Ashford Engineering Consultants

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James Bain CEng, FIMechE, FIMarEST

Jim is a mechanical engineer with over 40 years hydroelectric power experience. This experience was initially in the design and manufacture of hydro turbine plant leading to consultancy with an international company in the design and supervision of construction of several major international hydroelectric projects. Responsibilities have included Project Management and Engineering, Design and Resident Engineering. Conceptual design leading to the final design of the plant and the supervision of the plant installations and commissioning for projects throughout the world in Africa, Asia, South America, India, Sri Lanka and the UK. Rehabilitation Studies for several Power Authorities.

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Simon van Boesschoten BSc

Simon is a graduate in electro mechanical engineering specialising in welding techniques. He has broad experience in the preparation of tenders, pre-qualification, and coordination of microtunnelling and directional drilling projects, and has also been responsible for a large diameter Herrenknecht EPB working well below the water table. He started his career supervising the welding of thick plates on special structures, and followed up with a stint in the Army as a sergeant instructor with his own diving group. Since then he has been almost exclusively involved in tunnelling, with a distinct emphasis on small bore techniques.

Jack Burke

Jack is currently President of Jack Burke and Associates, consultants to surface and underground companies on methods and equipment for tunnelling and mining operations. He has extensive experience in locating and appraising new and used equipment and in reviewing projected projects and bids for Owners, Contractors and Engineering firms. He is technical contributing editor for World Tunnelling Magazine, London, England for whom he comments on the underground industry activities 4 times per year. Full technical articles written include projects in England, Australia, New Zealand, California, Riverside, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Massachusetts, Maryland, Detroit, Atlanta, Fort Worth Texas, Washington D.C. Las Vegas Nevada, Puerto Rico. He is also technical contributing editor for Tunnel Business Magazine North American Underground Projects. This involves updating three issues per year including all major tunnel projects currently underway in North America.

Peter Cheung BSc (Taiwan), MSc

Peter is a geotechnical engineer with 26 years experience in instrumentation, embankment and underground support design. He has a particular expertise in advanced 2D and 3D numerical modelling for major underground works, embankments and dams.

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Jerry Conway BSc, MSc, CEng.

Jerry is a geotechnical engineer specialising in engineering geology, rock mechanics and underground construction, with twenty-six years project experience in transportation, hydropower, water supply, mining, and hazardous waste management. His areas of special expertise include ground investigation and site-characterisation; radioactive waste management; stability analysis, monitoring and support design for tunnels, underground excavations and slopes; TBM and roadheader performance assessment; and probabilistic modelling. He has provided expert opinion and evidence for contractual and insurance claims related to ground conditions, excavation stability and excavation system performance.

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Jasper Cook BSc, MSc, PhD.

Jasper is an engineering geologist with thirty years of proven experience in the field of applied geology, with particular reference to civil engineering projects and the transfer of appropriate technology. He has extensive experience in the design, supervision, management and interpretation of engineering geological and geotechnical projects in the UK, Middle East, Africa, SE Asia and Australia. He has wide practical knowledge of the application of geological and engineering geological techniques, from basic field mapping to sophisticated geotechnical testing. He is the author of papers on the subjects of ground investigation, tropically weathered soil-rock profiles and construction materials and was a member of the Geological Society (UK) Engineering Group Working Party on Tropical Residual Soils.

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James Dale BSc, MEng, CEng, MICE.

James has 30 years experience in the design and construction of engineering works including a total of 7 years spent overseas. His experience has been in the fields of ports, harbours, coastal, offshore, pipelines (land and submarine), underwater and water supply. He has specialised in design, supervision and project management in the maritime, river and coastal civil engineering and offshore industries. He has worked mainly in the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Middle East and South Asia. James is still a qualified HSE Commercial Inshore Air Diver and has previously been responsible for the overall management, marketing, proposals, engineering, diving, inspection and survey of many underwater projects.

Robert Davey BSc, CEng, MICE.

Bob Davey has been involved for over 30 years in a wide variety of work in agriculture, rural development, natural resources and civil engineering, at all levels of responsibility from Project Manager to Technical Specialist. For the last 23 years he has specialised in project management; irrigation and rural engineering, and rural, agricultural and agro-industrial development. He has extensive experience of irrigation and drainage, land and water conservation, rural and agricultural infrastructure, and community development. Earlier in his career he worked on the design and construction of housing, major roads, water resource development, and arterial land drainage. His work has covered all stages of the project cycle from project identification, promotion and financing, through feasibility studies, design and implementation, to operational management. Irrigation projects for which he has been responsible have ranged in size from major developments covering thousands of hectares, to small scale Community Irrigation Systems of a few hectares.

