Hilary Shields is an Associate Specialist Director at Tony Gee. Her role involves design management and geotechnical analysis of retaining walls, basement design, piled and shallow foundations, including foundation re-use, earthworks, preparation of specifications for ground investigation and piling works, geotechnical reports, providing design checking, review and construction supervision. Her role includes in-house professional and technical training of early profession geotechnical engineers. Her experience includes seven years in research in Geotechnics at BRE. She is a member of two AGS working groups and DFI Committee on Foundation Reuse.