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CURRICULUM VITAE – Principal Geotechnical Engineer – Jorge Cabaco
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015 - Pres SOILSROCK ENGINEERING – Geo & Enviro Consultants Principal Geotechnical Engineer - Director
2013 - 2015 SFL PILETECH – Piling, Retaining Walls & Anchoring NSW Branch & Engineering Manager
2012 - 2013 GEOVERT – Slope Stabilization, Anchoring, Shotcrete
& Grouting
Business & Engineering Manager
2010 - 2012 GEOVERT – Slope Stabilization, Anchoring, Shotcrete
& Grouting
Operations & Technical Engineer Manager
2008 – 2010 MENARD BACHY – Ground Improvement, Anchoring
& Piling
Senior Project Geotechnical Manager
2006 – 2008 OPWAY ENGINEERING – Piling, Retaining Walls
Anchoring, Shotcrete & Ground Improvement
Senior Project Geotechnical Manager
2001 - 2006 KELLER GROUP – Ground Improvement, Retaining
Walls, Piling, Anchoring, Shotcrete & Grouting
Project Geotechnical Engineer then Manager
1998 - 2001 COBA – Engineering & Environmental Consultants Design Geotechnical Engineer
1998 - 1998 PETERSEN ASSOCIATES – Engineering & Architecture Quantity Surveyor
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
 CPEng & NPER, Chartered Professional Engineer No. EA3789414 and National Professional Engineer Register,
Civil, Management and Geotechnics
 MIEAust, Registered Member of Engineers Australia, Professional Engineer (Civil College)
 MEngSc, Master Degree Geotechnical Engineering, New University of Lisbon
 BEng (Hons) Bachelor Degree Geological Engineering, New University of Lisbon
 Advanced Rock Mechanics Course – Master Degree Mining Engineering – University of New South Wales
 Contract Management Course – EEA, Engineering Education Australia
 Certificate of Contract Management - AECOPS (Association of Building Industry & Public Works Companies),
Lisbon
 Diploma of Quantity Surveyor in the Building Industry (Institute for Accelerated Technical Skills), Lisbon
CIVIL/GEOTECHNICAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE
 GEOTECHNICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS
 Soils and rock investigations – (SPT’s, CPT’s, diamond coring, laboratory testing)
 Geotechnical Reports Interpretation & Analyses (design geotechnical parameters; foundations and shoring walls
recommendations, ground bearing capacity assessment for shallow foundations and deep foundations, etc.)
 Environmental Assessment & Analyses (Soils identification, waste classification, site contamination assessment,
acid sulfate soil assessments)
 GEOTECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES
 Piling for Foundations & Shoring Systems – CFA Piles “Contiguous Flight Auger”, Bored Piles by Casings and
without casings, Screw Piles, Driven Piles; Sheet Piling; Micro-Piles (Self Drilling and Open Hole) – Design &
Construction
 Retaining Walls & Deep Excavations - Temporary and Permanent Ground Anchors; Soil Nails, Shotcrete;
Dewatering Systems by Well Points or Water Wells
 Ground Improvement – Stone Columns; Vibro Compaction; Dynamic Compaction; Vertical Drains – Design &
Construction

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 Grouting – Jet Grouting (single, double and triple fluid); Curtain Grouting (GIN Method, Upstage and Downstage
Methods); Mine Filling Grouting; TAM “Tube A Manchete”; Compaction Grouting – Design & Construction
 Slope Stabilization and Rock Fall Protection - Rock bolts, soil nailing and shotcreting, netting systems such as
Geobrugg and Macaferri meshing; Rock Fall Barriers
 Monitoring Instrumentation - geotechnical instruments such as inclinometers, tilt meters, extensometers,
piezometers, pressure cells, load cells, joint meters and survey marks in situ;
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
 Approximately 18 years’ experience on Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Design and Construction projects.
 Piling and screw piling expert, capable to design and project management any type of screw piling and piling
methods with extensive experience managing past national and international projects for contractors such as
Keller, Menard Bachy, Opway and SFL Piletech
 Jet Grouting and grouting expert, capable to design jet grouting design parameters and extensive experience on
construction management grouting special projects in Europe and Australia for different worldwide international
expert’s contractors such as Keller Group, Menard Bachy, Geovert, Opway and SFL Piletech.
 Previously responsible for managing design and construction projects at SFL Piletech NSW branch on piling
techniques such as: screw Piles, sheet piling, CFA and Bored Piles for foundations and shoring systems (secant,
contiguous and soldier piles walls). Deep knowledge of Sydney piling market.
