2019 ASCE Mohawk-Hudson Section - Capital Region Geotechnical Symposium 

Need an inexpensive way to get 7 PDH credits for New York PE license, and learn a thing or two about geotechnical practice and the latest research? Then come join us at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY on November 15, 2019 for the 11th annual ASCE Mohawk-Hudson Capital Region Geotechnical Symposium!

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Symposium Agenda

7:30 – 8:00 Check-in & Breakfast (sponsored by GEI Consultants, Inc.)

8:00 – 8:15 Opening Remarks

8:15 – 9:15 Innovative Landslide Repair Launched Soil Nails, Frank Amend, P.E., GeoStabilization International

9:15 – 10:15 Pressed Piles, Michael Carter, P.E., Blue Iron Foundations and Shoring, LLC. 

10:15 – 10:30 Break (sponsored by Tectonic Engineering & Surveying Consultants, P.C.)

10:30 – 11:30 Deep Trenching, Timothy Myers, Bencor Global, Inc.

11:30 – 12:30 Micropiles Below Groundwater At The South Auditorium Block Site, Buffalo, Mary C. Nodine, P.E., GEI Consultants

12:30 – 1:15 Lunch (sponsored by Dente Engineering, P.C.) 

1:15 – 2:15 Featured Speaker: Subaqueous Construction - Ohio River Lock and Dam, William Walton, P.E., S.E., F.ASCE, GEI Consultants, Inc.

2:15 – 2:30 Break (sponsored by Schnabel Engineering of New York)

2:30 – 3:30 Helical Anchors in Landslide Repair, Scott Slaughter, P.E., Magnum Piering, Inc. 

3:30 – 4:30 Lessons Learned in Replacing a Run-of-River Dam on Existing Timber Pile Foundations, Todd Mueller, P.E., Bergmann Associates

4:30 – 4:45 Closing Remarks 

4:45 – 6:00 Reception (sponsored by Subsurface Constructors, Inc.)

Featured Speaker: William Walton, P.E., S.E., F.ASCE

                                         

William Walton is Senior Vice President of GEI in Chicago, Illinois. He is a licensed Civil and Structural Engineer in 21 states and has 37 years of experience in the geotechnical and structural design and construction of construction of hospitals, pipelines, dams, deep shafts, tunnels, hydroelectric facilities, embankments, landfills, steel mills, power plants, wind turbines, and building foundations. William was the foundation engineer of record for the new Chicago Soldier Field Stadium, 1,362-foot Trump Tower and the 2,000-foot Spire Tower in Chicago, completion of which is currently on hold. He recently completed design and construction oversight as engineer of record for a high dam on karstic limestone, harbor and quarry development for $1 Billion Holcim Cement Kiln and Quarry in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, now under construction. He served as the geotechnical consultant for the Redevelopment of the GM World Headquarters Towers Wind Load Upgrades and Winter Garden Development in Detroit and El Sowwah Island development and reclamation for the world-famous Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates. William is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, former Chairman of the Geotechnical Group in Illinois and was awarded the ASCE's Illinois Civil Engineer of the Year in 2010.

William has a M.S. in Agricultural Engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Worchester Polytechic Institute.

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