• Winthrop Professor, Dept. Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering
• Director Opifex Geotechnics Pty Ltd

Current active research programmes include:

• Ageing of shaft friction for piles in clay and sand
• Use of photogrammetry in the measurement of soil reponse under traixial conditions
• Effect of installation method on the axial capacity of piles
• Formulation of simple design methods for offshore wind turbine foundations
• Application of ultrasonic sensors in piling and in-situ concrete
• Improving screw pile design methods
• Applications of CPT to predicting the performance of foundations

Present Industry roles (Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer)

• Multiple onshore civil and building projects
• Offshore geotechnical wind projects
• Solar farms

Sample past projects

• Advice to Arup for offshore projects:
  • Yolla (Bass Strait)
  • Maari (New Zealand)
  • MCR-A (Turkmenistan)
  • Riser Support structure (North West Shelf)
  • Reindeer & Pluto drilled and grouted piles in Australian NWS
  • Driven piles in Napa Napa (PNG), for ODP-A (Caspian Sea) and in the Sakhalin field
  • Drag anchors for FPSOs in the Australian NWS
  • Subsea pipeline facilities in NW shelf (Australia) and in Manifa (Saudi Arabia)
  • Suction caissons for CLP met mast (Hong Kong)
  • Spud can punch-through in Australian NWS
  
  Advice to Arup Perth for onshore and nearshore projects:
  • Esperance Rail Access Corridor
  • Otway Foundations
  • Gladstone GLNG materials offloading facility (MOF) and dolphins
  • Bridge abutments on new Perth-Mandurah rail line
  • Raffles hotel, Canning Bridge
  • Gorgon and Browse breakwaters
  • Diaphragm walling at Bishop See in Perth CBD
  • Tank foundations at Pinjarra and Busselton
  • Hocking Shopping Centre
  • Rockingham City Development
  • Jetty strengthening at Lumut (Malaysia)
  • Blaydin Point development (Darwin)
  • Ground improvement and pipeline design at Devils Creek
  • Medical Research hospital, Nedlands
  • Perth Convention Centre
  • Remedial work, Mesa A stacker, Pilbara
  
  Advice to Arup Sydney/Brisbane
  • Sandgate bridge foundations
  • Anzac Parade Basement Sydney
  • Bridge duplication Camden Haven River
  • Parramatta station extension
  • Brisbane domestic airport extension
  • Brisbane airport link
  • Queensland LNG port facilities
  • Bridge abutments for Hunt8r alliance
  
  Peer Review for projects such as:
  • Pile design for Safaniya Field, Arabian Gulf (for Fugro)
  • Fremantle quay strengthening works (for Golder)
  • Port of Melbourne underwater containment bunds (for SKM)
  • Perth desalination plant (for Worley Parsons),
  • Pier 8 foundations for Goongoonup rail bridge (for Clough Engineering)
  • Rectification works for Eastern abutment of Goongoonup rail bridge (for AECOM)
  • Foundations for Zakum Islands , Abu Dhabi (for Fugro)
  
  
  Design for Piling Contractors (basements + foundations), 150+ projects including:
  • Bunbury forum expansion,
  • Pedestrian bridge (Busselton)
  • Wren Oil tanks (Bunbury),
  • Allnet reserve, Veneto Lane & Treviso mews (Mandurah)
  • Cockburn cement factory
  • Alcoa Worsley tanks
  • South beach apartments (South Fremantle)
  • Ozone Pearl (Scarborough)
  • Hammersmith (Joondalup)
  • Cockburn Shopping Centre
  • Margaret River Woolworths
  • Sky Apartment building on Esplanade (South Perth)
  • Karratha underpass
  • Hotham street cyclic way underpass
  • Reginald Street (Busselton)
  • Bunbury Entertainment Centre
  • RAC building (North Perth)
  • UWA Chemistry building
  • Altus tower
  • Criterion hotel
  • City West basement
  • Claremont apartments
  • Double basement- Leederville
  • Cloisters, Hay Street
  • HIF building
  • Cancer research building, Nedlands
  • 239 Pier Street
  • 9 The Esplanade, St Perth
  • West Australian Newspapers, Jon Sanders Drive
  
  Forensic Investigations for:
  • West Australian Newspapers, Jon Sanders Drive
  • Damage to Trinity Church (St. Georges Tce., Perth)
  • Cracking of Telstra building (North Perth)
  • Collapsing Stacker (Pilbara)
  • Driven pile induced damage (Perth CBD)
  • Large rotations of apartment blocks (Cork, Ireland)
  • Progressive mine collapse, Kingscourt, Ireland
  
  Centrifuge Investigations for:
  • Installation mechanisms for the skirt foundations of MCR-A (Caspian Sea)
  • Suction caisson performance for CLP met mast in Hong Kong
  • Pile group tension capacity for Singapore Flye
• • Integral bridge design for Channel Tunnel Rail-link
• Suction caissons for Seagreen offshore wind farm
  
  Expert witness for :
  • Bridge foundation movements, Perth
  • Slurry trench collapse, Perth
  • Warnbro footings
  • Excavation collapse in Kinsale, Ireland
  • Instability of landfill, Avoca, Ireland
  
  Pre-2001
  • Advice to Gypsum Industries , John Barnett & Associates, MC O’ Sullivan, Arup and CainWhite engineering .
  • Co-ordination of instrumentation projects for road works and piling contracts
  • Director of Irish Centre for Offshore and Marine Geotechnics
  • Advice to Midas IT software (Korea) for integral bridge design program
  • Senior Geotechnical designer for MTRC Kowloon and Tsing Yi stations and interlinking running tunnels (forming part of the railway to Chek Lap Kok)
  • Technical leader for production of interpretative geotechnical report for CrossRail tunnel in London
  • Design and supervision of foundations such :
  o North Fleet Jetty, London
  o Raft for Moorgate Hall, City of London
  o Billingsgate market refurbishment including installation of grout curtain and jetty construction
  o Didcot reinforced embankments, UK
  o Darlington Town Centre re-development
  o Piles for Bangkok Elevated Rail Transit (Thailand)
  o BP Grangemouth tanks (Scotland)
  • Programming of OASYS FREW, VDISP, ALP, MINLIN, STAWAL & PILSET commercial software packages for wall, shallow foundation and pile design
  • Offshore platform feasibility studies for Sumitomo and BP, Foundation design for Ravenspurn C gravity platform in North Sea.