Daniel Fayolle

Daniel has worked in the power sector for the whole of his professional life and has thirty years experience in this area. He is qualified in both electrical and mechanical engineering and his experience covers a broad range of the power spectrum, including power system planning, hydropower generation, thermal power generation, more specifically biomass power and HV transmission. He has been a consultant in the field of power for major European consultancies for 12 years before working on his own and has been involved with all types of hydro turbines up to unit capacities of 350MW and in pumped storage schemes of up to 1332 MW capacity. In HV electrical engineering Daniel Fayolle has worked on transmission lines & substations up to 500 kV and on the design of long interconnector tie lines. Currently Daniel is Visiting Lecturer in hydropower on the MSc course of “l’Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires” in Saclay, France.

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Robert A Gibson BSc, PhD, MICE, CEng, Cert. Dip Accounting and Finance.

Bob is a civil engineer with specializing in hydraulics and hydropower. He has 25 years of experience in major project design and construction supervision for hydropower, water resources, tidal power and irrigation projects. He has experience in project management and as a design team leader. He has a particular expertise in power plant design, including the co-ordination of the various engineering disciplines involved in the design of power projects. Bob was formerly a senior lecturer and course tutor in hydraulics at graduate and undergraduate levels.

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Roger Gill BSc, MICE, CEng.

Roger is a civil engineer specializing in hydropower generation and river control works; Design of hydraulic structures, intakes, spillways, tunnels, penstocks, surface and underground power stations; Design of hydraulic gates and equipment; Extensive experience in the concept and design of civil engineering aspects of hydroelectric power schemes, reporting at all stages of development. He also has heavy civil engineering design experience; Infrastructure, roads, bridges, and housing.

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Maurice A W Gooderham HNC, CEng, MICE.

Maurice has over 40 years experience in civil engineering contracting and consultancy and prior to forming his own consultancy in 1992 specialising in all forms of tunnelling, shaft sinking and underground works. He occupied senior positions to director level in two major international contracting firms: Kinnear Moodie and Thyssen and as head of tunnelling for Howard Humphreys consulting engineers. He has held appointments as an independent Certifying Engineer and as the named Adjudicator on tunnelling works where the New Engineering Contracts were used. He is currently serving as a member of the Dispute Review Board for a major metro scheme, serving on a panel of experts for a Public Enquiry on a major civil engineering project and also as Conciliator for a dispute between the Contractor and the Employer.

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Derek Griffiths BA, LL.B, DipArb, MCIArb.

Derek is a construction specialist lawyer who has extensive experience of the formulation, negotiation, agreement and successful interpretation of the commercial, human - relations socio - economic and environmental aspects of major contracts with a view to keeping disputes to a minimum, and the analysis of disputes with a view to their successful resolution, either before or by various resolution processes, be they ADR, arbitration or litigation in a cost - effective manner.

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Colin Harris BSc, MSc, PhD.

Colin has 26 years varied experience as a geologist/geotechnical engineer in the oil service industry, and in underground transportation, water and hydropower projects. Colin was a geotechnical consultant on the Channel Tunnel, responsible for the collection and interpretation of all of the geotechnical data. He had a major part in the formulation and presentation of the contractor's claims on the Channel Tunnel and was also an Expert Witness for the contractor's claims for the Brighton & Hove Stormwater sewer and outfall. Most recently Colin was representing the client on a hydropower project involving 31km of tunnels. He is currently working as a Project Manager for a railway project.

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Dave Hindle BSc, MSc, CEng, FEANI, FIMM.

Dave has nearly 30 years experience in mining and civil engineering specialising in the investigation, design and supervision of all forms of underground construction. He has been responsible for a number of major projects in the UK and overseas. In mining he has been involved in the design and construction of large underground stopes, haulages, shafts and chambers. In tunnelling Dave has extensive experience in the investigation, design and implementation of large diameter hard rock and soft ground tunnelling and shaftsinking utilising drill and blast excavation, road headers, shields and TBM and the use of NATM for highways, railways, metros, canals, water/sewerage schemes and mines.

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Carlos Jorquera BSc (Chile), MSc, DIC, MIEE, MIEEE, CEng, EurIng.

Carlos is an electrical engineer and power systems analyist with 23 years experience in the design and construction supervision of power generation, distribution and transmission projects. He has developed computer software, inspected and witnessed the testing of electrical equipment, designed power systems to 500 kV for onshore and offshore installations, submarine cables, oil filled cables, undertaken design reviews and the installation and commissioning of SF6 switchgear.

