Many of Douglas Partners employees are acknowledged as leaders in their technical fields. Listed below are a selection of:
  • Technical presentations, and
  • Papers prepared and published in conferences or journals
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    PRESENTATIONS:
    Selected PowerPoint presentations which Douglas Partners Staff have prepared to accompany technical talks and papers are listed below. We would be pleased to make these presentations to your staff at your request. To arrange a presentation from one of our Specialist Staff please call the Marketing Coordinator in our Sydney Office on (02) 9809 0666 or email dpmarketing@douglaspartners.com.au
     
    1. DP Classics:
    Overviews several Award Winning Design & Construction projects where Douglas Partners have added value for their clients. Includes Sydney Parallel Runway, Watawala Landslide stabilisation (Sri Lanka), Bolte Bridge foundations in Melbourne and Sea World Dolphin Habitat, Gold Coast.
    2. Border Battles:
    Discusses geotechnical aspects of, guidelines for and case histories of boundary disputes and lateral support problems.
    3. Groundwater Contamination Investigation using Conductivity Cone Penetration Tests (CCPT):
    Describes methods for interpretation of CCPT results and presents a case study where CCPTs were used to investigate dry land salinity.
    4. Soil Compaction and its Importance for Earthworks Testing:
    Discusses the mechanics of compaction in the laboratory test and field.
    5. Making your Tenders more Competitive:
    Overviews the selling process and provides case studies illustrating how innovative tender solutions can win design and construction projects.
    6. Pavement Failures:
    Discusses the causes and types of pavement failure.
    7. Specialist Drilling, Insitu testing and Sampling:
    Describes Douglas Partners equipment and capabilities in field drilling, in situ testing and sampling.
    8. Route Assessment challenges in Remote Locations:
    Overviews a number of projects where remote sensing and terrain evaluation techniques have been used to assess landslide and other geotechnical risk factors for alignment projects (roads, rail, pipeline, etc) in remote locations.
     
     
    SELECTED PAPERS BY DOUGLAS PARTNERS STAFF:
     

    Geotechnics

     
    Fiona MacGregor and Michael J. Thom
  		•  "Settlement of Soft Marine Sediments at Sydney Airport" - 8th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Hobart 1999
     
    Geoff S. Young and Mahendra Parmar
  		•  "Shrink-Swell Testing in the Sydney Region" - 8th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Hobart, 1999
     
    John C Braybrooke
  		•  "Geotechnical Information to be provided to Tenderers for above or underground contracts" - Contract Operators Conference, AusIMM, Kalgoorlie, WA, 1996
     
    John C Braybrooke
  		•  "Resource Evaluation in Quarrying - A Customer Focus" - Quarry Industry Conference, Oct 1994
     
    John C Braybrooke
  		•  "Sustainable Utilisation of Earth Resources (Doing More with Less)" - 2nd Asian Symposium on Engineering Geology and the Environment, University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia, 1999
     
    John C Braybrooke
  		•  "Why is that so? The use of geological models" - Keynote address, 1st ANZ Young Geotechnical Professionals Conference, Feb 1994
     
    Ken R. Chandler and Mark Palmer
  		•  "Design and Construction of a Cement Stabilised Sandstone Retaining Wall" - 8th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Hobart, 1999
     
    Michael Broise
  		•  "Route Assessment Challenges in PNG" - AGS Sydney Branch, May 1999
     
    Peter McDonald
  		•  "Laterally Loaded Pile Capacity Revisited" - 8th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Hobart, 1999
     

    Environmental

     
    J Michael Nash
  		•  "Assessment and Management of Waste Soils" - Institute of Municipal Engineering Australia (IMEA) 8th Annual Conference, Penrith NSW, May 1999
     
    J Michael Nash
  		•  "Implications of Contaminated Site Remediation Under Changing Environmental Criteria" - Australasian Environmental Engineering Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, July 1999
     
    Michael J Thom
  		•  "Constraints on Residential Development Over Former Landfills" - 2nd ANZ Conference on Environmental Geotechnics, 2001
     
    Michael J Thom
  		•  "Landfills in Metropolitan Sydney" - 2nd ANZ Conference on Environmental Geotechnics, 2001
     

    Groundwater

     
    Michael J. Thom and Stephen R. Jones
  		•  "Twenty Five Years of Groundwater Monitoring at the Tomago Sandbeds, Newcastle" - 8th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Hobart, 1999