Mr Martin Knights

Martin Knights is the Executive Director of Operations at Jacobs UK Limited, responsible for business development within the Environmental Business unit, which includes energy, water, utilities, environment, rivers and marine, ground engineering and tunnelling. Martin is the Head of Profession within Jacobs UK Limited for tunnelling.

Martin is also currently the President of the International Tunnelling Association and he is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Chartered Institute of Transport.

Martin has over 30 years of extensive experience in managing all aspects of civil engineering and infrastructure business and projects. In addition he has in depth technical expertise on urban tunnelling projects, as well as having corporate and commercial responsibility for engineering and consulting business in rail, water, energy, tunnelling.

Prof Malcolm Bolton

Malcolm Bolton is currently a Professor of Soil Mechanics and the Director of the Schofield Geotechnical Centre at Cambridge University. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1967.

Malcolm is the chairman of ISSMGE TC35 Geomechanics of Particulate Materials. He was instrumental in introducing the mobilisation factor concept in the British Standard Code of Practice for Earth Retaining Structures, BS 8002.

Malcolm is a strong advocate of centrifuge testing, with parallel interests in finite element and discrete element simulations. He is author of a book and has published over 170 publications on a wide range of topics from fundamental soil mechanics to applications on retaining walls and reinforced soils, embankments and slopes, pipes and tunnels, pile driving and penetrometers, pressuremeters and grout injections, and less obvious fields such as sugar refining and neuropathology.

A/Prof Lee Fook Hou

Lee Fook Hou is currently an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore and also the Director of the MINDEF-NUS Centre for Protective Technology. His research works include deep excavations, centrifuge modelling, 3D finite element modelling, soil-structure interaction, etc. He has published over 100 publications on 3D finite elements, deep excavations, retaining structures and soil improvements.

He graduated from Monash University with BEng in 1978 and from the National University of Singapore with MEng in 1983. He obtained his PhD from Cambridge University in 1987. He is a registered Professional Engineer.

A/Prof Wong Kai Sin

Wong Kai Sin is an Associate Professor at the Nanyang Technological University. He graduated with a BS degree from the University of Illinois in 1972. He received his MS and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975 and 1978 respectively.

He practiced geotechnical engineering in California before joining NTU in 1984. His major areas of interest are deep excavations, deep foundations, slope stability, soil improvement, land reclamation and soil-structure interaction problems.