Abstract

Overview: The Glossop Award is the Geological Society Engineering Group’s annual prestigious award for geologists under the age of 30. Scott’s talk will focus on his work on the Devoll Hydropower Project in Albania, titled: Adding Value through identifying risk and opportunity. The project involves the construction of two large hydropower dams, access roads, transmission lines and switchyards in challenging ground conditions.

Biography: Scott is currently a graduate engineering geologist at Mott MacDonald in the Cambridge based Water division. After completing his undergraduate studies in Geology at the University of Bristol and postgraduate in Engineering Geology at Imperial College London, he has for the past 5 years worked for Mott MacDonald in: Croydon, Cambridge and Leeds; and worked on large infrastructure projects nationally and abroad including Albania, Georgia and Rwanda.