Francesco B.

● Over 30 years’ experience in geotechnical engineering design and analysis (PhD from the University of Glasgow, UK, followed by work with Halcrow, now Jacobs, in London). ● Internationally recognised expert on pile foundation design and analysis, including bored, driven, screw/helical piles, pile groups and piled rafts. ● Author of boundary element code for REPUTE, the UK’s leading software for pile foundation design used in thousands of major projects worldwide (from the London Wembley Stadium to the Dubai Burj Khalifa). ● Over 30 papers on pile design/analysis published in refereed journals and conferences. ● Current UK delegate on ISSMGE technical committee TC212 "Deep Foundations". ● Current Italian delegate on Eurocode 7 technical committees CEN TC250/SC7 "Pile foundations" and “Numerical methods”.