Geerhard Hannink

Geerhard Hannink graduated in Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology in 1974. He then worked as a lecturer Hydraulic Engineering and Fluid Mechanics at University of Zambia. In 1977 he joined Rotterdam Public Works as Project Engineer. From 1978 to 1989 he worked with GeoDelft as Project Engineer and Project Manager. In 1989, he returned to Rotterdam Public Works as Head of Geotechnical Consultancy Division and Senior Consultant. As a member of the International and the Netherlands Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and as board member of the Geotechnical Division of the Royal Institute of Engineers in the Netherlands during 1994 – 2001, Geerhard has been involved in committees on Ground Improvement (ISSMGE), Codes of Practice in Geotechnical Engineering (Netherlands), Reliability of the Design (CUR, Netherlands), Plaxis Development (CUR, the Netherlands) and the RandstadRail Project (Netherlands). His most recent assignments include the geotechnical design of the bored tunnel for RandstadRail and of metrostation Rotterdam CS, the risk assessment of the Tweede Maasvlakte reclamation project, an expert study on groundwater problems during the construction of a railway tunnel and a review of the geotechnical design of the first bored road tunnel in the Netherlands.