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Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering for Highway and Transit Projects - A Systems Approach, presented by Stan Boyle, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE., M.ASCE, Vice President, Shannon and Wilson, Inc.

This presentation will present examples of sustainable geotechnical engineering applied in heavy civil highway and transit projects. The examples will include application of geosynthetics, lightweight fill, ground improvement, vegetation, re-use of existing foundations, and re-usable temporary soil nails that were employed to create sustainable, constructible, and cost-effective engineering solutions. The necessity of taking a Systems Approach to develop sustainable solutions will be discussed. A systems approach includes thinking not just from the perspective of a particular expertise, e.g., geotechnical engineering, but considering the bigger picture of the overall project: civil, structural, hydraulics engineering; traffic impacts; constructability and construction methods; and post-construction operations and maintenance.