Dominic Westwood

Due diligence review of Japanese designed 12km metro system including 10km of twin bore tunnel and 2km of elevated guideway with a total of eleven stations and one depot. The client was Management Authority for Urban Railways. Duties included site visit and documentation review including construction fee estimates and justification.

I acted as design manager for the alterations and additions work inside T1-T2 Tunnels, I used my knowledge gained from dealing with interface information to drive forward the design, including fire engineering, MEP and AS design, structural design, and architecture. I supported the development of 3D models, including probing issues through reviewing Navisworks models, which contributed to improving the standard of deliverable from the interfacing consultant. This in turn allowed greater… Show more

I acted as design manager for the alterations and additions work inside T1-T2 Tunnels, I used my knowledge gained from dealing with interface information to drive forward the design, including fire engineering, MEP and AS design, structural design, and architecture. I supported the development of 3D models, including probing issues through reviewing Navisworks models, which contributed to improving the standard of deliverable from the interfacing consultant. This in turn allowed greater understanding of the nuances of this element of work, along with the associated complexities. I developed construction sequencing and programming issues including writing the Construction Issues Report. I reviewed deliverables including specs and drawings for consistency and accuracy prior to issue to the client, improving the quality before it would become an issue for our client. At meetings I was often involved in direct discussion with senior client staff and technical directors from the interfacing consultants.
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Interface manager for a 2.6km cut and cover tunnel with eight cells housing APM and BHS, with associated ancillary buildings. The tunnel will be through newly reclaimed land connecting two new terminal buildings.

I am the key point of contact for interfacing with 6 primary interfacing consultants and 4 secondary consultants, and responsible for information collation and distribution, allowing project team work more efficiently. I managed personnel and team preparations for meetings as… Show more

Interface manager for a 2.6km cut and cover tunnel with eight cells housing APM and BHS, with associated ancillary buildings. The tunnel will be through newly reclaimed land connecting two new terminal buildings.

I am the key point of contact for interfacing with 6 primary interfacing consultants and 4 secondary consultants, and responsible for information collation and distribution, allowing project team work more efficiently. I managed personnel and team preparations for meetings as well as presenting elements of work outside of my immediate knowledge base to the client and interfacing consultants. I have supported colleagues in order to alleviate pressure on the design teams. I managed the exchange of information both internally and externally in order to facilitate the design. I acted as an information distribution point with my extensive knowledge of the available data. Through following established document management procedures I have been able to quickly access important data to allow colleagues to deliver their work. I have managed various Interface Register and a Master Interface Schedule. I established strong relationships with staff from the interfacing consultants which helped me to gain information, press the 3138 agenda and facilitate design development. I wrote the PPW document which drives forwards BS1192 collaborative working concepts, including suitable systems for the use of ProjectWise. I followed this up by providing BMS leadership through peer assisted learning.
I helped manage scope creep and identified scope gaps and actively participated in change control and VO justification. I have been able to quickly build effective timelines of events to support the 3138 case.

I wrote and distributed the HSSRA and ISRA, to aid BMS compliance. I helped develop the Assumptions Register, including detailed review and suggested updates to DM, in order to manage the risk. Show less

Due diligence review of Japanese designed 11km metro system including 8km of twin bore tunnel and 3km of elevated guideway with a total of ten stations. The client was Ministry of Planning and Investment of the Vietnamese Government. Duties included reviewing the proposed project implementation (construction management and client structure), and construction fee estimates and justification.

Project Manager and Team Leader for the technical evaluation of 62 work package tenders for the KVMRT Blue line project in Kuala Lumpur. Evaluating tender packages relating to all elements of a new build metro system (51km). Through developing a clear understanding of client process and drivers I was able to improve efficiency of the evaluation to deliver 2.5x budget profit on the lump sum job. Developed a clear understanding of objective scoring for technical evaluation.

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Project Manager and Team Leader for the technical evaluation of 62 work package tenders for the KVMRT Blue line project in Kuala Lumpur. Evaluating tender packages relating to all elements of a new build metro system (51km). Through developing a clear understanding of client process and drivers I was able to improve efficiency of the evaluation to deliver 2.5x budget profit on the lump sum job. Developed a clear understanding of objective scoring for technical evaluation.

