Institute of Demolition Engineers

Dr Phil Bust  PhD MSc., BSc M.IEHF

Phil is a Registered Ergonomist and senior researcher at Loughborough University in the area of health and safety in construction. Before becoming involved in research he worked for over 25 years for consultants, contractors, local authorities and architectural practices in various countries. He also has consultancy experience working in the manufacturing industry on manual handling training, workstation design and the development of tools to assess ergonomics factors of work tasks.

His research has included a role as the London 2012, Learning Legacy Health and Safety Rapporteur; projects investigating duty holders’ management of asbestos, health, safety and welfare of migrant construction workers in the UK, construction health and safety in developing countries and the manual handling of concrete construction materials. He has more than 40 publications in the area of construction health and safety. Phil is currently a member of the UK HSE working group on health surveillance and exposure monitoring for paving, road and highways work. He was also the programme secretary for the Ergonomics Society and editor of Contemporary Ergonomics between 2005 and 2009.

James Styles and Warren Mitty are students at Loughborough University studying Construction Engineering Management.  Matt Smith is also at Loughborough studying Civil Engineering

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After graduating from Nottingham with a civil engineering degree, Mark worked for three years in Australia and New Zealand during the late 90's. He used this period to learn and specialise in engineering 3D CAD systems while working for consulting engineering companies (including New Zealand's largest).

In 2000 Mark headed to London and over the next five years spent time in major consulting engineering companies such as Ove Arup, WSP Group, and Bechtel. Here he continued to build his expertise in 3D.

The next couple of years was spent with Laing O'Rourke on site during the construction of Heathrow Terminal 5. As part of a 15-strong modelling team, Mark was tasked with creating reinforced concrete structures and associated works using software normally used in automobile design. The 'experiment' was considered a world-first and gave a unique insight of how manufacturing 3D can be applied to construction.

Seeing a potential gap in the market for a specialist supplier of project visualisation to building, civil engineering, and demolition companies, Mark set up Marsotti in 2007. After an initial three years of intense development based on an engineering 'backbone', Marsotti has to date completed well over 100 projects for a range of clients including Kier, Morgan Sindall, Bowmer & Kirkland, Erith, Squibb, and EDS. Now a solid demand has been established, Mark's focus is on expanding the business.

In 2009, the company's base was moved from London to just outside Sheffield (Mark's hometown) in North-East Derbyshire.

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