CHITTA R. GANGOPADHYAY, PHD. PE. F.

ASCE
Geotechnical Engineering: Senior Geotechnical Engineer

EDUCATION
PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana (Advisor: Dr. Ralph B. Pec
k)
MS, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana
MTech, Structural Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
BTech (w honors), Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur,
India
REGISTRATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS
Professional Engineer: Michigan (#23640) PE Exam Score 97/100
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Plaxis, Group7, Lpile, GRLWEAP, SEEP/W, USACE Softwares in Geotechnical Enginee
ring, SB-Slope, Settle, Bearing.wkq, Modflow, Mathcad14 and others.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Over 30 years of experience as the Chief Geotechnical Engineer/ Senior Geotechni
cal Consultant/ Principal/Vice President in four different companies. Concurrent
ly, he worked as the Chairman/Full Professor and Associate Professor in Universi
ty of Detroit Mercy and Wayne State University, respectively.
He was the Design Geotechnical Head for the Third Sets of Locks -Panama Canal Ex
pansion project.
Expertise includes:
Foundation engineering, waterfront structures, braced and tied-back excavations,
slope stability, earth dams, levees and landfills, soft ground tunneling and sh
aft design, machine foundations, liquefaction studies, well design, pump test an
d aquifer evaluation, dewatering system designs, hydrogeology and waste containm
ent system design, computer modeling of groundwater flow, failure investigation,
remedial design and troubleshooting, instrumentation, research and development,
and expert testimony
.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Lead Geotechnical Engineer for the following important projects (Partial List):

High Rise Buildings

* Detroit Renaissance Center, Phases II & III, Detroit, Michigan. $175M riverfro
nt project expansion with deep basement supported on caissons. The work also inc
luded the Renaissance Center Parking structure on the riverfront. This is consid
ered to be the most prestigious building project in Detroit.
* Prudential Town Center Development, Southfield, Michigan. 33-story condominium
structures, 20-story office building on mat foundation, and multi-level parking
structures on shallow caissons. This is the largest commercial building develop
ment of Southfield.
* Riverfront West Apartment Development, Detroit, Michigan. Three 33-story cond
ominium Towers on piles driven into bedrock on Detroit Riverfront. Evaluated 12-
400-ton ultimate capacity pile load tests, and also designed the marina on the
river connected to the Towers. Soil investigation involved a 150-foot long barge
on the Detroit River for the largest building project of Detroit.
* Other High Rise Buildings, Michigan.
34-story Trolly Plaza Building: Detroit. Shallow spread footings bearing on the
desiccated silty clay crust; 32-story Office Building: Troy. Spread footings. 40
-story AmeriCanada Center: Detroit. Hardpan caissons. 44-story 500 Woodward Aven
ue High Rise: Detroit. Hardpan caissons.
25-story Federal Courthouse: Detroit. Hardpan caissons.
Facilities Engineering:
Michigan Baseball Foundation Stadium, Midland, Michigan. Geotechnical services
and foundation design recommendations with report for the $35M baseball stadium
. Used caissons to support tall outfield structures, mechanically stabilized ea
rth walls to support outfield berms, and shallow spread footings to support 70
0-kip column loads. (2006)
Harsens Island Housing Development, Michigan. Geotechnical services, design rec
ommendations and report for the $170M deluxe housing project on the deltaic isl
and of Lake St Clair, with 6-mile long seawalls and boat slips. Pre-excavated c
anals at the backyard to be connected to the St Clair River discharging into th
e nearby Lake St Clair. Conducted two field experiments, with and without wick
drains, and preload on very soft clays to develop construction logistics. (2007)
Marine Corps Vehicle Maintenance Facility and Organic Storage Unit, Selfridge Ai
r National Guard Base, Mount Clemens, Michigan. Foundation engineering and sett
lement analyses for shallow and deep foundations on very soft clays, and review
of geotech Report. (2008-09)
Joint Security Forces Facilities, Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mount Clem
ens, Michigan. Foundation recommendations for several facilities, and preload e
xperiment on soft clays to optimize foundation cost. (2005 to 2006)
Weapons System Support and Training Facility. Detroit Arsenal, Warren, Michigan,
Foundation engineering and settlement analysis and review of geotech Report. (2
008)
Lockheed Martin Middle River Complex, Middle river, Baltimore, Maryland, Analyze
excavation schemes for the removal of polluted soils.