 Analysing and checking geotechnical parameters and geotechnical models for design assumptions on piling
(including bored, CFA, sheet and screw piles)
 Extensive experience on geotechnical reports analyses for design and construct piling projects such as:
Micropiling, Bored Piles, CFA (Contiguous Flight Auger) Piles, Sheet piling, Driven Piles and screw Piles
 Experience on design and construction of different retaining structures techniques such as contiguous, secant,
soldier and sheet piles walls combine with anchoring, cantilever pile walls, shotcrete and soil nailing.
 Checking and taking account design loadings, earth and water pressures for design and construction projects
related with piling foundations and shoring systems
 Experience and supervision of torque ground testing in situ for screw piles design and construction projects
 Responsible for many geotechnical projects at level of Project and Technical Manager roles, for design and
construction projects on slope stabilization, rock fall protection, anchoring, soil nailing, shotcrete and ground
improvement
 Capable and experience to design, setup on site and managing ground improvement and grouting projects on
stone columns, vibrocompaction, dynamic compaction, wick drains, TAM, curtain grout’s, mine filling grouting
and jet-grouting.
 Capable and experience to design, setup on site (using mini drill rigs on slope and/or drill masts attached to
excavator) and managing slope stabilization projects by rock bolts, anchoring, meshing systems (TECCO, Spider or
Macaferri) and shotcrete.
 Capable and experience to design, setup on site and managing projects on piling (CFA, Bored, Sheet and Screw
Piles).
 Experience in design and construction of different ground improvement construction techniques such as: stone
columns, vibro compaction, dynamic compaction, jet-grouting, compaction grouting, high and low mobility grout,
TAM and GIN for curtain grout.
 Experience and responsible to planning and undertaking geotechnical investigations including tests pits, SPT’s,
CPT’s, rock coring for roads and tunnelling.
 Experience on site investigations such as SPT’s and CPT’s including planning and testing programs, test results
interpretation and design parameters to design concept ground improvement, slope stabilization and piling
solutions for residential and commercial buildings.
 Extensive experience in geotechnical investigations report analyses for design and construct slope stabilization
and rock fall protection projects such as: anchoring, soil nails, anchors, rock bolts, shotcrete and mesh
installation.
 Experience in design and construction on different slope stabilization techniques such as: anchoring, soil nails,
self-drilling anchors/nails, rock bolts combine or not with shotcrete or meshing systems TECCO, Spider, Deltax,
Maccaferri, high tensile netting barriers.

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 Competent and experience on monitoring geotechnical instrumentation devices such as inclinometers, tilt
meters, extensometers, piezometers, load cells, joint meters and survey marks in situ.
SELECTED MAJOR PROJECTS
 BULDING INDUSTRY - RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL
 Design and Estimation Assessment on Secant Pile Wall for Wollongong Road and Martin Avenue, Arncliffe / 2015
 Design and Estimation Assessment on Retaining Walls for Townhouse Development Dunning Avenue, Rosebery /
2015
 Design and Estimation Assessment on Foundations Piles a Lodge Aged Care, Prestons / 2015
 Design and Estimation Assessment on Foundations Piles at Pedestrian Bridge Over Beecroft Road, Beecroft /
2015
 Design and Estimation Assessment on Foundations Piles at Inman Road Cromer / 2015
 Harold Park, Shopping Centre Glebe – Preliminary Design Options Assessment and Estimation for Ground
Stabilization for Installation of Trade Waste and Sewer Pipes / 2015
 Shopping Centre Glebe - Design and Construct Screw Piles Glebe Tram Sheds (168-219mm diameter) Shopping
Centre / Client: Quasar / Duration: 1 month / Sydney / 2015 / Approx. Value $400k
 College - Design and Construct Deep Screw Piles (219mm diameter) at Brookvale St. Augustine College / Client:
Total Constructions / Duration: 1.5 month / Sydney / 2015/ Approx. Value $220k
