Key Skills
- Independent
- Lime & cement stabilisation
- In-situ and ex-situ recycling
- Roller compacted concrete
- Industrial by-products
- Hydraulic binders inc. slag
- Pozzolans & Fly Ash
- Pavement design
- European standards
- Binders for erosion control
- Training & presentations
News
Sept 2008
John Kennedy launches dedicated web site on Hydraulically Bound Mixtures. Visit site
May 2005 Working with BRE, completion and dissemination of WRAP project on ‘Promoting the use of applications incorporating recycled and secondary aggregates in hydraulically bound materials’.
May 2005 Co-author of recently published BRITPAVE guidelines for the ‘Stabilisation of sulfate-bearing soils’.
May 2005 Working with Capita-Symonds and Edmund Nuttall, the finalisation of the pavement design for the Highways Agencys ‘A421 Great Barford Bypass’.
May 2005 Working with BRE, completion and dissemination of WRAP project on ‘Promoting the use of applications incorporating recycled and secondary aggregates in hydraulically bound materials’.
May 2005 Co-author of recently published BRITPAVE guidelines for the ‘Stabilisation of sulfate-bearing soils’.
May 2005 Working with Capita-Symonds and Edmund Nuttall, the finalisation of the pavement design for the Highways Agencys ‘A421 Great Barford Bypass’.
Example Project Experience.
Title
2003 Pavement
designer for tender for Baldock Bypass, Herts CC (D&B
tender)
2002 Pavement
designer for tender for M25 Junctions 12-15 widening
and T5 spur Highways Agency (D&B tender)
2001 stabilisation
auditor for employer’s representative for A27
Polegate Bypass, Highways Agency
2001 Pavement
designer for contractor for A500 Stoke Pathfinder Scheme
(ECI contract)
2000 stabilisation
advisor for contractor for A2/M2 Widening construction,
Highways Agency
2000 Pavement
designer for A6 Clapham Bypass, Highways Agency (D&B
tender stage, detailed design stage, and construction
stage)
2000 Advisor
to BAA on hydraulically bound materials & stabilization
for T5 Heathrow Airport
1999 Pavement
designer/stabilization advisor for contractor for A130
Bypass (A12 – A127) DBFO tender & construction,
Essex County Council
1997 Initiator,
pavement designer and construction advisor for 1st
UK use of GFA (granular material treated by lime and
fly ash) for A52 Reconstruction, Froghall, Staffordshire
1995 Initiator
and construction advisor for 1st UK use of draft CEN
specification for lime improvement for earthworks at
Didcot Power Station
1994 Initiator, designer and construction advisor for 1st
UK use of ground granulated blast furnace slag for stabilization,
Purfleet, Essex
1987 Initiator
and construction advisor for 1st UK use of slag bound
base, Pembury Bypass, Kent CC
Accreditations
John
Kennedy is a member of the following
professional organisations.
Institute Of Concrete Technology
Institution Of Highways & Transportation
Institution Of Civil Engineers