Join WJ Groundwater in association with ALGA

Australia and NZ governments are embarking on a growing list of major infrastructure projects.These projects will require dewatering and de-pressurisation management to facilitate construction and to avoid risks like subsidence, water ingress, contamination of aquifers, and catastrophic failure.

The workshop will offer insight into the groundwater management methods and technologies used in projects, including the London Cross Rail that could be deployed in the Australasian context.

Speakers

Pr William Powrie

FREng MA MSc PhD FICE CEng
Professor in Geotechnical Engineering and Dean, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton.

Professor in Geotechnical Engineering and Dean, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Professor William Powrie has technical expertise in geotechnical aspects of sustainable waste and resource management and transport infrastructure encompassing groundwater control, retaining walls, earthworks, railway track and soil behaviour.

Author / co-author of over 100 papers in leading academic and professional journals, and of the best-selling textbook Soil mechanics: concepts and applications, and the recent CIRIA design guides C750 (groundwater control) and C760 (embedded retaining walls).

Dr Toby Roberts

FREng PhD CEng CGeol CWEM FICE FGS MCIWEM
Geotechnical expert with over 30 years’ experience, in the design and implementation of groundwater control systems for large excavations, foundations and tunnels with extensive project experience in the Middle East and Europe. Founder member and current Chairman of the international dewatering contractor WJ Groundwater.

Key interests are contracting and consultancy in geotechnical engineering and hydrogeology specialising in groundwater management systems, pumping test design and analysis, recharge systems, design of groundwater control pumping equipment, numerical modelling and groundwater remediation systems. Author/ co-author of over 30 publications on groundwater control systems including the UK industry design guide CIRIA report C750 on ‘Groundwater control: design and practice’.