Dr. Hoek has published more than 100 papers and 3 books. He spent 9 years as a Reader and then Professor at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, 6 years as a professor at the University of Toronto, 12 years as a Principal of Golder Associates in Vancou-ver, and the last 17 years as an independent consulting engineer based in North Vancou-ver. His consulting work has included major civil and mining projects in 35 countries around the world and has involved rock slopes, dam foundations, hydroelectric projects, underground caverns and tunnels excavated conventionally and by TBM.
Dr. Hoek has now retired from active con-sulting work but, in 2010, is still a member of consulting boards on three major civil and mining engineering projects in Canada, the USA and Chile.Papers:
Dr. Evert Hoek: Experience and Expertise (Biography)Tunnelling in overstressed rock (E. Hoek & P. Marinos. Published in rock Engineering in Difficult Ground Conditions - Soft Rocks and Karst. Vrkljan, I (ed). London: Taylor and Francis Group, 49-60)Big tunnels in bad rock. 2000 Terzaghi lecture (ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Vol. 127, No
.9. September 2001, pages 726-740)Integration of geotechnical and structural design in tunneling (The 2008 Kersten Lecture)Putting numbers to geology – an engineer’s viewpoint. (Published in the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, Vol. 32, No.1, 1999, pages 1-19)When is a design in rock engineering acceptable? (Müller Lecture. Presented by Evert Hoek, September 1991, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Rock Mechanics, Aachen)Overcoming squeezing in the Yacambú-Quibor tunnel, Venezuela. (2009, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Vol. 42, No. 2, 389 – 418)Strength of jointed rock masses (Twenty-third Rankine Lecture presented to the British Geological Society in London on February 23, 1983 and published in Géotechnique, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1983, pp. 187-223)A brief history of the development of the Hoek-Brown failure criterion (E. Hoek & P. Marinos. Published in Soils and Rocks, No
.2. November 2007)Greece’s Egnatia Highway Tunnels (2006)The construction of the Egnatia highway through unstable slopes in northern Greece (P. Marinos and E. Hoek. Presented at the XI Conference on Rock Mechanics, Turin, November 2006)Variability of the engineering properties of rock masses quantified by the geological strength index: the case of ophiolites with special emphasis on tunneling (P. Marinos, E. Hoek, V. Marinos. Published online: 26 November 2005 Springer-Verlag 2005)
