Robert Cross

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).