ, I attended design, managerial, building control and fire officer meetings.
Although I had no financial constraints I effectively controlled a final sum of approximately £25-30 million worth of installed life safety equipment. My control extended to over 500 people, including designers and their installation teams, equipment installers and the commissioning teams.
The Dome was run to a tight schedule as the project had to be finished on time for the New Millennium (2000).
Building Services Engineering with Sustainable Energy Dissertation was based on Tridium and smart building technologies.