ACH Saline Plant, OU5 Pilot Study & OU7 Full Scale, Saline, Michigan, Predicti
on of foundation settlement due to dewatering of soils under the Ford Motor Co
mpany Plant floor using horizontal wells, in order to perform vapor extraction.
(2009)
Ottawa Radiation, Ottawa, Illinois, Excavation scheme to remove contaminated soi
ls without compromising the integrity of the building adjacent to the excavation
, and Report. (2008)
WBIG Radio Tower Refurbishment, Aurora, Illinois, settlement and bearing capacit
y analysis and report (2008)
University Village Place, 22-story Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Review of geot
echnical consultant's Report on foundation design recommendations based on press
ure meter testing (2009)
Dow Chemical Projects, Midland, Michigan. Dow Chemical-Dow Corning high pipeli
ne support, foundation engineering for numerous buildings and structures for p
lant expansion. (2005)
Other Past Projects, Michigan:
Waste treatment plants, hospitals, banks, casino, shopping malls, jails, commu
nity colleges, hotels, parking structures, civic amenity developments etc.
Waterfront Structures/Seawalls/Docks:
Panama Canal Expansion -Third Set of Locks project, Panama Evaluation of spring
constants of several rock types for the design of rock sockets of piers to withs
tand the impact of 160,000-ton ships at the Pacific and Atlantic approaches, and
recommendations for retaining wall design (Head, Geotechnical Design)
Detroit Edison Power Plant Coal Dock, Monroe, Michigan. Geotechnical analysis a
nd complete design of a 1,800-foot long steel anchored bulkhead on the Raisin
 River, for docking 1,000-foot long Great Lakes ships for one of the largest th
ermal power station of the world..
Marathon Oil Company Dock, Fordson Island, Michigan. Geotechnical analysis and
a complete structural design for the steel anchored bulkhead dock for Great Lak
e ships.
Reef Petroleum Seawall, Traverse City, Michigan. Geotechnical analysis and a co
mplete structural design on the Traverse Bay.
Cargill Dock Structural Design, Ohio. Geotechnical analysis and a complete pre
liminary structural design for an anchored bulkhead dock on the river.
USACE Lower Santa Ana River Bank Protection, Orange County, California. Seawall
design of Phase 3, review of Army corps Engineer' 'design of Phases 1 and 2, a
nd report preparation for the 17,000 ft long bank of the riverbank protection.
(in progress)
San Juan Creek and Trabuco Creek Phases II, III, and VII, City of San Juan Capi
strano, Orange County, California, Geotechnical and stability analyses, structur
al design, Report preparation for 8.800 channel feet of seawall for levee protec
tion along the two creeks (in progress)
US Coast Guard Station Seawall, Indian River Inlet, Delaware, Design of a seawa
ll along a new shoreline that included failure analysis of a portion of the exis
ting seawall, riprap design and global stability evaluation. (2009-10)
US Coast Guard Shoreline Detachment, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Mooring Developme
nt - Geotech report review and analysis. (2009)
US Coast Guard Yard, Bulkhead Stability Analysis, Baltimore. Marylan
d, Design of excavation schemes to facilitate removal of contaminated soils, an
d the design of a new bulkhead (2010)
USACE Army Reserve Pier 23 Replacement, Tacoma, Washington, Geotechnical investi
gation, foundation and bulkhead design recommendations and Report review (2009)
San Juan Creek Channel West Bank Levee Protection, Phase I, City of San Juan Cap
istrano, Orange County, California, Stability analysis and review of multiple s
tructural design alternates furnished by the County of about a 7000 ft long seaw
all for stability and structural competence (2008)
Huntington Beach Channel Floodwalls, Huntington Beach, Orange County, California
, Stability and structural analysis of sea walls on one or both sides of the 5
200 ft long channel connected to the Pacific Ocean, and Report preparation. (200
7-08)
Owensboro River wall, Owensboro, Kentucky, on the slopes of the Ohio River with
an effective height of 53 ft, and a series of mooring cells: Geotechnical analys
is, design and assistance in the development of drawings of an 1800-foot long ba
ck-fill type anchored bulkhead (2007-08)
Belleville Lake Shore Stabilization, Michigan. Lake slope failure analysis and
designed seawall for the remedial fix for shore stabilization. (2005 to 2007)
Zug Island Seawall, Springwells Subdivision, Detroit, Michigan. Consultant re
sponsible for design review of HNTB analysis of the anchored bulkhead dock on i
sland.
