Agenda
- Introduction
- Overview of MSE wall components
- Roles and responsibilities pertaining to design, construction and inspection of MSE walls
- Typical applications
- Design
- Construction
- Quality assessment/quality control of MSE walls
- Questions and answers
Learning Objectives
- Understand MSE wall components and typical applications
- Understand considerations for selecting soil reinforcement
- Identify participating stakeholder roles and divisions of responsibility for select roles
- Identify three common applications for public works projects
- Understand, conceptually, how site conditions, application, design choices, construction and other considerations can affect performance
Target Audience
Stakeholders involved in MSE walls delivery or projects that include MSE walls:
- Public infrastructure owners
- Coordinating professionals
- Engineers designing infrastructure elements that could affect or be affected by MSE walls
- MSE wall designers, suppliers and constructors
- Construction quality assurance professionals
Presenters
Andrew Van Dyk, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Golder Associates Ltd.
Andrew has over 15 years of consulting experience and is a graduate of the Civil Engineering program at Western University. He has been providing geotechnical engineering services on a wide range of urban development and infrastructure projects from British Columbia to Ontario, including multi-phase residential developments, provincial transportation infrastructure, emergency response works, and geohazard assessments. Andrew’s geotechnical expertise includes site characterization; analysis and design of foundations; retaining walls and slopes, as well as assessments of geohazards and slope stability.
Dr. Michael Maher, Principal, Senior Materials Engineer, Golder Associates Ltd.
With 38 years of consulting and design experience in Canada and internationally, Michael is the regional leader of Golder’s large public infrastructure initiative. He provides engineering services related to highway pavement evaluation and rehabilitation design; construction quality control and quality assurance; highway structure condition surveys; infrastructure asset management; sustainability in engineering design; and construction materials performance and premature failures.
Michael has acted as a forensic engineering investigator and expert witness in numerous legal cases related to geotechnical engineering, construction quality, and aggregate and concrete technology. He has published over 70 technical papers on construction materials and performance, pavement management and rehabilitation and the application of sustainability to optimum road rehabilitation strategies. Michael has been lead investigator for research studies funded by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program and the Central Federal Lands Highway Division of the U.S. Federal Highways Administration. He also was Past President of the Canadian Council of Independent Laboratories.
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DATE: Wednesday, August 16, 2017
TIME: 1:00-2:00 PM ET
COST:
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