Bill Chin

Bill started his career in geotechnical engineering in 1976, working for the majority of the time at KCB. He has contributed extensively to the design and safe operation of tailings storage facilities in the Alberta oil sands and has assisted the Alberta government with development of the provincial Dam and Canal Safety Directive.

Bill has worked across Canada, and internationally in several sectors including mining, oil sands, water resources, hydroelectric and pulp and paper industries. His experience lies in dam engineering, dam safety evaluations and rehabilitation, mine tailings and mine waste management, foundation engineering, slope stability, seepage and liquefaction analyses, and stress deformation modelling. He has successfully used advanced numerical modeling methods to support evaluations of dam foundation movements, for both tailings and water dams, with his work at the Alameda Dam in Saskatchewan being a well-known example.

An eloquent and popular speaker, Bill has given presentations at numerous workshops, lectures and/or seminars hosted by the Alberta government, the University of Alberta and various learned societies including the Canadian Dam Association (CDA), the Canadian Geotechnical Society, the Calgary Geotechnical Society and the Edmonton Geotechnical Society.