Engr. Shabir Hussain has more than eight years of professional teaching and field experience. He is currently working as Lecturer at CED Jalozai, since 2016. He has also worked in construction industry as a site engineer and project manager on foundation and geotechnical projects in Pakistan as well as gulf region. Engr. Shabir has carried out research on improving important engineering properties of highly compressible soft soils by using economical raw material like quick lime in an innovative way such as lime columns. He has carried out experimental as well as numerical studies on lime and granular columns and their effect on soft soil compressibility. He has secured Master of Science Degree in Geotechnical Engineering from NUST Islamabad, Pakistan, his research topic was “Study of lime column as a ground improvement technique in soft soil”. Engr. Shabir is currently pursuing PhD at UET Peshawar and his topic of research is “Slope stability analysis of unsaturated soft soil slopes subjected to rainfall infiltration”. He has also worked as Lab Engineer and research assistant at University of Lahore Islamabad campus for two years and has sufficient experience and skills related to geotechnical engineering lab, field experimentation and instrumentation.