International Work

Tim Cousins and Associates Pty Ltd is an Engineering Systems Failure Analysis and Disaster Recovery Consulting Company. Our work is principally divided into three different but complimentary streams. 

• The first stream, Engineering Systems Failure Analysis, involves technical investigations into the cause of failures within Engineering Systems principally involving electrical, electronic and computer systems. Some of these failures develop into fires.
  

• The second stream involves the Recovery of Organizations following an incident, crisis or disaster: establishing the resultant nature and extent of damage, and providing consulting assistance with the management of repairs and recoveries.
  

• The third and latest stream, Risk Management for Medical Research, is a specialty service using our failure analysis and disaster recovery experience as a practical base. 

We work with specialist engineers and chemists over a wide range of failed, failing or damaged engineering systems primarily involving electrical, electronic and computer equipment. The type of systems typically extend from simple computer systems through process control systems to robotics, telecommunications systems, data centres and power stations.  

We have recently come to realise that...

Climate Change through Global Warming is an Engineering Disaster that is so profound that all other Engineering Disasters pale in comparison.

The word's roots imply that a Disaster occurs when one is set apart (dis-) from one's guiding star (astro).  The Latin pejorative dis and astro, star (L. astrum), creating the Italian disastro, which came in to the English language in the 16th century (OED 1590) through the French desastre. In this we see a future that is unknown, unknowable and without guidance from the stars will lead to an increase in the entropy of the system (disorder and chaos).