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CLRA British Columbia Chapter Lunch & Learn: The Multidisciplinary Nature of Landform Design


Presentation Summary

LANDFORM DESIGN is an emerging process used to successfully reconstruct mine land. It allows industry, regulators, and communities to work together to manage costs and risks, minimize liability, and produce progressively reclaimed landscapes with confidence and pride.

It builds on the successes of mine reclamation by expanding and empowering the multidisciplinary design team.

The talk and discussion explore the roles for the various team members, and crucially how they learn to collaborate in an interdisciplinary way to build mining landforms, landscapes, and regions acceptable to all.

About the Speaker

Dr. Gord McKenna, PhD, PEng, PGeol | McKenna Geotechnical Inc

Gord McKenna is a geotechnical engineer specializing in tailings and mine waste management, dam safety, landform design, and mine reclamation. He has 36 years of experience as a geotechnical engineer at a large oil sands mine and as a consulting engineer for mines, regulators, and local communities in Canada and internationally. Gord serves on a dozen geotechnical review boards and expert panels, has co-authored 110 papers and book chapters, and is the founding chair of the Landform Design Institute.


Event Information

Date: January 10th, 2024

Venue: Virtual

*Corporate members, please log in to your corporate member account to manage employee accounts and provide access to your team members to register at the member rate. To inquire, please contact us.

Registration Deadline: January 9th, 2024

Refund policy: No refunds may be processed on or after the registration deadline.


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