Sustainable Engineered Anchoring System for slope stability and erosion control

Amir has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and is a fellow member of Engineers Australia. As a designer, project manager and researcher, he has been involved in civil and geosynthetic industry over the last 20 years. He is the National Technical Manager at Global Synthetics. Amir is currently the chair of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS)-QLD Chapter, Leadership team member of the International Geosynthetic Society Technical Committees for Barriers (TC-B), board member of the QLD Landfill Working Group, board member of the Waste Management and Resource Recovery of Australia in QLD, and member of the ASTM Technical Committee D35-Geosynthetics. He is also board member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)-Australian Section, Industry Board member of the Australian Pavement Research Hub, Board member of ARC Training Centre for Advanced Technologies in rail Track Infrastructure (ITTC- Rail), member of the Standards Australia Technical Committee CE/032-Reinforced fill structures working group, member of the International Geosynthetic Society Technical Committees for reinforcement (TC-R) and Stabilisation (TC-S), university guest lecturer on geosynthetics, part time PHD researcher, and the industry supervisor and advisor for several geosynthetic and geotechnical research projects in Australia and overseas.

Andy Warwick is a National Product Manager at Global Sythetics. Andy has been working in the geosynthetic industry for over fifteen years. He has worked at several large geosynthetic companies including Geofabrics (UK), Fiberweb and Polyfabrics. Andy has extensive experience in product development as well as a wide understanding of the various applications, standards and local country practices involved in the geosynthetic selection process. Andy has demonstrated an effective leadership style and is committed to sharing his knowledge of international learnings with his team. His journey thus far has been an exciting and lucky one and he looks forward to being an integral part of the Global Tech Team.