CURRICULUM VITAE ΖΑΧΑΡΟΠΟΥΛΟ Π. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟ
PERSONAL INFORMATION QUALIFICATIONS Address of correspondence:
Nationality: Greek & British 1. MEng, in Civil Engineering, Imperial College, 2001 Age: 46 2. ACGI, Member, Association of City & Guild Institute, 2001 e-mail: [email protected] | [email protected] 3. MSci, in Geology University of Athens, 2002 Tel: (+30)6937446600 4. TEE, Licenced Civil Engineer in Greece, 2002 5. ΓΕΩΣΕΕ, Licenced Geologist in Greece, 2002 Address of Correspondence: 6. FGS, Fellow of The Geological Society, 2003 Ioannou Drosopoulou Str. 26, Kypseli, 7. EurIng, Licensed European Engineer in all EU countries, Athens, GR-112 57, Greece FEANI, 2004 Tel (GR): +30-6937446600 8. MICE, Chartered Member of Institute of Civil Engineers, 2005 Tel (CH): +86-183-9244-9000 9. CEng, Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council UK, 2005
10. MBA, Masters in Business Administration, MBA International Program, Athens University of Business & Economics, 2017 LANGUAGES 11. PgDIN, Postgraduate Diploma in Negotiations, Athens Greek - Native University of Business & Economics, 2017 English - Bilingual French – Basic 12. CSCS-Platinum, NVQ level 7 Senior Manager, Civil & Mandarin – Basic Structural Engineering Designer, 2002 Spanish – Basic 13. Licensed Consultant, ΤΜΤ/Δ24Greek State, 2005 14. H&S Manager, OSHA30, 2006 15. Safe Working in Confined Spaces Instructor (SWCSI)
O Αλζξανδροσ Ζαχαρόπουλοσ είναι διπλ. πολιτικόσ μθχανικόσ του Imperial College Λονδίνου και γεωλόγοσ του Πανεπιςτθμίου Ακθνών με μεταπτυχιακά ςτθ διοίκθςθ επιχειριςεων και τισ διαπραγματεφςεισ ςτο Οικονομικό Πανεπιςτιμιο Ακθνών με ερευνθτικζσ ςυμμετοχζσ ςε Αγγλικά και Αμερικάνικα πανεπιςτιμια/εταιρείεσ, όπου ζχει διδάξει μεταπτυχιακά μακιματα και ζχει ανάπτυξει 2 ευρεςιτεχνίεσ και πολλάκισ τεχνολογικζσ ερευνθτικζσ λφςεισ αιχμισ. Έχει εργαςτεί επί 20χρόνια ςτο εξωτερικό ςε πολυεκνικζσ ςτο πεδίο τθσ ανάπτυξθσ, μελζτθσ και καταςκευισ δθμόςιων ζργων υποδομισ (π.χ. Metro Dubai, London Underground) και ιδιωτικών ζργων ωσ SME καταςκευαςτισ. Είναι αναγνωριςμζνοσ ορκωτόσ αρχιμθχανικόσ και ζχει ηιςει και εκτεκεί εργαςιακά ςε Ακινα, Λονδίνο, Dubai, Νζα Τόρκθ, Jeddah και ShenZhen/Xi’an κυρίωσ. τθν Ελλάδα εργάςτθκε κατά διαςτιματα από 18ετών ςτο χώρο των ζργων υποδομισ ςε όλεσ τισ βακμίδεσ ευκφνθσ και ζχει κατανόθςθ των ςυςτθμικών προβλθμάτων του Ελλθνικοφ κράτουσ. Επαγγελματικά ωσ διευκυντισ ζργων με πάκοσ πιςτεφει ςτθν υποςτιριξθ(mentoring) των νζων επιςτθμόνων, τθσ ανάγκθσ τθσ δια βίου παιδείασ, των ευκαιριών αξιοκρατικισ ανζλιξθσ δια βίου των εργαηομζνων, ενώ αςχολείται ενεργά με τθν υποςτιριξθ των ελλθνικών ςυμφερόντων ςτθν εξωςτρεφι επιχειρθματικότθτα και καινοτομία. Είναι άνκρωποσ τθσ πολιτικισ ανάπτυξθσ και των οικονομικών αναπτυξιακών λφςεων, τθσ ςυλλογικότθτασ, ανκρωποκεντριςτισ και τθσ αναπτυξιακισ αειφορίασ. Ένκερμοσ υποςτθρικτισ των ςφχγρονων διοικθτικών μεκοδολογιών και μοντζλων διοίκθςθσ του lean six sigma δίδει ζμφαςθ ςτθν υπεραξία των επωφελιών τθσ διοικθτικισ επιςτιμθσ και τεχνολογίασ. ΓΕΝΙΚΕ ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΕ EurIng Alexander Zacharopoulos has extensive experience in leading and managing design and construction teams. He is a known program/project director/manager, senior project/construction manager and lead engineering technical director. He is a successful strategist and assisted his managing directors to deliver or win multibillion worth of projects. He has been partner and owner of construction and consulting businesses in UK Middle East and China and is well-connected in the UK, Middle East and Greek consulting/construction industry. His accumulated more than 25 years of professional experience has been divided between UK, USA, Greece, KSA and China and has a vast international exposure (Russia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Turkey, Tunisia, Uganda, Sudan, Nigeria, Italy, Germany, Malta, Serbia, Ireland, Spain, Bangladesh, India, Dominican Republic and Albania). He has lead proposals for billions worth of construction and design work. He has a distinctive management style of hard- working ethos that is driven by the shear focus on success and delivery of results. He has experience in PFI, D&B and traditional civil engineering in all types of built environment projects. His medical healthcare projects include the three main MedicalCities of the Ministry of Health of KSA which he led during execution, worth during Phase I 10.5billionUSD, among other smaller projects in UK primarily. His project leadership expertise covers all possible recycling projects needs, across all phases of initiation, planning, tendering and execution. He has led several R&D teams and projects on innovation and entrepreneurship. Alex has been engaged in civil engineering since 1991. With a strong academic background, he has completed full-time courses in Civil Engineering and Geology and a solid MBA and other leadership postgraduate education taken at the Athens University of Economics & Business AUEB. Alex has numerous professional qualifications MEng ACGI MSci CEng EURING TEE ΓΕΩΣΕΕ FGS MICE MBA and PgDIN along with all director level PM/H&S training across 3 continents. Alex is a keen innovator and he is part of the AUEB MSL team as a research fellow, driving innovations on applied research projects among other initiatives within the matrix of Lean Management/Project Management/BIM 7D/ QA 6sigma systems/ Circular Economy/ Industry 4.0/ Smart cities/ EGCR-CSR/Applied IOT-Big data analytics. 2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos
EDUCATION
1991 - 1996 University of Athens, Faculty of Geology - Panepistimioupoli, Ano Illisia, Athens, Greece Ptychion in Geological Sciences (Equivalent to MSci Geology, accredited by UK NARIC)
1997 - 2001 Imperial College, London - Exhibition Rd, SW7 2BU, U.K MEng in Civil Engineering
2008 - 2012 University of Southampton, Southampton – University Road, SO17 1B, U.K PhD in Civil Engineering – Geotechnical Engineering – Incomplete
2016 - 2017 Athens University of Economics & Business, Athens - 47a Evelpidon Str., GR-113 62, Greece MBA International
2016 - 2017 Athens University of Economics & Business, Athens – Kefallinias 46 – 3rd floor, GR-112 51, Greece Postgraduate Diploma in Negotiations
OLDER PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AWARDS & RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Member, British Dam Society, 2000 Member of Greek National Youth Team (Sprinter) with several national wins, Member, International Society for Soil Mechanics & Geotechnical 1985 –1988 Engineering, 2000 Greek Mathematical Association: Achieved second phase of the national Member, International Society of Rock Mechanics, 1999 competition for the selection of the Youth Olympic National Team. At the Member, Society for Earthquake & Civil Engineering Dynamics, 1999 second phase of the national examinations 80 pupils were selected from across the country, 1988 Member, British Geotechnical Association, 1998 Elected representative of the North Athens Pupils Association, Leading the Member, Hellenic Geological Society, 1998 protesting campaign against proposed educational bills, 1990 Member, Greek Consultants Association, 1997 Elected representative of the faculty of Geology for the national student association, 1992 - 1994 INTERNTATIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPOSURE The Royal Exhibition of 1851, Research Scholarship, 2001 Greece, UK, USA, China, Vietnam, KSA, Russia, Tunisia, The Centralians Trust, Research Scholarship 2001 Uganda, Angola, Cameroon, Sudan, Nigeria, Italy, Germany, The Convocation ULU, Research Scholarship 2001 Malta, Serbia, Ireland, Spain, France, Kuwait, Turkey, Qatar, The Nuffield Foundation, Research Scholarship 2001 UAE, Bangladesh, India, Dominican Republic, Albania, Australia The Campden Charities, Research Scholarship 2001 EPSRC, Research Scholarship 2006 Research Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Southampton, 2007 Research Fellow, MSL lab, Athens University of Economics & Business, 2018
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jul 2018 – 1/3/2020 XIAMEN BESTSTONES LTD, KINGSTONES HONG KONG LTD & SHAANXI ZETONG GLOBAL LTD, Xi'an (China) Job Title/Position: Group CEO of Xiamen BestStones Ltd, KingStones Hong Kong Ltd and Shanxi Zetong Global ltd (China)
CEO of a group of Chinese companies with a matrix of operations and interests in the facade engineering/construction, recycling trading, real estate investments & developments and in international trading of building materials industries. Stakeholder of the newly formed Kings Developments AE created to invest, develop and construct building and tourist purpose-built assets in Greece primarily. Business alliances and contracts were undertaken with clients, except PP China, in Vietnam, France, Germany, Cameroon, Greece, UK and Australia.
