Dr. Audibert is a Principal Consultant with Business Management Consultants based in Houston, Texas. He has over 35 years of worldwide professional engineering experience both onshore and offshore, serving the power industry, petrochemical industry, oil and gas industry and both the private and government sectors.

Dr. Audibert was Vice President of Engineering for Fugro-McClelland Marine Geosciences, where he was responsible for the overall quality and schedule control for all the aspects of a wide range of offshore geotechnical projects. He managed over 40 engineers in addition to maintaining technical direction of numerous projects. He is an expert in meeting client specifications and managing contracts within deadlines. He had responsibility for field and office project teams, including mobilization, field surveys, laboratory testing, static foundation analysis and design, and earthquake engineering.

His projects included foundation design, in situ testing, tool development, certification of platforms, pipeline routing and engineering, feasibility studies of deepwater platform concepts (guyed and buoyant towers, TLPs, SPARs, FPS and FPSOs), pile load tests, and research and development studies. He directed and participated in several instrumented pile studies, including load tests on large driven piles, drilled and grouted piles and suction caissons.

His extensive onshore project experience includes numerous geotechnical studies for nuclear and fossil fired power plants, dams, bridges, outfalls and intake pipes, earth and water retaining structures, lignite mines and petroleum product refining facilities. In addition, he has directed waste management projects, ranging from site investigations, remedial designs, remedial actions, and design of municipal and hazardous waste landfills.
Dr. Audibert was the main investigator in State-of-the-Art studies for design and analysis of pile-supported and gravity structures. He directed technology projects to create new analysis procedures for pile-supported structures subjected to intense wave loadings and strong earthquake ground motions, the effects of elevated temperatures on the behavior of deepwater clays, and fundamental research on torpedo piles.

Dr. Audibert has dual citizenship in the USA and France, and is fluent in both languages. He received his BS in Engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, Paris, and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Duke University. Dr. Audibert is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of Massachusetts, Louisiana and Texas. He is a member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), National and Texas Societies of Civil Engineers (NSPE & TSPE), International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineers (ISSMFE), American Petroleum Institute (API), Société des Ingénieurs Arts et Métiers and the Marine Technology Society (MTS).

Dr. Audibert is the author or co-author of over 60 technical papers. He received the Special Service Award from ASTM for organization of an International Symposium. In addition, Dr. Audibert was awarded the J. James Croes Medal by the American Society of Civil Engineers for earthquake response of offshore platforms. He received the Collingwood Prize from ASCE for research on soil-pipeline interaction. Other awards include an ASTM Special Service Award, Fulbright Fellow; and Who’s Who in Engineering (AAES), Technology Today and Men of Achievement.