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A) United Kingdom:
Crossrail Project (Farringdon Station)
Geotechnical Team leader for carrying out foundation design for Farringdon Station which is part of recent biggest European Project. The work includes assessing impact of constructing deep shafts on existing buildings in the surrounding area using 2D and 3D finite element models. Design of Diaphragm walls, secant pile walls and deep excavations is part of the works.
Blackfriars Bridge 407
Responsible for assessing impact of the construction of a new concrete box structure on the existing South Abutment of Blackfriars Bridge using 3D Finite Element Model. The problem under consideration is quite complex involving a piled raft foundation for the proposed structure as part of the structure will be founded on the existing abutment of the bridge.
Tottenham Court Road Station Upgrade
Responsible for leading design team carrying out detailed independent checking of the designs and impacts. This includes advanced numerical 2- and 3-D modelling of complex surface and underground works, covering secant pile walls, deep excavations and assessing the impact of the construction on the existing tunnels and LUL assets. A key challenge of this project was the need to limit deflections in the secant pile walls in order to avoid damage on the adjacent buildings and roads.
East London Line
Responsible for leading geotechnical team carrying out foundation design for Dalston, Hoxton and Shoreditch Stations of the East London Line. The work included assessing impact of constructing Dalston foundation on existing listed buildings as well as impact of Dalston station as a whole on the proposed future Crossrail tunnel.
Gerrard’s Cross
Geotechnical Team leader for the independent checking for the design of the anchored contiguous piles walls to be installed on both sides of the existing tunnel. Advanced modelling was required to assess the stability of the anchored contiguous piles, their deflections as well as the bending moments and the shear forces.
Thames Link Borough Viaduct
Responsible for assessing impact of the construction of the Borough Viaduct on the existing Northern and Jubilee lines tunnels. The work included also impact moving loads on existing buried services and LUL assets.
CrossRail Acton Dive Under Project
Responsible for assessing effects of deep excavation immediately adjacent to an existing bridge pier foundation by means of Numerical Modelling.
Haymarket Rail Tunnels
Responsible for assessing the effects of constructing a new development on the two existing Victorian brick lined tunnels in Edinburgh. Complex Finite Element Analysis was carried out to predict stresses and displacements on the existing tunnel linings during each construction phase and after completion of the permanent works.
Building & Construction of Qatar military attaché
21 Hertford Street Mayfair, London
Accommodation tower of 62 flats in Harrow Road,
Luxury Villa at 58 Bishops Avenue, Refurbishment to Regent Banqueting Centre in North London, Wimbledon Tennis hall solar panels network for heating & lightings and several smaller constructions projects throughout London
B) Holland:
High Speed Line between Amsterdam-Paris, Holland
Key member of the engineering team for this large European rail projects of recent times. He is assigned to lead the geotechnical design team for all aspects of project, including tunnelling (Rotterdam Tunnel), deep excavations and retaining structures using 2D and 3D Finite Element Modelling.
Metro Line Amsterdam, Holland
Responsible for leading the design team for this challenging project, involving 18m deep excavations beneath the Amsterdam Central Station building. This included Finite Element Analysis to predict settlements, deformations and stresses in order to demonstrate that the proposed works would not damage the historic station building.
Dikes improvement, Holland
This project involves taking every necessary measures to improve and reinforce the existing embankments as well to design new dikes along Waal and Maas rivers.
The rate of constructions are specified so that reasonable safety factors for stability are ensured. The build up pore water pressures during construction and also the time required for the dissipation of the excess pore water pressures are calculated. In many sites and due to the limited time available for construction, geotextiles and/or soil improvements are applied in order to improve the shear strength against sliding.
C) Middle East:
IRAQ:
A project of 13 berths in Umm Qaser, South of Iraq
The study was focused on, (i) if there is a need to use sand-drains in order to accelerate the rate of consolidation and so to reduce the time required for consolidation settlement, (ii) if there is a need for soil improvement in order to improve the allowable bearing capacity and (iii) How long should the preloading be applied in order to eliminate all the primary consolidation settlement, expected under the proposed permanent loading, plus such amount of secondary compression in order to reduce a post-construction settlement to tolerable values.
Babylon project, Iraq
The study involved predicting the behaviour of three (30 meter high earth fill) “mountains” in Babylon ancient city. Two main aspects were thoroughly investigated; the stability and the settlement. In addition to these two aspects, the influence of such constructions on the adjacent ruins was also assessed. Due to the importance of the ruins, suggestions were given to install inclinometers to monitor the lateral displacements during construction. It is worth mentioning that the reading-records were very close to the predicted values which have been calculated by using a computer program based on finite element method.
Geotechnical consultations for many other projects such as:
Al-Fao city project and Embankments in marshy areas south Iraq.
LIBYA:
Rehabilitation of power and desalination plant at LISCO Musrata
This involved the total recondition of Boilers Valves, Condensers, Desal Steam Header, Pumps and Turbine.
General Electric Company – Libya – distribution control centres (DCCs) to monitor and control 66, 30 kV and 11 kV main switching stations, the scope of each DCC includes mainly a SCADA/DMS system, the needed telecommunication media and the required substation works to adapt these substations for remote monitoring and control.
Petrochemical Plant refurbishments at SIRTE Oil Company, this involved the renewals of entire plant pipe works and maintenance of pumps, valves, compressors and associated equipments. |