Representative of the Xi’an(Chang’an) Thessaloniki Twining-Sister cities program initiation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs P.R. China, Shaanxi-Xi’an chapter - Silk Road program
Jun 2018 – Ongoing ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS, ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ, Athens (Greece) Job Title/Position: RESEARCH FELLOW, Applied Engineering Management, at OReS/TRANSLOG research centres of Management Science Laboratory at AUEB.
Program Director of multiple Defense & Manufacturing Industries R&D projects – Conceptualizations and Initiations up to confirmed financial backing, Total Program Budget: 2Million Euros, HR/Stakeholders management of circa 10 people. Innovations and academic research in the academic ICT/Engineering matrix of new emerging technologies that combine the abilities driven by the fields of Circular Economy / EGRC-CSR/ Lean six sigma / Smart IOT cities / Operational management / Critical Infrastructure / IoT-AI BigDataAnalytics / BIM 7D.
Conceptualization, innovation and project management of the following proposals and projects, as follows so far: 1. CircularCABLEL: Describes the core solution for the implementation of the circular economy and Industry 4.0 processes and operational structure and principles for the five manufacturing plants of
2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos the Hellenic Cables SA. 2. MILINFRA: Military & Critical Infrastructure Strategy Planning & Design toolbox guidelines, processes, decision making algorithms/roadmaps innovative proposals combining ALL-in-1 latest knowledge on DMAIC-FEED-BIS/BIM7D-Smart-IOT. 3. Lean Institute Greece: Proposal for MSL to lead the main operational research centre on DMAIC/Lean knowledge area and business strategies/methodologies in the Greek capital, to create the new Lean Global Greek chapter and institute entity under the AEUB/MSL auspices. 4. HFAISTOS: This is the main MOD attempt to deliver a 3D printing for Prosthetics service in the army hospitals of GMH401 and GMH424. 5. HELIOS: It stands for Hel.lenic I.ntegrating L.ogistics O.ptimisation S.ystem and is the AUEB attempt to deliver the much-needed supply-chain digitization evolution of all the Greek Armed Forces. 6. GReecHY: This is the implementation proposal and a hands on roadmap for the General Secretary of Energy at the Ministry of Environment & Energy to introduce a HYDROGEN economy industry in the Greek Renewable Energy blend by the employment of the Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Technology/Economy. 7. SKILIAS: It is the 1st national attempt (NTUA, AUEB, IonianU, PlanetBlue, Tech.CCLavrion) to create an Underwater Vehicles simulator that provides full 3D submersible user experience, utilizing the latest VR software advances. 8. NIKITARAS: The Made in Greece response to the virtual reality VR dry fire system for the Greek armed forces battle riffle, at this stage the G3/A3. 9. MINERVA – Drafted proposal with Minerva’s senior engineering team the applied solution of a CircularEconomy-LifeCycleAssessment-WasteManagement-MIS-MOM-PLC-DataAnalytics hybrid solution for their Schematari plant with their 13 production lines. 10. National Negotiation Authority(NNA): Proposal and creation of the first draft Law proposal that introduces and regulates the usage of Negotiation Science in the public domain, policies and management, in order to accelerate the political economic social benefits which can introduce the practice of the new emerging hybrid humanities science based on the cross-sectional knowledge area of OperationalResearch-Neuroscience-Sociology-Psychology-Mathematics-Economics. 11. Negotiator1vsALL©: Proposal to create a mobile app that is designed to teach and assist a negotiator on real time negotiating verbal interactions with their counterparts. It is based on a 4 modules designed to address the applied theory of negotiations. 12. DIN program business consultation and innovation proposals.
Aug 2016 – Dec 2017 ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS, ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΗΜΙΟ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ, Athens (Greece) Job Title/Position: POSTGRADUATE STUDENT, Full-time in MBA International & Postgraduate Diploma In Negotiations DIN programs at AUEB
Full time postgraduate student at AUEB for two postgraduate programs, the MBA International (81%) and the Postgraduate Diploma in Negotiations (87%). The MBA International is the highest ranked MBA program in Greece and among the top 15 best ranked full-time MBA programs in Europe.
Jul 2015 – Dec 2018 SAUDI-GREEK HOLDINGS LTD (UAE-KSA) Position: PARTNER
Partner at Saudi-Greek Holdings Ltd, a company partly owned that operates projects of international trading and brokering on food/agricultural products and invests on real estate in Jeddah KSA and Athens Greece, and other profitable business ventures. Developed/funds/PMs a 2million project in Athens Greece of 7 luxury residential apartments. The business strategy was to gain lateral exposure in the business consulting sector as a senior business consultant and Investment Angel when possible, as follows: 1. Consultant to the Greek Armed Forces (ΓΕΕΘΑ/ΓΕ) (Greece) and its Centre of Research & Technology of the Greek Army and other classified consulting technology work. 2. Consultant of Greek Ministry of Defense (Greece) – Adviced Greek MOD directly to minister level on the legislating act/law for the new business development of its real estate organization and processes that affected the development of its real estate development entity (ΣΕΘΑ) and the creation of its new leasing arm ΤΠ.Α.Α.Π.Ε.Δ. 3. Strategy consultant (Greece) – Strategy development consultant for the National Technical University of Athens NTUA, Laboratory of Structural Mechanics to advice on the formation of scope, strategy and its business development methods which will establish a steady growth according to the aspirations of its members of staff as ALL-1-team.
2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos 4. Life coaching & mentoring (Greece) - Life coaching to Greek professionals (all graduates) that are groomed either as business colleagues or for their own personal professional development. 5. Patent development (Greece) - Patent submission and R&D director for the production of architectural features that maximize air-air ventilation efficiencies. 6. Investment & development strategy of Municipality of Chalandri (Greece) – Strategy & Development Advisor to the Mayor of Chalandri 7. Imported women fashion apparel & clothes of several Greek women brands to Jeddah KSA 8. Investment in a F&B Jeddah based restaurant-catering business 9. B2B deal making for Greek mega-energy projects, tourism, real estate development projects and trading opportunities related investments: 1. Greek-Qatari B2B consulting services to Greek Industrialists 2. Greek-Russian B2B consulting services to Greek Industrialists 3. B2C Business creation of a hotel/theme park investment in KSA. 4. B2B Business creation & supporting young professionals to establish & run an existential educational inclusive to all backgrounds & health levels unit. 5. B2C Business creation & supporting young entrepreneurs in the chemical products market. 6. B2B Business strategy & marketing analyses for Greek metallurgical products & enterprises- External consultant to mining enterprises, e.g. PROLAT, Municipality of Nisyros. 7. Business mentor to Greek Young sculpture artists Apollonas Glykas & Andreas Kalli and business partner – Invested on the production & marketing of a new sculptured-based security door system & other art based building products.
Oct 2014 – Sep 2015 BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL LTD (KSA) Job Title/Position: PROGRAM DIRECTOR
FOUR SEASONS HOTEL JEDDAH – MIDAD REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT & DEVELOPMENT SA (KSA) Program Director & Resident Engineer of the Consultant Services or the new Four Seasons 6star Hotel in Jeddah KSA. Initial Project budget circa 3billion USD, Managed during initial executional phase a workforce HR/Stakeholders of circa 200people. Lead a 30 strong team of international engineering professionals in order to deliver one of the most prestigious hotel projects in KSA at a prestigious site in Jeddah. The hotel is a complex highly sophisticated architectural and engineering gem that utilizes state-of-art building integrated systems to create a 4x34-storey towers bridged at top with a suspended hanging gardens theme at level 12-14! The labour force on site at full capacity is due to exceed 3000. The project was finished prematurely with the Consultant due to interim financial difficulties with the funding of the project.
