Career Summary

Jasper 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.

Specialist Skills

• Site investigation design and management
   
• Slope assessment and design
   
• Earthworks
   
• Natural construction materials
   
• Geotechnics of tropical soil-rock masses
   
• Road alignment studies
   
• Team leadership
   
• Education and transfer of technology
  

Professional Experience

Principal Consultancy Projects within the Last 12 Years:

Geotechnical advisor on an EU-funded investigation into the premature failure of Madagascar national road 4 (RN4) due to the influence of expansive soils, TRL Ltd (2001-02; 4 man-months).

Materials advisor on a review of alternative pavement surfacings for basic rural access in Vietnam, TRL/WSP (2001-02, 2 man-months)

Geotechnical specialist on an IBRD-funded project to draft an Indonesian Road Design Manual. Client: TRL Ltd. (2000-01: 5 man-months)

Drafting research reports on the selection of road construction materials and on the utilisation of marginal low-cost materials for road construction or developing countries. Client: TRL (UK) Ltd (1999-2001: 18 man-months)

Supervising engineering geologist on a European Union funded (Interreg II) project to assess the stability of sea-cliffs at Wimereux, Nord Pad de Calais. Client: University of Strathclyde. (2000: 2 man-months)

On site Engineering Geological Advisor on an IBRD-funded research project into the geotechnics of Indonesian coastal soft and peat soils. Specific responsibilities for on site supervision, laboratory management and data management. Client: TBV Consultancy Ltd. (1997-98: 6 man-months)

Supply of expert engineering geological advice for arbitration on a slope stability problem in Indonesia. Client: W S Atkins. (1998: 2 man-months)

Visiting geotechnical specialist and technical author on an IBRD funded slopes research and development programme at the Institute of Road Engineering (IRE), Indonesia. Drafted guidelines on soil-rock cut-slope stability. Client: TRL Ltd. (1996-1998: 5 man-months)

Geological advice and construction monitoring for the excavation of an 80 metre box-cut in weathered sedimentary rocks for a highway in a remote location in Sarawak. Client: KTA (Sarawak). (1996-98: 6 man-months)

Geological advice and construction monitoring of earthworks on roads in difficult mountainous terrain in Sarawak. Client: KTA (Sarawak). (1997-98: 2 Man-months)

Toll road geotechnical advice; Indonesia. Client: TBV Consultancy Ltd. (1996 : 2 man-months)

Field and laboratory investigation of residually weathered soil-rock profiles along the EW Highway, in N Malaysia as part of the preparation of Geoguides for Institut Kerja Raya Malaysia (IKRAM). Client: Civil Engineering Dept. University of Strathclyde. (1993-96: 18 man-months)

On site geotechnical design studies and geotechnical reporting for a 60km proposed Toll Road in West Java in difficult terrain - Client: Rendel Geotechnics Limited. (1990-91: 6 man-months)

Geotechnical Specialist on a two-year IBRD-funded Technical Assistance and Research project at the Institute of Road Engineering, Indonesia. Specific responsibilities for designing and managing research projects in materials' inventories and slope stability. Clients: Frank Graham International, seconded to Transport Research Laboratory (TRL). (1991-93: 22 man-months)

Geotechnical advice on the socio-economic assessment of a West Java toll road. Client: Transport Research Laboratory (TRL). (1991: 1 man-month)

Employment and Experience Record Jan 1999 to Date Contracted Consultant TRL Ltd

From April 1999- to Date Director: London Mining and Mineral Consultants Ltd

From October 1995 to 2000 Employer University of Strathclyde Position held : Part-time Lecturer in Dept. of Civil Engineering

From October 1990 to Date ENGINEERING GEOLOGICAL CONSULTANT (See portfolio above)

From September 1989 to October 1990 Employer : FRANK GRAHAM INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Position held : Associate Director Responsible for the development of overseas geological and geotechnical projects. Worked closely with TRL to develop a framework for national road materials and landslide inventories.

From March 1989 to August 1989. CONSULTANT ENGINEERING GEOLOGIST Retained by TRL to continue the development of a road materials inventory system for Indonesia. Training counterpart staff in the use of micro-computer based inventory.

From February 1988 to February 1989. Employer TP O'SULLIVAN & PARTNERS Position held Road Materials Specialist Road materials research expert on IBRD Technical Assistance Project with IRE (Indonesia) and TRRL (UK). Responsible for the planning and organisation of road materials inventory of West Java together with research into its methodology and application.