Cellular Cofferdams Structural Design, Michigan. Geotechnical and structural de
sign for cellular cofferdams extending 140 feet into the Detroit River for the
proposed land development scheme for Riverfront West Apartment Development.
Detroit River Seawall Renovation Design, Detroit, Michigan. Prepared a renovati
on design for the Detroit River Seawall across Riverfront West Apartment Devel
opment.
Revetment III Design, Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Michigan. Designed a sheeting
seawall system along Tittabawassee River banks for more than half a mile. Desig
n included wave equation analysis for pile drivability studies.
Detroit River Marina, Riverfront West Condominiums, Detroit, Michigan. On the D
etroit River.
Chateau Marina Geotechnical Services, St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Geotechnical
analysis and a complete structural design for the marina anchored bulkhead on
a canal off St. Claire Lake.
Bouvier Bridge Marina, St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Geotechnical analysis and a
complete structural design for a project that involved relieving platform and a
nchored bulkhead.
Grosse Pointe Club Marina, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Anchored Bulkhead on St. Cl
aire Lake.
Marina Expansion. A major expansion & refurbishment on St. Claire Lake.
Buchanan Dam Fishway, Buchanan, Michigan. Designed the lateral earth retention
system for a 30-foot deep braced excavation in sand using soil mixing wall on
St. Joseph's River.
Niles Dam Fishway, Niles, Michigan. Designed the lateral earth retention syste
m for a 43- deep braced excavation in sands along S. Joseph River.
Hydraulic Structures, Coffer Dams & Others:
Canal Water Crossing Structure, Indy North Phase IIIB, Indianapolis, Indiana, F
oundation engineering, settlement, stability and seepage analyses, and coffer da
m design for the proposed gated canal structure. (2009-10)
Robles Diversion Dam Restoration, Ventura County, California, Reviewer of USACE'
s geotechnical consultant's work for the project. (2009)
Belhaven Harbor, North Carolina, Breakwater settlement and stability analysis. (
2009-10))
Military Ocean Terminal - Sunny Point (MOTSU) Security Boat Dock Attenuator, Nor
th Carolina, Underwater mass stability analysis and riprap design. (2009)
Milltown Superfund Project, I-90 Bridge Pier Mitigation Geotechnical Design Serv
ices, Milltown, Montana. Geotechnical design of two cofferdams on the Black For
k River including sheet pile selection, design of wale and strut bracing system,
analysis of load conditions, design of concrete seal and wave equation analyse
s for sheeting installation. (2007)
Energy
Enbridge Superior (WI) Terminal, Superior, Wisconsin, Geotechnical investigation
, settlement analysis, foundation design recommendations and geotech report for
17 petroleum storage steel tanks, 198 and 216 ft in diameters, on about 120 ft
thick high plasticity fat clays. (2008)
Rolling Hills Wind Farm, Converse County, Wyoming, Settlement and bearing capaci
ty analysis for 27 wind mill turbine foundations, 48 ft in diameter and bearing
on mine spoils, 20 to 105 ft thick. (2008)
Bridges
Canadian National Bridge Replacements in Iowa and Wisconsin, Report preparations
for numerous projects including engineering analysis for pile capacity, spring
constants for lateral pile capacity and selection of pile hammers based on wav
e equation analysis. Also, pile evaluation for refusal during construction at so
me sites with the aid of PDA testing. (2008-10)
Mill creek and Pine Creek Bridges, M-19 Highway Project, St. Clair County, Mich
igan. Design of sheet pile wall systems including crane loading to support 18
ft deep excavations for installation of pile foundations; evaluation of contra
ctor's wave equation analyses. (2010)
Braced Excavations
 University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Geotechnical and a comple
te structural design of the earth retention system for the 50-foot deep tied-ba
ck full basement excavation in sand for the $275M hospital project.