Mar 2014 – Sep 2014 HILL INTERNATIONAL LTD, Riyadh (KSA) Job Title/Position: SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
MEDICAL CITIES – MINISTRY OF HEALTH (KSA) Senior Project Manager of the PM Consultant the under construction 3 new Medical Cities of KSA Ministry of Health. Program Phase-A budget of 10.5billion USD, Managed a workforce HR/Stakeholders of circa 1200people at 2 working sites and HQ. Lead a 25 strong team of international PM/CM engineering professionals in order to deliver 3 medical cities in Jeddah, Abha and Sasaka. Developed PMP® standards in all aspects of our services via planning tendering and execution in all three multi-billion USD complex highly specialized hospital and new city development projects.
Apr 2012 – Feb 2014 SAUDI CONSTRUCTION LTD, Riyadh/Dubai (KSA/UAE) Job Title/Position: PARTNER – CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER (CTO)
Partner and CTO of a partly owned construction company operating in MENA, primarily KSA and UAE. Total Budgets 140 million SAR, Managed a workforce HR/Stakeholders of circa 40people. 1. Abha Airport (KSA) – Subcontractor’s tender, quotation & procurement manager for the Airport Terminal exterior wall systems of the terminal and the door/openings systems. 2. Port of Luanda (Angola) – Subcontractor’s quotation & procurement team member for the construction of the extension of the existing quay in the Port of Luanda and creating a JV strategy with a UK-Kazakstani civil-energy engineering consortium for the next Angolian PPP tendered projects that are funded by the European Development Bank and the African Development Bank. 3. Presidential Glazing Hangar (UAE) - Subcontractor’s tender, quotation submission & procurement manager for the 2nd presidential Hangar at the Abu Dhabi International airport for 2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos the exterior wall systems of the hangar & door/openings systems. 4. Kampala Northern Bypass (Uganda) – Subcontractor’s tender, quotation & procurement manager for the street lighting & street signals contract of this central bypass highway system in the heart of the Ugandan capital 5. Infrastructure Of Housing Projects (KSA) - Subcontractor’s tender, quotation & procurement manager for the Contract No.15 Samtah, Sabiya, Beish, Abu-Ariesh, Dahiya Malik Abdullah, Nawan and Narjan infrastructure construction of lifelines, street structures and landscaping at these 7 housing project sites in the regions of the Kingdom. 6. Nas Arena (UAE) – Managed FIDIC tender stages as procurement manager for the NAS Arena in Dubai, the Indoor Futsal & Volleyball Arena, specifically for the external shell structures of the Arena and all auxiliary buildings.
Nov. 2009 – Sep. 2010 Hellenic Navy, Military compulsory service (GREECE) Job Title/Position: 3rd petite officer, ship guard officer, central military intelligence unit
Served the compulsory military service at the ranks of the Hellenic Navy as a 3rd level petite officer POT3 (Leading Seaman), with responsibilities spend half at the naval base serving as team leader guardian of war auxiliary crane ships and remaining military service was spend at the Greek armed forces Pentagon HQ within assisting the central military intelligence officers.
Jan 2008 – Mar 2012 AGRONAUTS ENGINEERING LTD, London/Athens (UK/USA/GREECE), 8AWharfedale Street, London, SW10 9AL Job Title/Position: OWNER
Owner, Business Strategy Development of a consulting & construction company operating/developing in Athens Greece and London UK multiple residential and Photovoltaic renewable energy projects. While in Greece employed a workforce of circa 20 construction workers for 14 months. Spend 1.5 years in USA on several real estate investment opportunities. With the strike of the financial crisis in Greece, Alex provided employment to unemployed pensioners or young builders under 30, at the residential and solar panel projects and assisting on the work of several non-governmental or state organizations with their human crisis alleviation schemes. He worked on the development of two patents and a PhD thesis & relevant publications, while he assists with the spring-off of projects in the Greek and UK CivEng consulting and construction business. As a landlord in London, part of his time was involved in investing sourcing and evaluating properties in Greece and UK/Germany/USA.
1. Catherine House, Docklands (UK) - Project manager, client representative, procurement manager structural checker and geotechnical engineer of a new composite RC and steel 9 flats development valued to £2m at the Docklands East London E16. Undertook the issue of the planning permission and all the building control processes until the construction as-built stage. 2. 10.2kWp PV roof project in Athens (Greece) - Project managed, issued a planning permission, detailed design & construction management of a 10.2kWp PV rooftop scheme with innovative seasonal interchanged steel frame. 3. 8kWp PV roof project in Messenia (Greece) - Project managed, issued a planning permission, detailed design & construction management of an 8kWp PV rooftop scheme. 4. 50KW wind power scheme (Greece) – Initial project management of planning processes and execution of studies (data collection, environmental assessment, design) but without a result due to governmental indecisiveness on their small wind power policies. 5. PV Engineering services (Greece) - Issued 3 PV licenses for 10kWp rooftop schemes in Athens, Salamina island and Piraeus respectively. 6. Innovative design a rooftop multi-strike PV panels mountsystem(Greece) - Designed a new innovative simple mountsystem for rooftop PV panel schemes to increase 10% efficiencies with an 10min effort 8times per year by changing the strike of the PV panels with a simple screw in-out system. 7. Patents development (Germany-Australia) - Production of two hydrodynamic energy production concepts for a patent submission. 8. Patent development (Greece) - Patent submission and R&D director of the team that develops underwater immersed leisure facility for under 5million euros. 9. Chalandri Municipality stadium (Greece) – Project manager, design & quotation manager of new stadium stands roof system. 10. Real estate consulting services (Greece) - Advice to numerous clients on real estate property sales & acquisitions. Issued real estate plots and building asset evaluations for several clients. Advised heirs on post-mortem fair split of inheritances. Residential development and refurbishments (Greece) - Refurbished flats of different levels and level of complications in Athens & Piraeus/Salamina and Crete island, created the interior design,
2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos the as as-built detailed architectural dwgs, construction planning and execution, created my own gang of master builders that delivered good quality work on tight baselines. 11. Residential development 17 Tziraion street, Acropolis Athens. Resolved planning permission irregularities compared to as-built structure. Project management, detailed design, planning permission issuing, stakeholders & construction management of 98sq.m. new consulting eye-surgery clinic of high-end specs. Resolved planning permission irregularities compared to as-built structure. 12. Atsalenio-Mastampas LOT 412 Herakleion, Crete island (Greece) – Project managed to alter prefecture’s land acquisitions to preferable options & issue a planning permission for fence erections. Planning permission of LOT fences and land boundaries resolutions with several relevant town planning authorities. 13. Εlias street, Chalandri Athens (Greece) - Project management, detailed design planning permission issuing & construction management of this7 storey RC building (2 levels underground) with underground parking and storage, 9m excavations, roof swimming pool, development of a luxury block of residential urban flats. Resolved planning permission irregularities compared to as- built structure of all building – as-built drawings etc. 14. Ampelokipi Athens residential development and refurbishments (Greece) - Refurbishment of 140sq.m. 2nd floor 1990’s flat to high-end specs. 15. Loutraki Corinthos (Greece) - Refurbishment of 64sq.m. 4th floor 1980’s flat to medium specs 16. King William street, Athens (Greece) - Refurbishment of 85sq.m. 5th floor 1970’s flat to standard commercial specs. 17. Agiou Meletiou street, Athens (Greece) – Refurbishment of 118sq.m 5th floor 1970’s Athenian flat with an amazing rare Acropolis direct view that was enhanced by the D&B-Turnkey high-end specs results. 18. Elias street Chalandri Athens (Greece) - Athens refurbishment of 170sq.m 1st floor 1970’s flat to high end specs. 19. 22 & 24 Elias street, Chalandri Athens (Greece) - Resolved 10years neighbors grieving with sorting out a 2 stages waterproofing works Athens for a 3-level block of flats building. 20. Pontou street, Dafni Athens (Greece) - Resolved failed waterproofing works and retrofitted RC beams. 21. Kolokotroni street, Piraeus (Greece) - Refurbishment of 75sq.m. 7nd floor and of 20sq.m. 8th floor 1960’s flats to medium specs. 22. Anapoleos street, Herakleion, Crete island (Greece) - Splitting a 2-level flat of 160sq.m. to two different flats Crete island. 23. Sochi Winter Olympic Games 2014 (Russia/UK) - Advised BoD of Sochi Winter Olympic Games 2014 and their London based solicitors on proposal evaluation techniques & tools, procurement strategies, screening systems, deciphered problems on statement of works, advised on contractual policies, shortlisted European based contractors for “invitation for bid”. 24. Residential refurbishments & Real Estate Asset Management (UK) - Refurbishments of flats of different sizes, extensions, conservatories, design and planning permissions, construction management, materials choice, interior designs, turn-key delivery of projects. 25. Residential refurbishments (Germany) - Refurbishment of a 110sq.m. flat in masonry period block of flats at Schwabing, Munich Germany and researched real estate investment opportunities in Munich with an IRR>20%. Established links with sourcers in the Munich Schawabing area and established couple of flat deals. 26. Residential refurbishments (USA) - Refurbishment of a patio flat in New York city at Williamsburg NY and a three-levels old timber house in San Francisco CA. 27. Realtor investigations (USA) - Researched investment opportunities with an IRR>25% and asset management services business opportunities at San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Long Beach, California USA. 28. LOT Development (USA) - Legal clearance, paperwork inheritance updating and fencing of a 1.2acres LOT at Abington, south of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 29. ITASCA Inc. Software development (USA) – Based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, advised from the end-users/designer’s prospective the core FLAC software development senior team on issues of foundation engineering design methods. 30. ITASCA Inc. (USA) - Advised on state-of-art advanced engineering methodology on FEED & value-engineering client orientated design answers. Active change management review of Foundation Engineering Design Methodologies.
