EXPERIENCE

George Spires is the President of Advanced Corrosion Engineering. His responsibilities include testimony as an expert witness, coating and lining failure analysis, and establishing technical and process (procedural) requirements for industrial facilities and the broad array of public and private power sector customers. In 1990, Mr. Spires founded Advanced Corrosion Engineering, Inc. (ACE). Prior to this, he worked as a Senior Consultant for KTA, as a Materials Engineering Consultant for Brown & Root, Inc. Houston, and as the Corporate Coatings Specialist for Stone & Webster, Engineering Corp. in Boston.

His more than 25 years in professional engineering covers a wide variety of heavy industrial projects and, most notably, specifications and field quality surveillance related to structures and systems exposed to immersion and corrosive environments.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Registered Professional Engineer in Texas, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Florida. He is a member of:

American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM)

Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC)

NACE International (NACE)

Mr. Spires is also registered by the National Board for Safety Related Coatings Engineers and Specialists (NCE 143).

Mr. Spires is a recognized authority in the area of power plant protective coatings. He participated in the committees that drafted ANSI Standards N101.2 and N101.4, the original nuclear coatings design guidance. Retained by EPRI to coordinate its Coatings Research Workshop held in March 1986, he recently served on EPRI's Plant Support Engineering Task Group, as principal author of the "Guideline on Nuclear Safety-Related Coatings," published in 1998 (EPRI TR-109937). The guideline was expressly prepared for the purpose of assisting nuclear utilities' response to NRC Generic Letter 98-04 concerning safety-related coatings and containment paint debris transport and sump/Safety Injection screen clogging issues.

Mr. Spires is a Contributing Editor for the Journal of Protective Coatings and Linings. In addition to his numerous articles in the JPCL, he has had articles published in NACE's Materials Performance and has presented papers and spoken at a diverse array of conferences and symposia.

Mr. Spires more recent assignments include:

• Served as a consulting engineer to Northeast Utilities Millstone Station for over two years. His primary responsibility was to provide technical direction required to resolve restart issues with respect to Service Water system linings and containment coatings.

• Established specifications and provided on-site technical coordination for the following plants' circulating and service water system lining projects:

Crystal River Unit #3 - Florida Power Corporation

Ewa Beach Waste Facility - Honolulu Resource Recovery Venture

Susquehanna Units 1 & 2 - Pennsylvania Power & Light

• Created the Coatings Program for the Lower Colorado River Authority's Fayette Station and Hydro Facilities in his role as Continuing Consulting Services Contractor and for Potomac Electric and Texas Municipal Power Agency's fossil plants.

• Prepared maintenance specifications and participated in field engineering coordination for FGD system lining repair at Potomac Electric's Dickerson Station and Utah Power & Light Hunter Station.

• Developed a data management program based on a plant coating condition survey, which yields prioritized annual maintenance painting budgets. Managed such projects for fossil and petrochemical facilities.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute - 1964