Speaker:   Peter Wu, P.Eng., President & CEO

ABSTRACT

The presentation outlines some of the key features of the Reinforced Earth technology, from design considerations to practice, as they apply to the conditions in various applications, which may be of interest to practitioners.

The presentation will include a concept review of Reinforced Earth Company Group's research and philosophies behind our design considerations, material selection, and practical applications.

Examples will be shown in some of the Company's notable historical project accomplishments in different markets in the competitive industry. Highlights will be shown for applications in retaining walls of significant heights, to high-security load-supporting structures, such as bridge abutments, precast arches, heavily surcharged structures in industrial truck dumps, large volume industrial storage facilities, and marine structures.

BIO: PETER L. WU, P. Eng., FEIC

Peter Wu is currently the President and CEO of the Reinforced Earth Company Ltd. (RECO), responsible for the nation-wide management and administration of the Canadian company.

Peter joined the company in May 1978 after 7 years of various civil engineering experiences in the consulting and construction field in California, Hong Kong and Canada. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree at the University of the Pacific in California in 1971, and had done his MEng. program in at the University of Toronto. He is a registered Professional Engineer in B.C., Alberta and Ontario.

During the 24 years with RECO, Peter has held positions with the Reinforced Earth organisation from Senior Project Engineer, Chief Engineer, Director of Operations, 6 years as Vice President-Operations and 4 years as Executive VP prior to being President & CEO in 1995. Peter has hands-on involvement of all aspects of the Reinforced Earth technology and operations, from design, development, manufacture, and field construction to project management.

Mr. Wu is a member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), Canadian Society for Civil Engineers (CSCE), the International Geosynthetics Society and North American Geosynthetics Society (IGS/NAGS), and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) since 1995.

He has been a particular active member and volunteer in the Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS): having served on the Executive Committee of the Southern Ontario Section in the early 80's; was the Secretary/Treasurer of the 1992- 45th national CGS Conference Organising Committee in Toronto and again co-chairing the 55th Conference in Niagara Falls this year; 2 terms (4 years) as Vice President, Finance on CGS's Board of Directors; and 4 terms (8 years) as the Chair of CGS Membership Committee.

He is a recipient of the CGS's Service Award in 1995, the A.G. Stermac Award in 2000 and the senior award of John B. Stirling Medal by the EIC this year. Peter continues actively still in various Task Forces and Committees with CGS.

Various papers were authored and co-authored by Peter since 1982 on Reinforced Earth technology and other RECO diversified products such as TechSpan and Underwater Wall. These papers were published in Conferences of the Road Transportation Associations of Canada, CGS, Canadian Society for Civil Engineers, and the International Soil Reinforcement Congress in the U.K. He has also been guest lecturer many times in various internal and international soil reinforcement symposia, various professional societies as well at universities such as British Columbia, Alberta, Toronto, Queens, Western Ontario and Memorial in Newfoundland.

Further details on this workshop will be posted as they become available.

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