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Our Company
Our Principal Dr. Jeyapalan is a leading global authority in pipelines, cables, tunnels and geotechnical engineering. A short
bio on his background is given here.
Dr. Jeyapalan graduated from the University of Sri Lanka with first class honors in Civil Engineering; from Monash University
with a masters degree in Applied Mathematics; and from the University of California at Berkeley with masters and doctoral
degrees in geotechnical engineering with minors in structural engineering and engineering mechanics. He also was an engineering
professor in USA and Germany. He is a renowned global water, wastewater, desalination, oil and gas pipeline industry expert
with over 30 years of experience in pipeline design, market positioning of new technologies, construction methods, trenchless
technology, pipeline integrity assessment and rehabilitation, telecommunications, underground utilities and structures,
hydropower penstocks and tunnels up to 14.6 m. in diameter, industry standards, codes and regulations, and sharing rights-of-way
of existing pipelines to house optical fiber networks and other cables. Dr. Jeyapalan has worked as an expert witness on numerous
lawsuits and claims for failures of pipelines made of clay, concrete, steel, ductile iron, plastics, and composites and underground
cables. Dr. Jeyapalan has completed over 300 projects in Algeria, Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Germany,
Iceland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Oman, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United
Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Dr. Jeyapalan's writings on pipelines, cables, sharing rights of
way, and underground structures are used widely in engineering practice. He chaired the Executive Committee of the Pipeline
Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the 1st and 2nd International Conferences on Advances in Underground
Pipeline Engineering sponsored by the ASCE. Dr. Jeyapalan was the founding chair of the ASTM International Committee F-36,
writing global standards on the last mile technologies, FTTX, underground utilities, cables, asset management, etc. He serves
on numerous other pipe and cable related standard writing bodies, technical committees and working groups within ASTM, AWWA,
ASCE, Cigre';, and IEEE. He is the author of over 150 papers and has taught over 100 seminars on underground pipelines and
cables to over 5,000 engineers and contractors worldwide. He is a registered professional engineer.
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