Philippe Linze
Geotechnical Engineer
Profile
58 years old
Seniority : 23 years, associate
English
- Soil mechanics/foundations
- Special foundation works
- Underpinning/reinforcement
- Earthworks – roads, distribution networks
Education
Civil engineer
U.C.L. – Louvain, Belgium
Professional background
Intrafor – Bouygues
Special Foundations Division
Construction engineer
Géoexperts
Soil and Foundation Engineering
Consulting engineer and project manager
Key areas of expertise
Geotechnical Engineering – Foundations – Civil Engineering
- Retaining structure instability
- Instability of natural slopes and embankments
- Paving and pavement shifting
- Injection-based floor consolidation treatment defects
- Paving settlement in the environment of civil engineering structures
- Insufficient foundations (spread footing, large piles, small piles)
- Underpinning reinforcement using large or small piles
- Construction all risks on civil engineering and building sites
- Causes and consequences of underground network breakage
- Soil-structure interaction on former quarries or gypsum dissolution zones
- Seepage in underground structures
- Damage occurring within the framework of directional drilling, boring machines, micro-boring machines
- Water and geothermal wells
- Swelling or dissolution phenomena in natural soils (clay, gypsum, anhydrite, etc.) and industrial soils (slag, incineration clinker, etc.)
Environment – Pollution
- Ground pollution by hydrocarbons or other chemical contaminants
- Infiltrations in drinking water supply capture systems