ANDREW DE AMBROSIS

Principal Geotechnical Engineer at PSM, Andrew de Ambrosis has over 30 years geotechnical consulting experience including major tunnelling and infrastructure projects. His experience spans feasibility, tender, detailed design and construction phases. He has also been involved in numerous design reviews, remedial and forensic investigations of tunnelling works.

Andrew is a member of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS), the Australian Tunnelling Society and the Concrete Institute of Australia. In 2015, he served as committee member at the Australian Organisation Committee for the 9th International Symposium on Field Measurements in Geomechanics.

In addition to consulting, Andrew also co-presents the Master's short course, Rock Engineering, at the University of New South Wales. He also guest lectures on the tunnel modules for Engineering Design and Construction at the University of Sydney, as well as aspects in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering at the University of Canterbury.

Andrew has authored and co-authored numerous technical papers in journals and international conferences on subjects including, seismic design of tunnels, 3D geological modelling and rock mass classing, and numerical analysis of large adjacent caverns.

Andrew’s fields of special competence include:

• Tunnels and underground structures
• Rock mechanics
• Mining geotechnics
• Numerical analysis
• Rock-soil slope stability