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Adam Czegledi

Civil Engineer, Msc.

Experience:

15 years

Specialization:

  • Tunnels
  • Geotechnical design
  • Reinforced concrete design
  • Application development
  • Computational design
  • Digital solutions

Introduction

I have spent 12 years at major consultants in four different countries before I returned to Hungary, my home country in 2020 for indefinite time. to leave the fixed working hours behind, and start something different.

I graduated as a structural and geotechnical engineer at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2008, after which I started out as a tunnel engineer at Mott MacDonald’s Budapest office.

As it turned out, this event has defined my forward career, as I soon found myself in Hong Kong on a 3-month secondment, which in one hand reinforced my enthusiasm towards the tunnel engineering field and on the other hand, introduced to me this magical part of the world, where I knew I wanted to live in the near future.

So, shortly another 6 months of Hong Kong assignment followed, and after a short stop for a 2-month project in London, UK, I finally managed to secure a permanent tunnel engineer position in Hong Kong (at Atkins) in 2011, after which I lived there for 7 years, the last 4 spent at Aurecon workwise, topping it with 1.5 years of Sydney assignment in Australia.

During my years in Hong Kong and all the other countries I have visited for shorter or longer term for work (Qatar, Indonesia, South Africa, Australia), I had the chance to get familiar with a wide range of tunneling design processes and construction methods, such as:

  • Temporary and permanent ground support for mined tunnels in soft ground and rock
  • Bored tunnel design (segmental lining)
  • Cut and cover tunnels
  • Shafts, ELS structures
  • 2D and 3D modelling with Finite Element Method (FEM) and Finite Difference Method (FDM)
  • Spaceproofing
  • Design verification (DVE) and independent checking (ICE)

Tunneling is a very complex and multidisciplinary branch of the civil engineering field, as besides the geotechnical and geological aspects of a project, the general structural expertise (knowledge in steel and reinforced concrete structures) is just as important.

Doha Green Line Metro

Since 2020, I took part in several Hungarian projects, such as the permanent lining design of the M85 motorway tunnel section at the Hungarian-Austrian border, and other varying scale structural tasks, like steel rack design for pipeline corridors, and the tender design of pile foundation and associated geotechnical works for the new Hydro factory in Székesfehérvár.

Large part of my design process – especially where a large set of data needs to be handled – is the extensive use of automation processes for decision making and repetitive tasks (by programming in Excel/VBA, C# or Python, and visual programming applications such as Grasshopper or Dynamo).

Nowadays I mostly reside in Hungary, Budapest, but one can occasionally find me in Hong Kong as well.

For any geotechnical, structural or tunnel related tasks, do not hesitate to contact me for a free initial consultation.