After working for consultant civil engineering companies for eighteen years as a civil design and / or resident engineer, both in England and abroad (Kenya, Kuwait, and Hong Kong), I decided on his return to England in early 1989 on a change of direction in his engineering career.

I became Chief Engineer for Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd on a large management contract in central London, where over 100 contractors were employed to build a complex office block on anti-vibration bearings over the South end of Victoria Station.