Jan 2008 – Mar 2012 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON School of Engineering (UK) Job Title/Position: PhD CANDIDATE STUDENT Part-time, and, VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW at School of Engineering
2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos Sponsored PhD Candidature (UK) - Incomplete PhD on the geotechnical engineering subject of piles in unstable ground. Managed as the industrial partner to gain 400k sterling research grant from EPSRC for his research project. The PhD scholarship was supported by an EPSRC grant won by earlier submission that was done in collaboration with my supervising Prof. Powrie. Alex undertook a part-time PhD on a UK government funded project that will produce the guidelines for the optimized fundamental design of structures in an unstable ground. His unfinished PhD thesis was drafted 2/3 and was called “Piles in unstable ground” before he moved to Middle East abruptly for important professional opportunities.
Research Fellowship (UK) - Awarded a visiting research fellowship for 4year contract with School of Engineering of the University of Southampton, and taught MSc students Design Management, Foundations & Geotechnical Engineering modules & supervised their MSc thesis.
British Army (UK) – During my PhD time at Southampton university I joined the TA British Army with the Corps of Engineers and promoted to Officer Cadet rank via a part-time staged Sandhurst military academy commissioning course that was partly finished due to professional civilian obligations.
Bicester Depot railway network (UK) - Design team leader in the 507 STRE Railway team of Royal Corps of Engineers responsible for interchange refurbishment and permanent way alignment change at British Army Bicester Depot, Oxfordshire UK.
Nov 2005 – Dec 2007 CAPITA GROUP – INFRASTRUCTURE & CAPITAL PROJECTS DELIVERY, CAPITA SYMONDS (UK) Job Title/Position: SENIOR ENGINEER, SENIOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TEAM Alex while with Capita group, among other achievements, acted as the liaison manager of the unfortunate Thessaloniki Immersed Tunnel and the proud main geotechnical lead design manager of the all the new Dubai Metro system with auxiliary works, systems and depots. Clients/Projects Overview:
1. Capita Group PLC (UK/Europe) – South and East European PPP/PFIs local liaison, prequalification and tender/procurement manager for capital projects and infrastructure at the core business development unit, engaging with joint venture schemes, local clients, developed marketing strategies and material, organisation capabilities report for the civil engineering business unit, deliverables for framework agrements and MOU/contractual write-ups and negotiations. 2. Southern Water PLC (UK) - Project delivery management framework for a £200m capital investment of treatment works – Prequalification & procurement manager. 3. Capita Group PLC (UK/Europe) - Research consulting services sector with strict KPIs strategy to advice Capita Group BoD on overall infrastructure acquisition strategies and reconnaissance of infrastructure services companies appropriate for acquisition from the group. 4. Capita Group PLC (UK/Greece) - Managed all capital projects group Greek PPPs/PFIs input/strategy and was the local group infrastructure liaison manager from 2005 up to inclusive 2007. 5. Capita Symonds (UK) - Prequalification procurement manager in 2007 for two water schemes in Malta, managing the liaison for the business development with joint ventures and local clients. 6. Tubelines JV (UK) - Geotechnical, Geophysical and Tunneling Consulting Services 3yrs framework – Procurement bid manager. 7. United Utilities PLC (UK) - Bid manager for consulting services framework for AMP4. 8. Civils 2006 (UK) - Created the leaflets for the Capita Symonds civil engineering business unit for the Civils 2006 exhibition and the project sheets for the last 3 years civil engineering projects. 9. Croydon Council (UK) - Bid submission manager of the tunneling capabilities of Capita Symonds in the Park Place, Croydon Services Diversion tender during 2007. 10. Capita Group infrastructure section business development (UK) - South Europe & Mediterranean countries liaison manager and business development strategist and manager. 11. Indian & New Delhi Metro (India) - Liaison manager on identifying group opportunities on the new era of engineering services in the metro & railway systems of the Indian capital general area as well as other large Indian cities. 12. London Underground Cooling project – Piccadilly Line (UK) - He offered geotechnical advice in an ad-hoc basis to the team that was investigating possible options in extracting 300 to 400 kW from each station between Kennington to Morden on Northern Line, south of River Thames. He carried out non-destructive structural surveys to 9 London Underground stations. 13. Tubelines JV (UK) - Project procurement manager to win and deliver geotechnical, geophysical and tunneling consulting services for a 3yrs framework up to qualification level. 14. Thessaloniki Metro (UK) - Risk analyses of WBS, requirements, time/technical issues/budget for the underwriters of this European funded partly PPP project. Advised on technical sequencing for TBM launching cofferdams and all risk associated HSE issues.
2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos 15. Great Barford at Cambridgeshire Reservoirs (UK) - He offered hydraulics and geotechnical advice on the design of the two flood embankments that will enable to attenuate floods upstream of the Great Barford village in Cambridgeshire UK. 16. EOS Master plan (Greece) - Offered advice on water resources issues at conceptual/feasibility stages in relation to this large resort development of over 1000houses with golf courses and large parks and amenities in Central Greece. 17. Pineham Development (UK) - Certification and checker liaison for reinforced earth embankments, three small bridges and large two flood related underpass. 18. Panel Engineer – Reservoir Act (UK) - Prepare for the exams and qualification of Supervising Panel Engineer. Training in the inspection, supervision, design, construction and maintenance of all water related structures including service dams (arch and gravity concrete), reservoirs, embankments, tailing dams, erosion control and flood protection schemes. The training is based on site inspections with Panel 0Engineers of different water structures (30 site visits) and about 15days of practical and classroom based training in all hands-on issues on construction, inspection and design of schemes and civil works that fall under the Reservoir Act. There are less than 200 registered panel Engineers in UK with an average age of 55, and the post is a prestigious official legal appointment issued by the Secretary of State. 19. BP installations (Nigeria) - Project manager of the preliminary design of a new BP distillery LNG station. New generation nuclear power station Wales (UK) - Deputy Project Director as well as earthquake and geotechnical specialist in this high profile JV proposal/feasibility study. 20. Harefield-Southall Gas Pipeline (UK) - External geotechnical lead advisor to the client National Grid for this 18.5km high pressure (50bars) main distribution gas pipeline between two AGI works. Trenchless techniques, tunnelling, microtunnelling, pipejacking and directional augering were employed across the job to deliver minimisation of services and infrastructure. The task was to comment and understand the reasons behind the augmentation of the target cost between the tender and the preliminary phases. 21. Lee Breakwater Ras Laffan (Qatar) - Design of the pipe rack foundations and bearing capacity and global stability checking of this 4.2km breakwater made by rock fill and reclaimed material. Assisted in the hydrodynamic analyses for the determination of the loading conditions of this coastal earth structure. 22. Thessaloniki Harbour Crossing (Greece) - Project liaison manager and seismic design specialist for this 500 million euro tunneling scheme that combines 2.5km of cut & cover and 1.25km of immersed tunnel in the heart of the Thessaloniki city center. Responsible to transfer the local experience and understanding of the risks to the project management team and communicate with all parties involved in the scheme i.e. PPP JV stakeholders leadership, consortium clients, JV checker, bank’s advisors, quality controllers, subcontractors, supervisors, program managers and technical experts. 23. Bizerte Cruise Ship Terminal (Tunisia) - Designed the retaining system of the quay and berth of this high profile development project for the local economy. The retaining system utilizes steel sheet piling with “dead man” anchoring to retain a 13m excavation. 24. Thessaloniki Harbour Crossing (Greece) - Responsible for the earthquake geotechnical engineering design deliverables for the Immersed Tunnel section of the Trans Port Thessaloniki bid. 25. Lisbon new submerged crossing (Portugal) – Project manager of the feasibility study for the new link between mainland bays in the Portuguese capital. 26. Puerto Caucedo Multimodal Terminal (Republic of Dominican Isles) - Checking of FEA for the breakwater structures. Checking of the acceleration recording equipment’s and peripheral strong motion recording devices specified by the port’s Engineer. 27. Barcelona Port - Expert Witness claim (Spain) - Responsible for undertaking an additional pseudo- FE analysis on the serviceability states and settlements predictions of the new seawall for the port of Barcelona for the review of possible damages resulting from the collapse of this significant structure. 28. MICE Trainer (UK) - As lead design engineer trained several new engineers to ICE Professional Charter ship modules of design management and design tasks. 29. SELIGERE (UK) - Created 6 proposals for the research and development framework agreement with the Highways Agency. Lobbied the use of recyclable plastic in construction and suggested the creation of the relevant lobby network GREENPLAS. 30. ICE Science & Technology Ambassador (UK) - Acted as invited lecturer to UK state schools/academies to deliver engaging classroom workshops for the use of Key Stage 3 & 4 math’s, physics and science to engineering design tasks. 31. Indian Airport Engineering Services (UK/Europe/India) - Market research on identifying existing top airport engineering services consultancies and suggested appropriate growth & acquisitions strategy to Capita Group BoD in order to cover this emerging services sector in Europe/Asia and beyond. 32. Dubai Metro (UAE) - Geotechnical team leader responsible for all the geotechnical related deliverables for 24 over ground stations, the depots’ earthworks and building foundations, 1400
