Philippe Arnold
Specialist Natural Hazards
Federal Department of Environment
Transport Energy and Communications
Switzerland

Biography
Profession

1986 - 1987: Assistent am Geologischen Institut der Universität Bern
1988 - 1989: Sachbearbeiter, GEMAG AG, Alberswil
1990 – 1991: Auslandaufenthalt
1992: Sachbearbeiter, Büro für Kies + Abfall, Uttigen
1992 - 1993: Auslandaufenthalt
1994: Projektleiter/Koordinator Schweizerisches Ost Institut, Bern
1994 - 2000: Projektleiter, Geotechnisches Institut Bern Geologie – Messtechnik - Bauleitung
2000 - 2003: Bauleitung, Snamprogetti Int. SA Transitgasleitung TRG 3, Rodersdorf - Lostorf
2003 – 2008: Implenia Bau AG, Totalunternehmung ARGE Bahntechnik Lötschberg Beauftragter Sicherheit
seit 2008: ASTRA, Bundesamt für Strassen, Projektleiter Naturgefahren


Abstract
Landslide risk mapping for the entire Swiss national road network

Natural hazards threaten repeatedly transport facilities and infrastructure in Switzerland. To ensure a Swiss-wide uniform and targeted handling with natural hazards, as well as to provide transparency of the invested resources, the Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) in cooperation with the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), started the project "Natural hazards on national roads" since 2007. As part of this project, seven different sub-projects were or are being carried out to assess and manage the risks posed by gravitational natural hazards (rockfall, landslides, avalanches, floods and debris flows, collapse/subsidence) on the entire national road network.