Company Profile

ROWAN HOUSE Ltd. is an independent consultancy established in 1990 that has expertise in process plant design, control and safety, providing a national UK service.

Our technical staff are graduate engineers with operations and consulting experience. All are members of IChemE subject groups and are committed to the Institution's professional development programme.

Rowan House Ltd. maintains an association with a select number of independent consultants. These are individuals whose leadership, expertise and experience is widely recognised in their respective disciplines.

This means that you receive advice and support that can be relied upon to be practical and cost effective.

Rowan House Ltd. was recognised as Investor in People in May 2001.

Rowan House is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

All Rowan House Staff have Safety Passports under the UK's national Safety Passport Scheme.

Rowan House won a Commitment to Innovation award in 2000 from the Welsh Development Agency for its HAZ1508 combined HAZOP and BS EN 61508 SIL assessment software.

In addition to our business programme ROWAN HOUSE Ltd. believes that responsible companies have a duty to the community. To this end we support the following:

Christian Lewis Trust - caring for children with cancer

MCH Group

Rowan House is a member of the MCH Group.

Meet the People

Clive de Salis

Ian R Hitchen

Malcolm Leach

Andy Procter

Industry Experience

Over the years Rowan House has gained experience in a wide number of industry sectors which include :

• Oil/Chemicals/Petrochemicals
• Water
• Waste
• Pharmaceuticals
• Paper/Wood/MDF
• Food
• Steel
• Gases
• Power Generation/CHP

International Global Experience and Capabilities

Rowan House has extensive overseas experience and has, in recent years, worked in the following countries:

• China
• Venezuela
• Kuwait
• Canada
• United Arab Emirates
• Sweden
• Norway

In addition, we supported some of our clients as sub-contractors or consultants in other countries such Azerbaijan.

History of Rowan House

Rowan House Ltd was founded in December 1989 by Alex Kulbicki near Newport, South Wales, providing process engineering support to the local chemical and process industries in South Wales and Avonmouth.

In 1993 Rowan House set up its Head Office in Monmouth, South Wales. The company had grown with a strong emphasis on process engineering and process design. In the years that followed Rowan House provided support for process control and in 1997 established its link with Bristol Babcock Sweden AB, now known as MCH Konsulting AB. This gave Rowan House Ltd access to the well established Abacus control system, a control system developed and proven over the years since its first installation in 1971.

In 1999 a Birmingham office was established to facilitate support throughout the UK and abroad and to take advantage of the excellent transport connections in the Midlands.

Also in 1999 Rowan House Environmental Ltd was formed under the Environmental Trust Regulations in the UK.

In 2001 Rowan House developed the award winning HAZ1508 safety software for HAZOP studies that can catalogue and record the non-safety critical loops and identify potential SIL ratings thereby enabling the user to optimise the other layers of protection and minimise their use of expensive SIL rated safety loops.

In 2002 Rowan House joined the 61508 Association amongst the group of founding members.

Also in 2002 both MCH Konsulting and Rowan House Ltd became members of the MCH group and enlarged their cooperation.

In 2003 Alex Kulbicki took Rowan House Environmental Ltd, left Rowan House Ltd, and formed a new company, Brown Field Remediation Ltd, to specialise in process waste treatment.

Also in 2003 an office was opened in Ellesmere Port to enable better connections with North Wales and the North West by providing local support for our growing business.

In 2005 a new office was opened in Birmingham with better facilities and easy access to the UK's motorway network.

In 2006 the Head Office was moved from Monmouth to South Cornelly near Bridgend in South Wales.

Today Rowan House Ltd remains one of the UK's leading consultancies for the process industries.