Qualifications
PhD of Transportation Engineering, University of Pretoria, 2003
Master of Civil Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, 1988
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, University of Pretoria, 1986

Affiliations
Engineers Australia, Chartered Professional
Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), Member
International Society for Concrete Pavements (ISCP), Director

Awards
Her Master’s thesis received the Anglo Alpha Award for research in concrete during 1989 and for her PhD she has been awarded the prize for best post-graduate student in Transportation Engineering by SAICE in 2003. She also received the Best Paper Award at the South African Transport Conference during 2004 for a paper delivered on her thesis, titled: Improvement of Aggregate Interlock Equation Used in cncPave.

A revised version of this paper, titled: Improvement of Aggregate Interlock Equation Used in Mechanistic Design Software, was published in the Inaugural Journal of the International Society of Concrete Pavements during December 2005. This paper received the South African Institute of Civil Engineers, Transportation Division, Best Paper Award for 2005.

Her involvement as Director representing South Africa on the International Society of Concrete Pavements Board, has earned her one of the Innovation Excellence Awards given to the top achiever staff within SSI during 2007.

Her paper delivered in San Francisco during the 9th International Conference on Concrete Pavements that was held during August 2008, titled: CRCP on the Ben Schoeman Freeway – No Alternative, received the South African Institute of Civil Engineers, Transportation Division, Best Paper Award – Commendation for 2008.

Career History

Anna-Carin is the Arup Technical Skills Lead for Pavements in Australasia. She is a Chartered Engineer with more than 38 years’ experience. She has been involved in the design, construction, maintenance and rehabilitation of many road and airport pavements. Designs have varied from unsealed gravel to heavy-duty industrial pavements. She has been based in Perth, Australia since January 2012 and has been working on projects across Australia, New Zealand, Africa and Hong Kong.

Since 2001 she has been a member of the International Society for Concrete Pavements, and as a Director on the ISCP Board, since 2006 has gained international recognition with research into the design, construction and maintenance of rigid pavements.

She is a recognised expert in the Pavement Engineering industry and has authored and presented several papers and publications over the years, covering topics across rigid and flexible pavements.  She has actively been involved with the technical review of papers for numerous international conferences, as well as Moderator for Podium Sessions.

Through her research she has developed industry-recognised innovative and practical solutions to many issues such as the anchor-beam jockey slab transition between flexible and rigid pavement structures.  The Weibull probability density function defining aggregate interlock load transfer at joints in concrete pavements, developed for her PhD, has been incorporated in the cncPave software package; used worldwide.