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About

​Kaiyo Geomechanics provides professional geotechnical services, particularly for offshore development. Our professional service and tailored engineering advice include:
  • Preliminary site assessment
  • Geotechnical site investigation planning
  • Laboratory testing coordination including supervising
  • Data interpretation and integration
  • Geotechnical foundation design including seismic analysis and numerical modelling
  • On-site professional geotechnical support
  • Third party technical review
  • Project certification support

People

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Dr. Nobutaka Yamamoto

Director
Nobu has nearly 20 years’ experience of a wide variety of geotechnical issues related to industrial projects. He has extensive experience in geotechnical engineering both onshore and offshore, including geotechnical data integration and interpretation, providing recommendations of soil parameters for design, and pile and shallow foundation design with advanced numerical analysis. He provides high-end geotechnical engineering advice and technical support to developers, EPCIs and engineering consultancies who have issues with offshore developments.
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Experience

2024 – Current
2018 – 2024
2015 – 2018
2007 – 2015
2006 – 2007
2005 – 2006
Director
Kaiyo Geomechanics
Principal Geotechnical Engineer
Fugro Australia
Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Fugro Advanced Geomechanics
Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Advanced Geomechanics
Geotechnical Engineer
Sinclair Knight Merz
Geotechnical Engineer
WorleyParsons

Education

2001 – 2006       PhD          The University of Western Australia, Australia
1997 – 1999       M Eng      Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
1992 – 1996       B Eng       Kanazawa University, Japan
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