Mike Hession
Mike set up E Tech Learning Limited in 2018. The company specialises in the development and delivery of online technical training courses for waste to energy process operators and related functions.
The company’s courses aim to improve operational performance, efficiency, environmental compliance, and provide accessible, accredited learning for operators, engineers, managers, consultants and investors alike.
Training Provider
e-tech learning limited
United Kingdom
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Fluency:
English
Thematic field of expertise:
Policy Tax Instruments, Sustainability, Climate, Resource management, Methods, Analyses, Data, Awareness - Training
Geographical field of expertise:
United Kingdom
Detailed description of working activity
Over forty years experience within engineering plant and process engineering environments. For over thirty years he has specialised in waste management and treatment technology based projects. He has completed numerous reviews of designs for various waste treatment technologies particularly thermal, and related energy recovery and utilisation systems such as CHP and district heating (DH). He has a thorough understanding of waste operational requirements and issues. He has been responsible as Project Manager and Project Director, on numerous projects, for the preparation of technical engineering plant and services specifications and contract documentation, co-ordination of process and M&E designs, on site supervision of process installation and commissioning including process performance testing on a wide range of waste handling, treatment and pollution control processes. He has project managed a number of £multi-million capital projects from
inception through to commissioning including the first incineration and waste management facility to be designed and constructed in the UK to satisfy the, then incoming, EC Directive on the incineration of hazardous wastes, Council Directive 94/67/EC.
Current activity
Managing Director e-tech
Former activities
From 1979 to 1989 he worked in various engineering posts for the South West Regional Health Authority based initially in Cornwall and then Bristol. During this time he developed his expertise in clinical waste incineration and advising various district authorities on the implications of the impending Environmental Protection Act and reviewing the performance and compliance of numerous existing incineration and centralised boiler facilities.
In October 1989 Mike joined MRM Partnership (later Kennedy & Donkin then Parsons Brinkerhoff) as a consultant engineer specialising in incineration and energy from waste.
in 1998 he started his own successful engineering consultancy specialising in all aspects of waste treatment technologies.As Managing Director of Waste Management Engineering Limited Mike developed his first (classroom based) eight module training package specifically for incineration and waste to energy operators, supervisors and managers which was accredited through the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM).
Education
BEng (Mech Eng) 1991
University of the West of England, Bristol
Chartered Engineer (CEng)
Memberships
Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE)
Member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (MCIBSE)
Member of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (MCIWM)