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Nick is an Arup Fellow and has been the Global Geotechnics Skill leader for Arup from 2009 to 2017, having been appointed a director of the firm since 1998. He has over thirty years’ experience of ground-related risk management associated with contaminated and derelict land, earthquake and storm hazards and collapses of underground excavations. He is experienced in the aggregation of technical, financial and program risks associated with all aspects of ground engineering. He has acted as an expert witness on matters relating to geotechnical analysis and ground contamination and has been cross-examined in both English and US jurisdictions.
Nick is the author or co-author of over 100 publications covering many aspects of soil/structure interaction ranging from offshore and high speed railway structures to the construction of embankments on very soft clays and the performance of piles in very stiff clays. He has sat on many UK and international committees and has been a Visiting Professor at Southampton University. Several of his projects have pioneered the use of embodied energy calculations and carbon footprinting of construction. He was the Ground Engineer Manager during the detailed design and construction of High Speed 1 in the UK. Significant recent projects include the new International Airport for Mexico (NAIM) on very soft Lake Texcoco clays, the foundations for Salesforce Tower (at 326 m, the tallest building in San Francisco), the nearby Transbay Transit Center substructure and the base-grouted piling for the new Gerald Desmond Bridge, Port of Long Beach, CA.
He presented the 58th Rankine Lecture, ‘Dynamic soil-structure interaction: understanding the Holocene, instrumenting the Anthropocene’, in March 2018 .

Nick is an Arup Fellow and has been the Global Geotechnics Skill leader for Arup from 2009 to 2017, having been appointed a director of the firm since 1998. He has over thirty years’ experience of ground-related risk management associated with contaminated and derelict land, earthquake and storm hazards and collapses of underground excavations. He is experienced in the aggregation of technical, financial and program risks associated with all aspects of ground engineering. He has acted as an expert witness on matters relating to geotechnical analysis and ground contamination and has been cross-examined in both English and US jurisdictions.
Nick is the author or co-author of over 100 publications covering many aspects of soil/structure interaction ranging from offshore and high speed railway structures to the construction of embankments on very soft clays and the performance of piles in very stiff…

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