 Residential Building - Contiguous Pile Wall at Rosebery (600mm diameter) / Client: ACE Demolition & Excavation
/ Duration: 1 month / Sydney / 2015 – Approx. Value $600k
 Apartments - Secant Pile Wall (600mm diameter) at Meadowbank / Client: Infinity Constructions / Duration: 1.5
month / Sydney / 2015 / Approx. Value $700k
 Residential Apartments - Sacrificial Sheet Piling Design and Construct Project at Affordable Housing 130 Portman
Street Zetland / Client: ACE Demolitions & Excavation / Duration: 1.5 months / Sydney / 2014-15 / Approx. Value
$300k
 Residential Apartments - CFA contiguous Piling Wall (400mm diameter) at 1-3 Charles Street Canterbury / Client:
Yascorp / Duration: 1 month / Sydney / Approx. Value $550k
 Petrol Station - Design and Construct Contiguous CFA Wall (450mm diameter) Caltex Coogee / Client: Perish
Constructions / Duration: 1 month / Sydney 2014 / Approx. Value $300k
 College - Contiguous Deep CFA Piling Wall (600mm diameter) at Randwick / Client: Deicorp / Duration: 3 months
/ Sydney / 2014 / Approx. Value $1.4M
 Residential Apartments - Soldier Bored Pile Wall (Rock Drilling; 600mm diameter) / Client: Oxford Constructions /
Duration: 2 months / Wollongong / 2014 / Approx. Value $410k
 Residential Building - CFA Contiguous Piling Wall (300mm Diameter) at 23 Byron Street Coogee / Client: Smith
Group / Duration: 1 month / Sydney / 2014 / Approx. Value $280k
 Residential Building - Secant CFA Piling Wall (450mm diameter) Collaroy /Client: Evolution Property / Duration: 1
month / Sydney / 2014 / Approx. Value $300k
 Screw Piles Design and Construct Project (219-273mm diameter 800-1000KN design loads) at 108 Parraweena
Road / Client: Rohrig Constructions / Duration: 1 month / Sydney / 2014 / Approx. Value $230k
 Car Park - Screw Piles Design and Construct Project (219-273mm; 600-1000KN design loads) at Multi-Story Car
Park – Bungan Lane, Mona Vale / Client: Parkview / Duration: 3 weeks / Sydney / 2014 / Approx. Value $155k
 Design and Construct Deep Screw Piles (30m depth; 219-273mm diameter) at Cooks Hill Eclipse Apartments /
Client: Graph Building / Duration: 3 months / Newcastle / 2013/14 / Approx. Value $1.1M
 Stadium - Design and Construct Deep Screw Piles (20m depth; 273mm diameter) at Marrickville Fraser Park
Soccer Club Stadium / Client: Portuguese Marrickville Football Club / Duration: 1 month / Sydney / 2013/14 /
Approx. Value $300k
 Residential Houses - Several minor Screw Piles Projects – Design and Construction Projects around Sydney
2013/14 – range from Approx. Value $10-100k
 Commercial Building - CFA Foundations Piles (600mm diameter) at Catholic Club Car Park 424-458 Hoxton Park
Rd Liverpool / Client: James Clifford Construction / Duration: 1.5 month / Sydney / 2013 / Approx. Value $400k

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 Commercial Building - Sacrificial Sheet Piling Wall Design and Construction at Alexandria Australian Post / Client:
ADCO / Duration: 1 month / Sydney / 2013 / Approx. Value $280k
 Sheet Piling Wall Design and Construction / Client: Ford Civil / Duration / Wolli Creek – Sydney / 2013 / Approx.
Value $350k
 College - CFA Foundations Piles for St. Ursula’s College Catholic School at 69 Caroline St Kingsgrove / Client:
Grindley Constructions / Duration: 1 month / Sydney / 2013 / Approx. Value $150k
 Bored Foundation Piles for Endeavour Energy St Andrews Rd, Leppington / Client: Hansen Yuncken / Duration: 1
month / Sydney / 2013 / Approx. Value $220k
 Residential Building - Contiguous CFA Wall (450mm diameter) at 41 Birmingham Street Alexandria / Client:
Gordon Constructions / Duration: 1 month / Sydney / 2013 / Approx. Value $150k
 Bondi Hotel - Underpinning Jet Grouting Columns Ø 1500mm single fluid – The Beach House / Bondi Hotel /
Client: Gavellen & Absolut Contracting / Duration: 2 Weeks / Quantities: 300 lm/ Bondi Beach / Sydney / Approx.
Value $150k / 2009
 Commercial Warehouse - Mine Subsidence Grouting – Drilling and Grouting Mine Marketown East Steel Street /
Newcastle West / 2008 - Approx. Value $3M / Client: Adco Constructions / Duration: 5 Months / Quantities:
4,377lm Drilled & 7,900m3 grouted
 Casino - Underpinning Jet Grouting Columns Ø 600mm single fluid – Conrad Jupiter’s Casino Car Park
Stabilizations Works / Gold Coast / Client: Jupiters Casino / Duration: 7 Months / Quantities: 6,100 lm / Approx.