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Robert Laver BSc. (Buenos Aires), Cert of Studies in Economics (Paris).

Robert has extensive experience in the analysis of public and private investment in developing countries. Projects have ranged from water resources, electricity supply, ports and transportation to industrial processes and tourism. He has undertaken market studies and demand forecasting, operational models, investment appraisal and cost benefit analysis, financial analysis and modelling, organisation structure, regulatory and institutional matters and private sector participation in infrastructure projects. Robert has provided advice as an Expert Witness on the valuation of assets in an international arbitration.

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John R. Linard B.Eng. (Civil) - Australia, M.ASCE.

Jack is a Civil Engineer with over 35 years of international experience, covering all aspects of hydroelectric and water resources projects, including studies, final designs, tender documents and construction. He has worked in over 20 countries in five continents, with geographical emphasis on Latin America and South-east Asia and technical emphasis on roller compacted concrete (RCC) dams in recent years. His project involvement has been as project manager / team leader, chief / specialist engineer and technical advisor. He was formerly head of the Dams and Powerhouses branch of SNC-Lavalin, Canada's largest consulting group.

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Bruno Marrai Dip. CEng. (Italy), MISE. CEng, EurIng.

Bruno is a civil and structural engineer with 35 years experience in the design of a wide variety of surface and underground structures; including buildings, underground support systems, prestressed and reinforced concrete linings for tunnels, shafts and caverns, steel penstocks and manifolds, heavy civil structures, bridges, chimneys, electric and radio masts. Bruno has a particular expertise in tunnel lining design, structure dynamics and numerical modelling for seismic sensitive and vibrating machinery. Bruno also benefits from being multilingual speaking English, Italian and French.

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Don Mason BSc, MSc, CEng, MICE. in the UK.

Don who has 22 years experience began work in offshore geotechnical engineering and foundation design for oil platforms and other offshore structures. He has also worked on a major Hydropower project and worked on secondment to Eurotunnel as the client's representative for one of the undersea running tunnels on the Channel Tunnel project. In 1990 he joined Sumitomo Electric, a Japanese manufacturer, as European Product Manager for the company's inflatable rubber dam. Working out of the company's London office, introduced the product to the European market with projects in Spain, Norway and Germany. He is now an independent specialist in inflatable rubber dams and spillway gates. Undertakes contracts for clients, consultants, contractors and rubber dam manufacturers peforming feasibility studies, preparing tender documents, providing technical advice, managing projects and supervising installation of rubber dams and spillway gates.

Peter Meenan B.Sc, C.Eng, MICE.

Peter's chief areas of experience lie in the Project Management, Design and Construction Supervision of civil/structural, marine and offshore engineering contracts including steel bridges and offshore structures. Experience has included quality assurance of welding; large diameter piling on and offshore and heavy reinforced concrete foundations; design and construction of major temporary works; offshore structure loadout operations and offshore construction/installation, including very heavy lifting operations; management of advanced F.E. numerical structural analysis projects and multi-disciplinary design teams; expert witness and independent opinions on engineering projects and problems. Peter has acted as project manager for the Engineering Design of major refurbishment of utilities systems in Brent Bravo and Delta CGS platforms for Shell UK Exploration & Production, as part of Brent LTFD Project. He has detailed experience and understanding of the oil storage and ballast water systems and pipe-work in the Utilities Shafts of CGS platforms and has been involved in the development of innovative solutions to the unusually difficult problems encountered in these aging installations.

Graeme Monro BSc, FICE, FCIWEM, ACIArb.

Graeme is a civil engineer who has over 34 years of experience in dams, tunnels, roads, weirs and general civil engineering construction. In particular, he is familiar with all facets of water supply engineering. The experience includes the preparation of feasibility studies; detailed design; preparation of contract documents; specification writing; tender procedures and bid evaluation; contract administration and management; claim analysis and assessment; construction supervision; project management; operation, maintenance and management of public water supplies and elements of training, both practical on-site training and office training; contract engineering for a major international contractor and most recently, setting up and managing the Contracts Branch for the Lesotho Highland Development Authority which is implementing the prestiguous Lesotho Highlands Water Project.

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Bill Morgan-Jones BSc MSc DUC FGS EurGeol.

Bill is a hydrogeologist specialising in groundwater modelling. He has fifteen years geological work experience both in the UK and overseas on diverse projects ranging from groundwater resources and groundwater contamination to mineral extraction, mining, civil engineering and radioactive waste disposal. He specialises in groundwater flow and solute transport modelling, mainly using MODFLOW and associated models. He has advanced skills in GIS, database construction and computer programming.

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David Morris