Engineering Experience

Pieter Oosthuizen has more than 25 years of engineering experience, mostly relating to the field of geotechnical engineering. As a specialist consultant Pieter has mainly been involved in the fields of soil and rock slope stability, tunnelling, retaining structures, piles, lateral support, geotechnical site investigations, dolomite stability investigations and geosynthetics. A special area of interest is non-linear, finite element modelling of soil/structure interactions using geotechnical design software.

Employment History

2007 to present Southern Geotechnical Engineering, Founding member
2002 to 2007 ARQ (Pty) Ltd, Senior Geotechnical Engineer and Associate
1996 to 2001 ARQ (Pty) Ltd, Geotechnical Engineer
1995 to 1996 Grinaker Civil Engineering Inland, Site Agent
1994 to 1995 Grinaker Namibia, Site Engineer