Pinch and process design, plant digital twins, and environment programmes for refineries, chemical plants, and the governments and banks that fund them.
Economics and ecology are profoundly interconnected. Economic systems depend on ecosystems for resources, energy, and the absorption of waste and pollutants. In turn, ecological sustainability is shaped by economic choices, government policies, and market forces that influence how we extract, manage and dispose of natural resources.
Ecoworks Associates exists to engage meaningfully, constructively and positively in this vital space of interdependence.
To empower individuals and institutions to pursue growth that is both economically viable and ecologically responsible.
By cultivating deeper awareness, we aim to spark conscious, balanced choices toward sustainable ways of living, working and relating to the world around us.
Empowering individuals with the knowledge, abilities and skills to realise the value of sustainable action. Helping teams work collectively on sustainable solutions, and changing the ethos of organisations so that every individual adopts being sustainable as a core value.
Incorporating sustainable principles in thought, word, behaviour and action at all levels. Including being sustainable in every aspect of the design, implementation and operation of projects and programmes.
Injecting sustainable thinking into government policy at global, national, state, regional and local levels, and urging firms and organisations to adopt policies that set the direction for all of their work.
Pinch analysis, feasibility, conceptual design, simulation and process safety. The front end of a process project, from a sketch to a package that survives a safety review.
What we take on →Digital twins, predictive maintenance and roadmap discovery. We start from the decisions that are expensive to get wrong, then work back to the data behind them.
What we take on →Policy drafting, delivery, monitoring and training on environment and climate programmes, run across three continents.
What we take on →Process engineering, environment and climate, strategy, and digital — each held by a named principal rather than listed on a capability slide. When a project crosses two of them, the two people talk to each other directly.
Ecoworks was registered in 2018. The work behind it is considerably older: twenty-five years of climate advisory across three continents, more than two decades of that with the World Bank, and a peer-reviewed paper on process integration published in 2000.
Advanced Process Integration Limited, built around the Centre for Process Integration at the University of Manchester, where pinch analysis was developed. Heat integration work that needs more depth than four people can supply goes to them.
Fixed price where scope, outcome and success metrics are settled at the outset. Managed co-development where they are not, because a number invented at that stage only gets renegotiated later. Sustainability work runs turnkey or by phase.
Nine engagement types across South Asia, East Asia and Africa, commissioned by governments, multilateral banks and industry. A standing practice with its own clients, not a values statement appended to an engineering firm.
Founder & Managing Partner
Environment, sustainability & climate
APIL is our strategic partner in the UK, built around the Centre for Process Integration at the University of Manchester — the department where pinch analysis was developed. We bring them in on heat integration and utility system work that needs depth beyond our own bench.
Directs the Centre for Process Integration at the University of Manchester and wrote Chemical Process Design and Integration (Wiley). Over forty years of industrial consultation. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the IChemE, which awarded him its Hanson Medal in 1992.
Thirty-five years in refinery optimisation, hydrogen management, process modelling and utility systems, including industrial research for major international oil and gas companies. Ph.D. from the Centre for Process Integration at UMIST, now the University of Manchester.
