H.R. (Herb) Kuehne, MBA, P.Eng. Senior Vice-President Civil Infrastructure

H.R. (Herb) Kuehne, MBA, P.Eng.

Education

· MBA, University of Alberta - 1988

· B.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of Alberta - 1976

Employment History

· 1977 - Date: Associated Engineering

· 1976: Texaco Canada

· 1974 - 1975: Alberta Transportation

Professional Societies

· Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta

· Practice Standards Committee (2001/07)

· Joint AAA/APEGGA/CEA Committee (2001/03)

· Member of Elections Committee (1980/81)

· Students Liaison Committee (1979/80)

· American Public Works Association

· Canadian Public Works Association

· Alberta Board of Directors (1990/00)

· Consulting Engineers of Alberta

· President (2000/01)

· Treasurer (1999/00)

· Engineering Institute of Canada

· Edmonton Branch Chairman (1988/89)

· Water Environment Federation

Summary of Experience

Herb Kuehne has over 38 years of experience in the

consulting engineering industry, as a Senior Project Manager and a Senior Infrastructure Specialist for Associated

Engineering. His experience covers a diverse range of Civil Infrastructure multi-discipline projects, including asset management, rehabilitation, trenchless technologies, water treatment plants, reservoirs, pumphouses, lift stations, forcemains, sewage collection, treatment, disposal, land development, roadways, storm water management, and marina and harbour facilities. Herb’s depth of experience and insight ensures that the client’s requirements are translated into realistic, cost-effective project solutions.

Herb has Corporate Responsibilities, in addition to project responsibilities, which include developing corporate strategies to expand the company’s Civil Infrastructure sector across Canada, technical development of human resources within the company, develop engineering capabilities through research and development and reviewing partnerships, strategic alliances and acquisitions.

Water Resources

· Terwillegar Drive Roadway Extension, City of Edmonton, AB: Preliminary design and design of $6

million of drainage improvements to accommodate the Terwillegar Drive and adjacent arterial roadway connectors. The predesign also addressed drainage of three interchanges proposed as part of the Terwillegar Drive project.

· 184th Street and Yellowhead Trail Interchange Drainage, City of Edmonton, AB: including:

· Wetland development concept including lake stabilization structure for a 100 ha wetland and Ducks Unlimited protected habitat

· Water quality enhancement using stormwater separators · On site SWM ponds, retention and piping..

· Mill Creek Roper Pond, City of Edmonton, AB:Concept, preliminary design, design and

construction services for a (171,000 m3) stormwater and wetland facility. Work included: · Development of a naturalized wetland

· Water quality improvements · Flood reduction of developed lands · Contaminated site clean-up

· Development of a “Natural Area Management Plan” · Walking, jogging paths and interpretative signage.

· Big Lake Drainage Study, Parkland County, AB:Watershed Management Plan (1,600 km2) to

address flooding, predevelopment flows and to develop a regional watershed master plan that addresses:

· Rural and urban drainage · Rural practices

· Floodway and flood fringe protection

· Environmental enhancement and protection.

· Anthony Henday Drive West, Alberta Transportation, Edmonton, AB:Preliminary design, design

and construction of the SWM facilities necessary to serve the City of Edmonton Anthony Henday Drive ring road (east section) ($6 million). Work included:

· 7 SWM wetland ponds

· 2,000 m of 600 to 1650 mm diameter storm sewers

· Four creek drop structures varying in depth from 6 to 20 m.

· Fulton Creek SWM Facility, City of Edmonton, AB: To accommodate WMD extension from 34th

Street to Highway 14, a SWM system was required. Work included Conceptual, Predesign, Design and Construction Services. Components include:

· Regional Wetland facility, 200,000 m³ - CEA Award of Excellence · Naturalization outfall channel including wetlands

· 1,000 m of 1350, 900 and 750 mm storm sewer.

· Regional Trunk Wet Weather Flow Analysis, City of Spruce Grove, AB: Analysis of wet weather

flows and the regional trunk capacity to determine sizing required accommodating Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSO).

