KENT A. PEASE, P.E.

Senior Engineer

 

Summary of Experience

 

Mr. Pease has 22 years progressive experience in geotechnical engineering with specialized experience rock engineering, engineering for projects in alpine environments, and tunnels and underground excavations.  A large portion of this experience is for highway and transportation projects.  He has been involved in all phases of these projects from feasibility and EIS through design and construction.  In the area of rock engineering, Mr. Pease has extensive experience with design, construction, and performance of rock cuts and rock excavations including evaluation of stability, rockfall, and constructability.  In the area of retaining walls, Mr. Pease has extensive experience with ground nail walls, mechanical stabilized earth walls, and reinforced slopes in addition to the more common rigid type of walls.  In the area of soil slopes, Mr. Pease has extensive experience with stabilization of landslides, soil cuts into steep natural hillsides, constructed embankments, and dams.  Mr. Pease has also worked on numerous highway projects including many in mountainous terrain including Wolf Creek Pass, Highway 285, and Interstate 70.  He is active in the geotechnical profession with 20 articles, papers, and lectures for major publications, seminars, and conferences.

 

Education

 

University of California at Berkeley, B.S., Civil Engineering 1980

Cornell University, M.S., Civil Engineering 1984

 

Professional Registration

 

1987/Professional Engineer:  Colorado (Reg. No. 25081)

1997/Professional Engineer:  Nevada (Reg. No. 012591)

 

Professional Societies

 

American Society of Civil Engineer (ASCE):

      Former Chairman for the Geotechnical Group of the Colorado Section

      Steering Committee Chairman for 1994 Seminar "New Directions in Geotechnical Engineering"

North American Society for Trenchless Technology

American Underground Construction Association

 

Honorary Societies and Awards

 

Tau Beta Pi, National Honorary Engineering Society

 

Publications and Papers

 

Pease, Kent, Parekh, Minal, and Ortiz, Ty; “U.S. Highway 6 - Clear Creek Canyon Rockslide: Working to Reopen a Major Road Closure”; (accepted for publication) 57th Highway Geology Symposium, Breckenridge, CO, September 2006; Co-Hosted by CGS, CDOT, CAGE, and AEG.

 

Parekh, Minal; Pease, Kent, and Ortiz, Ty. “U.S. Highway 6 - Clear Creek Canyon Rockslide and Remediation”; ARMA/USRMS 06-1085; Proceedings of Golden Rocks, 2006, 41st U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Golden, CO, June 2006.  Sponsored by the American Rock Mechanics Association.

 

Pease, Kent A.; “Wolf Creek Pass- Upper Narrows Project”; Association of Engineering Geologists Special Publication No. 15. & Colorado Geological Survey Special Publication No. 55. 2003. On CD only.

 

Pease, Kent A.; “Wolf Creek Pass – Upper Narrows Project” Presentation at Vail AEG 2003 Annual Meeting, Session on Open-Cut and Underground Excavation, September 19, 2003.

 

Pease, Kent A.; “Colorado: Wolf Creek Project” Presentation at Transportation Research Board 82nd Annual Meeting, Session on Environmentally Sensitive Construction, January 15, 2003.

 

“Behind the Lines at Wolf Creek Pass, Design Innovations for the Upper Narrows”; Pease, Kent; Presentation and Paper at More Than Just Lines on a Map Geotechnical Engineering in Transportation, October 4, 2002, Denver, Colorado.

 

“Water for Ahwatukee”; Pease, Kent and Brush, Lee; Civil Engineering pp. 58-63, March 2002.

 

“Upper Narrows tunnel – Innovative Support and Lining System”; Pease, Kent and McKenna Michael; North American Tunneling 2002 Conference Proceedings pp. 161-169.; 18 – 22 May 2002, Seattle, WA.

 

“Water for Ahwatukee”, Brush L. and Pease K., Civil Engineering, Vol. 72, No. 3, March 2002.

 

“Colorado Highway Tunnel Features Innovative Lining Design”, Anne Sedjo with major contributions from Kent Pease; Tunnel Business Magazine; December 2001, pg. 45.

 

“Arizona’s Mixed Face Mountain”; Pease, Kent; Tunnels and Tunnelling International; December 2001, pp. 22 & 23.

 

“Weinbach Soft Ground Tunnel”, Henn, Raymond W., Pease, Kent A, and Rorison, Glen J., Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference (RETC) Proceedings, AUA, June 2001

 

“The Long Arch”, Pease, Kent, Civil Engineering, pp. 52 – 55, May 2001.

 

“Escape Adits Provide for Tunnel Safety”. Gonzalez, Joseph, and Pease, Kent, Presentation and Poceedings of Transportation Research Board, 80th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 12 pp., January 7 – 11, 2001.  Also published in TRB Record No 1770, 2001, pp. 204 - 208.