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Technical Committee

The technical committee will play a crucial role in reviewing all submitted abstracts, assessing their originality and relevance to the programme themes, along with shaping the content of the conference programme. Additional members of the technical committee will be announced soon.

Technical Committe Chairman

Rab Fernie, Chief Engineer, Cementation Skanska Ltd, UK

Rab Fernie has been involved in most aspects of Geotechnical Engineering in a career spanning from 1968 to date. Rab joined Cementation Foundations Skanska Limited in 1987 as specialist sub-contractor, and from 1966 as their Technical Director. Read more...

Hans-Joachim Bliss, Civil Engineer MSc (Dipl. Ing.) University Siegen, Germany and BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH, GERMANY

Hans-Joachim Bliss joined BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH in 1980. He initially started working with Bauer as a Project Engineer in Saudi Arabia where he worked for several years. Read more...

Maurice Bottiau, President, EFFC and Group Commercial Director, Frank Foundations Group, Belgium

Maurice is Group Commercial Director of Franki Foundations Group Belgium, including Franki Geotechnics B, in Brussels, Belgium. The group operates through its subsidiaries in Belgium, The Netherlands, France, UK, Congo and Russia. Read more...

Dan Brown, Dan Brown and Associates, USA

Dr. Dan Brown is recognized as one of America’s leading authorities on the construction and design of deep foundations for transportation structures. He has authored numerous papers and reports on his research and practical experiences with drilled shaft construction, testing and design. Read more...

Christian Gilbert, Corporate Director of Design and Method and Expert Departments, Bachy Soletanche Ltd, FRANCE

Dr. In Wolf-Rüdiger Linder, Technical Manager, Brückner Grundbau GmbH, GERMANY

Dr Wolf-Rüdiger Linder is a Civil Engineer specialising in geotechnical engineering. He completed his phd thesis at the Technical University of Berlin. Dr Linder has over 38 years professional experience at Ph. Holzmann, Hochtief, Brückner Grundbau, Leighton Brückner Foundation Engineering Ltd, with 10 years overseas services. He is a member of various national and European professional committees.

Alessandro Mandolini, Professor of Foundation Engineering and Earth Retaining Structures Second University of Naples, ITALY

Alessandro has authored over 90 papers for National and International conferences and Journals. He graduated in Civil Engineering in 1989 at the University of Napoli (Italy), and gained a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering in 1994. Read more...

Professor Eur.Geol. Paul Nathanail MA (Cantab) MSc DIC PhD (London) CGeol SILC, UK

Paul is Professor of Engineering Geology at the University of Nottingham and Managing Director of Land Quality Management Ltd. His research, teaching and consultancy interests span the spectrum of risk based contaminated land management and sustainable urban regeneration. His team have developed decision support tools for site investigation design, human health risk assessment and remediation strategy selection. Read more...

Duncan Nicholson, Director Ove Arup and Partners Ltd, UK

Duncan has extensive international experience of geotechnical design for major projects involving foundations, deep basements, retaining walls, tunnels and earthworks. He started his Civil Engineering career with George Wimpey and Co Ltd and then gained an MSc in Soil mechanics at Imperial College in 1977. Read more...

David Puller, Chief Engineer Bachy Soletanche Ltd, UK

In the position of Chief Engineer, David has been responsible for the technical design performance of the company and the coordination of research and development activities. Read more...

Frédéric Rocher-Lacoste. Researcher Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées, FRANCE

Since July 2002 Frédéric Rocher-Lacoste has been researcher at the "Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées" in Paris. Prior to that post he spent 4 years in the General Company of Geophysics and 4 years at Soletanche-Bachy. Read more...

Walter Schneider Dipl. Ing., Civil Engineer, MSc. AUSTRIA

Walter Schneider graduated at Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 1981. With 23 years experience in the construction industry, he has held an array of career positions at ILBAU and STRABAG from assistant project manager up to Head of Department. Read more...

Tony Suckling, Associate Arup Geotechnics, UK

Tony Suckling is an Associate with Arup Geotechnics. He is the chairman of the DFI Sustainability Committee, past chairman of the Technical Committee of the Federation of Piling Specialists. Read more...

George Tamaro, Consultant MRCE, USA

George Tamaro joined MRCE in 1980, where he was a Partner from 1983 through 2006. He is now a Consultant for the firm and actively participates in many projects. He possesses extensive design and field experience. Read more...

Frits Van Tol, Part-Time Professor in Foundation Engineering, Delft University of Technology, THE NETHERLANDS

Frits van Tol has over 30 years experience as a geotechnical consultant and is a member of the scientific board of Deltares, former GeoDelft. For the last 15 years he has worked at Delft University of Technology, as part-time professor in Foundation Engineering. Read more...

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