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Prof. Mike G Winter
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Professional Information
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PhD or Equivalent
- The measurement of reinstatement backfill properties - University of Durham : 01/10/1986 - 01/10/1989
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BSc or Equivalent
- Civil Engineering - Nottingham Trent University : 01/09/1982 - 01/06/1986
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John Mitchell Award and Medal for Excellence in Geotechnical Practice Institution of Civil Engineers and British Geotechnical Association, 2022
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Vice-Chair, TC202 Transportation Geotechnics ISSMGE, 2022
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Visiting Professor in the UNESCO-Chair Programme on Geoenvironmental Disaster Reduction (current) Shimane University, Matsue, Japan, 2017
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Visiting Industrial Professor of Engineering Geology and Geotechnics (current) University of Portsmouth, 2014
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Management Director of the Board (current) International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR), 2014
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Crampton Prize for the best paper on practical geotechnical engineering Institution of Civil Engineers, 2014
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Nicholls Colton Award Winner for Best Dissertation Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University), 1986
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Winter Associates : ( 01/07/2019 - Present )
- Director and Principal
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Engineering Geology
Geotechnical Engineering
Hazard
Risk
Geomaterials
Waste materials
Landslides
Debris flow
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TRL : ( 16/10/1989 - 28/06/2019 )
- HSO -> -> Head of Ground Engineering / Honorary Chief Scientist / Regional Director (Scotland)
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During my 30 years at TRL (and before) I have gained experience in a wide range of research, consultancy and advisory activities. I have managed and directed multi-disciplinary and multi-organisational research projects and programmes in infrastructure, environment, road safety and transportation. My personal research and consultancy is in the fields of engineering geology, geotechnical engineering and waste management – expertise that is recognised internationally as well as at a national level. I have bridged the gap between geotechnical engineering and engineering geology and recognise that the contribution of both sets of expertise is essential to the success of construction projects. My main detailed areas of expertise include the following:
• Geotechnical engineering and engineering geology: landslides hazard and risk assessment; landslide hazard/risk management and mitigation; debris flows; soil slope instability; climate change effects; the interaction of forestry and vegetation with landslides and slope instability; soil slope strengthening and retaining systems; soil compaction; continuous compaction control (CCC) and intelligent compaction technology (ICT); soil acceptability for earthworking; ground investigation; properties and behaviours of earth materials, particularly glacially-deposited materials; the use of geosynthetics; performance monitoring of earthworks structures; knowledge-based systems; soil dynamics; and trench reinstatements. I have a keen interest in the forensic investigation of failures.
• Waste management and geoenvironmental engineering: including the reclamation of waste materials and industrial by-products; maximising the reuse of site-won materials; properties and behaviours of geo-waste materials (such as spent oil shale, colliery spoil and pulverised fuel ash) and other waste materials (such as tyres and especially tyre bales) in the geoenvironment; related policy, strategy and regulatory/legislative issues.
The foregoing includes major contributions to current practices, procedures and methodologies including strategic approaches to minimising exposure to landslide risks and their mitigation, earthworking (particularly in glacial till and high stone content materials) and to the engineering use of secondary materials and waste such as pulverised fuel ash, spent oil shale and tyre bales. Other major contributions include those made by the creation of the concept of low, intermediate and high utility in respect of the economic and environmental value of recycled material applications and through the additional concepts of up-cycling, level-cycling and down-cycling. My work on tyre bales has been instrumental in developing their constructive use in construction in the UK, the USA, France and Croatia and includes co-authoring the British Standard for the use of tyre bales in construction (PAS108). I have worked recently with an Environment Agency-led team to develop a Quality Protocol to take tyre bales out of the waste stream (i.e. conforming products will no longer be classed as waste and subject to inter alia Waste Permitting Regulations).
In September 2004 I was appointed to lead, manage and make substantial technical input to the Minister for Transport’s Working Group set up in response to the debris flow events which crippled Scotland’s trunk road network in August of that year. The first stage study successfully reported in June 2005 and the work moved on to a second phase to develop a system for hazard and risk assessment and a management system for dealing with the impacts of landslides. This work has attracted interest on the international stage both from infrastructure operators and owners and from other landslide experts. The work is widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive, large-scale evaluation of a large land area for landslide hazards and risk and was awarded the ICE’s Crampton Prize in 2014. This work has led directly to my (and TRL’s) involvement in the EU FP7-funded project on landslides SafeLand (‘Living with landslide risk in Europe: assessment, effects of global change, and risk management strategies’) which commenced in May 2009 and has a total value of around €9M. The current (2012 onwards) Transport Scotland landslides programme, valued at around £500k, has been, in part, informed by the successes of SafeLand and covers a wide range of topics. These topics include ongoing site evaluations and the development of innovative monitoring approaches for key sites; the assessment of management actions (e.g. wig-wag signs); global-first quantitative risk assessments for debris flow and road user fatalities; global-first, multi-disciplinary economic impact assessment of landslides incorporating the new concept of concept of the vulnerability shadow (Winter & Bromhead, 2012); the ongoing development of probabilistic rainfall ‘thresholds’ for landslides; the development of a vegetation planting strategy for the A83 Rest and be Thankful. I am the technical lead for each of these project.
