The fortunes of the container shipping sector can best be described as mixed. From an earnings perspective, the market is riding high and carriers are experiencing profit margins they could…
In January 2021, Brookes Bell opened The Lab, a high-end testing and inspection unit on the Wirral, near Liverpool. We talk to Matthew Calveley, the Laboratory Manager about his role managing this…
Brookes Bell has welcomed two graduate apprentices to The Lab, both of whom will be working towards their Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) level three examinations as Brookes Bell’s NDT services go from…
As a leading multi-disciplinary technical and scientific consultancy, Brookes Bell has a reputation for being the 'go-to' firm for casualty investigation, forensic analysis, technical dispute…
This month we meet Adrian Scales, Head of Nautical who joined Brookes Bell in 2007 after 18 years at sea. Here we ask him a bit more about his career and life outside work.
I was born in…
Nick Doherty, Senior Mechanical Engineer has been using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to examine fire risk and to model smoke plume dispersion across the decks of an offshore platform.
As part…
Adrian Scales, Head of Nautical has spoken at the recent Informa Salvage and Wreck conference which was held in London at the beginning of December.
He was discussing Brookes Bell’s role…
Brookes Bell’s fire experts have many years of experience of successfully responding to complex fires in both the civil and criminal sectors, conducting complex investigations all around the…
This month we meet one of the younger members of the team at Brookes Bell. Ben Marray joined Brookes Bell a year ago as a Lab Apprentice working with the metallurgy division and the non-destructive…
The TS Queen Mary was launched in 1933. She was the largest, most luxurious steamship built to serve Glasgow and the west of Scotland, measuring 871 gross registered tons, powered by three…
