Alison is currently working as an Associate Geotechnical Engineer at WSP.  She has over 16 years international experience working on major infrastructure projects as a contractor, designer and project manager.  She has extensive experience in geotechnical design, engineering geology and geotechnical construction support, with a special interest in the construction monitoring of deep basements, tunnels and third-party assets.  Key projects that she has been involved with include the Shard, Crossrail Bond Street Station, London Bridge Station Redevelopment, Masdar City (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and Hamad International Airport extension (Doha, Qatar).  For the past three years she has been managing the geotechnical and monitoring work on the Tel Aviv Red Line Metro project in Israel, before returning to the UK to work on HS2.