Dr Benoit Jones
Dr Jones is the inventor of Strength Monitoring Using Thermal Imaging (SMUTI), an innovation that improves the safety and productivity of sprayed concrete lined tunnelling.
Benoit has authored more than 50 articles and papers on sprayed concrete, face stability, numerical modelling, and instrumentation and monitoring of tunnels. He has been awarded the Institution of Civil Engineers' Telford Premium prize for outstanding contribution to the civil engineering literature in 2009, and was invited to give the ICE's prestigious Geotechnical Engineering Lecture in both 2010 and 2012.
His experience of tunnelling is very diverse, having worked as a designer for a major consultant, for a contractor, then for a small consultancy, then as a teacher, setting up and running the MSc in Tunnelling and Underground Space at the University of Warwick from 2011 to 2015. He is now the founder and Managing Director of Inbye Engineering, a technology and consultancy company specialising in tunnelling and geotechnics since 2014.