From 2009 to 2012 I worked closely with the World Road Association (PIARC). This involvement was initiated by a request to support the UK First Delegate, Jim Barton (now former) director at Transport Scotland, in his role as a member of the Association’s Executive Committee and as the Chair of its Strategic Planning Commission (SPC). I was elected as a full member of the SPC by the ExCom and worked closely with both bodies to develop and deliver the Association’s new Strategic Plan as well as to monitor progress of the delivery of the existing plan and assist in preparations for the World Road Congress (Mexico City, 2011). This work involved international collaborations and interactions with Ministers, Civil Servants and Chief Executives of over-arching bodies (e.g. AustRoads). It covered a very wide range of subject areas from earthworks, though transport economics to the governance of road transport administrations.
My work has been published on the international stage in professional journal and conference papers and has created considerable interest in both the academic and practicing communities, leading to its widespread adoption in practice (standards and specifications) and in teaching.
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British Geological Survey : ( 03/06/1984 - 06/09/1985 )
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A comparative life cycle assessment of innovative highway slope repair techniques
Journal Article published 2020 Mar in Transportation Geotechnics volume 22 on page 100322
Authors: Dominic Leal, Mike G. Winter, Richard Seddon, Ian M. Nettleton
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The effects of debris flow in the Republic of Korea and some issues for successful risk reduction
Journal Article published 2019 Mar in Engineering Geology volume 251 on pages 172 to 189
Authors: Su-Gon Lee, Mike G. Winter
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2019.01.003 -
Fragility Assessment of Transportation Infrastructure Systems Subjected to Earthquakes
Proceedings Article published 2018 Jun 7 in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics V
Authors: Sotiris Argyroudis, Stergios Mitoulis, Amir M. Kaynia, Mike G. Winter
http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784481479.018 -
Rainfall-Induced Debris Flow Risk Reduction: A Strategic Approach
Book Chapter published 2017 in Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides on pages 13 to 18
Authors: Mike G. Winter
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Characterisation of Recent Debris Flow Activity at the Rest and Be Thankful, Scotland
Book Chapter published 2017 in Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides on pages 51 to 58
Authors: Bradley Sparkes, Stuart Dunning, Michael Lim, Mike G. Winter
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53483-1_8
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A comparative life cycle assessment of innovative highway slope repair techniques
Journal Article published 2020 Mar in Transportation Geotechnics volume 22 on page 100322 Authors: Dominic Leal, Mike G. Winter, Richard Seddon, Ian M. Nettleton http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trgeo.2020.100322 |
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The effects of debris flow in the Republic of Korea and some issues for successful risk reduction
Journal Article published 2019 Mar in Engineering Geology volume 251 on pages 172 to 189 Authors: Su-Gon Lee, Mike G. Winter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2019.01.003 |
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Fragility Assessment of Transportation Infrastructure Systems Subjected to Earthquakes
Proceedings Article published 2018 Jun 7 in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics V Authors: Sotiris Argyroudis, Stergios Mitoulis, Amir M. Kaynia, Mike G. Winter http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784481479.018 |
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Rainfall-Induced Debris Flow Risk Reduction: A Strategic Approach
Book Chapter published 2017 in Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides on pages 13 to 18 Authors: Mike G. Winter http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53483-1_3 |
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Characterisation of Recent Debris Flow Activity at the Rest and Be Thankful, Scotland
Book Chapter published 2017 in Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides on pages 51 to 58 Authors: Bradley Sparkes, Stuart Dunning, Michael Lim, Mike G. Winter http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53483-1_8 |
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A Strategic Approach to Debris Flow Risk Reduction on the Road Network
Journal Article published 2016 in Procedia Engineering volume 143 on pages 759 to 768 Authors: Mike G. Winter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.121 |
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Review of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Journal Article published 2016 Oct in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering volume 169 issue 5 on pages 455 to 474 Authors: Mike G. Winter, Derek M. Smith, Peter J. L. Eldred, David G. Toll, Mike Chrimes http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jgeen.16.00020 |
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Introduction: Climate and Land-Use Change Impacts on Landslides
Book Chapter published 2014 in Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment on pages 239 to 240 Authors: Vít Vilímek, Mike Winter http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04999-1_31 |
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Debris Flow Hazard and Risk on the Scottish Road Network in a Changing Climate
Proceedings Article published 2014 Jun 23 in Recent Advances in Material, Analysis, Monitoring, and Evaluation in Foundation and Bridge Engineering Authors: Mike G. Winter http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784478530.019 |
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Construction on Soft Ground Using Lightweight Tyre Bales
Proceedings Article published 2014 Jun 23 in Innovative and Sustainable Use of Geomaterials and Geosystems Authors: Mike G. Winter http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784478455.001 |
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Landslide Hazard and Risk in a Changing Climate
Book Chapter published 2014 in Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment on pages 281 to 286 Authors: Mike G. Winter, Barbara Shearer http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04999-1_38 |
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Landslide hazard and risk assessment on the Scottish road network
Journal Article published 2013 Dec in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering volume 166 issue 6 on pages 522 to 539 Authors: Mike G. Winter, Matt Harrison, Forbes Macgregor, Lawrence Shackman http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/geng.12.00063 |
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EDITORIAL
Journal Article published 2007 Feb in Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology volume 40 issue 1 on pages 5 to 6 Authors: Dr Mike G. Winter http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/1470-9236/06-200 |
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Sinkholes and Subsidence – Karst and Cavernous Rocks in Engineering and Construction.Tony Waltham, Fred Bell and Martin Culshaw. Springer/Praxis Publishing, Chichester, 2005. €139.05 Hardback, 382 pp. ISBN: 3-540-20752-2
Journal Article published 2007 May in Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology volume 40 issue 2 on pages 198.1 to 199 Authors: Mike G. Winter http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/1470-9236 |
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