Stewart King - Energy Consultant

Graduate in Applied Biology (2.1Hons from Hatfield Polytechnic) - included a year's industrial training working with the Thames Water Authority in Little Marlow (Buckinghamshire) monitoring potable water supplies for microbiological and chemical standards - very interesting - can always say I worked on a sewage farm!  Glamorous past.  

Moved to Aberdeen in 1983 to work as a Marine Biologist for Aberdeen University (AUMS / AURIS Ltd) advising the offshore oil industry on environmental impact and marine growth issues on offshore installations.  Appointed Offshore Representative for AUMS on the Hutton TLP float-out - for which I obtained my Offshore Survival Certificate from RGIT.  Also carried out Benthic Monitoring along the North/North East coast of Scotland to assess oil impact on native flora and fauna.

Sold out to industry - taken on by Cebo UK Ltd to run their cementitious fluids laboratory in Aberdeen.  Obtained post grad qualification in the "rheology of cementitious fluids" - riveting stuff  - from Oxford University.

Sick to death of labs I was promoted to the subsea grouting department and after a year or so became Divisional Manager.  Developed the use of Cegrass - artificial seaweed (yes honestly - great chat up line in there somewhere) for the prevention of erosion around subsea structures worldwide - including, interestingly, a shipwreck offshore Australia. 

Taken on by Cebo International to develop landfill capping and lining using natural clay products covering Scotland & Ireland until made I was made redundant (along with many of my colleagues - where are you all now I wonder?) in late 1990.

Early 1991 - established Stewart King Environmental Engineers (couldn't think of a catchier name) - consultancy practice selling energy efficiency advice and equipment.  From those early days at the coal face selling actual working energy efficiency products I built up both a client base and also a portfolio of buildings and processes that I understood and could help improve.  Clients began to ask me to look at more than just the systems I was there to improve and of course I was chatting to engineers, electricians, architects - experts who were only too glad to pass on their knowledge.  Over the years I dropped the products and moved onto pure advisory services and was commissioned to provide some energy audits to some of the oil service companies in Aberdeen and also - importantly - Moray Council.  One of my earliest contracts was to survey and make recommendations on heating and lighting in Forres Academy and these early reports were sent to what was then the Institute of Energy.  They liked my work, granted me membership and hey presto my career was set - Moray provided me with several more jobs and when the results started to roll in - bills slashed and working environments improved - the word started to spread.

I then registered with the EMAS programme, then later Action Energy and now the Carbon Trust providing government funded energy services, as well as privately commissioned work for those clients who want my services direct and immediate.  Over the years I have picked up many skills - some by simple osmosis, others through industry training, others still through Carbon Trust training - all of which combines to make me a useful tool for industry and commerce.  I have specialist skills in lighting to the point where I can provide a complete lighting design service (including procurement and installation through my industry contacts) and I also provide heating design services (again from first principles, through specification, procurement and commissioning). 

I see myself as a holistic Energy Consultant - that is one who will not only tell you what is wrong with your building or process but also provide you with a viable, cost effective solution and put my name against it so you know that I am confident of my recommendations.    This is Stewart King Environmental Engineers Ltd and I am in business to save you money!