AUSTRALIAN GEOMECHANICS SOCIETY

"GEOTECHNICAL CHALLENGES

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23rd October 2014 Treasury Casino Hotel, Brisbane

THE GEOTECHNICAL LIFE CYCLE, FROM INVESTIGATION TO DELIVERY

PROGRAM

SESSION 1

8.30 - 9.00 9.00 - 9.15 9.15 - 10.00

10.00 - 11.00

11.00 - 11.15

REGISTRATIONWELCOME, OPENING COMMENTS & INTRODUCTIONPLATINUM SPONSOR PRESENTATION"From Mud Ponds to Mining Port – Investigation, Design, Testing, Implementation and Verification of Ground Improvement Works at NCIG.” Oliver Batchelor (Keller Ground Engineering)

KEYNOTE SPEAKER SUZANNE LACASSE (NGI)Extension of the 8th Terzaghi Oration.“Protecting society from landslides: Case studies from investigation to delivery”

MORNING TEA (sponsored by Global Synthetics)

11.15 - 12.00 RICHARD EVANS (GHD)“Smart investigations and their influence on design”

12.00 - 12.45 JODY TODD (BHP/BMA)“The Mining Journey – Open Cut and Underground Cycles and learnings on the way”

12.45 - 1.45 LUNCH & EXHIBITION BOOTHS

SESSION 2

1.45 - 2.45

2.45 - 3.15

3.15 - 3.30

MIKE STRAUGHTON (ARUP) “The geotechnical life (or death) cycle: lessons between designers and contractors on Airport Link”

FRED BAYNES (BAYNES GEOLOGIC)“Optimizing geoscience inputs during the project life cycle”

AFTERNOON TEA (sponsored by Geofabrics)

SESSION 3

3.30 - 4.00

4.00 - 4.30

CHRIS BRIDGES (COFFEY) “Geotechnical risk on large infrastructure projects from investigation to delivery "GOLD SPONSOR PRESENTATIONThe impact of insufficient geotechnical investigation on the design and costs of retaining structures"

4.30 - 4.45 4.45 - 5.45

Martin Silec (Concrib) CLOSING AND LUCKY DRAW DRINKS AND NETWORKING

MODERATOR

Dr Burt Look is a Principal at Foundations Specialists Group. His early years in structural design and civil works showed him there was a gap in under-standing ground related issues. That led him to search for this knowledge at Imperial College, London where he completed his Master’s degree. He completed his PhD at The University of Queensland while also working at Queensland Main Roads.

He was formerly the Geotechnical Practice Leader at SKM (now Jacobs) and also a Principal and the Geotechnical Knowledge and Service Delivery Leader at Aurecon. He was the past Chairman of the Queensland Chapter of the Australian Geomechanics Society and Chairman of the organising committee for the 10th Australia New Zealand Conference held in Brisbane in 2007.

Burt is a strong advocate of learning and development and sharing of experiences. He has published over 55 technical papers and 3 books. He has de-veloped and presented the Education Engineers Australia course on “Earthworks” for the past 8 years to share experiences with over 1,000 professionals.

BURT LOOKPrincipal, Foundations

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Lacasse was born in the mining town of Noranda, Québec, Canada. She completed her Bachelor of Arts at University of Ottawa (1967), and Bachelor in Civil Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique of Montréal (1971). Graduate studies followed in cotutelle at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA and Ecole Polytechnique. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1976. She was Lecturer at Ecole Polytechnique (1973-1975), and faculty member of the Civil Engineering Department at MIT (1975-1983), where she also was Head of the Geotechnical Laboratory. Dr. Lacasse went to the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in 1978 as a post-doctoral fellow. At NGI, she worked on research and consulting assignments, both in Norway and abroad, with secondments in several countries. She became NGI's Managing Director in 1991, a position she held until 2012. Since 2012, she is Technical Director at NGI. She served as President of the Canadian Geotechnical Society in 2003-2004.

During the early part of her professional career, Dr Lacasse concentrated her work in the area of geotechnical laboratory techniques, in situ investigation methods and soil behaviour modelling studies. Subsequently, she worked on foundation engineering and design, slope stability evaluation and improvement and the development of calculation procedures for both structures on land and offshore. In her work, Dr. Lacasse concentrated on combining mathematical and numerical analyses with practical geotechnical engineering design conside¬rations.

She was a key member of the NGI-team developing practical design analysis procedures for offshore platforms subjected to storm loading. The procedures are today widely recognised and accepted. She published several often referred to articles and reports within the fields of laboratory testing, in situ testing and offshore foundation design.

Since the mid-80s, she has developed and applied statistics, probabilistic analysis and reliability and risk concepts to assist in the foundation design and decision process and is well known for her contributions on hazard and risk assessment and risk management.

As Managing Director of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, she maintained a keen interest for the technical aspects of NGI’s work, and conducted research and consulting work. Dr Lacasse was elected to the US National Academy of Engineers in 2001 with the citation: "For enlightened direction of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute and for advancements in foundation engineering for offshore structures". She has given keynote lectures in over 30 countries, and is author or co-author of near 300 papers.

Dr Lacasse received many awards, including doctorates Honoris Causa from the University of Dundee and the University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, the Robert Legget Award of the Canadian Geotechnical Society, the K.Y. Lo Medal of the Engineering Institute of Canada for excellence in engineering, the ALERT 2009 Gold Medal in Geomechanics (Europe) and the Effective Teaching Award in Civil Engineering at MIT. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineers, the Canadian Academy of Engineers, l'Académie des Sciences Technologies in France, the Norwegian Academy of Engineering and Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Technology. Dr. Lacasse is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Engineering Institute of Canada and the American Society of Civil Engineers, and an honorary member of the Norwegian Geotechnical Society.

