OUR SERVICES

Key Team Members

Shane Pugh

Shane started his career in the Nuclear industry as a Control & Instrumentation technician at BNFL's Capenhurst Fuel Enrichment Facility. BNFL's apprentice training scheme gave Shane a broad range of skills which has served him well in his career and has given him a detailed understanding of most aspects of the design, construction and operation of complex process plants. Shane moved from the shop floor to the design office before leaving BNFL in 1989 to join PROjEN. Since then, Shane has completed numerous projects for a vast range of clients across all market sectors, more recently with a focus on Legislative Compliance issues. He has directly supported a number of clients to become compliant with a range of complex legislative requirements (including DSEAR/ATEX, 61508/11 (Functional safety), CFC/HCFC phase out etc). Shane was involved with the first post Buncefield projects to modify an existing fuel storage facility as well as the building of new fuel storage facilities, which the PROjEN team designed to be fully compliant with the HSE post Buncefield recommendations, BS EN 61508/11 and the recommendations of the PSLG report.

Shane now manages PROjEN's BioEnergy division and is responsible for promoting PROjEN's diverse knowledge to the industry, building the business and gaining new customers and accounts. He also retains a 'hands on' approach and utilises his wide skill base to support the design, construction, commissioning, operation and optimisation of BioEnergy plants.

Dr. Les Gornall

Dr. Les Gornall is a UK biogas and composting pioneer who has specialised in the theory, design, installation, and commissioning of biogas plants since 1978. He has patented various features of digester construction and his engineering and biological designs have won many awards. Examples of his awards include a Pollution Abatement Technology Award in the UK, a joint second place in the European Year of the Environment awards in Brussels and the UK Engineering Contractor of the year award in 2005. Known as “Dr Sludge” he has played a significant role in the development of the ADBA (Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association) and has written and conducted numerous AD training sessions on behalf of WRAP. He has been instrumental in some of the UK’s most iconic AD facilities such as Goddards Green and Tilbury Deep Shaft and is widely respected for his ability to convert waste treatment problems into workable and commercially successful AD/Biogas plants. Les heads the PROjEN technical team and also has a heavy involvement in raising the profile of Health & Safety in the industry.

Fraser Rawson

Fraser Rawson is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with over 19 years’ experience in environmental engineering and consulting. He has worked in many roles ranging from proposals through to detailed design, commissioning and operations with increasing levels of responsibility through his career. He has worked in various contractor and operator organisations principally on environmental projects. Fraser has direct experience of developing detailed designs for energy, renewable energy, waste water and sludge processing technologies, as well as more general process engineering projects. This has included several large scale projects each with capital values in excess of £40 million, including Sandown Sludge Recycling Centre, Isle of Man Waste to Energy Facility, UPM Shotton Biomass Boiler, United Utilities Shell Green Sludge Dewatering and Incineration, Co. Meath Waste to Energy Facility.

Fraser is currently working on a number of BioEnergy projects, in particular a large Anaerobic Digester scheme.

Ali Javed

Ali Javed is a Process Engineer specialising in the field of wastewater and waste treatment/biogas production plant designs. He has been a design engineer on the UK’s iconic Reliance Street and Bredbury Parkway large scale Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Plants. He has also carried out extensive research work on the development of novel wastewater and waste treatment plant designs including state-of-the art Nyex process and Autoclaved MSW AD (Derwenthuagh Ecoparc) and an agricultural residues incinerator. He has completed process designs on at least four major Anaerobic Digestion plants with several others in progress. He also has an in-depth knowledge of current UK biogas industry legislations as well. Ali has worked in the UK, Middle East and South Asia giving him one of the broadest process engineering backgrounds in many challenging locations.

Ali’s extensive process engineering knowledge is a significant asset in the development of the PROjEN BioEnergy process division.

Terry Brownhill

Terry Brownhill is an MBA Graduate with 23 years business, operations and procurement management experience in the waste sector covering anaerobic digestion, municipal collection services, landfill development, green and dry waste recycling and waste treatment technologies. Whilst employed as an Associate Director with AMEC Earth and Environment, he project managed large PFI waste procurement projects and developed their organic waste consultancy business.

He provided extensive development support during the formation of ADBA where he now retains a board position and chairs the safety and training working group. He has a wide based business development and process engineering background and has provided business development and project support to companies such as BiogenGreenfinch, Bedminster Inc and Veolia Waste Services. In addition he continues to provide project evaluation support to WRAP on their ROTATE and Organics Frameworks which included Capital Grant evaluation for AD and IVC projects in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England.

Terry's role as Associate Consultant is to provide business development support to PROjEN and its clients.

Ray Brittan

Ray Brittan has over 30 years’ Project Management experience in the Water, Wastewater, and Oil & Gas Industries. A highlight of Ray’s illustrious career was acting as Project Manager on the £30 Million Design & Build of Weymouth & Portland Wastewater Treatment Plant which served a population of 250,000. This scheme involved the construction of a new secondary treatment works below the beach at Portland Bill. The treatment process involved SBR technology with chemical scrubbing to eliminate gaseous emissions. During Ray’s project career schemes have varied from Anaerobic Digestion to Bioethanol Facilities with contract values up to £100 Million.

Nicola Bowen

Nicola Bowen graduated with an MSc Environmental Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Her studies focused on a variety of disciplines including; water and wastewater engineering, energy efficient technologies, solid waste management, groundwater remediation, air pollution and contaminated land.

Nicola provides project support for a range of environmental engineering and process related projects in the BioEnergy team, consisting of process and mechanical engineering, project delivery and business development. Her knowledge and technical skills provide an invaluable resource to support client projects, proposal preparation and new business development.

Howard Hazlehurst

Howard is a Mechanical Engineer with over twenty years’ experience in the water, wastewater, food, energy from waste and nuclear industries. He has delivered the mechanical engineering design and implementation of projects with several major utility companies.

Howard’s project experience includes; optioneering and feasibility studies for United Utilities, detailed engineering design for Scottish Water and Yorkshire Water, equipment specification and procurement. As well as, tender preparation and appraisal, cost estimating for Welsh Water, and manufacture, construction and installation for Severn Trent. He is also experienced in HAZOP and HAZCON studies and the production of PEAZ and DSEAR/ATEX Hazard Risk Assessments.