Principal Consultant
Bilfinger
Total years of experience :29 years, 11 Months
Principal Consultant (River hydrology, River hydraulics, and Geo-Hazards)
Project:- TAPI pipeline project Construction of 56 inch 1600km long pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan,
• AssesstheFEEDdocumentationregardingclimatechange, riverhydrology, river hydraulics on scouring protection, bank protection, erosion and flooding.
• AssesstheFEEDdocumentationregardingGeo-hazardssuchasseismicevents, liquefaction, buoyancy, landslide etc.
• AssesstheGeotechnicalinvestigationalongthepipelineroutetoidentify deficiencies end data required to carry out detail design.
• Preliminaryassessmentofwateravailabilityalongthepipelinerouteforconstruction and hydro testing.
• Makenecessarypreparationfordetaildesignalongthepipeline.
Contracting service through SUIS ENTERPRISE LTD
Project: - 1 to 1000 properties residential developments including the amenities, Hotels, Schools, Police headquarters, Multi-story buildings, Supermarket etc.
Applications / Achievements / Responsibilities:
• Carry out technical design and CDM and relevant standards,
• Achieve the project within the budgeted time,
• Report writing and presentation to client’s satisfaction,
• Technical direction and training of clients staff
• Design tools - Causeway PDS, Micro Drainage, Civil3D, Site3D, AutoCAD
• Design guides - DMRB, Sewer for Adoption, SUDs manual, Building Regulations
Elluc Projects
•Carried out the design work for residential development schemes such as; drainage strategy, tender design, detailed technical design, development enquiry, build over application, section 106 & 104 applications, and section 38 & 278 application.
•Software tools used are MICRODRAINAGE, PDS, Civil3D
Carried out the design work for residential development schemes such as; preparation of FRA, drainage strategy, tender design, detailed technical design, development enquiry, build over application, section 106 & 104 applications, and section 38 & 278 application.
•Highway design of Tingwick roundabout in A421 using CAUSEWAY PDS highway module and preparation of Section 278 technical submissions.
•Preparation a report on scope of Environment Impact Assessment for M5 via duct remediation work.
•Assistance for marketing including the preparation of proposals.
•Delivery of technical design for infrastructure projects with small team for residential developments, Universities, Schools, Industrial buildings etc.
•Involve at all stage of project and communicate with the clients to deliver project documents and designs on time within the budget.
•Overseen and preparation of FRA, drainage strategy, preliminary design, detailed technical design, development enquiry, build over application, Section 106 & 104 applications, and Section 38 and Section 278 application for highway works.
•Technical direction and mentoring for junior staff, and develop design tools
•Assistance for marketing including the preparation of proposals and business planning.
•Software tools used are MICRODRAINAGE, PDS, CIVIL3D
Carry out testing, design and analytical studies to develop high-pressure flexible pipes,
•Technical presentation on pipe-structure design, analysis and development to team members,
•Carry out stress and thermal analysis for project department and outside clients,
•Resolving the pipe crazing and developing the pipe-structure design method to introduce high-pressure high temperature riser pipes,
•Support the product development teams with numerical analysis and modelling work such as; analysis work of pipe structure, creep analysis, analytical modelling for breach detection, modelling to establish the stress and strain applied on the fibre optics during the real time operation,
•Carry out numerical analysis work for project department on riser pipe tender design such as; thermal analysis, thermal condition at bend stiffener, effect of welding at End-fitting on pipe integrity, pipe structure integrity etc.
Unemployed (Contracted to work as a senior design engineer for designing the pumping stations for manmade river project in Libya but abandoned due to the uprising in Bengazi.
(left due to redundancy)
•Project management of projects to ensure delivery both on time and budget.
•Technical direction and mentoring for junior staff, and develop design tools
•Assistance for marketing including the preparation of proposals and business planning.