She gave the 37th Terzaghi Lecture of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2001, the 8th Terzaghi Oration of the ISSMGE in 2013 and she will be giving the 55th Rankine Lecture of the British Geotechnical Association in 2015.

SUZANNE LACASSE (NGI)Technical Director, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute

“Extension of the 8th Terzaghi Oration. Protecting society from landslides: Cases studies from investigation to delivery”

SPEAKERS

Richard Evans is a geotechnical and dams engineer with over 20 years of design and construction Australian and international experience, including many Queensland based projects. Richard is the Manager of Dams, Tunnels and Geotechnics for the GHD Brisbane office, with a group of around 50 engineers and geologists. Under his leadership, the group successfully delivered on multidisciplinary projects, including Springfield to Darra Transport Corridor, the Northern Missing Link Rail, Cotter Dam, Legacy Way Tunnel, Western Corridor Recycled Water Project alliances and Port of Brisbane Motorway. He is a geotechnical engineer that has worked for consulting firms, but also gained considerable practical experience on construction projects.

RICHARD EVANSManaging Geotechnical Engineer, GHD

Oliver Batchelor is the General Manager of Keller Ground Engineering, the largest ground improvement contractor in Australia. Graduating from London QMW and completing a Masters at Imperial College London he commenced his career in the UK, prior to moving to Australia In 2001. In 2004 he was a founding member of Keller Ground Engineering initially responsible for new business and latterly as General Manager. Over the last 10 years Oliver has been involved with some of the largest ground improvement projects in the country including Port Waratah Coal, Ipswich Motorway Minefill, NCIG, Hunter Expressway and most recently the New Perth Stadium Project. He has been part of a team at Keller which has introduced and pioneered many of the techniques in the ground improvement market place today.

OLIVER BATCHELOR General Manager, KELLER"From Mud Ponds to Mining Port – Investigation, Design, Testing, Implementation and Verification of Ground Improvement Works at NCIG”

“Smart investigations and their influence on design”

Mike is a geotechnical engineer who, after working for a Contractor, joined Arup in 2000 and currently leads the Perth office. Mike has worked across a range of projects in the UK and Australia, including Channel Tunnel Rail Link (now High Speed 1), a programme of earthworks renewals across the south west UK for Network Rail and Kogan Creek Power Station near Chinchilla. Mike was the Parsons Brinckerhoff-Arup (PBA) geotechnical design lead for the Airport Link Project. For this role he managed a team of over 50 ground engineering professionals to provide geotechnical designs for over 25 cut and cover structures, along with project wide studies covering ground movement and hydrogeological impacts. Mike is currently involved in the new Perth Stadium and Mitchell Freeway extension projects in Western Australia.

MIKE STRAUGHTONPrincipal, ARUP

SPEAKERS

Jody Todd is currently the Manager of Mine Planning for the new BMA open cut coal mine Caval Ridge. He is a mining professional with over 20 years’ experience in open pit, underground mining operations and projects in six commodities. Jody has significant technical and project management experience of large mine engineering, geotechnical, survey and geological teams with proven results in attraction, retention and delivery. Jody has spent time working in Canada and Australia with roles as the Geotechnical Manager of BMA open cut group and BHP Cannington Mine moving from Senior Geotechnical Engineer to Technical Services Manager. Jody graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Geology) in Canada and has since studied Masters in Applied Science, Mining Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Jody has been involved in business evaluation, risk management and project feasibility of all phases as part of study teams on multiple commodity types and Internal peer review teams.

JODY TODD Mine Planning Manager, BMA COAL (BHP BILLITON)

“The Mining Journey – Open Cut and Underground Cycles and Learnings on the way

“The geotechnical life (or death) cycle: lessons between designers and contractors on Airport Link”

Fred Baynes was educated in the UK where he obtained a BSc in geology from Bristol University, an MSc in engineering geology from Imperial College and a PhD from Newcastle University relating to research on weathered rocks. After working for a site investigation contractor in the UK for a couple of years, he immigrated to Australia in 1980, where he has worked as an engineering geologist for contractors, consultants and utilities.Fred is now an independent consultant engineering geologist with a continuing love of field work and is based in Central Victoria, Australia. He provides advice to major projects in the civil, mining and oil and gas sectors throughout the world. The advice provided invariably centres around “getting the geology right” and developing effective geological models of all sorts to facilitate project delivery.

FRED BAYNES Consultant Engineering Geologist, BAYNES GEOLOGIC

SPEAKERS

Chris has over 25 years of geotechnical experience with MSc in Geotechnical Engineering and Environmental Geotechnology and a PhD from the University of Queensland. He is a Senior Principal with Coffey Geotechnics in Brisbane, where he has been based since 2004. Prior to arriving in Australia, Chris worked in the UK and Hong Kong. He was Geotechnical Manager for the Inner Northern Busway Project in the Brisbane CBD, led the design of retaining structures on the Gateway Upgrade Project and of major temporary excavations for the Airport Link Project.

CHRIS BRIDGES Senior Principal, COFFEY

After completing his Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) at Qld. Institute of Technology in 1978, Martin spent 8 years working in the precast concrete industry. During this time, he gained valuable experience in design, construction and sales, which assisted him in setting up Concrib Retaining Walls in 1984. Concrib celebrates 30 years in business this October. Martin maintains a close working relationship with the civil construction industry through membership and participation in The Institution of Engineers, Concrete Institute of Australia, Civil Contractors Federation, Queensland Master Builders, Australian Geomechanics Society, and the Urban Development Institute of Australia.

MARTIN SILECOwner, CONCRIB

“Optimizing Geoscience inputs during the project life cycle”

“Geotechnical risk on large infrastructure projects frominvestigation to delivery”

“The impact of insufficient geotechnical investigation on the design and costs of retaining structures “

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