SEMINAR OBJECTIVE

Introduction to the Risk Management process throughout a project cycle from planning, designing, construction and implementation of a tunnel or underground project with specific focus for Owners and Decision Makers, Consulting Engineers, Conductors and others with an interest in risk management activities


BIODATA OF SPEAKERS

1. Søren Eskesen

Education. MSc in Civil Engineering, 1982 from Technical University of Denmark
Mr Eskesen holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and has 30 years of international experience in tunnel and underground works. He further holds a BSc in International Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business Scholl, 1987.  

He is an effective project manager with experience from multidisciplinary projects working for public clients as well as private clients and consortia of international contractors on several high profile jobs.

Mr. Eskesen is an experienced tunnel advisor with both technical and non-technical knowledge of development of projects from feasibility studies, to tender strategies, detailed design and Construction Supervision.

Mr Eskesen was the previous ITA President of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association and President of the Danish Society for Tunnels and Undergrounds Works, which is the National Danish representative of ITA.

Mr Eskesen has been leading the development of the highly accredited ITA "Guidelines for Tunnelling Risk Management” issued by ITA working group 2 and has been the author of several articles and papers on the development of tunnel and underground projects. He has further given presentations at a high number of international conferences, ITA-CET training courses as well as the ITA credited Master Course in TBM Tunnelling.


2. Tarcisio Celestino

Professor Celestino is currently the ITA President and President of the Brazilian Tunnelling Committee. He was the Animateur of the ITA Working Group 12 on Sprayed Concrete Use (2005-10). He earned his doctorate degree in Civil Engineering (Rock Mechanics) from the University of California, Berkeley (1981).

He is currently Professor at the University of São Paulo and employed by the Themag Engenharia Ltda., São Paulo (Brazil), where he leads the Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Geology &Transportation Engineering Design Groups. He is also responsible for the geotechnical designs of several hydroelectric power plants, subways, highways etc., including major underground works (since 1990).

Professor Celestino continues to contribute his valuable knowledge for the graduate courses & research areas on Rock Mechanics & Underground Works, at the São Carlos Engineering School, University of São Paulo & for ITACET Foundation.


3. Harald Wagner

Civil Engineer, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Dr.Techn.Science, Suma cum Laude), Licensed Masterbuilder, Government Counsellor, appointed by President of Austrian Republic, Chartered Expert at Court, Consultant to the World Bank. An international well-recognized Consultant for Underground Infrastructures with more than 40 years of Professional Experience in Tunnel Design, Construction and Consultancy. Consultant to the World Bank for more than 15 years. A former Assistant Professor at Technical University Graz in Austria on Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering for Architects, a Vice President of ITA (International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association). An Expert member of ITA’s Executive Council, who has worked throughout his career as a designer & consultant in more than 35 countries around the world.


4. Davorin Kolic

Born in Zagreb in 1961, earned PhD level from Faculty for Civil Engineering, University Zagreb. Won 3 times Rector's Price of the University of Zagreb. Since 1990 active in underground projects as design manager, project leader or checking engineer on different tunnelling, subway or underground space structures in Paris, Lille, Seattle, Puerto Rico, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, New Delhi, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, as well as on several underground projects in Northwestern China.

In 2000 he was awarded first price for the best international consultant of Austria for the Wanjiazhai Yellow River Diversion Project in China. Author of more than 100 scientific and technical papers, coauthor of 1 book and 3 guidelines on design and construction of underground structures in Austria and EU. Editor of 4 further proceedings and books on tunnelling, president of Croatian association for tunnels and underground structures ITA Croatia, member of Executive Council of ITA-AITES. Recently design project manager of Alto Maipo hydro scheme project in Chile.


5. Seng Tiok Poh

Seng Tiok Poh has more than 20 years’ experience in large scale mass transit, railway design and construction projects in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and other parts of Asia. Currently, he is the Planning and Design Director for Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (MRTC) in Malaysia, implementing the MRT projects in Kuala Lumpur. He manages the MRTC design group covering disciplines such as Architectural, Civil & Structural, Geotechnical & Tunnels, Interface Coordination, Programme & Planning, Development Building Control and Transport Planning. He leads the team in supporting the implementation of the KVMRT Line 1 of 51km railway as well as Line 2 with 53km of railway. Concurrently, he also provides technical leadership on the Engineering Feasibility Study for Line 3, which is a circle line connecting all the radial lines with other forms of public transport. Prior to joining MRTC, he was an Associate Director with Arup Singapore Private Ltd. Besides being the Project Manager on Architectural and Engineering detailed design contracts, he also led Singapore Arup’s infrastructure group’s Tunnelling, Railway Engineering, Rail Civil & Structural and Alignment team. Seng Tiok’s design management experience for major regional railway projects includes his current projects in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore Thomson Line Package A, Eastern Region Line Contract E1002. He is also the Professional Engineer and technical lead for the Singapore Downtown Stage 3 Contract C933 consisting of underground Bendemeer station and Singapore’s first steel fibre reinforced concrete bored tunnels. In 2010, he was also part of the project management team overseeing the Technical Advisory and Review contract assisting the MRT Company in Jakarta in reviewing the design and proposals from the Basic Designer for the country’s first metro line together with a team of multi-disciplinary specialists. From 2008 to 2010, Seng Tiok worked in Hong Kong with Aecom HK on design and feasibility studies for few railway projects in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Before 2008, Seng Tiok worked in the Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) and was involved in major railway projects such as the North East Line, Circle Line stage 1 to 5 and Down Town Line Stage 1 (DTL1). For DTL1, he was the LTA Design Manager leading the Authority’s design team. After the Nicoll Highway collapse, Seng Tiok was selected into a core team set up within the LTA to work with the expert witnesses and lawyers engaged by the Singapore LTA to investigate the causes of the collapse.


6. Lean Hock Ooi

Ir. Dr Ooi Lean Hock graduated with PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia. In the past he has worked as a geotechnical consultant and as a specialist contractor. He is currently the Lead Geotechnical Engineer in the Design & Technical Department of MMC GAMUDA KVMRT (T) SON BHD for the second line of Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit from Sg Bulah - Serdang - Putrajaya (SSP) Line. He has extensive experience in ground treatment works, more recently in deep excavation and tunneling works. He also has a keen interest in geotechnical instrumentation and testing. He has been involved in many interesting infrastructural projects such as railways, runways, highways, tunnels and hydropower both locally and abroad.


7. Gus Klados

Gus Klados is the Director, Tunnels for the Underground Works Package Contractor MMC Gamuda KVMRT (T) Sdn. Bhd. for the Sungai Buloh – Serdang – Putrajaya (SSP) Line and has been the Project Manager for the Sungai Buloh – Kajang (SBK) Line in Kuala Lumpur.

Gus has forty plus years’ experience in tunnelling and related construction worldwide on major infrastructure projects out of which twenty two years in South- and South-East Asia. He started in Budapest on the M2 and M3 metro lines, worked in Belgrade, than in Yugoslavia on the Vračar rail tunnel, in India on the Calcutta- and Delhi metros, in England on the Channel Tunnel, in South Africa on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, in Greece on the Athens Metro Lines 2 & 3, in Singapore on the Deep Tunnel Sewer System, in Malaysia on the SMART project, in Hungary - again in his native country after 28 years of absence - as project director of the Client on the Budapest Metro M4 Line. He returned to Kuala Lumpur in March 2011 to assist MMC and Gamuda to win and construct the underground works contract for the SBK Line and to win the tender and build the tunnels for the SSP Line, the first and second MRTs or heavy metro lines in the Klang Valley in Malaysia.