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John has provided advice to more than 60 government and private sector clients throughout the Asia Pacific region on geotechnical, environmental and geosynthetic projects; including solid waste landfills, dams, tunnels, mines, coastal reclamations, deep excavations, slopes and liquid storage. He has also provided project management advice for hydro-electric, environmental, tunnelling and water supply projects, and he has provided Expert Advice on a number of geotechnical disputes.
John is a previous Chairman of the Association of Geotechnical Specialists Hong Kong and is a Committee Member of the Hong Kong Tunnelling Society. He was a Council Member of the International Geosynthetics Society from 2000 to 2014. He has published over 60 technical papers on geosynthetics and geotechnical engineering.
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[Brief_CV2] => John Cowland is an Independent Geotechnical and Geosynthetics Engineering Consultant based in Hong Kong, China, with over 30 years of experience. He has provided advice to numerous government and private sector clients throughout the Asia Pacific region on geotechnical, environmental and geosynthetic projects. These have included solid waste landfills, coastal reclamations, water supplies, soil slopes, rock slopes, soft ground, tunnelling and foundations. Geosynthetics include geotextiles, geomembranes, geogrids and reinforced earth systems.
He has provided expert technical reports, independent design reviews, expert technical assistance on site, assessments of the causes of failures and assistance with solutions. John has also provided advice on project management; especially for environmental and water supply projects.
John is a Council Member and Officer of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), and a member of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical Committee TC5 on Environmental Geotechnics. John has published 36 papers on Geotechnical Engineering and Geosynthetics.
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