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Price comparison of UK Professional Engineering Institutions (PEIs)
A few years ago, in the spirit of those price comparison websites which we all know and love, I wrote…
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Minera Panama Unfair Closure
A Deal’s A Deal I have previously written articles in PII about the work I did at a copper mine…
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The Magic Of Christmas
Once again, we are at that time of year where I feel the need to provide readers with a seasonally…
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Keeping Records Covers Arses
I recently went on a training course to update my knowledge on writing expert witness reports. I’ve been on a…
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The Blue Flame
I think that I first heard of “The Blue Flame”, (an unofficial and illicit publication dating back to the 1930s)…
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How Safe Are Attention Magnets?
I started writing this article during the 2022 World Cup. It was going to discuss various anecdotal accounts which I…
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Why Academia Keeps On Solving The Wrong Problems #2: “Flowsheeting” and “Process Design”
I’m usually not at all keen on the term “flowsheeting”, a term which tends to be used in professional practice…
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Why Academia Keeps On Solving The Wrong Problems #1: P+IDs, PFDs and Plant Layout
This is the first of two articles looking at the shortcomings of academia in the context of problem solving in…
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Green Hysteria 2: Picking Green Cherries
Some years ago, I was hired by an environmental pressure group to investigate reports of widespread environmental contamination from certain…
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Green Hysteria 1: Treating the Precautionary Principle with Caution
However hard I prune my LinkedIn feed, I am confronted every day with greenwash and its more innocuous seeming cousin,…
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