Professor Kyle Rollins, PhD, an invited lecturer at CroCEE,
will deliver the lecture
Experiences with ground improvement solutions to mitigate liquefaction risks
in the building of Croatian engineers, Berislavićeva 6 in Zagreb.
https://www.hgd-cgs.hr/?lang=HR
Kyle Rollins received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. After working as a geotechnical consultant, he joined the Civil Engineering faculty at BYU in 1987. His research has involved geotechnical earthquake engineering, deep foundation behavior, bridge abutments, collapsible soils, and soil improvement techniques. He has published over 190 technical papers and supervised over 130 graduate students. He was recognized as the engineering educator of the year by the Utah State Engineers Council and received a Governor’s Award for Science and Technology in 2017. ASCE has recognized his work with the Huber research award, the Wellington prize, and the Wallace Hayward Baker Award. In 2009, he was the Cross-Canada Geotechnical lecturer for the Canadian Geotechnical Society and in 2013 he received the Jorj Osterberg Award for innovation in foundation testing from the Deep Foundation Institute. He was a consultant to the New Zealand Earthquake Commission for ground improvement trials following the sequence of earthquakes in Christchurch. He was the committee chair for the US GeoInstitute Technical Committee on Soil Improvement.