Value $3.5M / 2009
 Car Park - Ground installation of profiles steel beams HEB 140 & Provisional Strand Anchors 350 kN – retaining
wall for car park of Residence Building Quinta das Pedreiras / Lisbon / 2008 / Client: Boanorma Lda / Duration 1
Month / Quantities: 1,100lm Strand Anchors / 400 lm HEB 140 Steel Beams
 Residential Building - Micro-piles Ø 200mm reinforced with hollow steel tubes diameter 114,3mm, using double
packers and manchetes for high pressure grouting and Permanent Strand Anchors 500kN; concrete wall
reinforcement using steel beams - reinforcing and concrete wall stabilization for a building residence / Sesimbra /
2008 / Client: Teodoro Gomes Alho e Filho Lda / Duration 4 weeks / Quantities: 200lm Strand Anchors / 100 lm
Micropiles
 Car Park - Jet Grouting Columns Ø 1400m & 1800m double fluid reinforced with micro-piles using hollow steel
tubes Ø 127 mm foundations reinforcement; Jet Grouting Columns double fluid Ø 1500mm & 2000mm curtain
grout - Excavation and reinforcement of foundations of the underground car park near by the Lima river at Viana
do Castelo North of Portugal; Approx. Value €1.1M; 2004-05; Client: Mota Engil; Owner: Viana do Castelo Council
– North Coast of Portugal; Duration: 1 year; Quantities: 1,800 lm jet grouting columns; 600 lm micro piles; 4
dewatering using 4 vacuum aggregate pumps; 13 water wells pumping a total of about 660 ltrs per second;
 Hotel Historil - Drilling for Ground installation of steel beams profiles HEB 120 and Temporary Strand Anchors
625kN; Drilling and Installation of Micropiles Ø 150mm using hollow tubes section Ø 114,3mm – retaining wall
and foundations reinforcement for car park of Hotel Palace Park / Estoril / 2008 / Client: Hotel Historil / Duration
2 Months / Quantities: 200lm Strand Anchors / 2,200 lm Micropiles
 Paper Manufacture - Stone Columns Ø 800mm (using vibrators from PTC and BAUER) – soils improvements for
foundations; self-drilling Micro-Piles Ø 150mm reinforced with hollow tubes diameter 114,3mm – reinforcement
foundations of existing pillars; Bored piles Ø 800mm – deep foundations of central biomass chimney - Paper
Manufacture CELBI / Figueira da Foz / 2007-2008 - Approx. Value €600k / Client: CELBI Paper Manufacture /
Duration 3 Months / Quantities: 11,000lm Stone Columns / 1,000 lm Bored Piles / 500lm Micropiles
 Post Warehouse - Jet Grouting Columns Ø 100mm triple fluid – underpinning jet grouting columns, warehouse
Chronopost Póvoa de St. Iria / Client: Construsan / Duration 4 Months / Quantities: 10,500 lm Jet Grouting
Columns / L Approx. Value €3M / Lisbon / 2006
 Leca Manufacture - Micro-piles Ø 180mm reinforced with hollow steel tubes diameter 139,7mm – underpinning
of pillar’s foundations in Leca Maxit Manufacture Avelar / Coimbra Central Portugal / 2006
 Car Park Deep Excavation - Jet Grouting Columns Ø 1000-1200-1500mm triple fluid reinforced with micro-piles
using hollow tubes Ø 88,9-127-168 mm – excavation, retaining wall and foundations reinforcement for car park
of residence building Viriato Street / Client: Euromobiliaria / Duration 5 months / Quantities: 1,200 lm jet
grouting columns; 1,500 lm micro piles; 40,000 m3 excavation; 2,000 m3 steel concrete reinforced walls and
concrete beams reinforced with 52mm GEWI bars / Approx. Value €800k / Lisbon / 2006
 Commercial Arena Building - Micro-piles Ø 150mm reinforced with hollow steel tubes diameter 88,9mm –
reinforcing foundations for Arena building Arade / Portimão / Algarve / 2005

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 Commercial Warehouse - Stone Columns Ø 1000mm – soils improvement for foundations of Warehouse
Intermarché / Oporto / 2005
Car Park Underground - Jet Grouting Columns Ø 1400m & 1800m double fluid reinforced with micro-piles using
hollow steel tubes Ø 127 mm foundations reinforcement ; Jet Grouting Columns double fluid Ø 1500mm &
2000mm curtain grout - Excavation and reinforcement foundations on Underground Car Park near of Lima river
at Viana do Castelo / Client: Mota Engil / Owner: Viana do Castelo Council – North Coast of Portugal / Duration: 1
year / Quantities: 1,800 lm jet grouting columns; 600 lm micro piles; 4 dewatering using 4 vacuum aggregate
pumps; 13 water wells pumping a total of about 660 lm per second / Approx. Value €1.1M / 2004-2005
 Major Commercial Building Warehouse - Jet Grouting Columns triple fluid Ø 800mm in between bored piles -
retaining wall for excavation support to reduce the affluence water Warehouse of “El Corte Ingles” Vila Nova de
Gaia / Client: Mota Engil / Owner: Porto Council / Duration: 4 Months / Quantities: 7,500 lm jet grouting columns
/ Approx. Value €800K / Porto / North Portugal / 2004-2005
 Agriculture Warehouse - Vibrocompaction – soils improvements for foundations of warehouse Agriculture Monliz
Alpiarça / Santarem Central Portugal / 2004
 Hotel Curia - Micro-piles Ø 200mm reinforced with hollow steel tubes diameter 168mm – foundations at Hotel
Curia / Anadia / Approx. Value €200k / Central Portugal / 2003
 TRANSPORTATION - ROADS, RAILWAYS, BRIDGES AND TUNNELING
 Lennox Bridge Portals (open cut pedestrian tunnel at the bridge abutments) CFA Contiguous Pile Wall and Screw
Piles Design and Construct Project at Parramatta / Client: Abergeldie / Duration: 2 months / Sydney / 2014 /
Approx. Value $200k
 Sydney Light Rail - Foundations CFA Piles / Client: John Holland / Duration: 2 months / Sydney / 2013 / Approx.
