Robert Mair
Robert James Mair, CBE, ( born April 20, 1950) is a British civil engineer ( geotechnical ).
Mair studied civil engineering at Cambridge University with a bachelor's degree at Clare College in 1971 and the Master's degree in 1975. 1979 he received his doctorate there ( Ph.D.). He also worked from 1971 to eleven years for Scott, Wilson, Kirkpatrick and Partners ( SWK ), among others, in Hong Kong ( among them a large container terminal ), where he this activity from 1976 to 1979 for his doctorate ( through tunnels in soft ground ) interrupted at the University of Cambridge. 1994 to 1997 he was a visiting professor at Nottingham University. 1997/98 he was a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge and from 1998 Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Cambridge. He was from 1998 to 2001 Fellow of St. John 's College and since 2001 Master of Jesus College. He stands in front of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering ( Civil and Environmental Engineering ) in Cambridge.
He is director of the Geotechnical Consulting Group (GCG ), to the founding in 1983, he was involved. His consulting activities include the Jubilee Line Extension of the London subway and railway projects for the Euro Tunnel. Other tunnel projects were in Singapore ( Mass Rapid Transit), railway tunnel in Barcelona, Florence, Rome, Bologna, Warsaw and the Westerschelde tunnel car.
In 2006 he held the Rankine Lecture ( Tunnelling and geotechnics - new horizons ). He was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2007 and the Royal Society in 1992. Since 1990 he is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). In 2004 he received the Gold Medal of ICE, Geotechnical Research Medal in 1994 and 2007 which the Crampton Prize. In 1980 he was awarded the British Geotechnical Society for work on tunnel. In 1992 he held the Unwin Memorial Lecture of the ICE.
1996 to 2005 he was Chairman of the Technical Committee of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering ( ISSMGE ) for Underground Construction in soft soils ( Underground Construction in Soft Ground ). He is the Council of the ISSMGE. He held the special lecture on tunneling in urban area on the International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in Hamburg in 1997. He held the Terzaghi Lecture in Vienna and the Széchy lecture in Budapest. He is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE).
Writings
- With D. Muir Wood Pressure Meter Testing: Methods and Interpretation, Butterworth - Heinemann, 1987