It’s Soil Not Dirt: A Geotechnical Engineering Podcast

Mike Francis, Project Manager at GEMS joins PRI Engineering to speak about hydrogeology. This second episode of two discusses Toronto and managing water in a large urban center.

Mike Francis, Project Manager at GEMS joins Arash Yazdani, the Director of Engineering at PRI Engineering and Erick Thurston, also from PRI to speak about hydrogeology. This first episode of two covers the basics of hydrogeology.

This is part two on Illegal soil dumping in Ontario. In the second episode, we continue the conversation with Brandon Spiller, VP Environment - Liability and Closure at Vertex and Arash Yazdani, Director of Engineering from PRI Engineering. The first episode was largely concerned with the regulations in Ontario regarding soil dumping. We focus more on the effects and possible remediation of sites.This podcast is hosted and sponsored by PRI Engineering - learn more by visiting our website: priengineering.com

Illegal soil dumping is a significant environmental and geotechnical issue in Ontario, and across North America. It risks contaminating soil and wastes a precious resource.Brandon Spiller, VP Environment – Liability and Closure at Vertex and Arash Yazdani discuss the regulations and reasons for these regulations in Part I of illegal soil dumping.This podcast is hosted and sponsored by PRI Engineering - learn more by visiting our website: priengineering.com

Solar foundation design is a relatively new subfield of geotechnical engineering. As such, there is a lot of room left to develop best practices and shape its future. Arash Yazdani, Director of Engineering from PRI Engineering, discusses the mistakes made in the past, some best practices and where he sees the field heading.