This is a virtual event hosted with Zoom. The Zoom meeting will open at 11:30AM and the talk will formally begin at 12PM.
Overview
Permafrost is not static—it thaws, shifts, and deforms. For mine waste facilities in northern and alpine settings, managing these processes is critical for long-term resilience.
This presentation will highlight select case histories from John Kurylo’s last 15 years of project work in cold-region mining environments. Examples will focus on earth dams and waste rock facilities constructed in or on continuous, discontinuous, and high-alpine permafrost. John will share the challenges of designing for ice-rich ground conditions, some of the constraints and risks encountered, and examples of thermal and deformation responses that shaped engineering, construction and operation decisions.
Speaker Bio:
John Kurylo, MSc, PEng
John Kurylo, MSc, PEng, is a Principal Consultant with over 15 years of experience in project design, geotechnical infrastructure construction, and mine closure projects. He has an undergraduate degree in geological/geotechnical engineering and a master’s degree in civil engineering, with a specialization in soil mechanics and engineering seismology. John has been responsible for quality assurance, quality control, and design activities for projects ranging from scoping levels to larger scale engineering and construction projects. He has prepared and managed drilling and earthwork construction contracts, as well as assisting in organizing multi-disciplinary industry and academic research teams.
He has worked on various base-metal, precious-metal, coal, industrial mineral, liquefied natural gas, and civil infrastructure projects located in Europe, Central Asia, South America, Africa, and North America.
John’s primary design areas include civil infrastructure, foundation design, tailings and water dams, and waste storage facilities. He also has notable experience in geotechnical numerical modelling, permafrost engineering and construction monitoring. John has worked on dam safety reviews, has acted as the Engineer of Record and Designer of Record, and actively provides input and guidance the operation, maintenance and surveillance of earth dams and tailings facilities.