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Profession: Civil Engineer; Project Manager and Technical
Director
Experience: Dams, tunnels, hydroelectric, roads and bridges, water/ sewerage
treatment and rehabilitation
Qualifications: BSc Civil Engineering (South Africa), MSACPE, SAICE (South
Africa), Eligible for registration as a UK, Chartered Engineer
Year of Birth: 1956
Nationality: Italian
Languages: English, Italian, Spanish (fair), French (fair)
Giovanni has worked on many multi faceted projects in the dams, tunnels, hydro-electric, roads and bridges, water/ sewerage treatment and rehabilitation and related fields throughout his working carrier spanning 22 years, performing the full range of duties such as project management, planning, estimating, claims, project layout, preparation of tender documents, evaluation of tenders, contract negotiations with clients and contractors, supervision of construction and commissioning. His working experience is as project manager from both the contractor' s point of view as well as that of designer, thereby covering all the broad aspects of project realization. His experience both as designer and project manager has enriched him with considerable knowledge of the different forms of contract documentation including FIDIC, EU, IDA, EPC and several other types of contract conditions as encountered in eastern Europe, south America, southern Africa and South Africa.
Throughout his working career Giovanni has been involved in contract administration dispute resolution from both the consulting and contracting sides, including participation in amicable settlement negotiations under FIDIC procedures; compilation of contractor's claims including costs evaluations under EU, IDA and EPC contracts.Having also worked as a general manager of consulting and contracting outfits he can therefore provide the necessary experience for the proper management of all facets of a business inclusive of all administrative, financial, personnel, client relations as well as technical related activities. Giovanni has been involved in a variety of multi-disciplinary projects and therefore his technical knowledge includes geotechnical, structural, tunnel design, water and sewerage treatment, road pavement design; over the past three years he has also been involved in hydro-electric projects involving hydraulics, water management and associated tunnelling, dams and electro-mechanical infrastructure in the power generation field.Particularly important is his experience in the packaging of documentation for presentation for funding. Of importance in these projects has been the rehabilitation of mechanical/electrical component as well as the civil infrastructure. Very good knowledge of specialistic project management software including CCS, WinProj., Primavera; generally computer literate.
Project Manager. Construction of roads and bridges for a EU funded project. Responsible for all issues including setting up the construction site, financial and technical issues, planning and cost control, liaison with engineer, client and funding agency, contractual notices and claims management,
Technical Director. Construction of a major hydro electric power scheme inclusive of two gravity mass concrete dams, pressure tunnels and power house. Experience with all contractual and technical issues related to the project. ( see detailed description at end of this summary)
Project Manager. Administration of a project for the rehabilitation of highways and bridges of the old road network in Romania. Included road foundation reconstruction and overlay with base, binder and wearing course asphalt mixes. Experience with FIDIC contract documents adapted to suite the existing national contract and technical specifications.
Technical Director Provide technical support to the needs of the construction site for the realisation of a hydroelectric power generating scheme inclusive of roller compacted concrete dam and associated tunnels and powerhouse. (see detailed description at end of this summary )
General Manager General Manager of two construction companies, one building and other civil works. Experience with various building projects, feeder roads and surfaced roads, EU and World Bank funding. Totally responsible for all aspects of administration of the companies, managing of organizational aspects, managing the technical issues pertaining to the various projects; contractor's claims and disputes resolution with clients and funding agencies.
Project Manager Rehabilitation, periodic maintenance and reconstruction of trunk roads involving reconstruction of crushed stone base, crack sealing and repair of existing surfaces, resealing with asphalt concrete. Responsible for contract administration of a quay construction/rehabilitation project part of Maputo main harbour. Responsible for the compilation of extension of time and extra costs claims for the rehabilitation of the Senna Bridge on the Zambezi River ( USAID funded project).
Project Manager - Construction of Gaborone West Phase 3 Project Roads, railway, water, sewage, electrical and telephone reticulation for urban development (FIDIC contract). Roads included single and double seal chip and spray 22kms of new double lane motorway incorporating crushed stone base and 40 mm asphalt concrete surfacing. I was responsible for organizing and starting off the main works, monitoring site production, programming (Timeline, Project for Windows), monitoring of works and co-ordination of subcontractors. As the project became increasingly difficult form the contractual and economic point of view I became full time responsible for contract administration including issuing of contractual notices, compilation of contractual claims (write-ups, costs evaluation and presentation, detailed notional, actual and acceleration programmes) and was instrumental in the successful outcome of amicable settlement negotiations of claims concluded during contract execution and amounting to over 30% of the original contract value (70 million US$).
General Manager Supervised design and construction of water supply and sewerage treatment plants (oxidation and anaerobic). Compiled consultancy tenders. Was responsible for writing contract documents (contract and technical) based on FIDIC or national standards to suite individual projects. Responsible for general administration. Managing and evaluation of contractor's claims, disputes resolution and settlement. Experience with African Development Bank funding, aid money funding.
