Jean holds Bachelor and Honours degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. After graduating in 2012, he worked in the consulting engineering industry for three years on various projects including tailings dams, foundation design, retaining walls and site investigations.

In 2016, Jean returned to the University of Pretoria and is currently completing his Master’s degree in geotechnical engineering. The project is funded by Terra Strata and investigates the fundamental differences and the disparity between designing retaining walls with simplistic and complex design methods. 

Publications

Potgieter J. 2014. Effects of compaction on lateral earth pressure. Proceedings of the South African Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference. Spier, South Africa, pp 293 – 302.

Potgieter J. & Breyl J. 2016. Foundation engineering on highly variable ground conditions. Proceedings of the First Southern African Geotechnical Conference, CRC Press, pp 73-78.

Contact

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