PIANC
PIANC provides access to worldwide trends and challenges in port and waterway development and management.
- Date
- 29 November 2024
- Time
- 18:30 - 20:00 GMT
- Location
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The Institution of Civil Engineers One Great George Street Westminster London, SW1P 3AA United Kingdom
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Overview
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.
- Rob Williams will update us on the recently released WG211 Fender Design Guidelines report, which offers expert advice on designing, manufacturing, and testing fender systems.
- Martin Mannion will describe the progress on Working Group 224: Planning of fishing ports, which reviews the recently-published technical information and lessons from recent efforts related to the development and management/operation of fishing ports, and then incorporate useful information to the existing PIANC.
- Mohammad H Yadollahi will brief us on the progress of WG 233 Inspection, maintenance and repair of waterfront facilities. Since the report of WG 17 was published in 2004, considerable work has advanced the subject of inspection, maintenance and repair of maritime structures, including jetties/piers and wharves/quays. This report will update the previously well-received document to reflect advances in knowledge since its original publication.
- Greg Haigh will update us on PIANC’s involvement with the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). The IMO is the only United Nations agency based in the UK. PIANC’s executive committee, based in Brussels, has identified that mutual benefits would arise for both PIANC and IMO with closer collaboration. ExCom has therefore asked PIANC UK to manage the process of applying for consultative status at the IMO.
This presentation will outline the role of the IMO, identify some areas of mutual interest and present the timetable for the application which is being led by PIANC UK. It will also describe how, if the application for consultative status is successful, PIANC proposes to ensure the involvement of PIANC’s worldwide membership by establishing a permanent task group, while giving PIANC UK a major role in the process.
Programme
18:00 - 18:30
Tea and coffee at the Kendall’s foyer
18:30 - 18:35
Introduction from the chair
18:35 - 18:55
Speaker 1 – Rob Williams, Waves-group
18:55 - 19:15
Speaker 2 – Martin Mannion, Mannion Marine Limited
19:15 - 19:35
Speaker 3 – Mohammad H Yadollahi, Alvarez and Marsal
19:35 - 19:50
Speaker 4 – Greg Haigh
19:50 - 20:00
Q&A
20:00
Finish - drinks at the Kendall's bar
Speakers
Rob Williams
Waves-group
Associate Director
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Rob Williams
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.
Martin Mannion
Mannion Marine Limited
Ports Expert and Director
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Martin Mannion
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.
Mohammad H Yadollahi
Alvarez and Marsal
Senior Director
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Mohammad H Yadollahi
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.
Greg Haigh
Haigh Consulting Engineers Ltd
director
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Greg Haigh
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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