Dr Joshua Omer

Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
Department of Civil Engineering, Surveying and Construction Management
School of Built Environment and Geography
Penrhyn Road

School Director of Learning & Teaching; Senior lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering

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About

I am : (i) an acting Director of Learning and Teaching for the School of Built Environment & Geography and (ii) a departmental Exams and Assessment Tutor.

I have 30 years of experience in lecturing and professional practice in UK and overseas. I am a previous winner of: (a) a Royal Society Industry Fellowship, (b) an Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Research and Development award, (c) the David Douglas Prize and Lecture (South Wales Institute of Engineers, UK), and (d) an Association of Commonwealth Universities doctoral scholarship. I have been: (1) a visiting scholar at Covenant University, Nigeria, (2) member of the Pearson BTEC HE/FE Panel for Construction (curriculum development), and (3) external examiner for the University of Nairobi.

I am the Editor of the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312) Special Issue: Offshore Geotechnics & Foundations and Soil-Structure Interaction. I serve in the editorial boards of 2 journals: (a) the Journal of Geo-engineering Case studies of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), and (b) the Journal of Geological Resource & Engineering. I am a member of: (i) the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Technical Committee on Drilled Shafts, and (ii) the British Geotechnical Association (BGA), which I represent in Technical Committees TC107 and TC212 of the ISSMGE.

I have delivered CPD lectures to Institution of Structural Engineers and ASRANet UK, authored circa 50 publications in journals and conferences, supervised several PhD students, and served as external examiner for PhD and MPhil/MRes in UK and overseas universities. I have been a book reviewer for CRC Press-Taylor Francis and peer reviewer for reputable journals including the ICE Geotechnique, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, ICE Proceedings, Applied Clay Science Journal.

I collaborate with researchers and engineers from the UK, USA, India and China in scholarly activities.

Qualifications

PhD in Geotechnical Engineering
MSc in Structural Engineering
BSc (1st Class honours) in Civil Engineering
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), UK
Member of the British Geotechnical Association (BGA)
Member of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), USA

Domains

I am a co-investigator in a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project, funded by UKRI in July 2023. The project is about the development and use of artificial intelligence in building and construction industry.

Since Oct 2023, I am a member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, Switzerland (IABSE) Task Group on Well foundations, with responsibility for developing industry guidance on design and reuse of caisson foundations. I am also a member of the HE Panel for Construction in Pearson Group publishers, where I review development documents for a new qualification BTEC AAQ in Construction.

I recently received of $1,500 from the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI, USA) to deliver a lecture at the SuperPile conference in Atlanta, USA, 7–9 July 2023. The presentation was entitled " Effects of Energy Loops on the Geotechnical Performance of Geothermal Energy Piles".

Qualifications and Professional expertise

Member of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), USA
Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
Member of the British Geotechnical Association (BGA)

Areas of interest

Geotechnical Engineering and Foundations
Highway Pavement Engineering
Numerical analysis
Field testing and monitoring of substructures
Offshore Geotechnics and Wind turbine tower foundations

Industry links

Galliford Try, UK
Asranet Ltd (UK) ; MA Marine Consultants, London.
Deep Foundations Institute, USA
Federation of Piling Specialists (UK)
International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers (IABSE), Switzerland
Coffey Geotechnics Ltd, UK
Roger Bullivant, UK
British Geotechnical Association
Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and Institution of Structural Engineers (ISTRuctE)
Envigma Ltd Geo-enviroConsult, UK

Publications

A systematic and critical review: a new reliability-based design method for offshore wind turbine foundations integrating structural and geotechnical performance through Monte Carlo simulation

Odubela, Oluwatobi and Omer, Joshua, 2026, Big Blue World pp 50-51, Published

Dr Joshua Omer

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