QUALIFICATIONS
BSc (Mining Geology), University College Cardiff. MSc (Engineering Geology, Imperial College, London. Diploma of Imperial College.

AWARDS AND REGISTRATIONS
Chartered Engineer.
European Engineer (FEANI).
Fellow of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
Lt. Colonel, The Engineer & Transport Staff Corps RE (TA)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Member of the British Tunnelling Society.
Member of the British Nuclear Engineering Society.
Associate of the Royal School of Mines.

CAREER HISTORY
2004 - Date: Director, OtB Engineering, London
2000 - Date: Accredited journalist, tunneljournalists.com
1991 - Date: Director, London Mining & Mineral Consultants (concurrent with above)
1992 - 1994: Managing Director, Dr G Sauer Company Ltd. London (concurrent with above)
1990 - 1991: Technical Director, Travers Morgan Ltd.
1989 - 1990: Freelance Consultant in Tunnelling, Mining and Geotechnical Engineering
1988 - 1989: Post Graduate Student, Imperial College, London
1979 - 1988: Engineer/Senior Engineer/Principal Engineer, Howard Humphreys and Partners
1977 - 1979: Project Geologist, Pencol Engineering Consultants Ltd.
1974 - 1976: Sectional Geologist/Senior Geologist/Mine Captain, ZCCM, Mufulira Mine, Zambia
1972: Trainee Geologist, Consolidated Goldfields Ltd., Wheal Jane Mill, Cornwall

KEY EXPERIENCE
Project management - tunnels, underground excavations for civil engineering.
Geotechnical engineering - Slope stability, opencast mining, quarries, dam foundations, subsidence, underground excavations.
Tunnel Engineering - including cut and cover, immersed, hard rock and soft ground bored tunnelling
Environmental, economic and contractual aspects of construction.

ASSIGNMENTS
Austria, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Libya, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South East Asia, Switzerland, Tanzania, UK, USA, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

RESUMÉ
Dave Hindle is a Chartered Engineer and a fellow of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. He has nearly 30 years experience in mining and civil engineering specialising in the investigation, design and supervision of all forms of underground construction. He has been responsible for a number of major projects in the UK and overseas and was appointed as Chairman of Tunnel Construction and Piling '99 and Underground Engineering 2001 Conferences and exhibitions in London. His career began in mining in Cornwall and the Zambian Copperbelt where he was involved in the design and construction of large underground stopes, haulages, shafts and chambers. Following work in the Middle East, for water supply projects he has undertaken tunnelling related projects in both the UK and overseas. Dave Hindle has extensive experience in the investigation, design and implementation of large diameter hard rock and soft ground tunnelling and shaftsinking utilising drill and blast excavation, road headers, shields and TBM and the use of NATM for highways, railways, metros, canals, water/sewerage schemes and mines.