Richard L. Curtis, P.E.
EDUCATION
M.S. in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical), 1989
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, 1983
Georgia Institute of Technology
REGISTRATIONS
Professional Engineer: Mississippi, Alabama, California, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and Tennessee
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Background. Mr. Curtis has over 25 years experience in the geotechnical engineering profession. His advanced education includes a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Burns Cooley Dennis, Inc, he served as Principal Engineer for regional and national consulting engineering firms based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is experienced in a wide variety of projects including commercial, industrial and residential single and multi-story structures; rapid transit facilities; roadways and bridges; solid waste landfills; earth dams, communication towers; pavements; retaining walls; embankments; earth slide remediation; hydrogeologic and geo-forensic studies. He has performed geotechnical studies throughout the southeastern United States.
Experience. Aspects of geotechnical engineering that Mr. Curtis has been responsible for include supervising and coordinating subsurface studies, geotechnical data evaluation and design, preparation of geotechnical reports, and foundation and earthwork testing and inspection. He has conducted studies for projects involving shallow and grade-supported foundations, deep foundations, retaining walls, earthen dams, and slopes. Mr. Curtis has performed or coordinated design and quality assurance for various types of deep foundations for a variety of clients. Design aspects typically involve the set up of geotechnical investigation, evaluation of soil data, evaluation of compression and uplift capacity of deep foundation elements, evaluation of any lateral loading on the deep foundations, and settlement analysis. Recommendations for shallow foundations include allowable net bearing capacity, resistance to uplift loads, resistance to lateral loads, resistance to overturning moments, and detailed settlement analyses. Typical projects have included the following:
Lindbergh Center (Atlanta, Georgia) involved the construction of twin 14-story office/commercial buildings. Mr. Curtis served as senior geotechnical engineer supplemental geotechnical studies. The original design specified end-bearing drilled piers. Supplemental studies allowed the re-design of the drilled pier foundation system using higher end bearing values as well as skin friction. Mr. Curtis also supervised the construction inspection of the drilled piers. The foundation re-design led to substantial cost savings to the project owner.
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (Atlanta, Georgia) included final geotechnical investigations for the Sandy Springs Transit Station and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Maintenance of Way Building. Mr. Curtis served as senior geotechnical engineer for the System Geotechnical Consultant. Mr. Curtis also performed specific technical assignments including the analysis of a reinforced earth supported bridge abutment showing distress, the analysis of settlement caused by rock fill and subsequent down-drag loads on bridge pile foundations, and the analysis of shallow foundations supported on improperly compacted soil and rock fill.
Piedmont 15 Office Building (Atlanta, Georgia) involved the construction of a 12-story office building and associated parking deck. Mr. Curtis served as senior engineer for the geotechnical exploration, which included recommendations for groundwater control for basement excavations, and support of the office tower on drilled pier foundations.
Home Depot Distribution Facility (Savannah, Georgia) consisted of the construction of a 1.8 million square foot distribution facility. Mr. Curtis was the senior engineer for the geotechnical study, which included recommendations for a surcharge program to reduce future settlements of shallow foundations and floor slabs. Mr. Curtis was also responsible for soil and foundation testing and inspection during construction.
Arbor Place Mall (Douglasville, Georgia) involved construction of a regional mall. Mr. Curtis was the senior engineer responsible for the final geotechnical exploration. Areas of geotechnical concern included remediation of an existing lake area, groundwater water control, blasting recommendations, use of rock fill materials, settlement monitoring, slope stability requirements and pavement design.
Springhill Regional Landfill Expansion (Jackson County, Florida) consisted of a 150-acre regional landfill expansion site in karst terrain. Mr. Curtis was the senior geotechnical engineer for the site geotechnical evaluation, which included electric cone penetrometer studies to determine sinkhole geometry and soil compression parameters, and finite element analysis to evaluate the effect of ancient sinkholes on the stability of the proposed landfill liner system.
Blue Heron Access Road (Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Kentucky) included the investigation of a landslide and wall failure. Mr. Curtis was the senior geotechnical engineer for the study, which included detailed field investigation, geologic mapping, analysis of the failure, and preliminary design alternatives for remedial measures and reconstruction.
I-20/I-520 Interchange (Augusta, Georgia) included major re-design and widening of Interstates I-20 and I-520 and associated roads, bridges and ramps. Mr. Curtis was the project manager for the preliminary phase of the geotechnical study, which presented general foundation recommendations for all structures.
Bridge Rehabilitation Projects (South Georgia) included bridge foundation studies for 15 Bridges in District 3 for the Georgia Department of Transportation. Mr. Curtis was the project manager for the geotechnical studies providing bridge foundation recommendations including pile capacities and estimated pile lengths for each bridge.
Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal (Atlanta Georgia) included a four-level terminal building, a multi-level parking deck, and extensive modifications to railroad facilities. Mr. Curtis was the principal geotechnical engineer for the design phase of this Georgia Department of Transportation project. Mr. Curtis provided recommendations for deep and shallow foundation support, extensive platform and approach slab support, and underpinning of existing structure foundations.
Wildwood Development (Cobb County, Georgia) included two phases of an office complex. The first phase included two, 3-story buildings and two, 2-level parking decks. The second phase consisted of a 5-story building and a 4-level parking deck. Mr. Curtis was the senior engineer for the geotechnical explorations, which included recommendations for shallow foundation support, use of rock fill materials, and settlement monitoring of fill pads.
IRS Customer Service Center (Chamblee, Georgia) involved the construction of a multi-story office building and associated parking deck. Mr. Curtis was the senior engineer for the preliminary and final geotechnical studies, which included recommendations for alternative deep foundation systems of augered, cast-in-place piles and drilled piers bearing on rock.
Gilmer County Dam (Gilmer County, Georgia) involved the construction of a 100-foot high earth fill dam in north Georgia. Mr. Curtis was the project engineer for the geotechnical investigation and design study, which included geologic, foundation, and borrow studies to evaluate seepage control, embankment zoning, slope stability and foundation performance.
Timber Trace Apartments (Stone Mountain, Georgia) involved the construction of a large apartment complex. Mr. Curtis was the project engineer for the geotechnical study, which included the design of a geogrid-reinforced soil retaining wall constructed over compressible soils. The geogrid-reinforced wall was an alternative to deep foundation support of a conventional concrete retaining wall.
Papers. Mr. Curtis co-authored a paper entitled "Geogrid Reinforced Soil Retaining Wall on Compressible Soil" which was presented at the Second International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering held in St. Louis, Missouri in June 1988.
AFFILIATIONS
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers
Secretary, Georgia Section Geotechnical Committee, ASCE, 1989-1991
Program Chairman, Georgia Section Geotechnical Committee, ASCE, 1991-1993
Chairman, Georgia Section Geotechnical Committee, ASCE, 1993-1995
Co-Chairman, Georgia Section Geotechnical Committee, ASCE, 1995-1996
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