ERIK J. WIBERG, P.E.
Chief Geotechnical Engineer
REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER:
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Florida
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
-American Society of Civil Engineers
-Maine Section of American Society of Civil Engineers, President (2008-2009)
-International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
-International Society of Explosives Engineers, Associate Member
EDUCATION:
-The Ohio State University, B.S., 1989 (Civil Engineering)
-The Ohio State University, M.S., 1991 (Geotechnical Studies)
GENERAL BACKGROUND:
Mr. Wiberg is Chief Geotechnical Engineer supporting RWG&A's Principal Engineers on geotechnical projects. Mr. Wiberg=s responsibilities include business development, project management, engineering analysis, preparing technical reports, producing conceptual and detail designs, and developing and coordinating field and laboratory testing programs. Mr. Wiberg has diverse geotechnical and civil engineering experience covering a broad range of projects ranging from site feasibility evaluations, subsurface explorations, foundation evaluations, ground improvement, forensic investigations, shoreline stabilization, municipal waste management permitting, and civil site design. Mr. Wiberg has geotechnical experience on projects utilizing rock anchors, moment foundations, site preloading and monitoring, construction and operational dewatering, and field instrumentation, including slope inclinometers and piezometers. His geotechnical experience encompasses projects serving clients in educational, commercial, municipal, residential, industrial, and in telecommunications sectors.
Mr. Wiberg's experience in heavy earthwork construction, preparation of specifications and bid documents, civil site design, and permitting provides clients with an understanding of the issues important to their projects. Mr. Wiberg has represented clients before the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, at public hearings, and before local review boards. In addition, Mr. Wiberg has experience in project management and preparation of Environmental Site Assessments, and National Environmental Policy Act screenings and Cultural Resource Assessments for telecommunication facilities.
Mr. Wiberg's work experience includes an engineering position at a geotechnical, materials testing, and environmental firm serving national and international companies. Mr. Wiberg has served as project engineer over a diversified range of geotechnical and environmental projects ranging from waste management facilities, earthen dams and embankments, contamination assessments, environmental impact studies, construction quality control/quality assurance programs, and post-construction performance monitoring and inspection. Mr. Wiberg's technical contributions to these projects induced design and evaluation of composite containment liner systems for municipal and industrial waste sites, settlement and slope stability analyses; groundwater and finite-element modeling of tailings dam seepage; stormwater management systems design, floodplain delineation studies, and process water balance analyses.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Geotechnical Investigations - IDEXX Laboratories Phase I Addition and New Administration Building (Westbrook), Peaker Power Generation Facility (Billerica), Augusta and Biddeford Crossing Retail Developments, Sanitary Sewer Expansion and Improvements (Saco), Gould Academy Science Building (Bethel), Mark Emery Elementary School (North Anson), Bangor International Airport Digital Airport Surveillance Radar, Sun Journal Publishing Facility (Lewiston).
Wireless Telecommunications Facilities - Geotechnical Investigations, Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, and NEPA threshold screenings.
Site Location of Development Law and/or Stormwater Management Law Permitting - Deep Brook Golf Course in Saco, Middle School of the Kennebunks, Town of Oxford Public Safety Facility, and other facilities.
Quality Control/Quality Assurance Programs - Pine Tree Shopping Center (Portland), Biddeford Crossing Retail Development (Biddeford), BIW Land Level Transfer Facility dredging (Bath), Cooling Pond Embankment and Geosynthetic Liner Installation (Nichols, Florida), Various industrial tailings facilities (Florida).
Landfill Expansion Permitting - Water balance evaluation of existing leachate treatment system to evaluate the storage capacity necessary for phased expansion of a southern Maine landfill operation. Designed modifications and expansion of existing leachate storage system to meet current regulatory requirements.
Embankment Design - More than 70,000 feet of earthen containment dikes over a variety of foundation conditions for tailings impoundments, geocomposite lined waste containment facilities, and a geosynthetic lined cooling pond.
ALSO OF NOTE:
-Maine Section American Society of Civil Engineers, Past-President (2008-2009)
-Maine Engineering Promotion Council, Vice-chair and founding Director
-Maine Engineers Week Planning Committee, 2004 Chair
-Tau Beta Ti Engineering Honor Society, Member
-Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society, Member
-Team engineer for 1996 National ASCE Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Merit Award winning project.
-Master's Thesis: The Probability Distribution of Snowmelt in Clearcuts from a Rain-on-Snow Event in the Central Cascades of Washington.
