Executive Technical Committee

The following people have kindly lent their expertise to help shape the agenda and review paper submissions:

• Prof. Harry Poulos, Senior Principal, COFFEY GEOTECHNICS
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Katzenbach, Head of the Institute and the Laboratory of Geotechnics, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DAR MSTADT and
  Chairman, TC18 Deep Foundations, ISSMGE
• Rudolph P. Frizzi, President, DFI and Senior Principal, LANGAN ENGINEERING & ENVIRONMENTAL, SERVICES
• Dr. Bengt Fellenius, Consultant, BENGT FELLENIUS CONSULTANTS
• John Hayes, President, LOADTEST
• Prof. Kenji Ishihara, Professor Department of Civil Engineering, CHUO UNIVERSITY and Past President, ISSMGE
• Prof. Richard Jardine, Head of Geotechnics, Professor of Geomechanics, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
• Prof. Wei Lee, Associate Research Professor, NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
• Prof. Yong Kwet Yew, Vice President (Campus Infrastructure), NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
• Ian Askew, Deputy head of Engineering, GAMMON
• Eric Li, Past Chairman, HONG KONG INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS
• Prof. Sangseom Jeong, Professor, Civil Engineering Department,YEON-SEI UNIVERSITY, KOREA and Secretary, ATC 18 Mega Foundations, ISSMGE
• Lai Kok Wai, Director, Foundation Division, TYSAN GROUP

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Prof. Harry Poulos
Senior Principal
COFFEY GEOTECHNICS

Harry Poulos joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Sydney University in 1965, and was appointed a Professor in 1982, a position he held until his retirement in 2001. In 1989, he joined the consulting firm of Coffey Partners International, and is currently a Senior Principal with Coffey Geotechnics. He is also an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney, and an Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has been involved in a large number of major projects in Australia and overseas, including high-rise building projects in Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and Qatar. He was selected as the Australian Civil Engineer of the Year for 2003 by the Institution of Engineers Australia, and as the inaugural Geotechnical Practitioner of the Year in 2004. He was the 1989 Rankine Lecturer, and the 2004 Terzaghi Lecturer.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Katzenbach
Head of the Institute and the Laboratory of Geotechnics
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DAR MSTADT and
Chairman, TC18 Deep Foundations, ISSMGE

Professor Rolf Katzenbach is a civil engineer educated at Technical University Darmstadt (Germany) where he got his Diploma (M.Sc.) and his Ph.D in Geotechnical engineering. Professor Katzenbach is a member of the chamber of engineers and a sworn expert who contributes to international courts of justice, arbitration committees, insurance companies, state ministries, and national and international banks, firms and investors. He has more than 30 years practical experience in geotechnical engineering. For the last 15 years and in addition to his role as senior partner in his consulting firm, Ingenieursozietät, Professor Katzenbach has been Director and Chairman of the Institute and Laboratory of Geotechnics at Technical University Darmstadt (TUD). He was responsible for developing the cost efficient foundation technique known as the Combined Pile Raft Foundation (CPRF). Professor Katzenbach is Chairman of the International Technical Committee, TC 18 “Deep Foundations”, of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), London, UK, and he is also president of the European Network of Excellence ELGIP (European Large Geotechnical Institutes Platform).

Rudolph P. Frizzi
President
DFI and
Senior Principal DFILANGAN ENGINEERING & ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES

Rudolph P. Frizzi has over 22 years of geotechnical engineering and project management experience with particular emphasis on foundations for arenas and high-rise structures in urban areas, embankment stability and large-scale land development on projects throughout the United States and overseas. He regularly prepares technical papers, and presents at technical lectures and seminars. His deep foundation expertise includes investigation, design, and construction of very high capacity drilled foundations (including shafts stabilised utilising both polymer and mineral slurries), augered cast-in-place piles and full-scale field load testing of these elements using the Osterberg Cell (O -Cell), Statnamic, and conventional static top-load testing. Rudolph has provided expert geotechnical consultation and testimony on excavation and foundation cases. He is currently a Senior Principal at Langan Engineering and Environmental Services and is also the current President of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) in the USA.

