Professional Interests: Buried pipe! Drainage, sewer, and waterworks design and construction. Road & highway infrastructure design and construction. Structural engineering. Mining infrastructure design and construction. Forestry infrastructure design and construction. Notable Projects and Achievements:Developed a buried culvert design/analysis method using finite element software suite FLAC, featuring a hyperbolic soil-hardening model. (2002-2003)Design engineer for first large-scale integration of steel bin retaining walls and deep corrugated structural plate arches. Project featured 5 steel arch bridges and over 450 m of retaining wall at a liquid natural gas facility in St. John, NB. Approximately $1,000,000 of steel product was shipped for this order. (2006)Modification of buried structure design/analysis method to suit new finite element software suite, Plaxis. Modeling and analysis time was reduced by up to 80% for most projects. (2006)Primary designer of Canada’s first deep-corrugated structural plate horizontal ellipse installed within a steep grade slope. The $500,000 elliptical skier underpass was installed near the bottom of the Women’s Downhill run at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Whistler. (2008)Primary designer of first deep-corrugated buried structural plate arch on a straining footing. Innovative feature reduced required concrete footing size by more than 50% and was key in securing a multi-structure, $1,400,000 order. (2009)Project engineer for a $1,000,000 deep-corrugated structural plate arch overpass. The project featured a 10 m tall buried steel arch carrying loaded trucks weighing in excess of 600,000 kg. (2010)Project engineer for a unique deep-corrugated structural plate arch built on a curve for a pipeline protection project in Edmonton, AB. Participation in the $750,000 project started with the original product pitch through to the final installation sign-off. (2014)
Listed skills include Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Technical Presentations, Technical Training, and 18 others.