•Technical design, drawings, and report writing for design elements involving; hydraulics, hydrology (FEH, WINFAP, IH124), river modeling, ground water seepage analysis, drainage, flood risk, feasibility studies and expert analysis. These activities were included in projects on; prefeasibility & viability studies on river flooding, flood mapping, flood hazard mapping, flood alleviation schemes, sport fields, port development, reservoir safety, day lighting of river culvert, and erosion protection for clients; Environment Agency, County Council, Qatar Gov., and Private Clients.
•Software tools used are ISIS, TUFLOW, INFOWORK RS, HECRAS, FEH, WINFAP, PROJECT MANAGER, MICRO DRAINAGE, MAPINFO, GLOBAL MAPPER, ArcGIS, and AUTOCAD.
Civil/Strctural Engineering Projects
(left to gain a career progress and avoid the uncertainty)
•Leading designer for large and complex projects, Participate to the clients'& progress meetings.
•Technical design, drawings, site investigations, and report writing for design elements involving; storm, & foul water drainage, road drainage, layout planning, flood risk, SUDs, hydraulics, hydrology(FEH, ReFEH, FSR, Wallingford), river modeling, Structures, pipelines, pumping stations, sheet piles. These activities were included in projects on; housing schemes, regeneration schemes, education village, science park, marina, industrial developments, bio energy ethanol plant, roads, pavement, river diversion, and superstores for clients; County councils, English heritage, and private clients.
•Technical direction and mentoring for junior staff and develop design tools.
•Preparation tender documents, engineering specifications, and Bill of quantities.
•Software tools used are MICRO DRAINAGE, PDS, AUTOCAD, ISIS, MIKE11, HECRAS, and FEH.
Civil/Strctural Engineering Projects
•Abengoa Bio Energy Ethanol plant Structural design of pumping station and RC Culverts
•Silverdale Brook regeneration scheme : Reinforced concrete structural design multiple weir reservoir inlet and downstream headwall for 900mm diameter deep culvert out fall
•Steel wall retaining wall and cap beam for the mooring basin
Drainage Engineering Projects
•Frickley Colliery Regeneration scheme
head hunted by White Young Green)
•Expert analysis of analysis on pipeline joint failure to defend a contractor
•Technical design, technical drawings, site investigations, and report writing for design element involving; highways, navigation canals, SUDs, storm & foul water drainage, flood risk, DG5 flood risk, hydraulics, hydrology(ADAS, FSR, Wallingford, FEH, and Statistical Methods), catchment study, river modeling, flood mapping, flood warning, structures, land reclamation, pipelines, thrust blocks, pumping stations, layout planning. These activities were included in projects on; waste water treatment work, flooding, residential & industrial development, highway cum canal scheme, expert witness, Army garrisons, marina, and Aluminum processing plants for clients; Environment Agency, County councils, Yorkshire Water, IDB, Southern water, Directional drilling contractor, Overseas clients, and Private clients.
•Preparation of engineering specifications, Bill of quantities, and tender designs.
•Technical support for junior staff
•Participate to the clients' meetings, progress meetings.
•Software tools used are ISIS, INFOWORKS RS, HECRAS, FEH, MICRO DRAINAGE, HYDROWORK, INFOWORKS CS, INFOWORK WS, and AUTOCAD.
Civil/Structural Engineering Projects
•Chesterfield the Avenue contamination land: Tender design for the remediation of the Avenue site which is the most contaminated land in Europe, the design includes hydraulic study, processing cycle, and the method of processing, Observation made through bore holes studies were used to estimate the expected rate of leach during the excavation of lagoons. Remediation process was checked for extreme storm event up to 100 year event throughout the project life time using an automated spreadsheet calculation.
•Jamaloc Bauxite Plant, Jamaica:Design and issue of construction drawings for; pumping station, temporary settlement pond system to discharge contaminate surface runoff, concrete lined drainage canals pipe culverts, and retaining walls. Drainage design including the design of hydrology.
•Staveley Northern Loop:Responsible for the design of a flood compensation scheme, highway drainage, attenuation, reinforced concrete structures, and outfalls to the River Rother, 300m long 900mm diameter piped drainage cum canal overflow, and design section of the Chesterfield canal including bridle path and mooring area.
