17th June 2004, 02:18 AM
Sorry for the tardy response, I am bogged down in CVs - all these things are possible but it is a question of demarcation. The engineer does engineering and designing the foundations, the hydrologist deals with flooding the PR chap/chapess writes the press releases but they are actually qualified and insured to do these things.
If you are doing work for another professional - saving them time - when they are on a fixed fee of course they are going to be grateful - you have absorbed the work and the liabilities. My cynical advice is stick to what you know and do not oversell archaeology being able to do other things.
Dr Peter Wardle
(Who with the help of my documentary researcher have shown we own a wall since 1626 because we paid for the repairs until a building was constructed on the exact line, via map regression analysis. The party wall surveyor has of course to verify the documents in medieval latin and the accuracy of the map regression analysis .......)