2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos piers of 70km of viaduct and its 8 abutments, 800m at- grade hybrid RW/piled embankments, foundations of the emergency towers and other ancillary structures of this $1.8bn Dubai Metro project. 33. Dubai Metro (UAE) - Lead designer on roof truss support & foundations systems of all landmark Dubai Metro (UAE) 34. Dubai Metro (UAE) - Lead designer of depot buildings of Line 1 of the Dubai Metro. 35. Pen Lan Lane Bridge, A55 Link Bridge, Flintshire (UK) - Cat III checking of the foundation and the soilstructure interaction issues for this 3span 80m long bridge. Abutments and piers are supported on pile groups in soft ground. 36. Hawksmoor Way and Lodge Way Bridges, Northampton (UK) - Preliminary design and associated report of four integral frame abutments of up to 8m height. The abutments are fully fixed in all directions to the superstructure of these two single span 25m long bridges. 37. Orwell Bridge (UK) - Lead Independent geotechnical checker. 38. EKPPT Corinthos –Tsakonas (Greece) - Assessed geotechnical risks and gave advice to the rest of the assessing team that was acting during the procurement stages on behalf of the banks as technical advisor. The project has a budget of over 2bn Euros, is 370km in length and the specification is for 3lanes dualcarriageway at the Northern and Western circumference of Greece which includes large bridges and tunnels and sloping earthworks in liquefied prompt areas. 39. A38 Saltash Tunnel (UK) - Authored a Highways Agency WS4 certification for the refurbishment of all earthworks involved in the refurbishment of the access cuttings and openings of the Saltash tunnel. The earthworks included among other slope engineering works the installation of a grid of rock bolts and reinforcing nets covering 5000m2.
Dec 2002 - Oct 2005 HIGH-POINT RENDEL GROUP, 61 Southwark Street, London (UK) Job title/Position: GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER
As a geotechnical engineer and later senior geotechnical engineer, I was the geotechnical designer or lead designer managing multi-skilled teams in order to deliver designs with tight budgets and always strict deadlines while making sure that quality assurance procedures were followed in order to achieve state-of-art designs in different types of infrastructure projects including ports, terminals, bridges, highways, buildings, tunnels etc. Some of the prestigious projects involved were the Genova Harbour Crossing, Immingham HP terminal, Crossrail, Barcelona Port, Egnatia Highway Bridges, Puerto Caucedo Port, etc. He was the Business Development Manager for all Greek projects of High Point Rendel, Capita Symonds (Egnatia Odos, etc.) for 3 years responsible for over a billion euros worth bids.
Senior Geotechnical Engineer, High Point Rendel (Dec. 2003 – Oct. 2005)
1. New Beska Bridge, Novi Sad (Serbia) - Design and 2nd level checking of the pile group analyses of this important crossing of Danube river nearby Novi Sad in North Serbia.
2. Suybiah Causeway (Kuwait) - Concept design for the foundations of this 35km causeway that crosses the Kuwait Golf.
3. 3rd Karnaphuli River Bridge, Chittagong, Bay of Bengal (Bangladesh) - Tender design of the driven pile foundations for 10 piers and abutments for this 800m long RC bridge. The area has deep loose sediments with earthquakes that can reach over magnitude 8 at the Richter scale at distance of approximately 100Km. Liquefaction, buckling driveability were some of the constrains for this highly competitive tender design that we had to cater for in the piled group analyses. The design was capitalising experiences drawn from the Jamuna and Padma bridge designs in Bangladesh.
4. ERGOSE – Lianokladi-Domokos railway section (Greece) - Project manager for the tender bid of the independent checking of this high profile new double track line high speed railway section, which by 90% consists of tunnels, bridges, embankments and cuttings. ERGOSE is the solo public project management organisation responsible for the development and maintenance of the railway network of Greece. As a proposal manager I created and managed the submission of a 3 companies effort with consultants from 4 countries for these 1.35Billion Euros projects combined budgets that was aiming to provide the checking of detailed design of 16 balanced cantilever and launching bridges and 10 NATM or TBM tunnels.
5. OSE, Greek Railways (Greece) - Proposal manager for the projects concerning the design of the new western axis of railway in Greece. The proposals worth 85million Euros designing fees. Negotiations with the partners and subconsultants and hard preparation on the technical merits of the multinational team that was supported by international experts created great possibilities for winning some of these contracts.
6. Egnatia Odos - Bridge G7 Independent Check (GR). Responsible for the review of the foundations suitability for this 270m curved cantilevered 3span bridge. Independent check for the piers, abutments and slopes was carried out in this highly seismic area. He carried out full dynamic analyses of piled rafts and complex retaining structures including 12m embedded caissons in rockmass acting as the piers foundations.
2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos 7. Egnatia Odos (GR) Coordinated tender submission for major infrastructure design studies and checking of design studies for bridges, tunnels and underground highway projects as the proxy of the international company with the Greek based company Eupalinos SA of Prof. Kostas Abakmoukin.
8. Lloyds Phase 1 (UK) Responsible as the principal designer to deliver the design of the new alignment and stabilisation works required for this complex road project in a World Heritage designated area while protecting the ecosystem of the downslope estuary. Secondment to Geotechnical Consulting Group UK (Dec. 2003 – Mar. 2004)
9. CrossRail Line 1 (UK) - As a secondment position within the Geotechnical Consulting Group assisted the technical director to predict the short/long term settlement assessments due to the planned excavations for the new underground railway network in Central London. Created and advanced the tunneling geological cross-sections by reviewing multistage site investigation projects. Created predictions for building responses to ground movement induced by the TBM sequencing. As Geotechnical Engineer, High Point Rendel (Dec. 2002 – Dec. 2003)
10. Barcelona Port - Expert Witness claim (Spain). Responsible for undertaking all the geotechnical analysis for the settlements of the new seawall for the port of Barcelona in order to justify the possible damages occurred in the collapse of this notable structure.
11. Business development (Global) Produce proposals for strategic business development in several construction sectors in the global and UK market, liaison and develop business proposals for raisers and investment bankers, utilise contacts in Middle East for mutual cooperation, set out geotechnical business opportunities in the UK market.
12. Gale Common Ash Disposal Works (UK). Responsible for implementing the seepage and stability analyses for the 2003-2004 raising program of Lagoon E by using FE and limit equilibrium techniques. He carried out the assessment of the stability of a pit in Lagoon C that contains a HV pylon in order to safeguard the tower legs when raising the infill level in the pylon pit. Specifications of pneumatic and standpipe piezometers were prepared. At the end a technical design note with a CDM risk assessment was drafted.
13. CrossRail Line 1 (UK). As a secondment position within the Geotechnical Consulting Group he assisted the principal engineer to predict the short/long term settlement assessments due to the planned excavations for the new underground railway network in Central London. Created and advanced the tunnelling geological cross-sections by reviewing multistage site investigation projects.
14. Puerto Caucedo Multimodal Terminal (Republic of Dominican Isles). Checking of the acceleration recording equipment and peripheral strong motion recording devices specified by the port’s Engineer.
15. Lyme Regis East Cliff – Urgent Advanced Stabilisation Works Design (UK). Responsible to the project manager for checking the final design of East Cliff stabilisation works, which consists of a retaining wall and two rows of piles connected by steel ties. The checking included confirmation of all the stability and structural calculations that were relating to the concept and detailing of the design.
