Expert Witness Journal Issue 68 August 2026 - Flipbook - Page 106
barker consultants
Bernadette Barker
Chartered Architect, Chartered Arbitrator, Chartered Building Engineer,
Accredited Adjudicator & Accredited Mediator
BA (Hons) Dip Arch RIBA MSc (Construction Law & Arbitration) FCIArb C.Arb DipICArb
MIFireE C Build E MCABE MAE
Bernadette Barker is a Chartered Architect, Chartered Arbitrator, Chartered Building
Engineer, Accredited Adjudicator, Accredited Mediator.
Landscape Architects
In 1994 Bernadette qualified as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, became a
Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1999 and undertook in 2014
the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration.
terra firma are chartered landscape architects with a reputation for high
standards of work across the spectrum of landscape design
consultancy. Areas of expertise include landscape and visual impact
assessment and environmental impact assessment, urban and rural
landscape design and planning as well as expert witness and giving
evidence at public inquiry. Landscape Institute registered practice.
Quality assured to ISO 9001 (2015) Environmental Management
Systems ISO 14001 (2015).
In 2020 Bernadette completed the Hunt ADR mediation skills training course and is now a
Civil and Commercial Mediator and an online Mediator.
Bernadette’s scope of work encompasses the various roles associated with the CDM
Regulations, dispute management, fire safety, defective external walls, monitoring of
construction works, defects and health and safety.
Directors and approved Expert Witness:
Guidance is provided to clients, developers, contractors and designers at various stages
throughout the life of the project from inception to management of the finished project.
Robyn Butcher BA(Hons)
Alison Galbraith MA FLI
Projects worked upon include hotels, retail premises, offices, gyms, live work units,
restaurants and residential accommodation.
Contact: Mrs Alison Galbraith
Telephone: 01730 262 040
Email: Alison@terrafirmaconsultancy.com
Website: www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com
Bernadette holds the Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificates (civil and
also criminal) and the University Aberdeen Bond Solon certificate.
The terra firma Consultancy Ltd.
Suite B, Ideal House, Bedford Road, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU32 3QA
Area of work: Nationwide
Contact:
Telephone: 0208 874 7000
Mobile: 07885 059618
Email: bernadette@barkerconsultants.com
Website: barkerconsultants.com
Expert Fire, Mechanical and Material Engineer
Engineering Forensics provides expert advice to solicitors, loss adjusters, insurers
and private clients.
Dr. Tim Lodge
We are experts in ecapes of water, mechanical failure, corrosion, collision
investigation, fire and explosion and personal injury. We are experts in forensic
investigations.
Director
Agrostis has been transforming outdoor sports surfaces of all kinds since our foundation in
2005. We provide expert guidance on design, procurement, construction and
maintenance for anything with natural grass and the full range of artificial and hybrid sports
surfaces. The design of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) and enhanced environmental
features (habitat creation) are key components of our work along with the use of drone
technology for mapping and multispectral analysis.
Expertise includes
• Escapes of Water & Oil
• Corrosion
• Personal Injury & HSE
• Failure mode analysis
• Corrosion mechanisms
• Contamination assessment
Tim Lodge is a registered expert witness and is regularly called upon to provide Expert
Witness reports on sports surface and soil/landscape/ drainage-related situations where
litigation is, or could be, involved. These may be related to injury, inappropriate materials
and installation methods, inappropriate or inadequate design or maintenance procedures
and contractual disagreements. Reports are of course prepared in a manner suitable for
presentation to the court and court appearances are undertaken when required.
Areas include:
• Industrial, Railway, Marine, Construction and Oil & Gas
• Bolts, shafts, gears, lifting equipment & pipes
• Plumbing fittings - plastic & copper pipe, compression joints and valves
• Toys, furniture and appliances • Catering - contamination
• Medical devices
• Electronic devices
• Water analysis
• Dust analysis
• Paint analysis
True expertise is arrived at through knowledge, observation and experience. Tim Lodge's
research work and PhD on the construction and maintenance of golf greens represents just
the starting point of over 30 years of learning in the fields of natural grass and artificial turf
technology.
Contact Name: Mr Alexander Wildish
Tel: 01702 337 565 - Mobile: 07555 899 508
Email: alex@engineering-forensics.co.uk
Alternate Email: sarah@engineering-forensics.co.uk
Website: www.engineering-forensics.co.uk
Offices: The Surgery, 119 Shaftsbury Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 3AN
Midlands, Lyndons Farm Business Park Poolhead Lane, Earlswood, Solihull B94 5ES
Ireland, Pike of Rushall Loran, Portlaois Co. Laois, R32 T449
Contact:
Telephone: 01359 259361
Mobile: 07725 629492
Email: tim@agrostis.co.uk
Alternate Email: info@agrostis.org.uk
Website: www.agrostis.co.uk
EXPERT WITNESS JOURNAL
• Mechanical and Material Failures
• Fires & Explosions
• Collision Investigation
• Metallurgical analysis
• Structural failure analysis
• Fracture analysis
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