KCB
Bill started his career in geotechnical engineering in 1976, working for the majority of the time at KCB. He has contributed extensively to the design and safe operation of tailings storage facilities in the Alberta oil sands and has assisted the Alberta government with development of the provincial Dam and Canal Safety Directive.
Bill has worked across Canada, and internationally in several sectors including mining, oil sands, water resources, hydroelectric and pulp and paper industries. His experience lies in dam engineering, dam safety evaluations and rehabilitation, mine tailings and mine waste management, foundation engineering, slope stability, seepage and liquefaction analyses, and stress deformation modelling. He has successfully used advanced numerical modeling methods to support evaluations of dam foundation movements, for both tailings and water dams, with his work at the Alameda Dam in Saskatchewan being a well-known example.
An eloquent and popular speaker, Bill has given presentations at numerous workshops, lectures and/or seminars hosted by the Alberta government, the University of Alberta and various learned societies including the Canadian Dam Association (CDA), the Canadian Geotechnical Society, the Calgary Geotechnical Society and the Edmonton Geotechnical Society.
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KCB
Klohn Crippen Berger (KCB) is a Canadian engineering and environmental consulting firm. We have completed tens of thousands of projects across the world, particularly in Canada, southeast Asia and Latin America. Our areas of expertise are Power, Transportation, Oil & Gas, Mining, Water Resources, Environmental, and Geotechnical services. We have Canadian offices in Vancouver, Nelson and Castlegar BC, Calgary and Fort McMurray AB, Moose Jaw SK and Sudbury ON. We also have offices in Lima, Peru and Brisbane, Australia. Our Quality Management System is registered ISO9001:2000 compliant. Environmental Profile Sub-sectors: hazardous waste; oil spill; resource utilization; site contamination; solid waste; water and wastewater. Products/Services: acid mine drainage services; analytical services; aquatic resource assessments; audits/assessments; consulting forestry. Consulting services: acid rock drainage; engineering; geological and petroleum engineering; pulp and paper; emergency response services; engineering and construction; fisheries/aquaculture; geophysical services; geotechnical studies. Groundwater: exploration and development; monitoring; treatment. Hazardous materials management and services: heap leach pad reclamation/detoxification; hydraulic modelling, research; hydrogeological surveys; hydrographic charting; independent inspection; inspection, soil; leachate treatment; liners, landfills, ponds, pits; mapping, geological; mine waste disposal consulting; multi-disciplinary services; natural resource management; PCB treatment/disposal; planning studies; pollution abatement services; project management services; public works engineering; pulp and paper engineering/technology; radioactive material disposal. Remediation services: research services; site cleanup management; site inspection; site planning; soil treatment/reclamation; spill containment; spill monitors; toxicity analysis; waste encapsulation. Surveys/interpretation: water pollution control; well disposal systems; workshop facilitation. Environmental services extend to environmental liability assessment, audits and impact assessments, industrial toxicology, human and ecological risk analysis, contaminant fate and transport modelling, environmental geochemistry, contaminated site assessment and remediation, land reclamation, landfill design, solid waste management, wastewater characterization and treatment, acid rock drainage, environmental chemistry, and analytical laboratory protocol development. Klohn Crippen Berger provides laboratory research, development and remediation facilities and services relating to acid rock drainage, soil remediation and contaminated water treatment. We have developed an instrument for monitoring workers for occupational exposure to arsenic. Other fields of activity include civil projects (dams, bridges, power plants, canals, highways, tunnels), water resources (irrigation, drainage, water supply, groundwater development) and geotechnical applications (foundation engineering, earthquake engineering, ground improvement).