16. Barcelona Port - Design review (Spain). Responsible for undertaking all the geotechnical review relating to the claims resulting from damage to the construction works of the New Entrance of the Port of Barcelona. Analytical checks concentrated to the geotechnical design of the foundation of the seawall caissons including bearing capacity calculations, settlement-consolidation analysis and stability analysis. Checked and reported all issues relevant to the geotechnical design of the Barcelona port new works.
17. Egnatia Odos - Bridges Independent Check (Greece). Responsible for the review of the suitability of the foundations and adequacy of the geotechnical report according to the Greek/German standards. Liaise with the structural engineers to provide geotechnical backing to their considerations. Calculations included predictions of settlements of abutments and piers, estimations on bearing, tensile and lateral capacities of the piled and non-piled foundations, assessment of the deformation modulus of the rockmass at static and dynamic conditions, calculations of dynamic earth pressures acting on the abutments, and sliding/overturning checking for the piled abutment. Part of the responsibilities was to provide the Final Check Report with the geotechnical engineering considerations. Interesting issues relating to the design checking of these several gorge bridges with different geometries, i.e. the twin G3 and G7 bridges, is that the checking was based on Greek/DIN/International standards and that the bridges are located at a highly earthquake hazard area.
18. Genoa Port Area Crossing (Italy). Member of the team for the preliminary design of the Genoa Harbour Crossing, with the particular task to design the cut-and-cover sections of the west approach. Responsible for the final design concept of the west approach of the port tunnel.
19. Lyme Regis Stabilisation works (UK). Involved as a designer in the slope stabilisation of Lyme Regis, Dorset finalising and detailing solutions of retaining structures and piling schemes. The design solutions among others included stability analyses, drainage works, the use of geotextiles, earthworks , the design of access steps, etc. Responsibilities included development of the CDM design risk assessment and of the detailed design drawings.
2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos May 2002- present THAMES WATER Engineering team – RWE GROUP, Ashford Common AWT Works, Middlesex (UK) Job title/Position: GEOTECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Contracted as a freelance geotechnical consultant with the business development unit and its geotechnical group in order to identify the protection margins of Thames Water storage reservoirs and assets in Thames Valley and Lee Valley, these totaled more than twenty. The solutions were based on FE analyses and personal stability calculations and programming. Advanced understanding of hydraulic fracturing, embankment stress-strain development, London Clay discontinuities was capitalized on to find the solutions. His solutions where used by Thames Water-RWE to update the new development boundaries around the Thames Valley reservoirs, among of which are the impressive Queen Mary, King George V, Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Wraysbury reservoirs etc. He simultaneously implemented the Guideline of DETR on the seismic evaluation of dams in UK for ALL twenty eight (28) statutory storage water reservoirs of Thames Water-RWE. He single-handedly developed the huge engineering heritage of Dr.Skinner & Prof.Skempton on these reservoirs/dams with a state-of-art scientific attempt to define the development zoning around the main Thames Water-RWE assets, upgrading the relevant work and in consultation with Prof. Bromhead. The 2D-3D parametric FEA models with geometric evaluation of worse-case scenario per development/excavation work scheduling was done for ALL the Thames Water reservoirs 1. Banbury Reservoir 15. Lockwood Reservoir 2. Bath Road Reservoir 16. Low Maynard Reservoir 3. Bessborough Reservoir 17. Molesey Reservoirs 4. Chingford Reservoirs 18. Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir 5. East Warwick Reservoir 19. Queen Mary Reservoir 6. Farmoor Reservoir 20. Queen Mother Reservoir 7. Grimsbury (Banbury) Reservoir 21. Stain Hill Reservoirs 8. High Maynard Reservoir 22. Staines Reservoirs 9. Island Barn Reservoir 23. Sunnyside Reservoirs 10. Kempton Park Reservoirs 24. Tilehurst Water Tower 11. King George V Reservoir 25. Walthmstow Reservoirs 12. King George VI Reservoir 26. West Warwick Reservoir 13. Knight Reservoir 27. William Girling Reservoir 14. Lee Valley Reservoir Chain 28. Wraysbury Reservoir
Jan. 2001-May 2002 SKANSKA GROUP - Cementation Foundations Ltd – Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, (UK) Job Title/Position: DESIGN ENGINEER
# Job Name Ground Conditions Works description 1. Doncaster Interchange – Doncaster Granular MG/Alluvial Sand/ Sandstone Contiguous/secant retaining walls and 2. Moor House – London MG/London Clay Tower crane permanentbearing piles piles and plunged 3. Holyrood Park House – Edinburgh MG/Alluvial Sand andGravel/ Gault Clay Secant rw, sheetcolumns piling, dewatering and 4. St Thomas Hospital Evelina Children SOE Alluvial Gravel/London Clay Cut and cover tunnelpiles using secant rw 5. Albert –Road London – Malvern Granular MG/Glacial Clay/ Mercia Retaining wall and bearing piles 6. CHP Plant Immingham - Grimsby MG/GlacialMudstone Clay/Chalk Raft and piled tank foundations and 7. 321-369 Finchley Road - London Granular MG/Granular Stiff Soil/Stiff Clay 561retaining bearing walls piles 8. Atlantic Quay Building - Glasgow Glacial Soil/ Sandstone(Coal Measures) Contiguous retaining wall and bearing piles 9. Windsor House, Albert Street - Slough MG/London Clay/Lambeth Group Secant retaining wall and bearing piles 10. Port Solent Phase 3 - Portsmouth Granular MG/Alluvial Clay/ Chalk Bearing piles 11. 263 Soho Road - Birmingham Granular MG/Stiff Clay/ Alluvial Gravel Retaining wall and bearing piles 12. Tooks Court – London Granular MG/London Clay Retaining wall and bearing piles 14. Organon Ltd – Dublin Granular MG/glacial Silt/ Limestone Retaining wall and bearing piles 15.13. New campus of Univ. of Hertfordshire – Granular MG/Alluvial Sand/ Alluvial Clay Approx. 2000 bearing piles (bored and 16. Premier LodgeHatfield Hotel – London Granular MG/London Clay Bored driven)bearing piles 17. 31 Seward Street - London MG/Alluvial Sand/London Clay Retaining wall and bearing piles 18. Bermondsey Wall West – London Alluvial Peat/London Clay/ Sand Secant CFA hard wall 19. Copenhagen Metro Line - Copenhagen Sand/gravel (Lambeth)& till clay / Limestone Retaining temp. works of cut & cover 20. Tower Park, Area 3 - Poole s/LimestoFill/Stifflime Clay/Alluvialstone, often containing soil 4.5m retaining wall and bearing piling benches of flint or other hard horizons 21. Station Road – Edgware Fill/London Clay CFA bearing pilingscheme scheme and tower 22. Great Dover Station - Cole Street – London MG/Alluvial Sand and Gravel/ London Retainingcranes walls foundations and bearing piles 23. Plaza Cinema - Regent Street – London MG/LondonClay Clay Tripod bored piles of more than 30m length 24. Machinery Workshop Peir - Dublin Port – Granular MG/Alluvial Silt/ Glacial Clay 61 bearing piles with lateral loads and 25. Gt Ormond StreetDublin Hospital – London MG/Alluvial Sand and Gravel/ London Deep basement retainingtorsion walls and bearing 26. Royal London Hospital – London MG/Alluvial Gravel/Clay London Clay King post piles/secantpiles retaining wall 27. Victoria dock WE5 - London Alluvial Clay/Alluvial Gravel/ London Retaining scheme and bearing piles 28. Collins Theatre – London MG/LondonClay Clay 3-storey basement retaining wall interacting with tunnel 2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos 29. Church Street – Brighton Cohesive MG/Upper Chalk/ Middle Chalk Deep retaining wall and bearing piles 30. Trinity College – Dublin Alluvium/Glacial Till/ Limestone Very deep diaphragm walls and bearing 31. 30 St. Mary Axe (The Gherkin) - London MG/London Clay 3rd Cat check of ALLpiles bearing foundations Design Engineer, as a member of the central technical proposals team. Responsible for over 30 tenders and contract designs (worth over £130.5M) of piling and retaining wall schemes. Collaborating with the estimating team and the Engineer for fast, safe and competitive designs. Provided solutions that assisted the team to meet deadlines while making sure that the proposed designs were economic, feasible and durable all at once. Learned how construction regulates, and gave an eye gained competitive prospective into professional engineering. Design Engineer, and member of the central technical proposals team. Checked or designed over 20,000 piles and over 10km of retaining walls in UK and Ireland for the Property, Transportation and Marine sector. The prime design during my time with Skanska was to design the main temporary works for the cut & cover section of the new Copenhagen Metro Line, the permanent huge retaining diaphragm walls of the Doncaster interchange works and the independent Category 3 checking, of iconic The Gherkin at the City of London, building foundations.
