Temporary Works:
Chronological References
About Peter Pallett
Peter is a self-employed consultant specialising in the specific areas of temporary works covered by scaffolding, falsework and formwork.
He is a Chartered European Engineer and was registered in August 2000 onto the Institution of Civil Engineers List of Experts. He is also on the Law Society directory of expert witnesses for his fields of specialisation. He was registered in May 1999 as a Single Joint Expert for litigation after receiving the relevant training.
Peter is very happily married to Audrey, and has a son Christopher (born 1974) currently living with his partner Myra in the Devon area. Christopher is Part's Manager of a major car distributor in Exeter for the whole of the South West.
Peter's detailed CV is available on request, but a short resume follows:
Career to date
- 1991 - Present: Temporary works consultant.
Self employed as a sole trader from February 1991 until forming his own company "Pallett TemporaryWorks Limited" in January 2003. He concentrates on training and consultancy worldwide on temporary works in construction. Peter has also received briefs from solicitors to act as an expert witness on several interesting cases.
- 1973 - 1991: Rapid Metal Developments Ltd (international proprietary equipment supplier now called RMD-Kwikform Ltd.) specialising in scaffolding, formwork and falsework. Latterly for sixteen years their technical Manager, responsible for the implementation of computerised quotation systems, technical analysis suites and CAD into offices worldwide. Consulted on the temporary works of numerous major construction contracts in the Middle East, Pakistan, Africa, the West Indies, the Far East, China, and, of course, Europe.
- 1969 - 1973: A.E. Farr Limited (Contractor). M3 Motorway near London on structures as junior engineer, and then promoted to the major Sunbury Cross section as site agent on the RC bridges section involving extensive temporary works.
- 1966 - 1969: Ove Arup and Partners, London (Consultants) - RC design engineer on the Barbican Redevelopment Scheme in the City of London.
- 1963 - 1966: Graduated in July 1966 from Loughborough University with BSc in Civil Engineering - Second Class Honours - upper division.
Schooling
- Educated at Churcher's College, Petersfield and at King's College, Taunton, Somerset. GCE 'A' level six passes, GCE 'O' level ten passes.
Other Technical Interests
- BSI and CEN Standards: founder member of the BSI code drafting committee for falsework (BS 5975) and remains active in the preparation of the new European performance standard for falsework (prEN 12812).
- ICE: Elected a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1993, and became a European Engineer (Eur. Ing.) in May 1990.
- Concrete Society. Since 1995, chairman of the Society's Construction Group, and also a past chairman of the West Midlands Regional Committee. Elected a Fellow of the Concrete Society in 1993.
- Formwork. From 1982 chaired the Concrete Society committee that prepared the best selling document “Formwork - a guide to good practice”, Ref: CS 030, first published in 1985, and he was also responsible for the second edition published in June 1995. For this work, Peter was awarded the Society's Outstanding Services Award in 1987.
- Scaffolding. Co-author with Dr. Mike Godley on NASC Guide to good practice for scaffolding with tubes and fittings Ref TG20:05 written as replacement to BS 5973. Published by NASC in January 2005.
- Peter also convened the working party on “Trough and Waffle Floors” published as Concrete Society TR42 in May 1992.
- He was the main author of the “Guide to Flat Slab Formwork and Falsework”, written for CONSTRUCT and published in May 2003.
- He was convenor of the joint Concrete Society/CIRIA working party on the document C558 “The use of permanent formwork in construction”.
- He was the main author of the HSE Research Project “Investigation into stability aspects of Falsework”, completed for The University of Birmingham in November 2001.
