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| Mohamed Khorshid - Director |
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| BSc, MSc, PhD, FIEAust, CPEng |
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| Graduate of Ain Shams and London Universities, with more than twenty five years experience in construction (TENCO, Brazil), research (CSIRO), consulting (Infusion Solutions, Saudi Arabia, Soil Surveys) and the offshore industry (Woodside Offshore Petroleum); general geotechnical experience includes underground excavations, large canal construction, residential developments, commercial buildings, foundations for high rise developments, dam design, remedial works for residential houses, bridge foundations, large scale field and laboratory testing and experience with expansive and dispersive soils.Offshore geotechnical design spans axial and lateral response of piles for jacket structures, drilled and grouted pile performance, mudmats and foundations for gravity structures, pipeline and seabed stability and reliability analysis; management experience for geotechnical programmes onshore and offshore with budgets of up to $30 million; specialist interests in TQM, formal quality systems, risk and reliability and HSE issues. |
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| Carl Erbrich - Director |
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| MEng |
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| Graduate of City University, London with over fifteen years experience in geotechnical and foundation engineering, including the design of highly innovative foundation systems (“Bucket” foundations for Statoil) and state- of-the-art 3D finite element analyses modelling the reformation of the Goodwyn ‘A’ Piles. Other experience includes the design of suction piles, GBS foundations, grillage and berm anchors, piled foundations, subsea structures and seismic analysis. Also extensive experience in numerical modelling of complex geotechnical problems in a diverse range of soils. Major responsibilities have included the development of new design procedures, the planning of model tests and the implementation of new constitutive models into finite element programs. |
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| Steven Neubecker - Director |
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| BE, PhD, MIEAust, CPEng |
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| Graduate of the University of Western Australia with experience in geotechnical and civil/structural design in the oil and gas industry; special interests include offshore foundations and research, particularly drag anchor design in layered calcareous material, anchor piles and anchor chain interaction. Offshore experience includes geotechnical project management on large oil and gas projects, site investigations on the North West Shelf and Timor Sea with associated laboratory test coordination and supervision. |
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| Hackmet Joer - Director |
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| Phd MIEAust CPEng |
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| Graduate of the University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France) with over eleven years experience in Western Australia. Previously Senior Lecturer and Industry Projects Manager for the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at the University of Western Australia. Specialities are in pile foundations, specially grouted techniques for driven piles and soil characterisation study. Particular expertise lies in the behaviour of calcareous sediments, new developments for foundation systems, grouted driven piles and detemination of in situ shear strength using newly developed penetrometer devices. |
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| Phil Watson - Director |
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| BE (Hons), BCom, PhD, MIEAust, CPEng |
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| Graduate of the University of Western Australia with experience in onshore and offshore foundation design for the oil and gas industry. Special interests include shallow foundation design, particularly for steel and concrete gravity based structures; soil-structure interaction; offshore ground improvement; offshore site investigation; soil testing and physical modeling. Key project experience includes soil characterisation, detailed design and installation of steel gravity based platforms in Australia and New Zealand; as well as design of proposed offshore concrete and steel structures in the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, Australia, Canada, Nigeria, South America and North Sea. Site representative during onshore and offshore site investigations in Australia, New Zealand, United States and Yemen; resident site engineer on projects in Nigeria and United Kingdom; and coordinated various soil characterization and foundation research programs. |
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| Ian Finnie - Director |
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| PhD, BSc. (Hons.) |
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| Graduate of the Universities of Manchester & Western Australia with extensive experience in most aspects of offshore & onshore civil & geotechnical engineering that are associated with the oil & gas industry. Special technical capability in design appraisal requirements & certification of oil & gas platform installation. Wide-ranging global experience in most major oil & gas regions, especially from Australasia & North Sea. Special interest in foundation installation & novel design for challenging seabeds. Sound business expertise in leadership, marketing & planning. |
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| Mark Randolph - Consultant Director |
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| BA, MA, PhD, FTS, FIEAust, CPEng |
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| Graduate of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Western Australia with over twenty years experience in geotechnical research incorporating analytical, numerical and physical modelling; widespread consulting experience specialising in foundation engineering and offshore geotechnics; originator of a variety of pile design software and procedures and a leading proponent of dynamic pile testing; specialist interests in pile supported rafts for buildings, offshore foundations, anchoring systems and pipelines. |
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| Martin Fahey - Consultant Director |
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| BA, PhD, FIEAust, CPEng |
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| Graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and Cambridge University, Professor and Head of Department of Civil and Resource Engineering at the University of Western Australia, with over fifteen years experience in Western Australia including several years with Golder Associates; special interests include tailings disposal, particularly in respect of consolidation and evaporation behaviour in saline environments, soil characterisation through laboratory and field tests including pressuremeter, pieso- and seismic cones and contaminant detection using resistivity probes. |
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| John Carter - Consultant Director |
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| PhD, FIEAust, MASCE, MISRM, MIAEG, CPEng |
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| Graduate of the University of Sydney, Challis Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney and Director of the Centre for Geotechnical Research, Sydney, with over twenty years of consulting and teaching experience; special interests include the behaviour of offshore foundations, engineering behaviour of calcareous sediments, development of methods suitable for the analysis of large strains in soft soils, constitutive modelling of soils and rocks including rock joints, numerical analysis of geotechnical problems and environmental geotechnics; consulted widely both nationally and internationally and developed numerous geotechnical software applications. |
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| Tony Abbs - Senior Principal Engineer |
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| BSc (Eng), MIEAust, CPEng |
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Graduate of the Imperial College in London with more than thirty years experience in geotechnical engineering. Specialised in the topic of foundation systems for oil and gas facilities and has been involved with a large number of oil refineries and offshore platforms in various locations, particularly Australia and South East Asia. Member of the Institution of Engineers Australia and author and co-author of 22 technical papers on various foundation topics. |
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| Patrick Clancy - Senior Principal Engineer |
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| BSc., MSc., PhD |
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| Graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Western Australia with experience in many aspects of geotechnical engineering and associated structural works. Offshore experience includes design of clump weights, spud cans, suction anchors, drag anchors (including soil-chain interaction), skirted gravity foundations and foundation piles. Near-shore experience comprises design of rip-rap shore protection and assessment of jetty piling. Onshore experience includes design of foundation bored piles, contiguous bored pile retaining walls, diaphragm retaining walls, ground anchors, soil improvement (jet grout, stone columns), tailings dam slope stability and tailings dam seepage. Extensive South-East Asia experience. Special interest in numerical analysis. |
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| Magnus McNeil-Windle - Senior Principal Geophysicist |
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| B.Sc (Physics) |
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| Graduate of the University of Hull, England, with 27 years experience in offshore geophysical site investigations in Australia, South East Asia and the North Sea. Specialising in shallow geophysics for foundation engineering; survey planning and operations management. Also experienced in drilling hazard surveys, pipeline/cable route surveys, near-shore surveys. |
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