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Surname	Houkes
Given names	Christian Bernhard
Date of birth	22 June 1990
Place of birth	Wörgl, Austria
Nationality	Austrian & Dutch
Address	(Austria)
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E-mail	c.b.houkes@gmail.com
Driving licence	B (passenger car)

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10/2023 – present	Geotechnical engineer at Lombardi Group Geotechnical and structural design of the Brenner Base Tunnel (‘BBT’): with a length of 55 km the world's third longest railway tunnel, linking Innsbruck in Austria with Fortezza in Italy. When taking into account the entire tunnel system consisting of 3 tubes of 55 km each, plus adits and numerous crosslinks, with a total length of over 200 km, it is the world's largest underground infrastructure ever built.
	Personal main responsibilities: structural execution design of the secondary lining of the 2.4 km long Ahrental adit and the 300 m long access tunnel to the emergency stop Innsbruck. Tasks also comprise coordination and review of drafting works (with more than 250 technical drawings only for the Ahrental adit) as well as occasional construction site supervision shifts, all in a multilingual (German/Italian/English) international working environment.
12/2022 – 04/2023	Ski instructor at SkiLL Skischule and Skischule Warth in Austria Teaching alpine skiing technique to mixed groups, private groups and private individuals, both children (from 5 years) and adults (up to 75 years), at levels varying from beginner to advanced, in three languages (sometimes even together in one group): German, Dutch and English.
10/2019 – 08/2021	Geotechnical engineer at Fehmarn Belt Contractors (FBC) Geotechnical design of all dredging and reclamation works for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel: with a length of 18 km the world's longest immersed road and railway tunnel, located between Germany and Denmark.
	Personal main responsibility (amongst other aspects): slope design of the entire subsea tunnel trench, largely automated by means of Python.
11/2016 – 12/2022	Geotechnical consultant at SWECO Geotechnical calculations, design, consulting and independent reviewing for a large variety of (international) projects in soil, structural, road, railway and hydraulic engineering, mostly in soft soils.
	This also includes a key role in the ‘Bybanen BT4’ project (2018-2019), comprising the integrated design of the new 10 km long ‘Bybane’ (city light rail) line No. 2 and surrounding urban area development in the Norwegian city Bergen. This project was characterised by extraordinarily heterogeneous subsurface conditions, working in a large multidisciplinary international engineering design team, intensive use of BIM and frequent travelling abroad.
11/2015 – 07/2016	Graduate intern at SWECO MSc graduation research regarding settlement prediction models for organic soft soils.
2004 – 2016	Various sideline jobs next to studies Various part time sideline jobs, such as: promotional activities at the university, webmaster (voluntary), handyman and computer support for private individuals, and farm assistant on a traditional Austrian mountain farm (voluntary, holiday job).

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