Value $650k
 Roads – Light Poles - Screw Piles – Several RMS Projects same ongoing contract – Sydney 2013/14 – range from
$20k-$50k
 Seaford Rail Extension Project - Slope Stabilization - Soil Nailing and Shotcreting – Adelaide SA / 2012 - Approx.
Value $6.4M / Client: Theiss & MacDow Joint Venture / Duration: 8 Months / Quantities: 45,000 lm Nails; 22,000
m2 Shotcrete
 Warrego Highway Toowoomba Range - Slope Stabilization - Soil Nailing and Shotcrete / Brisbane QLS / 2011 -
Approx. Value $3M / Client: Fulton Hogan Construction Pty Ltd / Duration: 5 Months / Quantities: 3,500 lm Soil
Nails & 700 m2 Shotcrete
 Cunningham’s Gap Road - Slope Stabilization – Rock Bolts, Blasting and Shotcreting Emergency works using rope
technical access / Client: Fulton Hogan / Duration: 3 months / Brisbane QLS / 2010-2011
 Western Escarpment - Antias Jacksons - Slope Stabilization – Rock Bolts and Mesh Installation / Client: Lend Lease
/ Duration: 3 weeks / Pyrmont / Sydney NSW / 2010
 Paddington Gold Rail Underpinning - Slope Stabilization – Soil Nails & Shotcreting / Client: Paddington Gold /
Kalgoorlie WA / Approx. Value $400K / 2010
 Kiwi Rail North South Junction Slope Stabilisation – Deltax Mesh Installation and Rock Bolts / Client: Downer EDI /
Duration: 7 month / Wellington / New Zealand / Approx. Value NZD2.5M / 2011
 Fairy Meadow Rail Way Station - Ground Anchors / Client: Rail Corp / Duration: 1 week / Wollongong / 2010
 Nerang Tunnel - Low Pressure Grouting / Client: Theiss / Duration: 2 month / Nerang / Gold Coast / Approx.
Value $150k / 2010
 Bridge Repair Figueira e Barros - Micro-piles ø 150mm reinforced with hollow steel tubes diameter 88,9mm using
double packers and manchetes for high pressure grouting – reinforcing foundations Old Bridge Figueira e Barros
Avis / Client: Pontave / Duration: 1 Month / Quantities: 800lm / South Portugal / 2008
 Bridge Foundations - Bored Piles Ø 600mm – deep foundations for rehabilitation of 4 Bridges Alberge, Agualva,
Bem-Gordo and Cotovia villages in Setubal / Client: Tecnovia / Duration 2 Months / Quantities: 2,200lm Bored
Piles / Lisbon / 2007
 Bridges Foundations - Bored Piles Ø 600 & 800mm – deep foundations for new 3 Bridges for connections
between two national roads EN109 to EN334 / Client: Pontave SA / Duration 1.5 Month / Quantities: 1,100lm
Bored Piles / Figueira da Foz / Centre of Portugal / 2007
 Bridge Foundations - Bored Piles Ø 600mm – deep foundations for rehabilitations of Bridge Comenda village
Setubal / Lisbon / Client: Tecnovia / Duration 1 Month / Quantities: 600lm Bored Piles / Lisbon / 2007

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 Tunnel of Terreiro do Paco Subway - Design and Construction Jet Grouting Columns Ø 2000mm with triple fluid &
bored piles using bentonite Ø 1200mm and 1500mm – piles and jet-grouting columns were constructed to treat
the sand layers surrounding the underground tunnel of Terreiro do Paco Subway Station to prevent liquefaction.
