Personal Info

Born in Greece in 1954, Married, two children  

 

Profile

• A Chartered Professional Engineer with a proved track record of 40 years’ experience in construction and construction supervision of major scale infrastructure projects.

• Capable to manage very complex enterprising schemes not restricted to construction field only. Has multi-years exposure to managerial approaches like Lean 6-Sigma, PRINCE2, PMBOK, Value Engineering and Matrix that guarantees a high level of services accordingly to the ISO standards. His IT proficiency makes him able to either utilize managerial environments like SAP, ERP, CRM and Oracle or built customized dB applications using his dBA and SQL skills, to satisfy company’s special demands. 

• In construction applies good FEED in both EPC or EPCI projects that reflects all clients specific requirements and avoids significant changes during the execution phase. In Contracting, administrates efficiently Red, Yellow and Orange FIDIC contracts.

• To speed the procedures often uses his superb computer programming skills with C, Pascal, VB, Lisp, Python and SQL to prepare small applications that help. In other cases acts under his training and platform programming capability for AutoDesk®, Intergraph®, ESRI®, Microsoft ®, Opensource®, and Oracle®. PM6, BIM, CAD 3D, Civil 3D, GIS, data modelling, Spatial data management, and dB Administration skills to train the personnel in using this software or customize the software environment in a friendly to them way.

• In Engineering concentrates experience from many Infrastructures project fields like: Earthworks, Dredging, Ports/Marines, Highways, Railways, Bridges, Tunnels, Housing, Luxury Hotels 5 stars, Buildings, Dams and Power Plants Construction and has Efficient Accountant, Economic and Financial skills.

 

Professional History

Greek Survey Engineer with MSc degree from the Rural and Surveying Engineering department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1976). 

Chartered by the Technical Chamber of Greece with unlimited rights in the design and construction of all kinds and magnitudes for Surveys and Civil Projects, except structural buildings with height more than 10m and Bridges with span greater than 10m.

Computer programmer, analyst and applications developer in almost all computer languages since 1971.

From 1979 - 2011: Employee of Public Power Corporation  SA (mines/hydro/coal/gas/solar/wind power  company), where the last 22 years (89-2011) was the Head of  PPC Land and Infrastructures Development department for the Mines and the Plants, responsible for: 

• The Surveys & Company’s Rear Estates Land Management

• The Civil Designs, Construction and Maintenance

• The Geological/Hydrological and Mines Support and

• The Environmental Policies

The importance of this section lied in its use, for promoting the company’s picture to the local society and gain social consensus with its activities and with securing the maintenance and the functionality of the Mines/Power Plants including: more than 200km2 Land Assets Management and facilities like, 4 Open pit coal mine fields of 120km2 area and 150m deep, with an average overburden/coal ratio of 3/1, 4 outside and 4 inside dumps, 15 bucket wheel excavators, 7 spreaders (mainly TAKRAF). The mines were performing under the German mining method. 

For the mines and the plants support there are also: more than 40000 m2 building offices and facilities, more than 200km heavy duty roads, 5 bridges from 200m-1100m long and viaducts. Many road, many type interchanges, drainage system with open channels, culverts and water supply and sewage and sanitary pipes. Plants and facilities water supply pipes with flow rates from 10 – 300 m3/h, well drills, pumping stations for the well drills to low down the level of aquifer, pumping stations for the drainage in the floor of the mines and many other civil facilities.

Further, the mines development, caused activities like: monthly quantity surveying, coal quality control, contractual mining production support, land and settlements acquisition and relocation demands which were also responsibilities of our Section.  

Mines also shared their facilities, with 4 Coal SES plants (850 MW), including 4X50-80m tall boilers in RC /Steel structural bodies, 3 RC chimneys 120-200m high, 4 RC cooling towers 80 m tall, and turbines Alstom and General Electric and 1 CCPP gas SES (811 MW) with 130mX40m cooling unit, 2X45m tall boilers in a steel structural body, CCPP system and 2 steel chimneys 80 m tall.

On the other hand the system included, at a 100km distance far, the maintenance of 1 Hydro-power dam “Ladonas Dam” with 2X35MW Pelton turbines, fed by an 8620m long by 3.9m  diameter circular cross section tunnel and a penstock of 250m, with 36 m3/s water from a total height of 412m. The about 4 km2  and 50million m3 water capacity lake, was blocked with an RC  dam 104m long X 55m high, having two spillways in either sides, opening with radial gates. The plant and the  lake system were surrounded by a more than 35km asphalt road network needed also maintenance.

In all these above, we may add, all over Peloponnisos/ Evia/ Athens:  Wind Farms with total power of 819 MW, 1 Solar Park of 50MW and the 2000km HV, 16000km MV, 19000 km LV aerial mainly network supported by 23500 Substations.

This way more experience was gained in many fields projects like: MINING, POWER PLANTS, DAMS, EARTHWORKS, ROADS, HIGHWAYS, CONVEYOR BELTS, DRAINAGE AND ANTI-FLOOD, ENVIRONMENTAL, EARTHWORKS, LANDSCAPING, GEOTECHNICAL, WATER MANAGEMENT, OIL & GAS PIPES, WATER SUPPLY, PISTE MOTO-X, AIR-CORRIDOR and more with a total budget of multi- billion euro in these 22 years.

In the same time, with the assistance of his wife Maria Beligianni (BSc Civil Engineer), remained active in free market from 1976- 2013, with Exantas SA company, where he was one of the main shareholders and vice president of the steering committee while his wife was Director for the Surveys and the Infrastructure designs.

Exantas SA provided consulting services on:

• IT issues like customized surveying, 3d modelling, spatial data management and civil design/construction computer applications,  

• Designing  and construction consultancy services, of major infrastructure projects like Highways (totally >550km) Water Supply Networks - Sewerage (>470km), Railways (>160km), Ports (2 big and 7 marinas), drainage, earth moving, Urban development etc projects, for the Greek Government and more than 70 big Greek Construction Companies and

• Handled  projects like gas plants, solar, wind and  hydro-power dams with a total budget  of multi-billion euro.

After '91 was also activated in environmental measurements and redacted environmental studies for many mines, plants,  quarries, large earthworks, highways, water supply networks, sewage, river diversions, dams etc to take the government licenses for the operation/construction of these units/projects.

From 2013 until May 2016, was working in Saudi Arabia with AECOM in KSA, as Head of Surveys providing geodetic advice aimed to improve the Project Management regarding the pretender estimations, and the quality / cost plan of various infrastructure projects under FIDIC contracts, to the contractors of Jizan Economic City Project Initiative (JECPI) and  Riyadh King Khaled International Airport (KKIA) Expansion Program with total budget of $ 38 billion.

Since 2016 is working delivering, under contracts, surveying, consulting and construction management services in Greece and the U.K.

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Academic Training

• MSc – RURAL AND SURVEY ENGINEER FROM ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI  1971-1976

• MSc degree on PMP from HOU under progress. 2015- now

 

Affiliations

• SAUDI COUNCIL OF ENGINEERS,

• Chartered P.E/SURVEY ENGINEER Technical Chamber of Greece,

• Certified Rural and Survey Engineer  by HARSE

 

Country Experience

• GREECE

• KSA

• U.K.

 

Nationality

GREEK

 

Languages

• ENGLISH

• GREEK