Consultant
of the Year
WINNER: Business Edge
FOLLOWING a career
embracing a diverse range of
disciplines across the
refrigeration and air
conditioning industry, Mike
Creamer of Business Edge has
emerged as one of the leading
consultants and technical
experts of his generation.
In his roles as consultant,
trouble-shooter, expert
witness, trainer, design guru
and author, his
multidisciplinary abilities and
authoritative opinion are
sought equally by global player
and specialist firms in the UK
and, increasingly,
internationally.
In his role as consultant,
Mike Creamer has been key
technical expert witness in a
number of successful multi-
million pound legal cases and
overseen the diagnosis and
rectification of major plant
failure and malfunction, that
Mike Creamer, a hands-on consultant
have defeated other industry
experts. performance in data rooms of chiller failure and the and a former distributor
a major financial institution, complete replacement of the involving claims of money
Recent key activities based in London. original machinery with two owed and counter claims of
Recent projects have included new, large water chillers. alleged warranty claims.
troubleshooting of specialist Legal and arbitration work Mike Creamer was also Mike is currently working as
refrigeration systems, VRV Business Edge also operates in employed as an independent a consultant on a project to
installations, water chiller the field of legal and expert in a case between utilise substantial quantities of
installations and scientific arbitration work, which landlord and tenant over waste heat energy in order to
refrigeration circuits; requires authoritative advice whether to replace three generate useful electricity.
decommissioning of critical and liaison between parties in ageing chillers or to continue The development employs
installations, in particular, a technical/commercial dispute with the repair and the marriage of several
very large ammonia plant and situations. maintenance programme. existing technologies with
an exceptionally large In recent months, Mike Mike was also called in as a new developments in
R11/R22-based environmental Creamer has been appointed technical expert in a legal refrigeration.
test facility; and determination as an expert witness in a dispute between an air Business Edge
of close control machinery dispute involving a serious conditioning manufacturer 023 9223 0007
FINALIST
consulting engineer to specialise combined heat and power facility. The
MBA Consulting Engineers exclusively in refrigeration applications. refrigeration installation has screw
The company has twice previously been compressors using R717 (ammonia) as
MBA Consulting Engineers this year named as Consultant of the Year in the the refrigerant. Absorption refrigeration
celebrates 25 years of providing ACR News Awards. chillers were also used with their
refrigeration engineering consultancy to In 2008, MBA was responsible for the generation of source being heat rejection
a wide number of clients in a number of refrigeration and m&e services at The from the combined heat and power
countries. Pineham Distribution Centre for facility. The chill distribution facility has
Throughout these 25 years, MBA has Sainsbury’s. Having responsibility for all 215,000m
3
capacity.
dealt exclusively with refrigeration and the m&e services permitted the MBA Consulting Engineers
cold storage and claims to be the first consideration and then installation of a 01908 320099
Category sponsored by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
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