Dr. Bengt Fellenius
Consultant
BENGT FELLENIUS CONSULTANTS

Dr. Bengt H. Fellenius, formerly Professor of Civil Engineering at the University Of Ottawa, is an internationally recognized foundation engineering consultant and the author of more than 250 technical papers. His professional experience comes from a wide variety of assignments that encompass foundation design for industrial plants, water and sewage treatment facilities, bridges and highway projects, marine structures, and urban area development, as well as participation in special investigations, instrumented field tests, etc. Dr.Fellenius has given lectures and courses to several universities and international conferences throughout America, Europe, and South-East Asia. He currently lives in Calgary, Canada.

John Hayes
President
LOADTEST

John A. Hayes graduated from Queens University, Kingston with a Bachelor's degree in civil engineering. He continued post graduate studies in soil mechanics in London, England where he obtained his D.I.C. from Imperial College in 1962. He has more than 40 years of geotechnical engineering consulting experience acquired in Canada, Africa and the United States. John's early career was with H.G. Acres and R.M. Hardy Associates, engaged in the foundation design of earth dams, harbor facilities, multi-story buildings and railway roadbeds. He has been the president of Loadtest, Inc. since its formation in 1991.

Prof. Kenji Ishihara
Professor Department of Civil Engineering
CHUO UNIVERSITY and
Past President, ISSMGE

Professor Kenji Ishihara took up the position of Professor of Civil Engineering in 1977 at the University of Tokyo and served there over the 40 years. He moved to the Tokyo University of Science and served as Professor from 1995 to 2001. During these period, he was active in the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSMFE). He was particularly effective in advancing the work of Technical Committee TC4 - Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering. His work with ISSMFE culminated in his appointment as President of the Society for the term 1997-2001. Professor Ishihara is currently a professor at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, and working as a consultant and lecturing widely throughout the world. His work has focused on dynamic pore pressure and liquefaction, soil-structure interaction, slope stability and earth structures. Much of his work is based on field evidence and the assessment of real problems of soil behaviour during earthquakes.

Prof. Richard Jardine
Head of Geotechnics, Professor of Geomechanics
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

Professor Richard Jardine is Professor of Geomechanics at Imperial College London and Associate of the Geotechnical Consulting Group. Professor Jardine is active in research, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and has managed several large international joint industry research projects. He has written over 150 academic papers, is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and has given keynote lectures at several recent international conferences. He has consulted widely on offshore and onshore projects and is a member of the API/ISO committee on offshore foundations.

Prof. Wei Lee
Associate Research Professor
NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Dr. Lee is currently the associate research professor of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST). Before joined the NTUST, He has worked as a research fellow in Engineering Technology Division of Taiwan Construction Research Institute (TCRI) for over eight years since 2000. In year 2003 to 2008, he has acted as the research leader of TCRI. He was in charge of over 30 research projects per year. He is also the pioneer researcher in Taiwan for maintenance engineering of highway facilities. He has been the principal investigator or project manager for over forty highway and subway related research projects including hazard mitigation, seismic design of foundation and liquefaction mitigation, slope management system, and bridge maintenance related testing and inspection system. Dr. Lee has published over 70 conference paper and journal papers. He has also been in charge of over 60 governmental research and forensic investigation reports. Dr. Lee is a recipient of following awards: 2004, Prix R.M. Quigley Award, The Canadian Geotechnical Society, 2001, Taiwan Representative of 4th Asia Young Geotechnical Engineer Conference,1999, North American Geosynthetics Society Student Paper Competition Finalist, Geosynthetics’99 Conference, Boston. 1999, North American Geosynthetics Society Award of Excellence Finalist, Geosynthetics’99 Conference, Boston. Dr. Lee is the youngest board member of Taiwan Geotechnical Society, and was the youngest advisory board member of Chinese Geosynthetics Association for over five years.

Prof. Yong Kwet Yew
Vice President (Campus Infrastructure)
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

Ian Askew
Deputy head of Engineering
GAMMON

Eric Li
Past Chairman
HONG KONG INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS

Prof. Sangseom Jeong
Professor, Civil Engineering Department
YEON-SEI UNIVERSITY, KOREA and
Secretary, ATC 18 Mega Foundations, ISSMGE

Lai Kok Wai
Director, Foundation Division
TYSAN GROUP

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