Mr. David Hurdle

Mr. Hurdle holds the position of Manager Ports & Marine Structures. He has more than 25 years experience in wave modelling, hydraulic engineering and statistical analysis. He has acted as project leader in a number of large advisory projects, including projects to derive the design wave conditions for the flood defences along large sections of the Dutch Coast . He has also been project leader for clients including Shell, the Abu Dhabi based Adma-Opco Oil Company and the Port of Hamburg . He has also participated as team member in many other advisory projects, such as for Statoil's Europipe project, Al Mirfa Power and Desalination Power Plant at Abu Dhabi and for Aramco's beach erosion study at Najma. He was also task leader of hydrodynamic modelling for the MAST II neptune project (aimed at improving methods to derive hydraulic design conditions) responsible for co-ordinating contributions to the modelling from large institutes such as Delft Hydraulics, GKSS and BMT. He has also carried out numerous wave climate studies and the statistical analysis of normal and extreme wave conditions for harbour design and morphology projects all over the world. Mr. Hurdle has extensive experience of studies of wave propagation, wave penetration and interactions between waves and ships and the use of model results and measurements to obtain design data. From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Hurdle headed the hydrodynamics group in the Harbour, Coasts and Offshore Technology Division at Delft Hydraulics.

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