Geotechnical monitoring instrumentation were installed inside and outside of the tunnel to control and monitor
potential movements within the tunnel (settlement survey marks, inclinometers, crack measurements and survey
prisms; core drilling samples were removed from the jet-grouting columns to carry UCS tests to check and
confirm jet-grouting columns strength – Lisbon / 2007 – Approx. Value €5,5M (involvement in the tender
estimation, project award and project delivery as a Project Manager); Client: Metropolitano de Lisboa (Lisbon
Metro); Duration: 8 Months; Quantities: 1,500lm Jet Grouting Columns; 5,500 lm Piles.
 Rail Way Lares Bridge - Repair and Rehabilitation of the foundations pillars – marine works repairing of
foundations of the bridge pillars; installation of micro concrete piles and application of sacrificial steel formwork
reinforced with steel mesh SL81 trough the foundation of the pillars; core drilling boreholes vertical and inclined
(SPT’s, Vane tests, lab tests, Atterberg Limits, triaxial testing) for geotechnical analysing and interpretation for
further rectification works & low pressure grout injections reinforced with steel bars, monitoring instrumentation
using surveying marks on the pillars; location: Figueira da Foz Central Coast Portugal; Approx. Value €1M; 2006-
07; Client: REFER (Portuguese Rail Way Public Company); Duration: 4 Months; Quantities: repairing of 3 pillars,
300 lm drill coring through the pillars, 250 lm drilling of soils investigations.
 Curtain Grout - Jet Grouting Columns Ø 600mm single fluid – curtain grout for reduce the affluence water to the
village / Coruche Central Portugal / 2006 Client: RCC – Ramalho Rosa Cobetar / Duration 3 Months / Quantities:
6,000 lm Jet Grouting Columns / Centre Portugal / 2006
 Bridge Foundations - Bored Piles Ø 1200mm (drive vibrator hammer, casing with lost steel pipes, bentonite fluid
stabilization) including sonic tests and cross hole; Micro-piles Ø 200mm reinforced with hollow steel tubes
diameter 114,3mm, using double packers and manchetes for high pressure injection for build the bond lenght
including tensile load pull out testing - reinforcing and rehabilitation of old Steel Bridge / Alcacer do Sal / 2008 -
Approx. Value €500k / Client: IEP - Instituto de Estradas de Portugal (Roads Authority of Portugal) / Duration 2
Months / Quantities: 800lm Bored Piles / 1,000 lm Micropiles
 Rail Way Station - Bored Piles Ø 800mm for Bridges/ Client: Espinho Council / Duration 1 Month / Quantities:
400lm Bored Piles / Espinho Portugal / 2008
 Rail Way Line North between Azambuja and Santarém - Stone Columns Injected and no Injected Ø 1000m – soils
improvement for reinforcement foundations / Client: Mota-Engil / Duration: 1 month / Portugal / 2005
 Modernization of Rail Way North Line between Alhandra and Azambuja, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal - Stone
Columns Ø 1000mm, Vertical Wick Drains & CPT’s & Vane Tests / Client: Somague Engenharia SA; Owner: REFER
Public Rail Way Portuguese Company; Lisbon; Duration: 4 Months; Quantities: 1,500,000 lm Vertical Wick Drains;
24,400 lm stone columns / Approx. Value €3.6M / 2004;
 High Way A10 - Ground Permanent Strand Anchors - 500 & 600 kN – retaining wall / Bucelas / Carregado / Lisbon
/ Portugal / 2002
 Rail Way North Line - Areeiro - Ground Permanent Strand Anchors from 4 to 7 strands 450, 500, 600, 750 kN –
structure containment wall / Client: Ferrovial / Owner: REFER – Rail Way Public Portuguese Company / Duration:
8 Months / Quantities: 8,600 lm anchors; 1,500 lm geodrains / Approx. Value €800k / Lisbon / 2002
 High Way A10 - Ground Permanent Strand Anchors - 500 & 600 kN – retaining wall near of the High Way A10 -
Bucelas / Carregado / Lisbon / Portugal / 2002
 Metro Station Terreiro do Paco / Underground Works / Tunnelling – Geotechnical & Building Geotechnical
Instrumentation and Monitoring - Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring of the surrounding buildings and
Deep Excavation / Client: Metropaco / Owner: Metropolitan of Lisbon - Metro Public Portuguese Company /
Duration: 3 months / 2001
 HEAVY CIVIL - PORTS, AIRPORTS, DAMS AND WATER TREATMENT STATIONS
 Design and construct Sheet Piling for Interceptor Trench Excavation at North Maroubra Beach / Client: Enviro