June 2000-Jan. 2001 IMPERIAL COLLEGE STM – Civil Engineering Department, Exhibition Rd, South Kensington, London (UK) Job title/Position: RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Employed as research assistant in the soil mechanics group working with Dr M.H. de Freitas on the characterization of structured sediments and the use of sorption kinetics in unsaturated soil mechanics. Due to financial reasons, I switched my employment into the professional market. Nevertheless, there has been an on-going engagement into this research since August 1999. Last January we started submitting our efforts; and the objective is to publish five more scientific papers in well-established international journals.
1998 July-Dec. EUROINVEST GROUP - INTERACTION S.A. - Business consultants, 10 Solonos Str. Athens (GREECE) Job title/Position: FREELANCE TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Freelance consultant: Part-time consultant incorporated in a large multi-disciplinary team as a specialist on geological-drilling technology and geological services policy. As an information advisor on technical matters I was the British liaison between BGS consultants and my team director in Greece for several months. Retrieved special information about the level of geological services in under-developed countries and translated them into a simplified business terminology. Finally prepared a report aimed to be understood by consulting and finance managers.
1994 - 1996 GEOPLAN Ltd - Geotechnical & Environmental Engineering Consultants, 36 Skoufa Street, Athens, (GREECE) Job title/Position: ENGINEERING GEOLOGIST
Working under the direct command of the business owner and director of this SME consultancies (although this was one of the big 5 geo-consultants in Greece), as an Engineering Geologist: On a full-time and part- time basis I was involved in the design of two off-stream ponds, two earth dams, one tunnel and in the Athens Underground as a site geologist and geotechnical designer. The designs involved site investigation, laboratory testing arrangements, and reporting the construction specifications and geotechnical conclusions to the Ministry of Public Works or Agriculture and contractors. During these projects I supervised site investigation procedures alone, I co-ordinated laboratory testing, participated in construction boards and was responsible for the geotechnical reports. Progressively after a year I was given full responsibilities and I carried out two geotechnical investigations of the off-stream ponds up to the final points by myself with the direct supervision of the managing director. I used many geo-codes and relevant software, and I analysed or programmed subroutines in specialised geotechnical programs. The usual analyses tools were AutoCad, ArcInfo, Fortan 77 and Z-Soils finite element package. 1. Tsiknias dam, Lesvos island (Greece) – Project/site engineer for 4 months, with full managing responsibility to undertake the detailed site investigations and earth dam core excavations for this 32m height earthfill dam, that will produce an 3.5million cu.m. reservoir for agricultural/irrigation/civil water resources demands. 2. Tymphrystos railway tunnel (Greece) - Involved as an assistant civil engineer & engineering geologist in the design of a 1000m long railway tunnel at Fthiotis prefecture at Tymphrystos mountain, a famous referred project that set the tunneling scene in the Greek 90s technical construction world. Created reports on deformation surveying and remedial NATM measures. 3. Kymi dam, Evoia island (Greece) - Project/site engineer for 2 months, to undertake the detailed site investigations for this 29m height earthfill dam, that will produce an 2.2million cu.m. reservoir for agricultural/irrigation/civil water resources demands. 4. Ano Rosena off-stream reservoir, Corinthos (Greece) – Undertook detailed project site investigations with a full-on 6 weeks tight SI scheduling and drafted the geotechnical design for this 0.4million cu.m. earthfill off-stream reservoir for agricultural irrigation purposes.
2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos 5. Ano Pitsa off-stream reservoir, Corinthos (Greece) – Undertook detailed project site investigations with a full-on 5 weeks tight SI scheduling and drafted the geotechnical design for this 0.6million cu.m. earthfill off-stream reservoir for agricultural irrigation purposes. 6. Kato Pitsa off-stream reservoir, Corinthos (Greece) – Undertook detailed project site investigations with a full-on 10 weeks tight SI scheduling and drafted the geotechnical design for this 0.3million cu.m. earthfill off-stream reservoir for agricultural irrigation purposes. 7. Athens Metro (Greece) - Involved as an assistant civil engineer and engineering geologist on a full-time and part-time basis from July 1994 to August 1996 worked in the Athens Underground as a site geologist and geotechnical designer. The work involved site investigation, laboratory testing management, and reporting the construction specifications and geotechnical conclusions to the Ministry of Public Works.
1993 - 1995 FREELANCE GEOLOGISTS CONSULTANTS, producing private water resources proposals (GREECE) Job title/Position: ASSISTANT GEOLOGIST As an assistant geologist, helped the consultants listed below to produce water resources investigation proposals. These site investigations and water resource hydrogeological designs and reports included several tasks that any water resources project requires; from data acquisition, or site geophysical testing to the writing up of results and technical drawing. Most of the projects were remedial water resources investigations for private properties aiming to counterweight the effects of the early nineties drought in Southern Greece. It was a part-time job, but at times would become more demanding than a fulltime job, which I undertook during my geology study 2nd, 3rd and 4th years. Dr D. Sakellariou - Hellenic Centre of Marine Research, Elliniko, Athens Dr E. Lukoudi - 18 Aigaiou street, Peristeri, Athens Mr N. Oikonomopoulos, - 120 Michalakopoulou street, Illisia, Athens
Sep 1994 – Dec. 1994 ATHENS UNDERGROUND, Institute of Geophysical Research, University of Patras (GREECE) (3 months) Job Title/Position: ASSISTANT GEOPHYSICIST For three months, he was involved as an assistant geophysicist, and under the supervision of Prof. Papamarinopoulos, in a geophysical investigation for the new metropolitan stations “FIX” and “Syntagma”. He assisted his University expert team to map all the lifelines and hidden antiquities with non-disturbing methods. He implemented new innovative technology for a sensitive highly famous and important project. The tasks involved ranged from filtering data and sampling with different sonar to logging geophones to reporting of data analyses results.
Sep. 1992 – Jun. 93 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, Youth Department (GREECE) (9 months) Job title/Position: CAVING & ENVIRONMENT TUTOR As a caving & environmental tutor and the caving educational program manager, I managed a team of about 15 co-students at the Geology department of Athens University to introduce pupils (ages between 9-17) to caving, geography, environmental and ecological subjects and real-life experiences in natural habitats on the Attica mountains surrounding Athens. We undertook this impressive for our age task with over all good feedback from authorities, school children from different schools across central Athens for the whole academic year of 1992-1993.
Jun. 1992 – Sep. 92 MINISTRY OF CULTURE, KA Classics & Prehistoric Archaeology Bureau, Plaka Athens (GREECE) (3 months) Job title/Position: STUDENT SUMMER JOB As a student of the Athens University Geology dept. was involved at the archaeological digs of the nearshore Paroikia town ancient cemetery and an ancient kiln at the heart of Paroikia town, Paros island, and I was tasked to unearth all the sarcophagus findings, classify the deposits levels and undertake rough surveying, ssedimentology archaeometric studies.
Oct. 1991 – Mar. 92 UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS – Water resources studies for two municipalities of Athens, (6 months) Chalandri and Amarousion – (Co-ordination by E. Lekkas) Department (GREECE) Job title/Position: ASSISTANT HYDROGEOLOGIST Under the supervision of Prof. E Lekkas (currently President of ΟΑΠ), I assisted in every procedure of these applied hydrogeological & geophysical research projects. I undertook the physical parts and the data and mapping i.e. presentation of the water surveys and water resource applied research, the geophysical site investigations, the ground water mapping, project writing. These were the first real life projects in a professional context in the water resource discipline that I was involved with, where I was given the first invaluable lessons of demanding detailed site investigations. (6 months total).
Summers 1988 to 1991 CONCRETE FORMWORKS CONTRACTORS (GREECE) - Summer labour jobs (5 months) Job title/Position: CONCRETE FORMWORKS LABOURER TRAINEE Put a solid foundation in residential buildings concrete technology formworks and later with dry-walls technicians and reinforcement bars installing gangs in several local Athens residential project that gave me the contractors touch at this early formative school years.
