Landslide Technology :: Thomas Westover

Tom Westover

Registration:
Civil Engineer: OR, WA, AK, ID

FERC-recognized Independent Consultant for Part 12 Dam Safety Inspections

Professional Career:
2007-Present, Vice President and Senior Associate Engineer, Cornforth Consultants, Inc.

Education:
2017, Masters of Business Administration (MBA),
Willamette University, Portland, Oregon

2007, M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering,
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota

2005, B.S. in Civil Engineering,
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota

Honors/Societies:
Member, American Society of Civil Engineers,
Oregon Section

Vice President and Senior Associate Engineer

Mr. Westover has 17 years of geotechnical engineering experience in the Pacific Northwest. His expertise includes design and testing of high-capacity ground anchors, soil-structure interactions, anchored shear pile design, geotechnical engineering for transportation applications, landslide evaluations, rockfall mitigation and design, 3D modeling and visualization, in-situ stress determination, construction sequencing on landslides, and constructability.

Representative projects include the following:

Klondike Highway, Captain William Henry Moore Bridge Replacement, Skagway, Alaska
Sellwood Bridge Landslide Mitigation, Portland, Oregon
Washington Park Reservoir Replacement, Portland, Oregon
The Dalles Dam Spillwall, The Dalles, Oregon
Soda Springs Dam Fish Passage, Toketee Falls, Oregon
Hwy 20 Pioneer Mountain to Eddyville, Eddyville, Oregon
Iowa Street Viaduct Replacement, Portland, Oregon
Alaska Unstable Slopes Management Program, Statewide, Alaska
Going-to-the-Sun Road Rockfall Mitigation, Columbia Falls, Montana
Lemolo 2 Canal Distress, Toketee Falls, Oregon
Moran Junction to Dubois Landslide, Wyoming
South Santiam Highway Landslides, Sweet Home, Oregon
Dworshak Dam Instrumentation, Orofino, Idaho
Yale Powerhouse Rock Block Mitigation, Cougar, Washington
Lookout Point Dam Seismic Evaluation, Lowell, Oregon
Willamette Falls Flow Control Structure, West Linn, Oregon
Tanana River Bridge, Tok, Alaska
Swift Dam Powerhouse Debris Flow, Cougar, Washington
Oakridge Water System Improvements, Oakridge, Oregon
Faraday Fish Pipeline Investigation, Estacada, Oregon
Moorehaven Slide Shear Pile Design, La Center, Washington
Historic Columbia River Highway Trail, Cascade Locks, Oregon

Selection of technical presentations and lectures:

Anchored Shear Piles for Landslide Mitigation: Design Approach and Instrumented Performance, Young Author Award Winner, Highway Geology Symposium, Laramie, Wyoming
Sellwood Bridge Replacement: Landslide Mitigation, 2017 Western Bridge Engineers’ Seminar, Portland, Oregon
Landslide Stabilization using Anchored Shear Piles, ACEC SW Washington Group, Vancouver, Washington
Sellwood Landslide, ASCE Capital Branch, Salem, Oregon