CHARLES R. NICKERSON, P.E.

President/Chief Executive Officer
Principal Geotechnical Engineer

REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER:

Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

- American Society of Civil Engineers
   . Past President, Maine Section
-International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
-Post-Tensioning Institute
-International Code Council
-ADSC:  The International Association of Foundation Drilling          

EDUCATION:

-Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts B.S. 1974 (Civil Engineering)
-Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts M.S. 1978 (Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Studies)

GENERAL BACKGROUND:

Mr. Nickerson joined RWG&A in 1995 and currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer/President and as a Principal Geotechnical Engineer. He shares responsibilities for management of the company and technical oversight of geotechnical projects. He started at his first geotechnical engineering position in 1976 and has been active practitioner over the majority of his career. Mr. Nickerson's substantial experience includes offshore geotechnical studies for a trans-Atlantic cable route as well as over 150 oil and gas platforms, On land his work has included soil and foundation investigations for low to high rise buildings, parking garages, bulk silos, storage tanks, guyed and self-supported towers for communications and transmission, pipeline river crossings, out falls, highways and bridges, dams and  heavy civil construction projects for industrial, wastewater treatment and power generation facilities.

Over the last decade he has worked on multiple 20 to 60-acre retail development projects, Mr. Nickerson has been the project geotechnical engineer for commercial, residential and municipal projects including office buildings, stores, schools, public safety facilities and underground utilities. As a result of his work experience he has developed skills in underpinning, construction dewatering, drilled pier and driven pile foundations, blasting and processing of crushed stone fill, temporary earth support, preloading with and without wick drains and/or surcharges, and stability of natural slopes and embankments.

Mr. Nickerson's work experience includes a position in the engineering department of an electric utility company. He served as the department's geotechnical engineer and was a project manager and technical coordinator on all sizes of projects at generating stations, transmission and distribution substations, and operations facilities. The company had fossil and hydro generating stations, as well as transmission and distribution systems. Mr. Nickerson received  training on semi-empirical analyses for high moment transmission tower foundations.  Mr. Nickerson was the utility company's project coordinator for a Superfund site where he managed technical and administration efforts for the cleanup. He received a company award for his efforts, which resulted in $10's of millions in cost savings.

Mr. Nickerson's work experience includes, but is not limited to, the following:

*Foundation Investigations
*Settlement Evaluations
*Soil-Structure Interaction
*Design and Construction of Piers
*Pile Analysis and Installation
*Construction Dewatering
*Rock Slope Stabilization
*Inspection and Evaluation of Embankment Dams
*Rock/Concrete Dam Spillway Stabilization
*Waterfront and Riverfront Developments
*Mat Foundation Design

PUBLICATIONS:

Effects of Back Pressure on Compressibility and Permeability Characteristics of Deep Sea Sediments, M.S. Thesis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1978

Bench-Scale Solvent Extraction Treatability Testing of Soil/Sediment from a Superfund Site, poster presentation, Superfund XIV Conference and Exhibition, 1993 (Co-author)

Proactive and Responsive Environmental Compliance is Good Business Practice, Viewpoint article Woodard & Curran, Inc. newsletter Directions, Fall 1994

Negotiating an Amended PCB Soil Cleanup Goal for a Superfund Site, American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Meeting, Summer 1995 (Co-author)

ALSO OF NOTE:

-Member of Chi Epsilon Honor Society
-Adjunct Professor Central Maine Community College, Architectural and Civil Engineering Department.