Pacific Services / Duration: 1.5 months / Design and Construction Sheet Piling / Sydney / 2013 / Approx. Value
$500k
 Sacrificial Sheet Piling Design and Construct at Hanger 96 Qantas Sydney Airport / client: Civilcraft Pty / Duration:
2 weeks / Sydney / 2013 / Approx. Value $100k
 CFA and Screw Foundations Piles Design and Construct at Qantas Domestic Airport Terminal 1 Bay 8 / Client:
Midas Construct / Sydney / 2013 / Approx. Value $150k

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 Airport Link Bowen Hills - DCP Rock Bolts Using Drill Mast assemble in Excavator drilling up to 10m high / Client:
Airport Link Theiss/Duration: 2 weeks / Brisbane QLD / 2010
 Port Botany Expansion Project, Sydney - Ground Compaction Works – Dynamic Compaction & Vibro Compaction
onshore/offshore works – planning and undertaken a large campaign of SPT’s tests and CPT’s tests to confirm
design specifications of sand densification > 65% and qc > 10 MPa post treatment and prior treatment to check
the in situ parameters / Client: Baulderstone Hornibrook & Jean De Null / Duration: 12 Months / Quantities:
8,000,000m3 / Approx. Value $18M / 2008/09.
 Blowering Dam ACT - Ground Anchors – Permanent 19xStrand Anchors 35m deep – Further site investigations
were undertaken in order to confirm the weak rock conditions to install the bond anchor length, and determine
adequate process procedure to improve the rock prior the installation of the anchors which comprised to drill
and grouting and redrill and re-grout till the holes were sustained and not collapsing / Client: MacMahon;
Duration: 6 Months / Location: Canberra ACT / Approx. Value $500k / 2010-11.
 Slope Stabilization – Soil Nails and Mesh Installation using rope access gear and mini drill rig – Watersedge
Terrace – Geelong VIC / 2010
 Cotter Dam – Main Dam - Curtain Grout –– Drilling and Grouting Package – Canberra ACT / 2012 - Approx. Value
$3.2M – This project comprised around 7,500 lm of drilling and pressure grout by upstage grouting GIN method
by using a full automated computerised grout control system; a campaign of rock coring drilling using NQ size
were carried to check rock treatment/ Client: Bulk Water Alliance Joint Venture John Holland & Abbi Group/
Duration: 5 Months/ Quantities: 4,500 lm percussion drilling and 1,000 lm of rock core drilling quality holes
checks including logging and 6,876 lm drainage holes open by percussion drilling.
 Water Treatment Residual Station - Vibrocompaction, Dewatering with “well Points” and deep water well for
water supply – soils improvements and excavation for foundations of Water Treatment Residual Station in
Coimbrão / Client: Soares da Costa / Owner: SIMLIS – Hidric Public Company / Duration 3 months / Quantities:
405.000 m
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vibrocompaction treatment of sands Soils; 6 Vacuum agregates pumps for water wells; water well
220m depth / Leiria Central of Portugal / 2005
 Obidos Dam - Stone Columns Ø 1000mm (soils improvements) Soil Nailing & Shotcreting – soils improvements of
Dam foundations and slope stabilization at Óbidos Dam Land Project / Client: RRC - Ramalho Rosa Cobetar /
Owner: IHERA – Hidric Portuguese Resources Company / Duration: 5 Months / Quantities: 45,000 lm stone
columns; 2,000 lm soil nailing; 2,000 m2 shotcreting / Approx. Value €1M / Óbidos – Central Portugal / 2003
 Land Dam for Bridge Abutment - Stone Columns Ø 1000mm – reinforcement of soil foundations for a dam land
Sacavém / Lisbon / 2002
 MINING & RESOURCES
 Site Mine - West Angeles CENP - Rockfall Protection Site Mine - Rock Bolts & Mesh Installation using rope
technical access and mini drill rigs / Client: Pilbara Iron Company Pty Ltd - Rio Tinto / Duration: 2,5 Months /
Quantities: 6,000 m2 Mesh Newman WA / Approx. Value $2.5M / 2011
 Site Mine - Rubicon Site Mine - Rockfall Protection - Drape Maccaferi Mesh Installation / Client: Barrick Kanowna
Limited / Duration: 1,5 Months / Quantities: 6,000 m2 Mesh / Kalgoorlie WA / Value Approx. $1.5M / 2011
Site Mine at Sino Ore Karratha - Testing Rock Bolts / Client: Cimeco / Duration: 1 month / Quantities: 120 Bolts /
Approx. Value $250k / Karratha WA / 2010
 Site Mine – Sino Ore - Pressure Grouting & Rock Bolts - Remedial Works at Crusher Pockets 1 & 2 / Client: Citic
Pacific Mining / Duration: 1 Month / Karratha WA / 2 Approx. Value $1M / 2010