Fenland Hydrotech: (left due to the family commitment, closer to home)
•Project management; participate to the clients' meetings, progress meetings.
•Technical design, technical drawings, site investigations, and report writing for design element involving; Network modeling, process operation logics & telemetry connections, water works, pumping stations, pipelines, thrust blocks, hydraulic modeling, hydrology(FEH, Rational Method), buildings, structures, and contamination. These activities were included in projects on; feasibility, conceptual and detail design of water supply, residential developments, assessment on contaminated land, and tender design for clients; Essex & Suffolk water, Contractor, and Private clients.
•Preparation of engineering specifications, Bill of quantities, and tender designs.
•Software tools used are HECRAS, FEH, HYDROWORK, MIKE11, SAP2000 and AUTOCAD.
(left at the end of the contact)
•Pipeline technology research, research on pipe bursting of water main by ground freezing and thawing for utility company. Carried our laboratory, and field study, developed instruments
•Testing of pipes Instrumentation of pipe testing equipment, developing software for data logging, and analysing test results.
•European Commission project to establish design standard for GRP pipes: FLAC3d, and SAGE CRISP, were used for numerical modelling on buried Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) pipes to expand the observations of field experiments for computation of various other design cases, to develop a common European standards for buried GRP pipes.
Construction of Industrial warehouse, West Thurrock, and Frozen food processing unit, Sutton.
•Carried out site supervision quality control, site surveying, quantity surveying and structural setting out, and temporary work designs for concrete formworks, lifting frames, scaffolding.
•Developed method statements for associated works, and assessed health and safety risks.
•Participated in site meetings to find out the problems related to work execution and provide solutions.
•progress monitoring in CPM charts and discussed with the project manger
•Maintained continuous records of site design variations, weather, and material & machinery at site.
Mahaweli Engineering & Construction Agency Sri Lanka (MECA-DE) - (left for higher studies in UK)
•Performed design, costing, estimating and planning of various infrastructure development projects.
•Assessed design reports and technical drawings submitted by the consultants and provided alternative design solutions where necessary.
•Prepared tender documents, tender evaluations and provided recommendations to select suitable bidders for large scale projects.
•Reviewed contractual claims, monthly progress payments and negotiated new rates for extra works.
•Performed construction supervision and progress monitoring in CPM charts and discussed the progress with the consultant.
•Carried out temporary work designs for concrete formworks, lifting frames, scaffolding systems and developed construction methods for associated works.
•Participated in site meetings to find out the work execution related problems and counter them with appropriate solutions.
•Organized to maintain continuous records for material at site, weather charts and machinery available with their serviceability.
•Organized and conducted quality assurance tests of material production, material laying and finishing works in order to assure that the works meet the specific norms and practices.
•Developed computer software to calculate vast amount of structural and earth work quantities of irrigation structures, canal earth works and certify the interim and final payments.
Civil/Structural Engineering Projects
•Village Water supply scheme, Veheragala, Sri Lanka:Design of water supply and distribution mains of village water supply scheme from concept; Design of 150m3 reinforced concrete elevated water tank, prepare construction drawings, specification, and tender documents-currently use as a type plan in Sri lanka.
•River level Crossing, Ampara, Sri Lanka:Design of two river level crossings (10m & 30m) from concept, site investigation, Carry out hydraulics, foundation and structural design, preparation of construction drawings and tender document.
•Mahaweli Development Project, Sri Lanka:Ratkinda main canal project (10, 000 hectares) and Veheragala downstream development project (Irrigation for 700 Ac) of System `C' of Mahaweli development programme. I was responsible for the construction and supervision of: Main, Branch, Minor branch, Distribution, Field, and Drainage canals from jungle clearing to completion, which includes IP surveying, Initiate any design changes for site specific conditions, burrow pit surveying, certifying the quality of earth fill and concrete aggregates; construction of structures and earthworks. Supervision and quality control of over 50km long canal roads, schools, community centre buildings and village infrastructure; restoration used burrow pits. Developed a software programme to calculate quantities of earthwork and structure work and certify the contract payments.
