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Jean-François
Nicod
Civil engineer EPFL,
SIA
Master of science, MIT
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Jean-François Nicod is a Civil Engineer with more than thirty years of experience
in civil engineering and earth sciences applied to construction and environmental
projects. Since 1978, he has been responsible for large multidisciplinary projects
in Europe, North Africa, Middle-East and South America. He has been responsible for
more than 100 audits in Europe and overseas, has designed and implemented
environmental management systems, has made environmental liability assessment
for more than 20 mergers and acquisitions and has managed numerous remediation
projects He has worked in more than twenty countries on four continents. He has
been the project manager of large-scale multidisciplinary projects
(involving hundreds of man-days) in remote areas such as Algeria, Egypt, Libya
and Yemen. He has resided for long-term assignments in Algeria, Ecuador, Egypt,
Libya, Morocco, and Santo Domingo. He has been the team leader for negotiations
with governmental authorities in Ecuador, Egypt and France. He has good knowledge
of the environmental laws and regulations in various countries and has also been
responsible for EIAs for the oil and gas industry in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen.
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Jean-Michel
Simon
Civil Engineer, Ph.D Geotechnics
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A civil engineer with more than 30 years of experience in environmental and
geotechnical engineering in many countries of Europe, Africa, Middle East
and Asia, Jean-Michel Simon has managed environmental and geotechnical
engineering projects, such as Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)
for oil and gas facilities and refineries (Angola, Egypt, Nigeria, Yemen),
geotechnical investigations for buildings (Indonesia, France, Switzerland,
Morocco), pipelines, oil terminals (Tunisia, Cameroon, Angola) and railroads
(Morocco), remediation of oil contaminated sites in Ecuador, landfill design
in France and Switzerland, environmental auditing for the chemical, mining
and manufacturing industries (due diligence audits, risk evaluation of
environmental liabilities).
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Pierre Caloz
Ms. Geology, UNIL
Ms. Hydrogeologist, UNINE
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A hydrogeologist with twenty years of experience in geology and
hydrogeology, since 1991 Pierre Caloz has been involved in contaminated
site investigations and remediations .Many of his projects have been
related to the oil industry but also to other industrial clients, such
as chemical industries, aluminium, former recycling facilities,
sanitary landfills, law offices and banks. With GEOS since 1995, he has
conducted numerous environmental site assessments in Europe, the
Middle-East and the Americas. He manages hazardous waste site
investigation and remediation projects in Switzerland. Prior to moving
to the environmental field, he worked for four years as a
hydrogeologist in groundwater resources development and technology
transfer projects in West Africa.
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Laurent
Cassan
Civil engineer
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Laurent Cassan is a civil engineer with 20 years of experience in environmental,
geology and civil engineering. With GEOS since 2002, he conducts various civil
engineering projects as a project manager in charge of general and technical
management, financial controlling and coordination. He also takes part in various
engineering geology studies, contaminated site remediation, landfill construction
studies and building complexes. Involved in structure, renovation, underground
works, engineering structure and civil engineering, he is the assistant of the
civil engineering, structure and remediation department manager.
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Esteban
Rosales
Engineering geologist
UNIL/EPFL
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As an engineering geologist with specialisation
in geotechnics and the environment, Esteban Rosales is involved in contaminated
sites investigations and remediation projects for industrial, chemical and
petrochemical sites. He conducts fieldwork such as soil and rock boring and
testing in industrial sites, monitoring well installations, air, soil, soil-gas
and groundwater sampling, on-site analyses, aquifer testing and piezometric
datalogging. He collects and provides physical and chemical data for risk
assessments, modelisation, description of pollution sources and chemical
transport mechanisms. He is involved in environmental assessments and compliance
audits for mergers and acquisitions. He does geological mapping, cross-sections
and 3-D diagrams for surface and underground works.
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Cédric Ménoret
Ph.D Biologist
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Cédric Ménoret is a biologist specializing in the environment, water treatment
and waste management. His Ph.D thesis focused on the biological treatment
of wastewater issued from the agro-alimentary industry. He has a good knowledge
of waste disposal methods, waste storage and recycling and also ecotoxicology.
With GEOS, he is involved in field data acquisition during site characterization
and monitoring, data treatment, reporting and quality control of laboratory data.
He is in charge of environmental audits for property transfers, compliance audits
and of a regulatory watch for Switzerland. As a computer sciences specialist (INSA),
he designs, develops and manages databases and the geographic information system.
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Alfonso Villegas
Civil and environmental engineer
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Alfonso Villegas has more than 25 years
of experience, firstly as a civil engineer specialising in geotechnical engineering,
and also as an independent consultant on geotechnical and environmental projects.
He was responsible for the coordination of the first Geneva Waste Management Concept
and participated in the development of the current Waste Management Plan for the Canton
of Geneva. He is also responsible for Geneva’s industrial waste inventory and statistics
including information acquisition, data base development and annual reports. Alfonso
Villegas has been involved with contaminated sites since the beginning of the 1980s.
Recently, he has carried out several environmental audits of industrial sites in Switzerland.
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