Have worked on civil and geotechnical engineering and construction projects of soil/rock/concrete dams (up to 350 feet high and 3.5 miles long), tunnels (up to 50 feet diameter and 16 miles long), canals, grading and excavations in soil and rock, powerplants (nuclear, hydro, conventional, surface, and underground), fault and geoseismic studies, hydrogeology, dewatering, pipelines, landslides, transportation corridors, hillside and flat -land residential/recreational/commercial/industrial land developments; and environmental characterizations, assessments, remediations, superfund, landfills, hydrogeology, groundwater monitoring and production wells, Phase I/II, RI/FS, EIR, UST, and on-site sanitary systems.
Projects have been located in California, USA, Philippines, Indonesia, Panama, Puerto Rico, Morocco, Egypt, and Lebanon.
La Fortuna Hydroelectric Project: Chiriqui Province, Panama
Project Dam Site, river flowing into picture. Stripping of left and right abutments for 100 meter high, earth-fill structure. Start of construction for upstream portal for diversion tunnel in lower right of picture.
Contractor's crew removing cofferdam allowing river to flow to diversion tunnel.
Contractor's crew closing the river bed and redirecting flow in river through diversion tunnel.
Completed La Fortuna Dam, but renamed to Edwin Fahrwega Dam.
Project Dam Site, river flowing into picture. Stripping of left and right abutments for 100 meter high, earth-fill structure. Start of construction for upstream portal for diversion tunnel in lower right of picture.
Contractor's crew removing cofferdam allowing river to flow to diversion tunnel.
Contractor's crew closing the river bed and redirecting flow in river through diversion tunnel.
Completed La Fortuna Dam, but renamed to Edwin Fahrwega Dam.
