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After he graduated, Chris completed a doctoral research project on the isotope and trace element chemistries of precious- and base-metal mineral deposits in the Rocky Mountains. Following a brief spell contributing to a variety of research projects at the NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratory he joined the British Antarctic Survey and headed for the mountains of Antarctica, where he continued his research using isotopes and trace elements.<\/p>

Chris published many scientific papers before leaving academia in 1998 to join Hawkins at our Cambridge office, after which he opened the Glasgow office in 2008 and the Dubai office in 2014. During this time he has investigated 1200 incidents in Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.<\/p>

His investigations include fires, dust and vapour explosions, electrical and mechanical failures, product defects, personal injuries\/fatalities, and post-incident contamination assessments; the incidents have occurred in many environments such as refineries, power plants, retail, manufacturing, construction, agriculture, mining, warehouses, hotels, hospitals, dwellings and ships\/aircraft\/trains\/automotive. The root causes he regularly encounters involve systems\u2019 failures and process faults, equipment and materials\u2019 failures of all types and \u2018human intervention\u2019 (e.g. fraud, \u2018poor practices\u2019 and breaches of Regulations such as DSEAR).<\/p>

Chris has extensive experience in the litigation process and with providing technical advice to Hawkins\u2019 clients; he has prepared many reports for use in legal proceedings and has presented expert evidence in Court on a number of occasions.<\/p>

Chris is a Principal Associate and is the Middle East Director based in our Dubai office.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Chris is fluent in English<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After he graduated, Chris completed a doctoral research project on the isotope and trace element chemistries of precious- and base-metal mineral deposits in the Rocky Mountains. Following a brief spell contributing to a variety of research projects at the NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratory he joined the British Antarctic Survey and headed for the mountains of Antarctica, where he continued his research using isotopes and trace elements. Chris published many scientific papers before leaving academia in 1998 to join Hawkins at our Cambridge office, after which he opened the Glasgow office in 2008 and the Dubai office in 2014. During this time he has investigated 1200 incidents in Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. His investigations include fires, dust and vapour explosions, electrical and mechanical failures, product defects, personal injuries\/fatalities, and post-incident contamination assessments; the incidents have occurred in many environments such as refineries, power plants, retail, manufacturing, construction, agriculture, mining, warehouses, hotels, hospitals, dwellings and ships\/aircraft\/trains\/automotive. The root causes he regularly encounters involve systems\u2019 failures and process faults, equipment and materials\u2019 failures of all types and \u2018human intervention\u2019 (e.g. fraud, \u2018poor practices\u2019 and breaches of Regulations such as DSEAR). Chris has extensive experience in the litigation process […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6396,"parent":0,"template":"","service":[],"location":[37],"management":[95],"experties":[66,67,68],"region":[80],"class_list":["post-8222","leadership","type-leadership","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-dubai","management-regional-director","experties-fire-explosions","experties-marine","experties-materials-chemistry-biology","region-international"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nChris Wareham | Electrical & Fire Investigation Expert | Hawkins & Associates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chris Wareham investigates electrical faults and fire-related incidents.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/our-experts\/chris-wareham\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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