Tender packages include large contracts for segmental box girders, elevated guideways, stations, car parks, piling works, grouting works, utility diversions and building systems. Role has included technical evaluation across a range of civil engineering and mechanical and electrical disciplines, compiling reports including technical, legal (by others) and commercial (by others) and presenting to a working committee. Show less

Member of bid teams for various major proposals, including Light Rapid Transit Line 3 (LRT3) and Mass Rapid Transit line 2 (MRT2) in Malaysia and Mass Transit Railway (MTR) East Kowloon line and APM/BHS tunnels in Hong Kong. Bid writing has covered sections on company experience, team organisation, programme and methodology, procurement strategy, quality planning and safety planning. Have reviewed technical sections for compliance with scope of services, and overall bid themes. Have compiled… Show more

Member of bid teams for various major proposals, including Light Rapid Transit Line 3 (LRT3) and Mass Rapid Transit line 2 (MRT2) in Malaysia and Mass Transit Railway (MTR) East Kowloon line and APM/BHS tunnels in Hong Kong. Bid writing has covered sections on company experience, team organisation, programme and methodology, procurement strategy, quality planning and safety planning. Have reviewed technical sections for compliance with scope of services, and overall bid themes. Have compiled CVs with a focus on tailoring the text to sell our people. Key skills have been developed on organising and managing all elements of the bid (bid budget and programme, technical proposal, company literature, fee proposal, design programme, staffing). Show less

Assistant project manager for tender design of new build MTR tunnel under Victoria Harbour, comprising 1.4km of immersed tube tunnel and c.150m of cut and cover tunnel at each landfall, plus auxiliary works. Tasks included assembling and managing an international team (seven countries, eight Inter Entity Trading Agreements (IETs), one Inter Department Trading Agreement (IDT), two sub consultants), financial planning and control, business management system management and client interface.

Managing and co-ordinating local sub-consultants for the KVMRT Blue line project in Kuala Lumpur to deliver packages of work relating to external works (car parks and walkways). Managing the authorities submissions process.

Project manager for a third party review for a development’s impact on KVMRT Blue line tunnel. Dealt with project prolongation due to under performing interfacing consultant, leading scope creep, and managed to make a profit and deliver for the client.

Design manager for several detailed design schemes, managing the inputs from several disciplines. Schemes include soil nailing, counterfort drain design and embankment stabilisation. Role includes controlling programme and budgets, and raising required change controls, to ensure timely and cost effective deliver of designs to the client.

Geotechnical engineer working on Highways Agency Area 2 projects, mainly on the investigation and remediation of failing earthworks. Duties have included the production of preliminary sources study reports (PSSR), the design and supervision of ground investigation including subsequent ground investigation reports (GIR), geotechnical design reports (GDR) including designs using Slope/W software, whole-life costing and value management using scheme analysis system geotechnics software… Show more

Geotechnical engineer working on Highways Agency Area 2 projects, mainly on the investigation and remediation of failing earthworks. Duties have included the production of preliminary sources study reports (PSSR), the design and supervision of ground investigation including subsequent ground investigation reports (GIR), geotechnical design reports (GDR) including designs using Slope/W software, whole-life costing and value management using scheme analysis system geotechnics software, geotechnical monitoring, principal inspections (asset management) and geotechnical design support for other schemes. The main schemes are listed below:

M4 Pucklechurch – Geotechnical engineer, PSSR investigating a defect cluster on a series of embankments.

A40 Churcham – Geotechnical engineer, design of pre-cast retaining wall for a drainage channel.

A303 New Depot – Geotechnical engineer, design and supervision of a two phase ground investigation for a new highways maintenance depot.

M5 Junction 26-27 - Geotechnical engineer, PSSR which identified three defective areas of embankment. GIR summarising the ground investigation. Value management summary. Detailed design works package including appendices to the specification and construction drawings, and subsequently assisting the delivery of detailed design checks for the soil nailing design.

