Russell Berends, PE

Russell specializes in support of excavations, tunnels, and deep foundations. His geostructural design capabilities encompass foundation engineering, slope stability analysis, shoring, earth dams, and landfills. Russell’s design projects include 7,500-feet of trench shoring for the BART metro line extension in the San Francisco Bay Area and  pre-cast tunnel liner segment design for over 10,000-ft of 10-ft diameter EPB-TBM tunnel in Los Angeles. He has co-authored several papers including: “Tunnel Lining Design: Seven Things You Need to Know,” and “A Measurement of Filtration Effects on the Transmissivity of Geocomposite Drains for Phosphogypsum.”