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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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| 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 - 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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| Jianguo (George) Zhang - Senior Engineer |
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| BE, MSc, Phd |
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| Graduate of Tianjin University (China) and the University of Western Australia with experience in geotechnical and geo-environmental Engineering and Offshore Geomechanics. Special interests include offshore foundation design and research, particularly offshore pipeline stability in calcareous soils. Onshore experience includes bored pile retaining walls, fly ash and tailings storage and utilisations, geosynthetic applications and large scale field testing. |
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| Michael O'Neill - Senior Engineer |
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| BE (Hons), PhD |
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| Graduate of the University of Western Australia with experience in geotechnical and civil/structural design. Special interests include offshore foundations and research, particularly physical and numerical modelling of anchors in homogeneous and layered materials and anchor-chain interaction. Offshore experience includes anchor pile design review for offshore South Africa, implementation of a centrifuge testing programme of model suction anchors in the Timor Sea and the design verification of drag anchors in the North Sea. |
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| Shambhu Sharma - Senior Engineer |
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| BE, BCom, ME, PhD |
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| Graduate of Tribhuvan University (Nepal), Asian Institute of Technology AIT (Thailand) and The University of Western Australia with experience in geotechnical site investitaion and interpretation of laboratory and field test results, advanced laboratory testing, geotechnical analysis and design, soil- structure interaction, numerical modelling and offshore geotechnics. Special interest includes characterisation of natural sediments through laboratory and field testing, earthquake geotechnics and soil-structure interaction. |
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| Andreas Wemmie - Geotechnical Engineer |
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| BE (Hons) |
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| Graduate in Civil Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg (Germany), with experience in offshore geotechnical foundation design, including shallow foundations and driven piles. Other offshore experience includes various geotechnical site investigations as client representative, site manager and assistant site manager aboard geotechnical drilling vessels in the North Sea, Canada and Australia. Onshore experience includes project manager in pile and mudmat design, pile driveability and supervision of laboratory testing with the subsequently derivation and assessment of geotechnical parameters from test results. |
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| David Bonjean - Geotechnical Engineer |
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| BE |
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Graduate of the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble and the Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble. The PhD work on fluid-soil-structure interaction focussed on wave induced liquefaction in the vincinity of marine structures. Experience includes geomechanical engineering and numerical modelling, both as a programmer and as an end user. Special interests include liquefaction issues. |
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| Marcelo Silva - Geotechnical Engineer |
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| BE (Civil), MSc, PhD |
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Graduate of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and the University of Cambridge. Special interests include geotechnical site investigation, laboratory testing, foundation engineering and offshore geotechnics. Research and development experience includes numerical modelling of geotechnical problems, soil characterisation and analysis of cone penetration test results for foundation design. Advancement in offshore experience includes geotechnical design of foundation systems, as well as interpretation of site investigations and laboratory testing for application to offshore geotechnical design. |
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| Xiangtao Xu - Geotechnical Engineer |
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| PhD, MSc, BE |
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| Graduate of Hohai University (China), UNESCO-IHE & GeoDelft (the Netherlands) and University of Western Australia with experience in geotechnical, hydraulic and structural engineering. Special interests include geotechnical site investigation and offshore deep foundation design and research, particularly physical and numerical modelling of displacement piles in homogeneous and layered soil profiles, compilation of load test database of displacement piles in sand and formulation of new design method for driven piles in siliceous sand. |
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| Nobutaka Yamamoto - Geotechnical Engineer |
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| BE, ME, PhD |
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| Graduate of Kanazawa University (Japan), Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand) and the University of Western Australia, with experience in geotechnical engineering including site investigation, soil sampling, interpretation of geological profiles, recommendation of soil parameters and geotechnical analysis and foundation design. Offshore experience includes capacity reassessment of offshore piles and interpretation of test results. Particular interests lie in foundation design for calcareous sediment and numerical modeling for various types of geotechnical issues. |
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| Chris Meecham - Geologist |
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| BSc (Hons) |
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Graduate of the University of Western Australia with experience in geological logging and interpretation of marine sedimentary processes, particularly tropical and temperate carbonate shelves. Offshore experience includes site investigations on the deep water and near-shore locations of the Greater Gorgon Project and associated geological logging and laboratory test selection. |
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| Anneke Wells - Engineering Geologist |
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| MSc (2H) |
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Graduate of Imperial College, London, graduating with an MSc in Geological Sciences. Since then has gained experience, as site manager and shift engineer, on offshore geotechnical site investigations onboard specialised geotechnical drilling vessels in the North Sea, offshore deep water Angola and offshore Australia. In office experience includes supervision and performance of geotechnical core logging, with an emphasis on pipeline routes, as well as definition, interpretation and quality assurance of laboratory tests and reporting following site investigations.
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| Mark Richardson - Geotechnical Engineer |
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| BEng (2H), BCom, PhD (submitted) |
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| Graduate of the University of Western Australia with experience in geotechnical engineering including physical modelling and laboratory testing. Special interests include offshore foundations and research, particularly centrifuge modelling of anchors in homogeneous soils. Project experience includes centrifuge testing of torpedo anchors in normally consolidated clay. |
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| Mark Cassidy - Principal Consultant |
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| BE(Hons), PhD |
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Graduate of the University of Oxford and Rhodes Scholar, currently Professor at the University of Western Australia, with 13 years experience in research and consulting. Mark''s research experience includes offshore geomechanics, jack-up analysis, centrifuge testing, numerical modelling and offshore foundation systems. |
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| David White - Principal Consultant |
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| BA, MA, PhD |
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Graduate of the University of Cambridge, currently Professorial Fellow at the University of Western Australia, with 8 years experience in research and consulting. Expertise includes offshore geomechanics, foundation engineering, centrifuge modelling and image analysis. Special interests include on-bottom and buried pipelines and piled foundations. |
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| Vickie Goodall - Office Manager |
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| Joined the company in late 2005. Has office administration experience spanning 30 years, including 8 years legal secretarial and 8 years at UWA (with the Geomechanics Group and Centre for Oil & Gas Engineering). Vickie''s role includes financial administration, accounts receivable/payable, HR and payroll as well as general office administration. |
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| Jill Joer - Administration Officer |
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| BA |
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Joined the company in 2004. Jill’s role includes administration of the company’s time management, contract management and job control systems. |
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| Benjamin Souviat - Senior Engineer (Part-time) |
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| BE |
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| Graduate in Civil and Hydraulic Engineering from the ENSHMG, Grenoble (France), with 6 years experience in geotechnical foundation design for the offshore industry, including shallow foundations, suction-installed anchor piles, driven piles, drag anchors, etc. Experience in offshore activities includes seismic and geotechnical site investigation off the west coast of Morocco and offshore Libya, full scale anchor pullout testing in West Africa, deep water and shallow water geotechnical investigations on the North West Shelf of Australia, and the coordination and supervision of the associated (onshore) laboratory testing. |
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| Richard Jewell - Consultant |
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| BE, MEngSc, FAIMM, FIEAust, CPEng |
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| Graduate of the University of Western Australia, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Western Australia and Director of the Australian Centre for Geomechanics, with thirty years experience in consulting (Ripley, Klohn & Leonoff, Canada), geotechnical research and research management; special interests include offshore foundations, tailings disposal strategies and mining stability. |
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