Mr Andrew Billingham

Andrew Billingham is an experienced Structural Engineer & Building Surveyor with over forty five years experience in the construction industry. He has been working by video conference, zoom  meetings etc. for litigation when it is applicable and necessary.

His expertise is varied and involves the following:

Failure of Duty of Care (Structural Engineers);
Design Failures;
Collapse Investigations;
Expertise in all types of framed buildings including concrete (all forms), steel and timber.
Defective material and design expertise.
Damage from all insured perils ie. fire, flood, storm, subsidence and heave.
Specialist bomb damage and causes of collapsed buildings and vehicular damage to buildings.
Foundation expertise including piling, diaphragm walls, retaining wall & beam and pad and raft varieties.
Material defects found in concrete.
Scaffolding related accidents.
Trips and slips including highway defects including pot holes and friction loss to surface finishes.
Construction and Material Defects (including glass and timber.)
Cladding problems to commercial, Industrial,retail & residential buildings.                         

Soil contamination through escape of hydrocarbon on petrol forecourts, fuel depots and plant machinery accidents.
All Party Wall matters.
Dilapidations.
Defects including defects in relation to how your property suffer from a diminution in value.

Mr Billingham has been appointed as a Single Joint Expert and also by claimants’ and defendants’ instructing solicitors, by a high court Judge, insurance companies, the public and from professional indemnity insurers or their brokers. An in depth ‘synopsis of cases’ undertaken as an Expert can be forwarded upon request.

Expert Testimony has been provided in the following;
• Civil Cases
• Criminal

Bond Solon Expert Witness Training

Fellow of The Institution of Structural Engineers (A E Wynn Prize); Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Member of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Member of The Academy of Experts