User:Richard Hoare

richard hoare born January, 1948 in sunderland, uk: whose father ( e.s. hoare ) was  newspaper director and mother ( g.g. hoare ) a jp. education   was at tonstal sunderland followed by giggleswick  in yorkshire. after giggleswick and a year in industry with john laing construction, he went to sheffield hallam university, graduating in construction management and structural design. 1971 to 1975 was spent working for higgs and hill followed by r.m. douglas at jcb's rocester plant. departed uk for baghdad in 1976 to take up assistant r.e. position at baghdad airport jumbo jet hangars for netherlands airport consultants. 1978 joined tileman as project manager/director, living in iran/shiraz; thunderbay canada; taipei, hong kong, singapore. 1988 joined balfour beatty to restructure bbs-indonesia.the company was in a financial mess. some on going contracts returned to the client/owner. 1990 formed csm engineers in singapore with dr chok hung lee as  semi silent partner. first contract was with singapore refining company. in 1992 the company obtained a world engineering first at guangzhou pumped storage power station. in 1999 csm undertook post october earthquake inspection works at taichung power station. 1998 the company held unofficial record for second tallest structure in taiwan. csm expanded and undertook turnkey engineering works in japan, china, taiwan, hong kong, singapore, malaysia, indonesia and saudi arabia. early retirement was taken in 2008. for recreation, hoare obtained licences  for:  bsac/scuba diving,  sailing and power boat, windsurfing, paragliding and went solo, flying a cessna. after a lifetime of living in major cities, hoare moved to sam roi yot national park.