Personal Experience

Mr. Pua Chee Peng holds a BEng in Civil and Structural Engineering from the National University of Singapore. He obtained MSc from the same university in 2001. He started his career as an engineer in 1992, with Fugro-McClelland in Singapore.

He has experience in onshore and offshore site investigations as well as pile and jack-up rig foundation design. He has also conducted structural analyses for offshore platforms while on secondment to leading design consultants. His site experience is mainly in pile testing for onshore, nearshore and offshore projects, having monitored pile driving for jetties, bridges, a railway and more than 50 offshore platforms including underwater driven piles. He has also performed numerous engineering studies of pile driving, pile capacity, soil-pile interaction, pile wandering and dynamic soil-pile response analyses using the CAPWAP program.

With SMG since 1995, he is currently our lead CAPWAP engineer for offshore piles

Personal Experience

Mr. P.Somehsa obtained MSc from Imperial College, London University in 1979 and started his career with McClelland Engineers in 1978. Following its takeover by Fugro in 1987, he remained until 1994 as the head of their offshore engineering group in Singapore.

Most of his experience is in the design and installation of foundations for offshore platforms, jack up rigs, suction foundations, pipelines and moorings in Asia, Australia, Middle East, Africa and Europe. His piling experience includes drivability studies, hindcast studies, refusal and acceptance criteria, buckling and damage studies, remedial and loss mitigation recommendations. He has also conducted analyses for the recovery of a capsized oil platform as well as for the load-out of heavy offshore structures.

He is also a member of the ISO committee responsible for drafting the code of practice for offshore foundations. With SMG since 1995, he currently specializes in installation monitoring and quality assurance activities for geotechnical and environmental site investigations.