From 1986 to 1988. Employer WIMPEY LABORATORIES LIMITED Position held Head of Geology Responsible for technical management of all geological projects and up to 15 professional staff. Particular responsibility for feasibility studies into a proposed Severn Barrage and management of investigations for the Channel Tunnel. Drafted Expert Evidence to British Parliamentary Select Committees on the Channel Tunnel project. Employment and Experience Record (cont’d)

From 1982 to 1986. Employer WIMPEY LABORATORIES LIMITED Position held Senior Geologist Involved in the following overseas and UK projects: Sarawak : Senior Engineering Geologist on a feasibility study for 120 km of proposed highway in mountainous rain forest terrain. Nigeria : In charge of geotechnical investigations and reporting for large design and construct irrigation dam project in Bauchi State. Swaziland : Supplied on-site expert advice to arbitration team on excavation problems for a large rockfill dam as part of a major hydroelectric scheme. UK. : Slope stability advice to Wimpey open cast

From 1980 to 1982. Employer HOWARD HUMPHREYS AND PARTNERS, UNITED KINGDOM Position held Senior Geologist Involved in the following projects: Tanzania: Base on site for one year as the materials and geotechnical engineer on 140 km of remote road construction in the south west of the country. Responsible for the location, proving and testing of laterite and lateritic gravel sources for pavement. Supervised contractor's extraction and use of the materials. Also responsible for the monitoring of cut-slope and embankment stability. Senegal : Member of site reconnaissance team for remote dam-site. Undertook field mapping and subsequent reporting. UK. In charge of supervisory team of geologists and engineers for a large highway site investigation in English Midlands. Produced design report.

From 1979 to 1980. Employer HOWARD HUMPHREYS AND PARTNERS, UNITED KINGDOM Position held Geologist Design and supervision of site investigations in N. Wales. On-site investigations into a large cut-slope failure in S. Wales.

From 1976 to 1979. Employer : OSIRIS SURVEYS/OSIRIS-CESCO LIMITED Position held : Project Engineer Employed as overseas geologist in Australia and the Middle East on site investigations and materials surveys. Offshore site investigation experience with drop and vibro-cores and remote controlled coring machine.

From 1975 to 1976. One-year postgraduate course in Engineering Geology at Imperial College, London.

From 1973 to 1975. Employer SOUTH AFRICAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Position held Engineering Geologist Dam-site investigations and construction material surveys in Natal Province. Supervised the initial engineering geological investigations for the Drakensberg Pump Storage Scheme.Affairs.

From 1972 to 1973. Employer : BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Position held : Assistant Scientific Officer Geologist in the Geochemical Division of BGS carrying out geological mapping and field sampling studies in the United Kingdom.

Publications

a. Books and Published Reports

1997. Tropical Residual Soils. Geol. Society Professional Handbook. Geological society of London, . ISBN 1-897799-38-1. (J R COOK : Chapter-author and Member of Working Party Committee) Fookes P.J. (Editor)

1996. Malaysian Tropically Weathered In Situ Materials; 1.Occurrence and Nature. IKRAM, Malaysia, ISBN 983 99855-2-3. J R COOK and A. McGown

1996 Malaysian Tropically Weathered In Situ Materials; 2. Site Investigations. IKRAM, Malaysia, ISBN 983 99855-3-1. J R COOK and A. McGown).

1996. Malaysian Tropically Weathered In Situ Materials; 3. Laboratory Testing. IKRAM, Malaysia, ISBN 983 99855-4-X. J R COOK and A. McGown).

1996. Malaysian Tropically Weathered In Situ Materials; 4. Geotechnical Character of Profiles. IKRAM, Malaysia, ISBN 983 99855-5-8. J R COOK and A. McGown).

b Refereed Papers

1998. The role of engineering geology in the hazard zonation of a Malaysian Highway. IN: Maund and Eddleston (Eds), Geohazards in Enginereeing Geology, Geological Society (UK) Eng. Geol. Spec. Pub. No.15, ISBN 1-86339-012-6 . J R COOK, A. McGown, G. Hurley, Lee Eng Choy.

1991 Highway construction aspects of the Quaternary engineering geology of West Java. IN: Forster et al (Eds), Quaternary Engineering Geology, Geological Society (UK) Eng. Geol. Spec. Pub. No.7, . ISBN 0-903317-57-5 (J R COOK and J S Younger)

1994. The impact of the characteristics of Indonesian soils on construction. 13th ICSMFE, New Delhi. J S YOUNGER and J R Cook.

