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Dr Ka-Ching Cheung is a Chartered Civil Engineer and is a Director of Peters and Cheung Ltd. He has specialised in geotechnical engineering for over 16 years and has extensive experience in project management, design and investigation and research in geotechnical engineering. Ka-Ching's PhD research was in piling technology and he has carried out post doctorate research on the seismic response of sites. He has published ten referenced technical publications. He was awarded the Inaugural John Connell Award in 1998.

Key Experience

 Extensive experience in the project management, design, investigation and research of geotechnical engineering. Projects include:

·   Onshore and offshore geotechnical site investigations

·   Landslide stabilisation and instrumentation

·   Soft soil engineering

·   Building foundations and deep excavation

·   Seismic hazard assessment, liquefaction potential evaluation and ground stabilisation

·   Seismic soil-structure interaction

·   Advanced static and dynamic numerical modeling.

·   Advanced field and laboratory soil testing techniques. Education and Professional Status

·   Registered Engineer (New Zealand), PhD (1988), MEng (1985), Civil Engineering Department, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

·   BSc, Hydraulic Engineering Department, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (1980)

·   Member, Institute of Professional Engineers of New Zealand

·   Member of American Society of Civil Engineers

·   Member, NZ Geomechanics Society, NZ National Society for Earthquake Engineering

·   International Symposium on Landslide, Christchurch (1992)

·   Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Melbourne (1995)

·   13th Southeast Asian Geotechnical Conference, Taipei (1998)

·   Roading Geotechnics '98 Conference, Auckland (1998)

·   6th International Conference on Concrete Block Paving, Tokyo (2000)