Walbrent College

Dr. Grenville W Phillips II

EngD, CEng, FIStructE, FCIHT, FBAPE, MCIArb 

Doctor of Engineering ■ Chartered Engineer ■ Chartered Arbitrator

President, Walbrent College

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KEY QUALIFICATIONS

For the past 30 years, Mr Phillips has worked on a wide range of project management and engineering projects in the Caribbean region.  His experience includes:

• project management, design, and inspections of roads, buildings, drainage, and sewerage works;
• structural engineering design of timber, masonry, structural steel, and reinforced concrete structures;
• structural condition and vulnerability assessments of structures to natural hazards;
• environmental engineering investigations of buildings, and sewerage and drainage designs;
• highway engineering design and evaluation of roads, bridges, aircraft runways and taxiways;
• coastal engineering assessment of seawalls, piers, mooring dolphins, and sewerage outfalls;
• preparing and managing development planning applications;
• training designers, contractors, and inspectors in multi-hazard design and construction methods;
• independent design reviewer, adjudicator and expert witness.

For the past 20 years, Mr Phillips has prepared and made presentations on multi-hazard (including hurricanes & earthquake) resistant design, construction, and retrofitting for various regional and hemispheric organisations, including: the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Organisation of American States (OAS), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United Nation’s Development Programme (UNDP), the United States Southern Command of the US Department Of Defense, and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

Almost immediately following Hurricane Ivan in 2004, Mr Phillips developed training materials and taught workshops in every parish in Grenada to train Grenadian artisans to rebuild to higher standards.

Almost immediately following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Mr Phillips was deployed to Haiti where he trained Haitian engineers to evaluate the safe structural condition of buildings, and to design effective and economical building repair and strengthening measures.  During twelve subsequent deployments to Haiti, he trained Haitian building supervisors to supervise safe repairs and construct stronger houses.

Almost immediately following the impact of Category 5 hurricanes Irma in Anguilla and Maria in Dominica 2017, Mr Phillips did damage assessments of their infrastructure.  He also developed training materials and taught workshops in every parish to train Dominican artisans to rebuild to higher standards. Mr Phillips also assessed damage to the Bahamas following Category 5 hurricane Dorian in 2019.

Mr Phillips is the principal author of the “Regional Code of Practice for the Construction of Houses”.  He has formally trained over 500 artisans around the Caribbean in construction, and has completed a Doctorate on reducing the vulnerability of masonry buildings to earthquakes and hurricanes.

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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Doctor of Engineering, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 2022.
• Master of Urban and Rural Planning, Dalhousie University, Canada, 1998
• Master of Applied Science (Environmental Engineering), Dalhousie University, 1998
• Bachelor of Engineering (Civil/Structural), Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada, 1991
• Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Saint Mary’s University, Canada, 1988

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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Chartered Engineer
• Fellow, Institution of Structural Engineers
• Fellow, Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation
• Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Member, Association for Project Management
• Registered Professional Engineer in Barbados
• Fellow, Past President, Barbados Association of Professional Engineers

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ENGINEERING PUBLICATIONS

• Regional Code of Practice for the Construction of Houses, CDEMA & CROSQ, 2005, 2022
• Construction Quality Assurance Mechanism for Grenada & Dominica, OAS, 2005 & 2007
• Building Design Standards for Houses in Haiti, 2010
• What Do These Cracks Mean (a diagnosis of cracks in buildings), 2012

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AWARDS

• Visionary Award, Barbados Coalition of Service Industries, 2009
• Winner, National Innovation Competition, 2014

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COUNTRIES OF WORK EXPERIENCE

• Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Panama, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, and Turks & Caicos Islands.

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OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• President, Walbrent College, 2010 to 2021.
• Manager, Beston Consulting Ltd, Barbados Office, 2016 to present.
• President – Barbados Association of Professional Engineers, 2000/2001, 2001/2002, 2016/2017.
• Board Member, Caribbean Accreditation Council for Engineering and Technology, 2014.
• Director – Consulting Engineers Partnership Ltd, 2004 to 2011.
• Committee Member, Institution of Structural Engineers, Caribbean Division, 2008/2009.
• Secretary, Institution of Structural Engineers, Caribbean Division, 2006/2007, 2007/2008.
• Barbados Representative – United Nations’ (UNCTAD) Expert Meeting on “Trade and Development Aspects of Professional Services and Regulatory Frameworks”, 17-19 Jan 2005 in Geneva.
• Institution of Structural Engineers’ representative on the accreditation team that accredited the Civil Engineering degree programme at the University of the West Indies, 2004.
• President – Barbados Coalition of Service Industries, 2002/2003, 2003/2004.
• Chairman – Barbados Professional Services Export Committee, 2002.

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