After studying Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology, Paul Cools performed dredging research at Delft Hydraulics. He then started a career at Rijkswaterstaat, an agency of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, as manager of different fields such as materials research, the supply of raw building materials and policy and project analysis. Currently he co-ordinates the research and consultancy of Deltares with regard to the construction of civil engineering projects and also is the secretary of the Steering Committee of the Geo-Impuls program.
Paul Maliphant studied Geology at Edinburgh and Bristol Universities before commencing his career as a management trainee and subsequently resource geologist with the National Coal Board Opencast Executive (subsequently British Coal Opencast). In 1993 he moved to Mid Glamorgan County Council working as an Engineering Geologist on property, road and land reclamation schemes whilst completing his MSc at Cardiff University. A move into the private sector took him to Halcrow Group Ltd (a CH2M HILL company) working on landslides, canal restoration, major highway and dispute resolution commissions. He currently majors in business development whilst acting as the Welsh Government’s principal geotechnical risk advisor. He is also the Vice President of the Geological Society of London and has been leading an industry initiative on enhancing the value generated from effective geotechnical risk management in UK construction.
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22 MAY 2013
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18:00 - 20:00
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In the Netherlands - Paul Cools: Building in, on or with soil is not always easy. On average, geotechnical problems during engineering, construction, and operation of civil engineering projects result in cost increases of 10% of the original budgets. In the Netherlands alone, this amounts to hundreds of millions of Euros annually, so action within the geotechnical community was needed. The Dutch industry-wide Geo-Impuls program was launched on 1 July 2009 to strengthen civil engineering projects by substantially reducing geotechnical failures. The two key objectives of the Geo-Impuls program are (1) a completed GeoRM toolbox, including guidelines and best-practices, and (2) a record of 100 projects that demonstrate GeoRM adoption by 2015 which requires embedding GeoRM principles and practices in organisations. Paul will provide an overview of the Geo-Impuls program.
In the UK - Paul Maliphant: Paul’s 2011 ‘thought paper’, Rising to the Carbon and Cost Challenges through more effective Geotechnical Risk Management, concluded that, with more effective management of geotechnical risks, greater value could be added to the cost and carbon impact of the UK construction industry than it is currently manifest and that the industry and ground engineering professions should adopt a new approach to this old problem to enhance the level of confidence society has in such services without delay. Paul has combined the outputs of two cross-disciplinary risk seminars held in 2012, and other independent research, to author the UK Country Report on the Integration of Geotechnical Risk Management in Project Risk Management for the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) TC304, Task Force 3. Paul will outline the details of this draft report and welcome discussion that could influence final edits before publication on 31st May 2013.
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