Meet our Experts: Rob Law, Head of Temporary Works.
Engineering and Temporary Works: What’s the key to success.
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Hello, my name is Rob Law, I’m the head of Temporary Works for Conquip.

I’m responsible for overseeing the design and technical delivery of our temporary work schemes. I ensure we have sufficient procedures in place with regard to the safety and quality of our work.

I work on developing new design tools and processes and prepare us for the next range of temporary works equipment that Conquip roll out. I’m also responsible for developing our technical literature and working on new equipment.

My experiences before joining Conquip are all Temporary Works related to the design, building and management of temporary works. I’ve covered a bit of everything there is, materials, locations applications of temporary works. Most of that has been spent in a design office as a design engineer. I’ve also spent time out on site, actually building things.

My experiences allow me to bring together the theoretical and the practical aspects of engineering. I incorporate my focus on quality-driven safety and design processes with the practical application of getting things built, and then scale that and the work we do to make it as efficient as possible.

I always wanted to be involved with our built environment, that’s why I went into civil engineering. It’s a broad topic with many different avenues you can go down, different opportunities and different career paths.

I was fortunate enough to be exposed to Temporary Works quite early on through being sponsored by a main contractor while studying. The work I was involved in and the people I met there inspired me to be more like them, and every week was a different challenge; every problem was different.

Not every problem has a textbook answer; you have to figure things out for yourselves.

I guess for me one of the best things about working for Conquip is being involved not only in the design and start to finish, but delivering those designs from start to finish, right from concept and preconstruction to developing equipment, for those getting them built in the fabrication yard, getting them delivered to the site, getting them in and out and refurbished again.

It’s a full life cycle process.