PIANC
PIANC provides access to worldwide trends and challenges in port and waterway development and management.
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At this seminar speakers will discuss their involvement in the PIANC working groups (WG) and their roles as UK delegates, providing the audience with an early opportunity to understand the outcome of each. The speakers will report on the progress made so far and main areas of interest for the audience. There will be an opportunity to put questions to speakers.
PIANC provides access to worldwide trends and challenges in port and waterway development and management.
Tea and coffee at the Kendall’s foyer
Introduction from the chair
Speaker 1 – Rob Williams, Waves-group
Speaker 2 – Martin Mannion, Mannion Marine Limited
Speaker 3 – Mohammad H Yadollahi, HKA
Speaker 4 – Greg Haigh
Q&A
Finish - drinks at the Kendall's bar
Waves-group
Associate Director
Rob is a Maritime Civil Engineer with over 27 years of experience in the design and project management of a wide range of marine infrastructure projects. Rob regularly works with P&I Clubs, lawyers, vessel owners, brokers and other members of the maritime shipping community to provide technical, contractual and financial assistance on a range of maritime civil, Fixed and Floating Object (FFO) and crane damage cases. This includes global attendances for initial damage assessment, advising on temporary repairs and final repair solutions, detailed claim assessment and assisting throughout the claim resolution process.
Rob is a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and PIANC Working Group 211 responsible for updating the Guidelines for the Design of Fender Systems. He has considerable experience in the design and construction of wide range of maritime civil engineering works, which includes a wide range of quay structures, berthing and mooring dolphins, monopiles, fenders and mooring systems.
Mannion Marine Limited
Ports Expert and Director
Martin is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, with over 35 years' professional experience in planning, design and supervision of maritime projects globally.
He is an independent port consultant, working through Mannion Marine Limited.
Martin provides expert opinions/reports, technical and commercial management of and innovative solutions for port and maritime developments, master planning, port optimisation, due diligence, feasibility, design, analysis, reviews of port facilities.
Alvarez and Marsal
Senior Director
Mohammad Yadollahi is a Chartered Structural and civil engineer with around 20 years of experience, predominantly in the ports and maritime sector. Mohammad has worked as project director, project manager, design engineer and expert witness for a wide range of ports and maritime projects worldwide.
He has specialised experience in finite element analysis (FEA) of steel and concrete structures, ports and maritime civil engineering, seismic design of piled structures, and design assessment and repair of ports and maritime structures.
Haigh Consulting Engineers Ltd
director
Greg is a maritime civil engineer whose career spanned 47 years, including 18 years with Rendel, Palmer & Tritton and 17 years with Arup.
His career started with the detailed design of the Thames Barrier, followed by two years of site supervision, during which he qualified as a commercial diver. Subsequently he undertook the design, inspection and assessment of offshore structures, jetties and ports facilities, including the major oil jetties in Kuwait, and was project manager for the Mersey Barrage Tidal Power project in the early 1990’s.
From 1995 he re-established and developed Arup’s maritime business globally. From 2012, he provided expert witness services in connection with 12 projects to lawyers, major contractors and the large consultants through his own company.
Greg is Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and he was Chairman of PIANC in the UK from 2012 until 2021. He ceased practicing in January 2024 and is now busy in retirement – choral singing, listening to opera, travel, ‘parkruns’, swimming, long distance walking, walking cricket and PIANC.
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