2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos RESEARCH DELIVERABLES – TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
- Zacharopoulos A. & Spyranti E. (1994) “The effect of evapotransporation factor to the groundwater deposits”, Diploma Thesis submitted for completion of the environmental professional course, University of Athens, Physics Department, Environmental Physics and Meteorology Section - Zacharopoulos A. (1995) “Geotechnical classification of marls: The geomechanics database concept”, Unpublished peer- reviewed paper - Mitsoulas G. & Zacharopoulos A. (1995) “Artificial Intelligence and applications in Geosciences and GIS in Geology”, University of Athens Science Editions – October 1995 - Zacharopoulos A. (1996) “Water resources research of Antirion district, Western Greece”, Diploma Thesis, University of Athens, September 1996 - Zacharopoulos A. (2001) “A trial to advance the geotechnical description of some unsaturated fine calcareous sediments”, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, MEng ACGI Thesis, 2001 - de Freitas M.H. & Zacharopoulos A. (2002) “Sorption kinetics of six soft carbonate rocks”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. & de Freitas M.H. (2003) “Sorption kinetics analyses of six unsaturated carbonate rocks”, Unpublished peer- reviewed paper - A. Moss A., Zacharopoulos A. & de Freitas M.H. (2003) “Shale volume estimates from NMR core data”, Proc. International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts, Pau, France, 21-24 September 2003 - Zacharopoulos A., A. Moss & M.H. de Freitas (2003) “NMR characterisation of fine clayey carbonate sediments – A sorption capacity case study”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2006) “Bearing capacity failure of seawall caissons in Barcelona Port”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper Zacharopoulos A. (2006) “Seismic design of viaduct monopiles – The Dubai Metro case Rev0”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2006) “Recommendations on Slope Stability FoS”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2006) “The definition on non-development zone around embankments”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2006) “The Gt Barford at Cambridgeshire flood alleviation scheme”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2007) “A seismic superposition design method for monopoles under combined loading”, Unpublished peer- reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2007) “Analytical optimization of immersed tunnel element connections in seismic areas”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2007) “Risk and Variability in Geotechnical Engineering”, Discussion, Symposium proceedings ICE 2005, - Zacharopoulos A. (2007) “Soil-structure interaction phenomena of immersed tunnels in seismic areas”, Unpublished peer- reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2007) “Structured review on lateral loading piles design methods”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2008) “No weakness in limitations”, Ground Engineering, July 2018 - Zacharopoulos A. (2009) “Stability of cohesive soils overlaying weathered rockmass”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2009) “A design method for large RC shafts under combined loading”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2009) “Design and construction methods of viaduct piers under seismic load”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. & de Freitas M.H. (2009) “Geotechnical description and properties of six soft rocks”, Unpublished peer- reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Kappos G. & Powrie W. (2009) “Grout sleeve behaviour of piles under lateral loading”, Technical Note, University of Southampton, PhD work breakthrough - Zacharopoulos A. (2010) “Corriolis hydropower closed form engine”, Unpublished submission, European Patent Office, Munich - Zacharopoulos A. (2010) “Piles in unstable ground”, Postgraduate Symposium, University of Southampton, 2010 - Zacharopoulos A. Powrie W. & Smethurst J.A. (2010) “Serviceability limits of piles in unstable ground”, Technical Note, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Ardalan A. Ashour M. & Smethurst J.A. (2010) “Strain wedge theory for stabilising piles”, Technical Note, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Ardalan A. Ashour M. & Smethurst J.A. (2010) “Strain wedge theory for single-row of piles in landslides”, Technical Note, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper 2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos - Zacharopoulos A. Ardalan A. Ashour M. & Smethurst J.A. (2010) “Strain wedge theory for two-rows of piles in landslides”, Technical Note, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. & Powrie W. (2011) “Design of laterally loaded piles”, Technical Book, Unpublished Technical Book - Zacharopoulos A. Powrie W. & Smethurst J.A. (2011) “Characterization of a landslide stabilization scheme site – Lloyd’s Road Ironbridge”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Song Y.S. & Smethurst J.A. (2011) “Plastic flow earth pressure factored theoretical predictions for passive piles”, Technical Note, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2011) Powrie W. & Smethurst J.A. “Serviceability limit equilibrium analyses for piles in engineered slopes”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Powrie W. Viggiani C. & Smethurst J.A. (2011) “Review of theories on the design of stabilizing piles”, Technical Note, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Smethurst J.A. & Powrie W. & (2011) “Theoretical predictions for piles in landslides”, Unpublished peer- reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos, A. (2011) “ GWVHP closed-form modular package”, Patent draft submission - Zacharopoulos A. (2012) “Grounded Eye – The Wonders of Geotechnical Engineering”, Unpublished illustrated Book - Zacharopoulos A. & Powrie W. (2012) “Assumptions & Predictions of the undrained capacity of laterally loaded piles”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2012) “Assumptions and predictions of the undrained capacity of laterally loaded piles”, Unpublished peer- reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2012) “Piling design in Coal Measures”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2012) “Techniques to optimise foundation engineering designs – Secrets and what they don't teach you at graduate school”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Powrie W. & Smethurst J.A. (2012) “Decoding of the foundation engineering theory of piles in unstable slopes”, Technical Note, University of Southampton, PhD work breakthrough - Zacharopoulos A. & Powrie W. (2012) “Design of bridge foundations against landslides”, Technical Note, University of Southampton, PhD work breakthrough - Zacharopoulos A., Powrie W. & Smethurst J.A. (2012) “Geotechnical design in a landslide prone colluvium clay at Ironbridge UK”, Technical Note, University of Southampton, PhD work breakthrough - Zacharopoulos A. Smethurst J.A., Powrie W. Ngwenya K. & Rushton N. (2012) “Geotechnical design in the Coal Measures sediments at Ironbridge UK” Technical Note, University of Southampton, PhD work breakthrough - Zacharopoulos A. Guo W.D. & Smethurst J.A. (2012) “Equivalent load transfer theory predictions for piles in landslides”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2012) “Piles in unstable ground”, MPhil-PhD transfer thesis, University of Southampton - Zacharopoulos A. Powrie W. Smethurst J.A. Bicocchi N. & Rushton N. (2012) “Monitoring of Ironbridge Lloyds stabilization scheme”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. (2012) “Optimisation of shallow landslide shear keys”, Technical Note, University of Southampton, PhD work breakthrough - Zacharopoulos A. (2012) “Piles on unstable slopes – The Greek input”, Technical Note, University of Southampton, PhD work breakthrough - Zacharopoulos A. Powrie W. & Smethurst J.A. (2012) “The Reasons of instability in Ironbridge Gorge”, Unpublished peer- reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Powrie W. & Smethurst J.A. (2012) “The Roadmap to design pile stabilization structures”, Unpublished peer- reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Powrie W. & Smethurst J.A. (2012) “The Roadmap to design pile stabilization structures”, Unpublished peer- reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Binocchi N. Powrie W. & Smethurst J.A. (2012) “The structural behaviour & capacity of encased beam- column as monopoles”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Powrie W. & Smethurst J.A. (2012) “Theoretical predictions for piles in landslides”, Unpublished peer- reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Li L. Liang R.A. Smethurst J.A. & Powrie W. (2012) “Load transfer theory predictions for piles in landslides”, Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Powrie W. & Smethurst J.A. (2012) “Upgrading the limit equilibrium analysis of piles in unstable ground”, 2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos Unpublished peer-reviewed paper - Zacharopoulos A. Powrie W. & Smethurst J.A. (2012) “Use of slope stability limit equilibrium methods to determine restraining force on stabilising piles”, Technical Note, University of Southampton, PhD work breakthrough - Cheng Yuan Sheng, Zhang Lan, Dai Bai Fei & Zacharopoulos A. (2019) “Xi’an(Chang’an) Thessaloniki Twining-Sister cities – Raison D’Etat statement”, Belt and Road Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs PR China – Shaanxi-Xi’an chapter - Zacharopoulos, A. (2017) “Innovation proposals during MBA International/Management Science Laboratory Studies”, MBA International Thesis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Unpublsihed-Confidential, AUEB. - Zacharopoulos, A. (2017) “Εθνική Αρτή Διαπραγμάτεσσης – National Negotiations Authority”, Πτστιακή Εργασία-Diploma Thesis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Μεταπτστιακό Πρόγραμμα Εις της Διαπραγματεύσεις- Diploma in Negotiations, AUEB. UNPUBLISHED BOOKS – WRITINGS - Zacharopoulos, A. (2017) “ΑΚΗΕΙ ΣΑΚΣΙΚΗ – ΣΑΚΣΙΚΕ ΤΠΟ ΤΝΘΗΚΕ ΚΡΙΕΩ (CRISIS PLANNING EXERCISES – A HANDS-ON TUTORIAL)”, Unpublished - Zacharopoulos, A. (2016) “28 ΔΕΜΟΙ”, TV Series scripts – Unpublished - Zacharopoulos, A. (2016) “NAOI TEXNH ΑΘΗΝΩΝ – ATHENS ART TEMPLES”, Illustrated Book – Φωτογραυικό Λεύκωμα, Unpublished - Zacharopoulos, A. (2013) “FOREIGN LIFE – A POEM COLLECTION”, Unpublished - Zacharopoulos, A. (2010) “LATERALLY LOADED DEEP FOUNDATIONS – THE ULTIMATE DESIGN HANDBOOK” TECHNICAL BOOK, Unpublished - Zacharopoulos, A. (2010) “GROUNDED EYE – THE UNSEEN WONDERS OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING”, ILLUSTRATED TECHNICAL BOOK, Unpublished - Zacharopoulos, A. (2010) “STRUCTURAL FOUNDATIONS”, TECHNICAL BOOK, Unpublished
2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos