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Len Murray, President & CEO, is pleased to announce the following Principal and Associate appointments. Principals: _ Mary-Jane Piggott, P.Eng., MBA. Mary-Jane, with the Mining Environmental Group (MEG) in Vancouver, has been promoted to KCB’s Principals Group. Since joining KCB … Read More

KCB has been involved in the design and construction management of the Hamata Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) at the Hidden Valley mine in Papua New Guinea since the early 2000’s. The TSF life of facility will be realised by 2024 … Read More

We are pleased to announce that in addition to our offices in Brisbane and Perth, we are now also operating in Newcastle, located in the Hunter Region of New South Wales (NSW). Jonathan Sanders recently moved with his family from … Read More

Tailings dam construction has evolved and improved over the past several decades. Klohn Crippen Berger (and its predecessor companies) helped to revolutionize the design of modern tailings storage facilities 50 years ago, and our engineering approach continues to be the … Read More

Our colleague Kate Patterson, P.Eng., M.Eng., PE, has won the 2020 CIM-Bedford Young Mining Leaders Award. This award highlights the exceptional achievement and potential of young Canadian mining leaders. Kate is one of KCB’s Associates and a Tailings and Water … Read More

Klohn Crippen Berger’s Vice President Strategic Marketing, Harvey McLeod, wrote an article titled “In the Wake of the Mount Polley Mine Tailings Breach – Tailings Dam Design, Innovation, and Practice Changes” for the May/June 2020 issue of GEOSTRATA magazine. This … Read More

We are proud to work with ClimateCare to offset our carbon emissions through Climate+Care projects that cut carbon and improve lives. One example is the Aqua Clara water filters project which provides safe water to communities in Kenya. This is … Read More

Klohn Crippen Berger is proud to support ClimateCare and Relief International’s Gyapa™ Cookstoves project, which announced on Earth Day that it has cut four million tonnes of CO2 over 10 years. People don’t automatically think that changing how communities cook … Read More

Len Murray, Klohn Crippen Berger’s President and CEO, has been recognized by the Canadian Dam Association in the CDA Bulletin Spring 2020 issue for being inducted as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. Len Murray’s excellence in engineering … Read More

During these uncertain times some mines may be required to suddenly cease operation of their tailings storage facility (TSF). There are a number of factors that need to be considered for a sudden shut down of a TSF. KCB has … Read More