M5 Junction 11 NB – Geotechnical engineer, geotechnical design reports (GDR) which included the design of counterfort drains and shoulder replacement using Slope/W to repair embankment failure. Value management summary.

M4 MP138/0 to MP140/2 – Geotechnical engineer, PSSR, ground investigation, GIR, optioneering and GDR for a series of failing embankments.

Emergency Access and Egress – Geotechnical engineer providing support for highways scheme. Managed ground investigation and produced geotechnical memos. Show less

Geotechnical engineer for the design and procurement of three ground investigations (GIs) under the Mott MacDonald GI framework. The GI was planned around the requirements of the highways designers. The three sites included two different geologies, including Mercia Mudstone Group and Chalk. The project included support to the client appointing and managing the GI contractor.

Project manager for the delivery of 400km of earthworks inspections under HD41/03, managing several inspection teams, planning and monitoring delivery and quality. I carried out programme and cost control to effectively deliver the inspections within the tight inspection window, and achieve budgeted profit. The client were implementing the HD41/03 approach for the first time, and my existing experience provided added value.

Geotechnical engineer for the design of a 4m high gabion retaining wall for the approach to a highways bridge.

Geotechnical engineer for two cable upgrading schemes. Input included specifying, supervising and reporting on ground investigations, and providing general geotechnical support including settlement and bearing capacity calculations.

Drainage engineer working in a team designing the drainage for three park and ride car park extensions, one new park and ride car park, 1600m of new build bus lane and 400m of bus lane extension. The scheme aimed to use sustainable urban drainage systems where possible.

Drainage engineer, Wessex Water scheme investigating the flooding mechanism for a foul water system on the outskirts of Bath. Methods included interviewing locals and maintenance crews, manhole (MH) survey, CCTV survey, reviewing construction drawings of 2005 scheme and modelling (Infoworks). Scheme taken to outline design to be presented to Wessex Water.

Drainage engineer, Wessex Water scheme investigating the flooding mechanism for a foul water system in Saltford. Methods included interviewing locals and maintenance crews, MH survey and modelling (Infoworks). Scheme taken to outline design to be presented to Wessex Water.

Design engineer on a safety improvement scheme for a 1km stretch of dual carriageway leading up to junction 2 of the M27. The scheme included extension to the high friction surfacing (HFS), use of contrasting colours in the HFS, additional sections of barrier, and the introduction of BikeGuard into Area 2 and realignment of chevrons to restrict visibility. The scheme reduced accidents by 66% in the first three years.

Design engineer for the detailed design o fa 2.4km resurfacing and lighting scheme. Design included alignment, drainage and road marking. Project coordinator with lighting, signals and pavement teams. Contract documents produced included specification of appendices, non-motorised user (NMU) report and road safety audit stage 1 and 2.

Design engineer examining a standing water problem along a four-lane section of motorway with a rolling crown.

Design engineer on various work carried out on other schemes, including computer aided design, specification of appendices, NMU report and road safety audit stage 1 and 2.

Clerk of Works for the client, Severn Power, supervising piling works and other construction activities

Design engineer working on a high level assessment of possible locations for a new highways agency winter maintenance depot for the southern half of the A303. Developed a quantitative scoring system to rank the locations and identify the sites that the clients wanted to analyse in more depth. Work led to the selection of a site for the new depot.

Site engineer on 150m long Rheola Bridge, including 90m clear span. The bridge is the landmark structure in the 5km Porth Relief Road project. Work included plant, labour and materials management, Risk Assessment and Method Statements, setting out and subcontractor management. The structure spans two rivers, one road and one railway line, in an urban setting. Elements of the project covered, cofferdams, excavations, reinforced concrete, working at height, underground utilities, structural… Show more

Site engineer on 150m long Rheola Bridge, including 90m clear span. The bridge is the landmark structure in the 5km Porth Relief Road project. Work included plant, labour and materials management, Risk Assessment and Method Statements, setting out and subcontractor management. The structure spans two rivers, one road and one railway line, in an urban setting. Elements of the project covered, cofferdams, excavations, reinforced concrete, working at height, underground utilities, structural steel, reinforced slopes and environmental protection. Show less