Intended role for WTC
Advisory Committee
Job title and company
Director & Owner, Bamford Rock Testing Services Pty Ltd
ATS/ITA involvement
- Past President of ATS throughout the 1970s
- Member of the National Committee and the Victoria Chapter Committee of the ATS, 1972-2013
- Past Member of the ITA Working Groups “Research”; “Mechanized Excavation”; “Subsurface Planning”; “Direct & Indirect Advantages of Underground Construction”.
- Co-animateur of the study group on “Prevision of tunnel boring machines”, 1987-1990
- Australian Delegate to ITA Executive Council meetings 1995-1999
Years of experience
+66 years as a tunnelling engineering geologist, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor teaching Rock Mechanics and Tunnel Construction, building and running a rock testing lab specialising in rock excavatability and abrasivity.
Key achievements
- 49 publications.
- 18 Master’s theses supervised
- 9 Doctoral theses supervised.
- Honorary Life Member of the Australian Tunnelling Society
- International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering – Fellow
- Honorary Life Member of the Australian Geomechanics Society
Major Event Involvement (Organisation/Attendance)
- Convenor/Chairman of the first 3 Australian Tunnelling Conferences 1970-1976
- Member of the Organising Committees for all Australian Tunnelling Conferences throughout the 1970s and 1980s, of the 1987 WTC, and for GeoEng2000
- Australian Delegate to ITA Executive Council meetings 1995-1999