 People
and Projects
ICO’s
strength is in its people and the collective skills and experience they
bring to the company. Individual members of the team have been involved
in world renowned projects including the Al-Hamra Tower in Kuwait,
Heathrow Airport Terminal 5, KCRC tunnels in Hong Kong, and Intel's 65
nm processors factory in Israel. Below is a list of ICO members and a
brief outline of their qualifications.
ICO member
project locations
Israel Klar (israel@icoeng.com)
Israel Klar, M.Sc., is the most senior engineer at ICO. Israel
graduated with B.Sc. (Cum Laude) in 1969 and M.Sc. (1974) from the
faculty of civil engineering in the Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology. His vast experience and knowledge in geotechnical design
and construction processes form the basis for the reliable design and
consulting that ICO offers. Israel has had much involvement in aspects
of litigation, particularly with foundations problems and also with
issues arising from construction of retaining walls, fills and slopes.
He is an experienced expert witness.
Israel is the director and founder of Klar-Israel Foundation
Engineering and Geotechnical Consulting, the largest geotechnical
company in Israel, with a record that consists of more than 10,000
projects. His office staff (13 people) is also available for ICO.
Alec Marshall (alec@icoeng.com)
 Alec
Marshall, Ph.D. (Oct 08) is a doctoral researcher in the University
of Cambridge, UK. Alec completed his Bachelor’s (2001) and
Master’s (2003) degrees in Civil Engineering at the
University of
Waterloo in Canada where he achieved first class honours and was listed
on the Dean’s Honour List. He obtained over two years of
practical work experience at various engineering firms throughout North
America.
In 2003, Alec moved to London UK, where he joined the Tunnels Group of
Mott
MacDonald (http://www.mottmac.com),
a leading management, engineering and development
consultancy. Alec worked for two years with Mott MacDonald and was
involved in a variety of renowned and challenging tunnelling projects,
including analysis and design of the Piccadilly and Heathrow Express
Extension Tunnels at the new Heathrow Airport Terminal 5, the
rehabilitation design of several Victorian aged brick lined railway
tunnels in Southeast England, and interaction analyses for the KCRC Sha
Tin to Central Link in Hong Kong. He also gained site experience by
working as the owner’s design representative on the tunnel
rehabilitation project in Southeast England.
Alec’s interest in tunnelling and underground construction
led
him to Cambridge University where he worked under the supervision of
Professor Robert Mair. His research focused on physical modelling and
he used the research centre’s 10m diameter geotechnical
centrifuge to study the effects of tunnel construction on buried
pipelines and piled foundations.
Alec’s experience in geotechnical consulting and physical
modelling is supplemented by a strong background with analytical tools
commonly used in geotechnics, most notably the FLAC-3D and Plaxis
packages. His experience with these numerical codes allows him to
efficiently analyse very complicated geotechnical scenarios.
Assaf Klar (assaf@icoeng.com)
 Assaf
Klar, PhD, is currently a senior lecturer in the Technion –
Israel Institute of Technology. Assaf graduated with B.Sc. (Summa Cum
Laude) in 1999 and PhD 2003 from the faculty of civil engineering in
the Technion, with a follow-up postdoctoral position in the
geotechnical research group of Cambridge University, UK - 2003-2005.
Assaf has published more than 50 journals and conferences papers. Assaf
is the recipient of the Jennings Award from the South African
Geotechnical Society (2006) and the Crampton Prize from the UK
Institute
of Civil Engineers (2007). Assaf constitutes an important link to
academia which allows the group to keep up to date with recent advances
in geo-engineering science. His expertise include soil structure
interaction, geotechnical earthquake engineering, liquefaction
analysis, pipeline design, and monitoring structures using fiber
optics. Throughout the last 10 years, Assaf has been involved in many
engineering projects by working with Klar-Israel geotechnical office.
His experience record includes managing the design of the supporting
walls of the Carmel Tunnel in Israel and earthquake design of the El
Canada hydroelectric station in Guatemala.
Andy Yat Fai Leung (andy@icoeng.com)
 Andy
Yat Fai Leung is a doctoral researcher at the Geotechnical Research
Group at the University of Cambridge, UK. He holds a B.Eng degree from
the University of Hong Kong and a M.S. degree from the University of
Berkeley, California, United States. Upon graduation from Berkeley,
Andy worked with
URS corporation in California (http://www.urscorp.com).
He was involved in the geotechnical
analysis and construction monitoring of several large-scale
international projects, including the Laguna Honda Hospital Replacement
Program in San Francisco, extensions of the Chevron Refinery in
Richmond, California, and the Al-Hamra Tower project in Kuwait. His
experience and research interests include the analysis and optimization
of foundation systems, geotechnical earthquake engineering, and
liquefaction analysis.
Nadav Bar-Yaakov (nadav@icoeng.com)
 Nadav
Bar-Yaakov holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. (in geotechnical engineering) degrees
from the
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. His main expertise lies in
the behavior of buried structures and the effect of soil arching on the
acting loads. Nadav has been involved in
large scale geotechnical
projects in Israel and abroad, among which are the red line
of
Tel-Aviv's underground system, the design of the IMO and Bagana bridges
in Nigeria, the Carmel Tunnels in Haifa, the Sirin water reservoir,
and the filtration facility for Israel's national
water
conduit.
Amos Israeli (amos@icoeng.com)
 Amos
Israeli Holds a B.Sc. (1971) and M.Sc. (1973) in Geology. Amos
is an experienced geologist with more than 35 years of
involvement in large scale civil engineering projects, both in Israel
and abroad. Amos worked with tahal group (www.tahal.com) and
Yuvalim Geotechnical Services where he was a senior partner. Since 1998
Amos has been providing geological services through his company - A.
Israeli Geology for Engineering Ltd. His office staff and
services are available for ICO. Amos has been involved in international
projects, mostly in South America and Africa (e.g. Chile,
Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria). Among
his prominent
projects are the Jerusalem tunnels (20km), Highway 6 - the
largest highway in Israel, and the four large dams of the Tana lake in
Ethiopia.
Noam Weinstein (noam@icoeng.com)
 Noam
Weinstein holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. (final stages, road engineering)
degrees from the
Technion -
Israel Institute of Technology. Noam is an expert on pavement design,
both
felixible and rigid. He has been involved in the design of many road
and
highway sections in Israel (e.g. highway/roads 1,60,652,77,772).
Noam was also involved in the design of the valley railway line
(mesilat
ha'emek) and the Ashkelon railway line. He has a great deal of
experinece in
analysis and interpretation of road evaluation tests, such as FWD, HWD,
IRI and others.
Haim Michelson (haim@icoeng.com)
 Haim
Michelson, PhD (geology), is a geo-hydrologist. Haim is an expert on
ground and water contamination. In the last 35 years Haim has been
involved in hundreds of projects world wide, through
his work
with TAHAL group (www.tahal.com).
Haim has been involved in the development of water systems
in far
east and south America countries
(e.g. Nepal, Philippines,
Virgin Islands, Argentine, Brazil). In the 80's Haim worked as UN
(United Nation) expert in federal institute for hydrological research
in Cordova and Santa Fe.
Zev Laden (zev@icoeng.com)
 Zev
Laden is a geotechnical engineer and geologist. Zev has a B.Sc. in
Geology from
Rutgers University (USA), along with a B.Sc. and M.E. in Geotechnical
Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Zev has helped
conduct geotechnical investigations for some of Israel's largest
engineering projects, among which are the Tel Aviv Light Railway and
the High Speed Rail Line to Jerusalem, both of which are large scale
transportation projects involving extensive tunneling works.
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