Texcel Expert Services was developed by Rob Heywood and Sean Brady in response to an industry need for a high quality engineering practice with the appropriate expertise and approach to investigate and resolve challenging structural issues. The practice provides expert forensic and investigative structural engineering services to the public, private, and legal sectors.

Sean has over 10 years experience in the structural engineering profession, including 5 years of engineering research at University College Dublin in Ireland, before joining Texcel and overseeing the development of Texcel Expert Services.

In his role as manager of Texcel Expert Services, he has undertaken investigations on a broad range of structures for clients such as Queensland Alumina Limited, Bechtel, and the Roads & Traffic Authority of New South Wales.

He is respected as a clear thinking engineer, with the capacity to confront and resolve tough technical issues within the context of the client's commercial constraints.

Rob has over 30 years experience in the engineering industry, including many years as a consultant in the design of civil, industrial, and commercial structures. In addition to an academic career as a Senior Lecturer in Queensland University of Technology, he has made a significant contribution to the engineering community, including participating in the preparation of codes of practice and publishing widely. He is currently the Queensland representative of Engineers Australia’s Structural College.

With Texcel, Rob’s consulting and research interests merged to provide a service to explain and reconcile the disparity between conventional engineering theory and the behaviour of structures in practice.

Through his passion for structures, Rob applies his technical expertise in an independent, creative, and comprehensive manner to resolve structural issues for clients such as Rio Tinto Alcan, Bechtel, Port of Brisbane Corporation, and the Queensland Department of Main Roads.