Special Achievements:I have designed a cost effective elevated water tank for village water supply by reducing the construction cost almost by half, this was used repeatedly as a type plan. I have established software programme and data base for quantity surveying.
Construction planning, scheduling, progress and quality control
Expansion of Panagoda Army Garrisons including its waste water system.
Construction supervision, quality control and testing of centrifugally cast reinforced concrete pipes.
Construction supervision quality control of construction of Sewerage disposal scheme for Biyagama industrial zone.
Publications
•“Physical and Numerical Modelling of Pull-out Resistance in Reinforced Earth” (1997) International Conference on Ground Improvement Techniques, Macau.
•“The Significance of Dilatancy of the Backfill on the Soil-Structure Interaction of Polypropylene Reinforcement” (1998) International Conference on Ground Improvement Techniques, Macau.
•"Numerical Analysis and Soil Box Study of the Influence of Trench Width on the Behaviour of Buried GRP Pipes"(14-17 Sep1998) Plastic Pipeline System for the Millennium, Götenborg, Sweden
•"Effects of soil arching on the behaviour of flexible pipes in trench of varying widths"Geo science 2000
•"Soil Box Study of buried flexible pipes"(July 1998) presented in the poster conference organised by the postgraduates center of the University of East London.
•"Numerical analysis and soil box study of the influence of trench width on the behaviour of buried GRP pipes", Plastic Pipes X - Plastic Pipes for the Millennium, p. 857-865, Goteborg, Sweden, September 1998
Corporate Member of Institution of Engineers
Projects
•Waste water Treatment Works(WwTW), Southern Water
•Aspul mine water pumping station.
Pipeline Engineering Project
•Rugby pipeline, Norwset Holst: Represented a directional drilling contractor to defend them from liabilities arising from series of joint failures and resulting project delays and costs. Detail analysis was carried out to prove that the failure was due to the inadequate design of pipeline joints, not because of poor pipe joint construction. It was proved that necessary amendment for the pipeline joint design had not been carried out to accommodate the changes made in pipeline construction procedure and resulting pipe surrounding conditions. This was a very good lesson for application of CDM practises. Thrust blocks were redesigned.
Special Achievements:I have successfully defended a contractor against the client from the compensation resulting from pipeline joint failures.In Stevely Northern loop, I have designed innovative complex flood compensation system using low level flood volume to provide high level flood storage and got the EA approval which was considered difficult task by client.
Wild Trust Fund): Pumping station and drainage ditch diversion were designed including the structural design to meet the Nature Reserve demand without exceeding the abstraction license limit imposed by EA.
•Lightmoor residential development: Design of culvert structures and retaining walls for flood attenuation system including ditch and 1200mm diameter culvert
•Aspul mine water pumping station: Structural, foundation, and hydraulic design for Aspul mine water pumping station including the control system.
•Rugby pipeline: Design of thrust blocks to support the high pressure pipe line at bends
Hydraulics & Hydrology Projects
•River Mersey modelling & flood warning strategy.
•IDB March third catchment study
•Lightmoor residential development
Drainage Engineering Projects
•DG5 Flood risk assessments Yorkshire Water
I have created the Alumni database using the Raiser's Edge software package. I have got the training to use Raiser's Edge; subsequently I have trained the other users.
Hydraulics & Hydrology Projects
•Bothlin burn, river modelling, Glasgow
•Gwash valley river modelling
Special Achievements: I have challenged and amended the EA flood level published at Gwash Valley development. I got approval from the Environment Agency (EA) for my design to attenuate Silverdale site and upstream catchment within couple of month, where EA had declined all the previous design submissions for more than a year.Innovative SUDs design for Gainsborough education village within limited space.
Best Civil Engineering Final Year Project award)