1987 Engineering geology of road projects in North Borneo. IN: Bell et al (Eds) Planning & Engineering Geology, Geological Society (UK) Eng. Geol. Spec. Pub. No.4, ISBN 0-903317-38-9 (J R COOK; J S Younger).

c. Communications

1991 Tropical Soils in Indonesia. Panel discussion, 9th Asian Regional Conf.1991, ISSMFE, Bangkok. J S YOUNGER and J R Cook

d. Conference Papers

2002. A framework for the appropriate use of marginal materials. World Road Association (PIARC). Technical Committee C12 Seminar, Mongolia. J R COOK & C S Gourley

2000. Developing Solutions to Slope Stability Problems in Indonesia. PIARC Conf., Kuala Lumpur< Malaysia. J R COOK , M Woodbridge and B S Saroso. PUBLICATIONS (Cont’d) d. Conference Papers (Cont’d)

1999. Development and Implementation of a Construction Materials Information System. 7th Int Conf. on Low Volume Roads, Louisiana, USA, J R COOK and M WOODBRIDGE

1997. Engineering Geological Characterisation of Tropically Weathered In Situ Materials. PhD Thesis, Dept of Civil Engineering, University of Strathclyde. J R COOK.

1996. The geotechnical characterisation of some tropically weathered soil-rock profiles. 12th S E Aian Geotechnical Conf. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. J R COOK, Lee Eng Choy, Nik Ramlan).

1996. IKRAM Geoguides on the engineering geology of Malaysian tropical weathered in-situ materials. 12th S E Asian Geotechnical Conf. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. . J R COOK, A. McGown, Nik Ramlan).

1995. Geohazard identification for a toll road project in West Java, Indonesia. Proc. Conf. on Geohazards and Engineering, Eng. Group of Geol. Soc. Conf, UK,. J R COOK, M. Sellwood, N. Pickering

1994. Origin and nature of Malaysian Weathered Rocks and Soils. Keynote Paper, Geotropika '94, Regional Conference in Geotechnical engineering, Malacca, Malaysia. 1994. A.McGOWN and J R Cook.

1994. An approach to the characteristics of tropically weathered soil-rock profiles. Geotropika '94, Regional Conference in Geotechnical Engineering, Malacca, Malaysia, 1994 J R COOK, Nik Ramlan, Lee Eng Choy.

1992. Indonesian slope inventory studies. Proceedings of the 7th Conference. REAAA Singapore, 1992. J R COOK, P J Beaven & A Rachlan.

1991. Environmental impact and geotechnical highway design. Proceedings of the 3rd Pasca Sarjana Workshop on Developments in Highways and Transportation Technology, Bandung, Indonesia, August. J R COOK and G W J Fernandez).

1990. The design and use of a road materials inventory. Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. J R COOK, P J Beaven and Benny Moestapha).

1990. The management of road-making materials sources. Proceedings of 4th Annual Conference on Road Engineering (Indonesia), Vol 7, Jakarta. J R COOK, P J Beaven, Alan Rachlan, D J Savage)

1988. The field description and identification of tropical residual soils. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geomechanics in Tropical Soils, Singapore, 12-14 December, 1988. J R COOK and D NEWILL.

1988. Implications of tropical weathering in road design and construction. Proceedings of the 2nd Pasca Sarjana Workshop on Developments in Highways and Transportation Technology, Bandung, Indonesia, 8-9 November. J R COOK and J S YOUNGER.

1987. Ground investigations for roads. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Road Engineering, Bandung, Indonesia, J R COOK and J S YOUNGER. PUBLICATIONS (Cont’d) e. Principal Unpublished Research Reports

2002. Promoting the Use of Marginal Materials. .DFID-funded TRL Research Report J R COOK, principal author.

2001 The Selection and Use of Construction Materials for Road Construction in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Countries. DFID-funded TRL Research Report (Draft). J R COOK, principal author.

1998. Application of the Indonesian Slope Information System; an Example from a Highway Project in Seram, Maluku, Indonesia. IBRD Road Research Development Project, Bandung. TRL Report to Ministry of Works, Indonesia. J R COOK

1998. Guidelines for Highway Slope Design in Indonesia. IBRD Road Research Development Project, Bandung. TRL Report to Ministry of Works, Indonesia. J R COOK.

1997. Factors Influencing Highway Slopes in Java. IBRD Road Research Development Project, Bandung. TRL Report to Ministry of Works, Indonesia. J R COOK and M. Woodbridge.

1993. A Guide to the Status and Use of National Road Materials Inventory. IBRD Technical Assistance and Research Programme, TRL Report to Ministry of Works, Indonesia. J R COOK and D Savage

1993. The identification of Aggregate Sources. IBRD Technical Assistance and Research Programme, TRL Report to Ministry of Works, Indonesia. J R COOK

1993. The Detailed Assessment of Aggregates and Aggregate Sources. IBRD Technical Assistance and Research Programme, TRL Report to Ministry of Works, Indonesia. J R COOK.

1993. The Formation of an Indonesian Slope Inventory. IBRD Technical Assistance and Research Programme, TRL Report to Ministry of Works, Indonesia. J R COOK

1989. A Road Materials Inventory for West Java and Part of South Sumatera. IBRD-funded IRE Research Report No. 11.072.PT.89. Institute of Road Engineering, Bandung, 1989. J R COOK and Benny Moestapha.