· Watershed Master Plan, City of Spruce Grove, AB: Master plan for the City of Spruce Grove Drainage System including 1,500 ha of land plus 5,000 ha from outside of the City. Developed SWM facilities, sizes and locations and conveyance.

· Mill Creek, Fulton Creek and Gold Bar Creek Watershed Master Plan, City of Edmonton, AB:

Developed a Watershed Master Plan for a major portion of the City of Edmonton Millwoods development including existing and undeveloped areas. The Master Plan identified capacity restrictions and required upgrading. Watershed Plans included the following basins:

· Mill Creek Basin: 9,900 ha · Fulton Creek Basin: 3,300 ha · Gold Bar Creek Basin: 2,600 ha.

Water Transmission Systems

· Avenue Road Trunk Water Main, City of Toronto, ON: Provided design review and constructability

reviews for the installation of approximately 3500 m of 900 mm dia. water main on Avenue Road from Cottingham Street to Eglinton Avenue and 2000 m of 750 mm dia. water main on Avenue Road from Eglinton Avenue to the connection point at Caribou Road.

· Franklin Avenue Water Trunk Main, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, AB: Project director

and technical reviewer on the 750 mm Franklin Ave water trunk main. Wok included 1200 m of 750 mm trunk watermain, PRV station, interconnecting piping, and full rehabilitation and restoration of the Franklin Ave. arterial roadway.

· Saline Creek Water Transmission Main. Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, AB: Project

Director, Manager and Technical reviewer on this multiyear $55M project consisting of multiple contracts considting of:

· 1800 m of 750 mm steel pipe including trenchless hammer crossing of a river.

· 4900 m of 750 mm steel pipe including a 2500 m directional drill and a 1000 m directional drill

· 800 m of 750 mm PVC pipe including full street rehabilitation.

· Saline Creek Water Transmission Main. Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, AB: Project

Director on the 1700m of 600 mm water trunk main to Saline Creek. Work included full rehabilitation of McLennan Blvd and a 1000 m direction drill of Saline creek. The scope included hydraulic modelling of a community of 20,000 people..

· Water for Life Regional Strategy, Alberta Environment, AB: Participated as an expert on the

Regional Strategy and Waterworks Facility Assessment study for the Province of Alberta.

· Water Transmission Main Upgrading, EPCOR Water Services Inc., AB: Design and construction

of water transmission main upgrades to accommodate a Highway interchange. Work included: · 600 mm hot tap to a 900 mm concrete cylinder pipe

· 900 mm plug valve on a concrete cylinder pipe · 400 m of 750 mm transmission main

· 700 m of 600 mm transmission main · Valve and blow off chambers.

· 6,000 ha of residential land

· 12,000 ha of country residential land (40,000 people) · Regional water supply

· Five pressure zones and multiple reservoirs.

· Zone 2 Reservoir and Pumphouse, City of Spruce Grove, AB: Design and construction of a

6,800 m³ reservoir and pumphouse. Unique features included: · Expansion to 40,000 m³

· Twin fire pumps 115 L/s each · SCADA control

· Two tennis courts and a Basketball court

· Architectural design of exposed edge match a Cardinal designed High School.

Transportation

· Clearwater Drive, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, AB: Preliminary design for a $25 million,

3,000 m arterial roadway complete with a bridge crossing the Hangingstone River.

· 156th Street and Yellowhead Trail Interchange Value Engineering, City of Edmonton, AB:

Coordinated and participated in the Value Engineering for the Interchange design and provided senior level infrastructure review of the project.

· 34th Street Interchange Value Engineering, City of Edmonton, AB: Provided specialist engineering

input into the 34th Street and Whitemud Drive Interchange Value Engineering review.

· 23rd Avenue Value Engineering, City of Edmonton, AB: Provided specialist engineering input into

the Value Engineering review of the 23rd Avenue and Calgary Trail Interchange project.

· 184th Street and Yellowhead Trail Interchange, City of Edmonton, AB: Project manager for the

preliminary design, design and construction services for a $50 million project included 3 bridge structures (CN Widening, 184th Street Structure, CN Overpass), drainage, electrical and lighting.

· Confederation Way Twinning, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Fort McMurray, AB:

Preliminary design, design and construction services for 6.5 km of major arterial/ freeway twinning ($8 million). Work included:

· Curb and gutter and paving · Landscaping

· Sidewalks and trail system · Beaming

· Milling and overlay of 3.5 km · Street lighting and traffic lights · CB replacement program.

· Loutit Road Arterial Roadway, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, AB: Design and

construction of 300 m of a four-lane arterial roadway. Work included: · Functional design and traffic generation for the sizing of Loutit Road · Analysis and sizing of water and sanitary sewer trunk services · Impact into the legal subdivision of the area

· Design and construction of water, sewer, storm sewer, curb and gutter, sidewalks, lights for the major arterial roadway.

Wastewater

· OAW Trunk Sanitary Sewer Tunnel, Region of Niagara,Technical oversight and constructability

reviews for the construction of a 2.8 km – 1650 mm dia. concrete CSO diversion sewer tunnel in the City of Welland constructed by tunnel boring machine, four (4) cast-in-place concrete access structures and four (4) drop structures. The trunk serves a population of approximately 41,000 and 1,062 Ha drainage area.

· East Brampton Trunk Sewer Twinning, Region of Peel, ON: Design and constructability reviews for

5.5 km of new twin trunk sewer in the East Brampton trunk sewer system. Project includes a

combination of open cut and trenchless installations across multiple creek crossings, 407ETR highway and CN railway and connection and flow equalization chambers.

· Waste Water Master Plan, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo: AE was commissioned by the

RMWB to complete a wastewater master plan. To be consistent with the Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Operating Approval, AE included all the components that impact the wastewater system for a design population of over 300,000 people. The work included population projections and land use assessments, wastewater treatment facilities, wastewater collection

modelling and conceptual design, stormwater management modelling and system design, wastewater green initiatives and asset management.

· Tertiary Wastewater Reclamation Facility, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Fort

McMurray, AB: Project Manager responsible for 33 MLD WWTP valued at $160 million (Phase 1)

and 6 MLD WWTP valued at $25 million - Phase 2 expansion. Responsibilities included: · Selecting and managing a design consultant

· Overall project administration for the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo including approvals and financial management.

· WESS - W12, City of Edmonton, AB: Preliminary, design and construction of a 1200 m by 2.5 m

diameter syphon across the North Saskatchewan River. The syphon is part of the City’s CSO reduction program and consists of:

· 1200 m of 2.5 m diameter tunnel · Two - 80 m drop shafts

· Real time control gates and structure · Diversion gates and structures · Diversion design flow 15 m³/s · Total design flow 60 m3

/s

· South Nepean Collector Syphon, Ottawa, ON: Conceptual design configuration of a 100 m inverted

syphon across the Jock River in Ottawa, Ontario. Proposed syphon serves 67,000 people at a flow of 1.6 m³/s and consisted of a 400, 600 and 900 mm pipe complete with inlet and outlet structures.

· West Sanitary Trunk Sewer, City of Spruce Grove, AB: Preliminary design, design and

construction of a multi-year trunk sewer project. Scope includes: · 1,000 m of 900 mm diameter

· 800 m of 750 mm diameter · 400 m of 600 mm diameter · Flow measurement vault · Creek

· Millgrove I/I Reduction Program, City of Spruce Grove, AB: Major rainfall event 1:100 resulted in extensive basement flooding. An I/I reduction program consisted of:

· 800 lot survey

· Onlot remedial program · Lot regarding

· Roof leader extension

· Manhole I/I reduction program · Overland flow routing program · Trunk sewer relief program.

· Central Sanitary Trunk Sewer, City of Spruce Grove, AB: Preliminary design, design and

construction of 1,000 m of 750 mm and 900 mm diameter trunk sewer. Work included: · 200 mm trenchless highway crossing

· Dewatering

· Flow measurement vault.

· Clareview Inverted Syphon, City of Edmonton, AB: Design and construction of 400 m of 750 mm

diameter inverted syphon. Project relieved system capacity constraints and included: · Mag meter vault

· 1200 mm concrete gravity pipe hot tap

· Valving and cross over chamber modifications.

· Southeast Sanitary Trunk Sewer, Town of Slave Lake, AB: Design and construction of 2,000 m of

900 mm, 750 mm, 450 mm, and 300 mm sanitary trunk sewer. The project involved: · Four highway auger crossings

· Two creek crossings

· Extensive 2 stage well point dewatering.

· Thickwood Heights Sewer Upgrading, City of Fort McMurray, AB: Preliminary design of a sewer

system upgrading to deal with I/I and wet weather flows in the sanitary sewer system. Work included flow monitoring and system modelling. The result was the detailed design and construction of the following:

· 1,000 m of 450 mm Sanitary Trunk Sewer · 400 m of 600 mm Sanitary Trunk Sewer

· 4,500 m3 of online sanitary sewer storage upstream of the Thickwood Heights Lift Station.

Expert Witness/Arbitration

· South Expansion Area Annexation, Town of Slave Lake, AB: Technical support and expert

witness to a major annexation application for the Town. Included presentation to the Local Authority Board.

· West Bank Annexation, Town of Peace River, AB: Technical support and expert witness for the

annexation application to the Local Authorities Board.

· Development Review, Emery Jamieson: Expert witness and technical review of a residential

development.

· Drainage Claim, Town of Stony Plain, AB: Carried out a review and investigation into a drainage

· Rifle Range, Defence Construction Canada, AB: Carried out an independent review of a contractor’s claim and assessment.

· East Prairie, Alberta Municipal Affairs, AB: Provided expert witness on a construction claim

regarding contractual payment and measurement discrepancies.

· Drainage Channel, Town of Vegreville, AB: Provided arbitration services on a construction claim

regarding contractual payment and measurement discrepancies.

· Urlacher, Esso Resources, AB: Provided expert witness on contractor claim regarding

measurement discrepancies and payment shortfalls.

· Indian Lakes Golf Course, Enoch Cree Nation, AB: Certification of construction of an 18 hole golf

course for purposes of a Bank Draw.

· Intervention Application, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, AB: Expert witness of

Infrastructure issues at the RMWB’s intervention application to the Suncor Voyageur Upgrader and Steepbank Mine expansion at the Environmental Utility Board (EUB) hearings.

· Intervention Application, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, AB: Expert witness of

Infrastructure issues at the RMWB’s intervention application to the Shell Muskeg River Mine expansion at the Environmental Utility Board (EUB) hearings.

· Intervention Application, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, AB: Expert witness of

Infrastructure issues at the RMWB’s intervention application to the Imperial Oil Resources Kearl Oil Sands Project expansion at the Environmental Utility Board (EUB) hearings.

International Experience

· Recreation Development. Prepared a Recreational Master Plan for Tian Muh, China: The pristine

area needed water, sewer, roadway and conceptual development plan for up to 12,000 rooms of hotel development. Included recreational concepts.

· Environmental Screening, Chungzu, China: Carried out an environmental screening according to

CEAA for a proposed Manufacturing facility for medial garments to be exported to North America.

· Environmental Screening, Jin Tan, China: Carried out an environmental screening according to

CEAA for a proposed gauze manufacturing facility. The screening dealt with a cotton bleaching process and waste water treatment process.

Awards

· Institute of Planners - Sturgeon Valley, Area Structure Plan

· Institute of Architects - City of Spruce Grove, Downtown Redevelopment Plan

· CEA Award of Excellence for Environmental: City of Edmonton, Fulton Creek Regional Wetlands · CEA Award of Excellence for Environmental: Big Lake Basin Drainage Study

· CEA Award of Merit for Project Management: Big Lake Basin Drainage Study · CEA Award of Excellence for Sustainable Design: Mill Creek Roper Pond · CEA Award of Merit for Community Development: Mill Creek Roper Road

· Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards – 2013 Schreyer (highest award for Canadian consulting engineers in Canada): Edmonton West Sanitary Sewer W12