 Quarry Stabilization Butik Batok at Singapore Federal Defence - Slope Stabilization – Tecco Mesh Installation and
rock Bolts using rope access gear and mini drill rigs / Client: Sembcorp / Duration: 1 Year / Approx. Value
SGD$5M / 2010-2011
 GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATIONS & ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
 Geotechnical Investigation at Vine Street, Fairfield / 2015
 Geotechnical Investigations at Pacific Highway, Chatswood / 2015
 Geotechnical Investigations at Eurobion Avenue, Manly / 2015
 Geotechnical Investigations at Marple Avenue, Villawood / 2015
 Soils Classification on VENM, ENM and GSW validation assessment at French Forest Road, Seaforth / 2015

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 Apartments Building Development – Soils Classification on VENM, ENM and GSW validation assessment at
Ramsgate Avenue, Bondi Beach / 2015
 Apartments Building Development – Soils contamination on asbestos validation assessment at Ramsgate Avenue,
Bondi Beach / 2015
 Residential Building – Pit tests at Heyde Avenue, Strathfield / Environmental Soils Assessment Contamination /
2015
 Residential Building – Pit Tests at Mount Vernon Rd, Mount Vernon / Environmental Soils Assessment
Contamination for Penrith Council / 2015
 Car Park – Pit tests at Narellan for soils assessment contamination and waste classification / South Sydney / 2015
 Geotechnical Investigation – torque testing to check ground conditions for screw piles installation – multiple sites
around Sydney and central coast / 2013-2015
 Geotechnical Investigations – Boreholes and SPT’s to verify ground conditions at Beechmont Road Slope
Stabilization works / Gold Coast / 2013
 Geotechnical Investigation and reporting – NQ boreholes through rock coring 60m deep at Cotter Dam Grouting
works to check rock strength and fractures / Cotter Dam / ACT / 2012
 Geotechnical Investigations and reporting – boreholes core drill through jet-grouting columns for quality check
program at Jupiters Casino works / Gold Coast / 2009
 Geotechnical Investigation and reporting – boreholes and SPT’s and CPT’s to check soils improvement quality
work at Port Botany – multiple tests / Sydney / 2008-2009
 Geotechnical Investigations and reporting – boreholes core drills at Market Street mine fill works / Newcastle /
2008
 Geotechnical Investigations and reporting – boreholes and SPT’s to confirm ground conditions at Terreiro do
Paco tunnel 60m deep; rock coring through jet-grouting columns to check quality columns strength / Lisbon /
2007
 Geotechnical Investigation – boreholes with SPT’s to check ground conditions of Bridge pillars of Lares Bridge,
and coring through the concrete pillars to check pillars integrity / Lares Bridge / Centre of Portugal / 2006
 Geotechnical Investigations and water testing – CPT’s to check soils improvement work by vibrocompaction and
water pressure testing for dewatering at Water treatment station Coimbrao / Centre of Portugal / 2005
 Geotechnical investigations – boreholes and CPT for foundations of water treatment station at Coimbrao /
Central Coast of Portugal / 2005
 Geotechnical Investigation – Boreholes and SPT for foundations warehouse Póvoa de St. Iria / Lisbon / 2005
 Geotechnical Investigations - Boreholes and SPT – retaining wall for construction of car park residence building -
São Pedro Sul / Centre of Portugal / 2002
 Geotechnical Investigations - Boreholes and SPT’s at National Theatre of Faro / Client: Faro Council / Duration: 1
Month / Algarve / South Portugal / 2003-2004;
 Geotechnical Investigations - Boreholes and SPT’s, soil samples and lab testing – Soils Investigation for
Geotechnical investigation report for foundations of residence building - Parque das Nações / Lisbon / 2002
 Geotechnical investigations, report and design and Construction of Ramela Tunnel / Tras-os-Montes / North
Portugal / 2001
 Geotechnical investigations, report and design for Highway IC24 & IC29 / Oporto / North Portugal / 2001
 Geotechnical investigations, report and design for construction of Highway IP2 / Interior of Portugal / 2001
 Geotechnical investigations, report and design for slope stabilization of National Road EN115 / Bucelas / Lisbon /
2001
 Geotechnical investigations, report and design for Motorway A2 / Algarve / South Portugal / 2001