Project Manager. Managed and planned construction activities at Mazwikadei Dam in Zimbabwe comprising earthfill and concrete combined. Responsible for earthworks, concrete works, setting up laboratory; wrote irrigation manual for conditioning soils materials for dam construction, contractual claims (write-ups, costs, detailed delay programmes) , disputes and resolution.
Resident Engineer. Supervised construction of water treatment plant, oxidation ponds in Livingstone, Zambia on an African Development Bank funded project. Designed and constructed an irrigation pumping scheme for a programme for the development of water abstraction, storage and irrigation project in Senegal. Managing and evaluation of contractor's claims, disputes resolution and settlement. Experience with African Development Bank funding, aid money funding.
Concrete Site Agent Supervised the construction of a 250m long concrete spillway and the finishing works of a railway line incorporating large fills and bridges. Responsible for the production and quality control of concrete on large scale, production of aggregates from crushing plants. Experience with crushed stone base construction of section of the Gaborone to Lobatse road.
Site Concrete Manager - Site Agent - Project Manager Built a 60m long pre-stressed bridge. Site agent for the construction of a 20km railway line, incorporating 700,000cu.m earthfill, seven medium-sized bridges of which 3 pre-stressed. Construction of motorway with crushed stone base and asphalt concrete surfacing.
Geotechnical Engineer. Carried out geotechnical investigations for foundations of medium to large structures (houses, highway bridges and large fills). Writing up of geotechnical reports for clients providing alternative founding solutions. Experience included strip, raft foundations, piled foundations for single to multi-storey buildings.
Geotechnical Engineer. Produced drawings, contract documents, and supervised the construction of two gold mine waste disposal system (Tailing Dams) and an ash disposal system. Experience in the fields of soil mechanics, hydrology, hydraulics, water and sewerage treatment, producing contract documents (including bill of quantities) quality and financial control of projects. Gained experience in the estimation of the bearing capacity of soft soils and estimation of settlement. Was instrumental in the advancement of piezometer cone utilization techniques for the determination of consolidation of tailings dams.
Technical Director Provide technical support for the needs of the construction site for the realization of a hydroelectric power generating scheme inclusive of two gravity dams feeding water to a 150MW power house and water for irrigation, through 23 kms of pressure tunnel in an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract. Tasks included the compilation of method statements, reviewing design statements and drawings produced by in house designers, elaboration of designers's drawings to suit contractor's requirements, designing of formwork for special castings and incorporating standard commercial formwork. Utilized Construction Computer Software CCS for the purpose of making a comprehensive budget to completion, incorporating the program of works to completion, resources usage in the form of time histograms derived from budgeted production rates. Trained personnel on the use of the specialized software and compilation of information for use by management. Experience with the principles and design of pressure tunnels and the problems associated with them. Also gained experience with TBM excavation systems and further experience with traditional drill and blast methods and problems associated with poor ground conditions ( steel ribs and fore-poling, types of lining (shotcrete and concrete) for differing ground and support conditions, de-watering and ventilation problems, raise boring excavation solutions and problems. Experience with contract administration and associated problems arising between Owner, main contractor and subcontractors, inclusive of production of write-ups, delayed programmes and costs for contractual claims.
Technical Director Provide technical support to the needs of the construction site for the realization of a hydroelectric power generating scheme inclusive of roller compacted concrete RCC dam and Associated tunnels and powerhouse on a construction only ( no designing of works ) type of contract. Contract documents based on EPM (Empresa Publica de Medellin) standard format endorsed by international financing institutions. Tasks included the compilation of method statements, elaboration of designer's drawings to suit contractor's requirements, designing of formwork for special castings and incorporating standard commercial formwork, producing programs of work utilizing Construction Computer Software CCS incorporating resources usage in the form of time histograms derived from team production rates. Trained personnel on the use of the specialized software and compilation of information for use by management. Gained experience and knowledge with the use of specialized equipment such as Rotec conveyor belt systems, mass cooling systems, compound crushing and screening plants, quarry blasting, specialized formwork techniques by Doka and Hunnebeck for standard concreting and tunnel concrete lining, grouting procedures for filling voids around concrete and steel lining work, design of platforms for use in vertical shafts for the purpose of concrete and shotcrete lining work. Also supervised laboratory work including concrete mixes for RCC concrete and conventional concrete, as well as shotcrete with and without fibre (tunnel and shaft lining). In general also liased with the production chiefs to iron out programming bottlenecks and for availing all information and resources for the timeous execution of the program of works; all this entailed much time for meetings and coordination work. Also compiled technical information required for the presentation of contractor's claims. In particular, compiled a "notionally" delayed program of works based on the contractual program showing the extension of time requirements of the project and the acceleration that had been applied by the main contractor, all for the purpose of contract's claims presentation. Comprehensive write-up giving basis of claims in relation to contractual clauses and law case studies. Specific types of work encountered during my period of involvement at Porce II includes tunnel excavation, shotcreting and tunnel lining, reinforced concrete structures such as intake tower and spillway, surge shaft and chamber lining, casting of RCC concrete, power house finishing works.
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