Rowland Lamb is a licensed Skilled Engineer and President of ColoneyBell, Tallahassee’s oldest forensic consulting agency. Rowland was born in Valley, Alabama, raised in East Level, Georgia, and graduated from Auburn College in 1983 with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering. He’s proud to say that Tallahassee has been his dwelling since 1990.
After 16 years with the Florida Division of Transportation the place Rowland started his profession, he determined it was time for a change. Rowland met John Bell by happenstance shortly after leaving the FDOT. At the moment, John had owned ColoneyBell for a couple of years and was on the lookout for a seasoned engineer to return on board and assist him develop the enterprise. After a bike journey throughout the nation along with his son, Rowland joined ColoneyBell full-time and can inform anybody that it has been top-of-the-line selections he has ever made.
As a forensic consulting agency, ColoneyBell offers assist to the jurisprudence system. Rowland states that he “likes to have a look at our job as one in all an investigator, then as an educator. When one thing goes fallacious, we examine it and analyze the proof to find out why. After that, we educate our consumer on our findings. We steadily are referred to as upon to teach the opposing facet if the matter has progressed to litigation. If a settlement can’t be reached between the events and the matter goes to trial, it’s our job to teach the decide and jury.”
ColoneyBell has a broad and various workers that gives session on issues involving vehicular accidents, constructing building, roadway design and building, fires and explosions, flooding, and different system failures. Rowland’s case load primarily entails roadway design and building issues in addition to vehicular accident reconstruction.
Rowland considers himself very lucky to have mentored beneath Wayne H. Coloney, founding father of ColoneyBell, for 14 years earlier than Wayne retired. After 18 years of working facet-by-facet with John and Kathy Bell, John requested Rowland to imagine the position and tasks of President of ColoneyBell in 2018. Rowland will readily admit that he depends closely on the enter of his companions, John and Kathy. “Between the three of us, we now have about 65 years of expertise on this slightly odd and fascinating subject the place authorized and engineering minds come collectively…or collide…relying on the scenario. As engineers we’re not advocates for our purchasers or their case, however we’re advocates for the details and the reality. Now we have a repute for telling our purchasers what they should know, which isn’t essentially what they wish to know. That lesson, realized way back from Wayne, is the important thing to our longevity on this subject.”
ColoneyBell has developed and grown over time, and Rowland is worked up for the long run. “I look ahead to the subsequent era escorting me out the door…so long as they carry ahead the values and rules that Wayne instilled in us and that we’ll proceed instilling in them.”
