1. Dr. Norman Lawgun:

   Dr Lawgun has twenty years experience in water hammer and hydraulic analysis of pumps and pipelines, and has been engaged by most major consulting firms in New Zealand, Phillipines, Australia & Kenya, to name a few. The projects which he has worked on include pumping operations in single pipelines and complex networks, hydro-electric turbine operations and pumping applications in geothermal fields all over the world. In addition to these he has also participated in educational projects such as Water Hammer Workshops to consulting engineers in 1984 and 2000 and carried out specialised water hammer training programs to consulting companies.

   Dr Lawgun also has extensive experience in software development. He has developed a Windows computer program, HYTRAN (HYdraulic TRANsients), to analyse water hammer in pipelines involving pump and turbine installations with an intuitive graphical interface to set up simulation models.

2. Senior Hydraulic Eng O.Seifeddine:

   Engineer Seifeddine has more than 20 years of extensive technical & commercial experience in the field of piping systems and related components besides a good knowledge and overview of the water supply market in the Middle East

   Engineer Seifeddine was a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering in University of Beirut where he has lectured Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulic Engineering.

   Since 2001 he has been assisting in developing and testing algorithms for the Hytran Water Hammer Package .In 2002, the regional engineering office was formed to provide specialized water hammer consulting services to Civil Engineering contractors & Consulting companies in Lebanon and neighboring countries in the Middle East .