John Batchelor Email & Phone Number

Technical lead for HS2 London tunnels and shafts contract as Consultant to Arup. As work moves from design to site and handover continued design support is needed for this scale of project

London, England, United Kingdom

Technical lead for the multi disciplinary design team of over 500 staff working on tunnels, shafts, bridges, earthworks, portal and underground box structures for the civil works contracts lot S1 and S2 of the High Speed 2 railway project. This is the largest civil engineering project in the UK at present.

London, United Kingdom

Project Manager for Arup design team on Riyadh Metro Project, Saudi Arabia. The scope of work for the design team was 15 subway stations, carried out with a team of around 400-500 staff located in five countries, led from London. The design team successfully met the challenge to meet tight deadlines and keep a consistent, cost effective design output for our clients the BACS consortium. The BACS consortium is constructing lines 1 and 2 for client Arriyadh Development Authority as part of a US$22.5 Billion project, opened in 2024

Copenhagen

My job was to lead design teams of engineers and architects for major infrastructure and building projects.Denmark was the seventh country I have lived and worked in and the third time I have been actively responsible for building up a new business for Arup. I was the Civil Works Project Manager for the Cityringen branch off to Nordhavn metro project in joint venture with Ramboll A/S. Arup/Ramboll are working for Metroselskabet the Copenhagen subway company and are stationed in their offices to provide an integrated design service. With the award of construction contracts in 2014, I returned to the UK.I also carried out specialist technical reviews in connection with the Cityringen stations and tunnels project now being built in Copenhagen.

Toronto

I was responsible for project management and design team leadership for major subway and infrastructure design projects with Arup Canada Inc. I was Infrastructure Practice Leader from 20010 to 2011, and then Buildings Practice Leader from 2011-2012 when I helped to build up a multi-disciplinary team and business capable of providing integrated design of both buildings and infrastructure projects. Projects led included York University Station and Vaughan Corporate Centre Station, Spadina Line Extension detail design for TTC, as Project Manager, Keele Station, Eglinton Crosstown Line for TTC as Project Manager. Other infrastructure projects led include the successful bid design for Billy Bishop City Airport Tunnel with Forum Infrastructure Partners and PCL Contractors, and the successful bid design for Pan Am Games 2015 stadiums. with Bouygues Buidlings Canada and Kenaidan.

London, United Kingdom

I led design teams for two projects in London- detailed design of the Western Concourse for Network Rail Kings Cross Station Redevelopment, and then preliminary and detailed design of Canary Wharf Crossrail Station for Canary Wharf Contractors, both large scale complex urban rail projects. Construction of the Kings Cross station redevelopment was complete in time for the London Olympics in 2012, and remains a tourist attraction in London. Canary Wharf station was completed ahead of planned programme and within budget, with retail in operation ahead of the rest of the Crossrail project. TBM tunnel breakthroughs were successfully completed in 2013, featuring work designed by other parts of the Arup team.

New York Ny

I led the Fulton Street Transit Center multi disciplinary design team for detail design of this major subway interchange and refurbishment in Lower Manhattan. The team prepared over 4000 drawings plus specifications and documents for NYCT leading bids for a series of packages, including the Dey St underpass, the historic Corbin Building refurbishment and underpinning to create escalator links beneath the existing building, the upgrade of the A/C lines and other lines, and the transit center itself at the corner of Fulton Street and Broadway. Work on site was completed in 2014.

Hong Kong

From 2000 to 2004, I worked on the design of subway and civil engineering projects including design management of multi-disciplinary teams for Mei Foo Interchange Reconstruction, Pennys Bay Line (Hong Kong Disneyland - two stations), and also Preliminary design assignments for the Shatin-Central Line Island section and the North Island Line. I also led design teams working with contractors on winning bids for design and build contracts, including MTRCL Noise Barriers on the Airport Express Line, and the Tung Chung Cablecar project.From 1997-2000 I led multi-disciplinary teams for the design of Bangkok MRTA Blue Line North (nine stations) as part of a major design and build project including the tunnels and shafts for the ION Joint Venture (Italian Thai, Obayashi, Nishimatsu).

Tokyo, Japan

I was assigned to learn spoken and written Japanese, and to create opportunities for Arup in Japan and with Japanese major clients and construction industry collaborators. After completing studies, Arup Japan was set up in 1990 and I led the office and the firm's work on projects in Japan, focussed on structural engineering and building engineering design for major buildings. This was a unique opportunity and challenge to set up and grow a business in an unfamiliar location, and in a market with no recognition of Arup and no major foreign competitors. Arup Japan has now celebrated over 25 years of operations and the engineers we recruited and trained are continuing to play leading roles in the firms' development as a respected player in the building engineering design market in Japan.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Civil Engineering, 2:1 Hons.

This School Is In The Uk And Was Secondary Education, Not Tertiary!