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Vardaman Jones
BSc (Eng) MSc DIC CEng MIStructE MIOD
Managing Director
Vardaman (‘Vardy’) is managing director of Rendel, with responsibility for the company’s operations in global infrastructure markets, embracing bridges, tunnels, highways, airports, ports and maritime facilities, rail and nuclear projects.
He has over 30 years of civil and structural engineering experience and has played a key role on major transport infrastructure projects around the world - developing winning bidding teams, joint ventures and consortia with complementary skills and expertise that add to clients’ capital programmes and projects.
Vardy has worked with government agencies, investors, banks, major corporations, operators, international contractors, specialist vendors, lawyers and insurers across the entire project and investment life-cycle, leading Rendel’s design, engineering, interface management and construction supervision teams, as well as technical experts.
Project Experience
High Speed Rail Project
United Kingdom
This is a UK government-backed scheme to construct a second-high speed railway project.
Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project
Bangladesh
Funded by the Government of Bangladesh, PDMP will be a two-level, steel truss bridge with a four-lane highway on the upper level and provisions for a single track railway on the lower level.
New Europe Bridge
Vidin/Calafat, Bulgaria/Romania
The second bridge over the shared section of the Danube, part of Pan-European Corridor IV
Lekki-Epe Expressway Toll Road
Lagos, Nigeria
West Africa's first Public Private Partnership (PPP) highway project
Mersey Gateway Project
United Kingdom
The Mersey Gateway Project is a major scheme to build a new six-lane, one-mile toll bridge over the Mersey between the towns of Runcorn and Widnes to relieve the congested and ageing Silver Jubilee Bridge.
Aswan Cable-Stayed Bridge
Egypt
Rendel was appointed as the Egyptian Government's consultants for the design and construction of a 977m long, 21m wide cable-stayed road bridge