Our Team
Our Team
Atech Projects Limited was established in April 2019, primarily as an engineering consultancy but also covering much more. Atech started life as a team of two highly qualified and experienced engineers - Mark Fairhurst and Steve Roylance. The company has partnerships with several other trusted and respected consultants in the electrical and civils industries, where additional resources and specialist skills can be drawn upon.
Mark is a mechanical engineer and an electrical engineer with 15 years experience. He began his career at Kodak, project managing the design and installation of raw material feed systems into the main film production process. He then moved to National Grid to work with high pressure (80bar) gas pipelines, designing and installing instrumentation systems and configuring scada software upgrades, along with cathodic protection installations. After that he became a "Development Engineer" where he led the pre-construction phase of high voltage electrical projects including overhead line and cable upgrades, alterations and new build across the 400kV and 275kV network, ensuring compliance with company procedures and technical specifications, the ultimate goal being the creation of robust construction contracts for complex national infrastructure works. He carried out technical feasibility work with regular use of design/clearance software, cable design calculations and point cloud data acquisition/processing.More recently Mark's role was as the overall engineering lead for the National Grid North Wales Nuclear Connection. This was a project to connect a 2.94 gigawatt nuclear generator to the UK’s high voltage transmission network. Mark made the design decisions for a proposed new 30km double circuit overhead line across Anglesey and a new 4km long, 80m deep cable tunnel beneath the Menai Strait, for which he co-designed all technical aspects. He is experienced in applying the requirements of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 to the development of projects in order to make suitable and defendable design decisions, adhering to all required legislation using his IOSH and NEBOSH qualifications. Mark is a project manager, technical expert and design lead, taking responsibility for key deliverables measured against safety, programme, cost and quality, for nationally important infrastructure projects.
Steve is a chartered civil engineer. He has worked all over the world, from the United Arab Emirates to Milan to the four corners of the UK. He has over 30 years experience in civil and electrical engineering. He started his career working for the Emirates Royal Family Commission, where his role was leading a team of multi-national engineers and contractors designing and constructing launch pads for F1 power boats, rebuilding high security helicopter bunkers, reclaiming land and major earthworks, oil pipeline installation, new dual carriageway roads and a bespoke architectural entrance canopy to Abu Dhabi Airport. He then went on to work on Bechtel's flagship tunnelling contract building a waste water transfer scheme comprising tunnel boring, deep shafts, civil works, mechanical and electrical fit out. After that he project managed a £730m extension of the light rail system from Manchester city centre to Manchester Airport. More recently he has worked on National Grid transmission projects where he led a client-side construction team to upgrade the 44km Chesterfield – High Marnham 275kV double circuit to 400kV, he undertook civil engineering pre-construction assessments and planning of 22km of double circuit underground transmission circuits through Mid Wales, and successfully took on the role of lead reviewer and engineer for National Grid's Major Infrastructure Development department, signing off civil engineering to make a transmission connection between a Nuclear Power generation on Anglesey, across particularly challenging constraints such as the Menai Strait, to a connection point on mainland Wales.
