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KCB completed a report for the Mine Environment Neutral Drainage (MEND) program in 2015 in which we examined and compared alternatives to conventional slurry for tailings management (e.g., thickened, paste and filtered tailings). The MEND program was started in 1989 … Read More

The Deep Foundation Institute (DFI) 43rd Annual Conference will take place October 24-27, 2018 in Anaheim, California. Ali Ghandeharioon, Ph.D, P.Eng., one of KCB’s geotechnical engineers, will be giving a presentation on the “Comparison of Pile Foundations and Ground Improvement … Read More

Canadian Occupational Safety magazine, a Thomson Reuters business, awarded KCB a Silver award at the 2018 Canada’s Safest Employers Awards in the Mining and Natural Resources category last night in Toronto. This is the first time we have applied for … Read More

The Vedder Bridge Replacement Project in Chilliwack, B.C. has won the 2018 Canadian Design-Build Institute (CDBI) Design-Build Award of Excellence in the major structural project category. KCB designed the new bridge and was part of the design-build team lead by … Read More

Alex Sy, Ph.D., P.Eng., Vice President, Technical will be giving several talks in October as part of the Canadian Geotechnical Society’s Cross Canada Lecture Tour. These talks will be held in various cities, starting in Halifax on October 1 and … Read More

For the past few years, KCB has collaborated on several geomembrane research projects with Prof. R. Kerry Rowe and his team at the Geo-Engineering Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. The research is assessing the effectiveness of geomembrane liners … Read More

Congratulations to Garry Stevenson, P.Eng., P.Geo., FGC on being named the 2018 Tunnelling Association of Canada (TAC) Lifetime Achievement Award winner. The award will be presented to Garry at the Tunnelling and Trenchless (TT2018) Conference in Edmonton in November. The … Read More

Klohn Crippen Berger is pleased to announce the appointment of Ryan Douglas, P.Eng., P.E. to the role of Vice President, Power & Transportation. Ryan is a Civil Engineer with 25 years of design and project management experience in heavy civil … Read More

We are pleased to share that Klohn Crippen Berger’s Australasia group has once again been recognized as an Employer of Choice in the Australian Business Awards 2018. “We are honoured to receive The Australian Business Award for Employer of Choice … Read More

Factor of Safety (FoS) is a measure used in engineering design to represent how much greater the resisting capacity of a structure or component is relative to an assumed load. With respect to slope stability, FoS is the ratio of … Read More