Career Summary:
Dave Hindle is a Chartered Engineer and a fellow of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. He 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 and was appointed as Chairman of Tunnel Construction and Piling '99 and Underground Engineering 2001 Conferences and exhibitions in London. His career began in mining in Cornwall and the Zambian Copperbelt where he was involved in the design and construction of large underground stopes, haulages, shafts and chambers. Following work in the Middle East, for water supply projects he has undertaken tunnelling related projects in both the UK and overseas. Dave Hindle 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.
Career History:
2000 - Date tunnelconsultants.com Director
1991 - Date Director, London Mining & Mineral Consultants (concurrent with above)
1992 - 1994 Managing Director, Dr G Sauer Company Ltd. London (concurrent with above)
1990 - 1991 Technical Director, Travers Morgan Ltd.
1989 - 1990 Freelance Consultant in Tunnelling, Mining and Geotechnical Engineering
1988 - 1989 Post Graduate Student, Imperial College, London
1979 - 1988 Engineer/Senior Engineer/Principal Engineer, Howard Humphreys and Partners
1977 - 1979 Project Geologist, Pencol Engineering Consultants Ltd.
1974 - 1976 Sectional Geologist/Senior Geologist/Mine Captain, ZCCM, Mufulira Mine, Zambia
1972 Trainee Geologist, Consolidated Goldfields Ltd., Wheal Jane Mill, Cornwall
Key Experience:
Project management - tunnels, underground excavations for civil engineering
Geotechnical engineering - Slope stability, opencast mining, quarries, dam foundations, subsidence, underground excavations
Tunnel Engineering - including cut and cover, immersed, hard rock and soft ground bored tunnelling Environmental, economic and contractual aspects of construction.
Assignments in: Austria, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Libya, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, Switzerland, Tanzania, UK, USA, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
