Geotechnical News December 2011
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G-I Members Elected ASCE
Region Governors
Congratulations to the newest G-I
members who were recently elected
as ASCE Region Governors for 2011-
2014. Being a Region Governor is
a challenging position in which one
serves on Standing Committees;
provides leadership at Council
meetings and workshops for Section
and Branch leaders and Younger
Member Forums; and attends meetings
of Councils, Sections, Branches,
student organizations, technical and
professional groups and Younger
Members. In addition, the Governors
plan, organize, direct, manage, and
carry out events to engage and serve
members in their Region.
Region 4:
Grant K. Autry, P.E.,
P.L.S., LEED AP, M.ASCE
, who will
share responsibilities with Lamont W.
Curtis, P.E., DEE, F.ASCE.
Autry
has been the regional manag-
er for Alliance Consulting Engineers,
Inc. in South Carolina since May 2011.
Some of his former positions include
director of business development for
Southside Constructors, Inc. (2010-
2011); vice president /regional director
for Stewart Engineering, Inc. (2008-
2010); and principal/office manager
for Terracon Consultants, Inc. (2002-
2008). His volunteer roles are numer-
ous and include the past president for
the North Carolina Section and the
Eastern Branch, North Carolina Sec-
tion; past Section Representative East-
ern Branch, North Carolina Section;
past Delegate to Region 6 Council; and
chair of North Carolina Infrastructure
Report Card.
Region 8:
Thomas G. Krzewinski,
P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE
, who will
share responsibilities with Heidi A.
Dexheimer, P.E., M.ASCE
Krzewinski
has been with Golder
Associates Inc. inAnchorage, AK since
2002. His former companies in Duluth,
MN include American Engineering
Testing (1991-2002); GME Consul-
tants (1989-1991); Twin City Testing
(1987-1989) and Dames & Moore in
Anchorage and Seattle (1973-1987).
His volunteer roles were numerous and
include past president of the Alaska
Section of ASCE; past president Dulu-
th Section of ASCE; the 2010 Recipi-
ent of ASCE’s Can Am Award and in
2009 was ASCE’s candidate for Alaska
Engineer of the Year
.
Chuaqui, Bruce, and Ansari
Form GeoSupport Inc.
Marcelo Chuaqui,
Donald Bruce,
Ph.D., D.GE and Nadir Ansari , P.E.,
recently launched GeoSupport Inc.,
which supports their combined focus on
the specialty geotechnical construction
industry. The firm provides technical
support and value-added service with
the development of comprehensive
grouting related programs; Quality
Assurance and Quality Control
program development and execution;
and on-site supervision. This group has
contributed to major drilling, grouting
and deep mixing projects in Canada
and the U.S.
Chuaqui, president of GeoSupport
Inc., has worked in the ground im-
provement and specialty geotechnical
construction fields and enjoys technical
and logistical challenges.
Bruce
is president of Geosystems,
L.P and specializes in geotechnical
construction processes, particularly an-
choring, drilling, grouting, deep min-
ing and cut offs with almost 40 years
experience in the industry.
Ansari
is president of Isherwood
Associates, a consulting firm special-
izing in geostructural engineering. He
has been involved in the introduction
of in-situ soil reinforcing techniques
to southern Ontario which include
soil-nailed, micropiled and ground-im-
proved walls. Ansari has an extensive
background in analysis, review, design,
field inspection and monitoring of over
800 earth retention structures on sites
in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.
Erbland Joins S&ME as Senior
Engineer
Philip J. Erbland, P.E.
, joined
S&ME’s Geotechnical Engineering
Department as a senior engineer. He
has more than 17 years of professional
geotechnical engineering experience,
including an extensive background
in the industrial, marine and federal
markets. His work spans the public
and private sectors in the U.S. and the
Caribbean.
Erbland, a graduate of the Florida
Institute of Technology, holds a bach-
elor’s degree in ocean engineering and
a master’s degree in engineering with
emphasis in geotechnical engineering.
He is a member of ASCE serving on
the Ports and Harbors Committee of
the Coasts, Oceans, Ports & Rivers In-
stitute (COPRI); the Florida Engineer-
ing Society and the American Society
of Highway Engineers. Reach him at
the firm’s Tampa office at
perbland@
smeinc.com
.
Perlow Shares Experiences
Mike Perlow, Jr., P.E.
of Engineering
Knowledge
Management,
Inc.
published and presented “Helical Pile
Acceptance Criteria, Design Guidelines
and Load Test Verification” at the Geo-
Frontiers 2011 conference in Dallas, as
well as “Settlement Based Helical Pile
Design” at the Helical Foundations and
Tieback Seminar in Dallas. He also
presented his paper, “Risk Assessment
Model for Municipal, Transportation,
and Energy Infrastructure in Karst
Philip J. Erbland
