Investigation, repair and conservation of iron framed warehouses

Anthony Clarke

Anthony is a chartered structural engineer and a conservation accredited engineer. He worked for 39 years at Curtins until 2018, then as an independent consultant until earlier this year when he retired. His involvement at the Albert Docks started in 1982 as a member of a team undertaking a detailed assessment of the derelict warehouses and continued through the development period and beyond. In total, Anthony has 30+ years of experience working on these buildings. Anthony was also involved in appraising many other warehouses in the Lancashire, Yorkshire and Merseyside area.

Since going into semi-retirement, he continues his private research on Victorian dock construction methods. 

Ethan Conlin

Ethan is a chartered structural engineer with over 10 years’ experience in the cultural, education, commercial, residential, rail and aviation sectors. Having spent the first half of his career working in London and Australia he returned to the UK in 2018 to begin work at Buro Happold’s Manchester office. Since then, he has worked on a series of reuse projects focused largely in the cultural sector, including Grade I-II listed museums and more recently, educational spaces. Working on the Tate refurbishment project since 2022 has broadened Ethan’s understanding of historical structural forms.