12th NACGEA Geotechnical Workshop
Friday June 1, 2012, 12:00pm-4:35pm
A-Level Los Angeles Room, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch and Networking
1:00pm-1:15pm Opening Remark and Sponsors’ Speeches
1) Keynote Presentation (1:15pm-1:55pm) – $1.7 Billion I-15 Corridor Expansion Design-Build Project – A Case History, Provo, Utah, Invited Speaker: Mr. James M. Schmidt, PE, PEng, D.GE, Vice President & Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer, Kleinfelder West, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO
2) Keynote Presentation (2:00pm-2:40pm) – Mechanism of Seismic Failure of Soil-Nailed Walls, Invited Speakers: Dr. Mladen Vucetic, Professor, University of California Los Angeles, CA .
2:45pm – 3:05pm Coffee Break
3) Keynote Presentation (3:05pm-3:45pm) – Geotechnical and Seismic Aspects of the Headworks Reservoir Project, Invited Speaker: Dr. Martin B. Hudson, PE, GE, Chief Engineer, AMEC (formerly MACTEC), Los Angeles, CA.
4) Keynote Presentation (3:50pm-4:30pm) – Seismic Design Innovations of SFPUCs Hayward Fault Crossing, Invited Speaker: Mr. Tom Frisher, PE, Infrastructure Department Manager, URS Corporation, San Francisco, CA.
5) Closing (4:30pm-4:35pm)