Jim has been involved with cathodic protection (CP) and structural repair of steel in concrete structures since 1991, starting with Tarmac Construction and their Tarmac Global specialist CP division. This became Corrosion Control Services Ltd where Jim progressed to Director and General Manager. Since 2007 he has been an owner and Managing Director of Corrosion Prevention Ltd. In addition to steel in concrete CP, Jim is an expert in CP for ports and harbours, using both galvanic anodes and impressed current systems. He has also worked in the performance assessment of buried pipelines, including the use of DCVG and CIPS techniques.
He has applied this broad knowledge of CP to the Institute of Corrosion’s Training and Competence assessment of CP personnel. He was also one of the early recipients of the Chartered Engineer award through ICorr, and his application was also the subject of an award for the best in its year from the Certification Body.
Jim has been an active and extremely valuable member of ICorr and the Cathodic Protection Governing Board (CPGB) for many years. Jim was the CPGB Chair for some years and he oversaw the considerable task of the revision of all of the ICorr CP Training Courses in accordance with BS EN ISO 15257. He has passed this responsibility on to Chris Spence.
Jim decided after many years of great service to CPGB that he needed to step back from the committee due to his other commitments.
Jim brought his wealth of knowledge and a was a calming influence to us all at CPGB and on behalf of us I would like to say thank you. His clarity of thought, attention to detail and ability to sort the priorities from those issues of lesser importance have been fundamental in the success of CPGB’s work.
His colleagues also found him to be a calming influence, with far too much common sense for an engineer. He will be missed.
I think that it goes without saying, that on behalf of us all at CPGB, we would like to offer thanks to the time, dedication, and effort, that Jim has put in to ICorr.
Bill Hedges, President of ICorr, and Chris Spence, chair of CPGB.