Mott Tunnel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Geotechnical analysis
and a complete structural design 50-foot deep braced excavation in sand connec
ting the new and the existing hospitals.
GM Plant, Romulus, Michigan. Geotechnical analysis and a complete structural de
sign for a 300- foot by 80-foot by 47-foot deep braced and tied-back excavation
in clay, designed to laterally support plant building caissons within 3 feet of
excavation.
Hydramatic, Ypsilanti, Michigan. Designed a 46-foot deep by 58-foot diameter v
ertical shaft in clay braced with circular ring beam rigs and lagging.
Hutzel Hospital, Detroit, Michigan. Designed a 45-foot deep belled tied-back ex
cavation in clay for new basement to building addition.
Tally Hall, Arbor, Michigan. Geotechnical services for an underground retail st
ores supported by augercast piles retention system.
Alice Crocker Lloyd Medical Building, University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbo
r, Michigan. Designed a 30-foot deep raker-supported excavation in clay along t
he street carrying truck traffic.
Renaissance Center Phase II and III Developments, Detroit, Michigan.- Designed
a 25 to 35-foot deep large excavation for underground parking at the riverfront
.
Ten Mile Road and Grand Trunk Railroad, Warren, Michigan. 35-foot braced excava
tion in clay, also supporting train loads from three railroad tracks.
Johns Manneville Fiber Plant, Knoxville, Tennessee. Large excavations inside th
e plant supported by soldier piles in pre-drilled holes.
Cass Tech High School Addition, Detroit, Michigan. Geotechnical services for a
tied-back steel anchored bulkhead system for basement excavation support.
Lift Station, Batavia, New York. Designed a 40-foot deep braced excavation into
residual soils and rock. Design included the effect of rock blasting. (1996)
Tunnels, Subways & Conduits
Garfield Interceptor, Macomb County, Michigan. Geotechnical investigation and i
nterpretative geotechnical report preparation for a 7-foot diameter sewer tunne
l at a 44 ft depth in mixed soil, water and methane gas environment. The sewer
tied up with the Detroit system.
Woodward Subway, Detroit, Michigan. Prepared geotechnical report in the priorit
y engineering impact analysis phase of the 8- mile long subway from Jefferson
Avenue to McNichols Road.
The Calcutta Subway, Kolkata, India, Led the design team of the Government of I
ndia in preparing the initial design to help in the cost estimate of the 10-mi
le long and 1 billion dollar first subway of SE Asia built using cut-and- cover
construction and shield tunneling in alluvial deposits
Earth Dams
 260-foot High Landfill, Riverview, Michigan. Design for height addition and ins
trumentation.
90-foot High Earth Dam, East Palestine, Ohio. Site investigation, design, and c
onstruction specifications.
Gladwin Dam Gladwin, Michigan. Refurbishing of an earth dam undergoing seepage
and "quick" condition
Brighton Dam, Brighton, Michigan. Strengthened the dam undergoing seepage on th
e downstream face.
Failures
River Road Failure, Saginaw, Michigan. Failure analysis and designed remedial
construction of the failure of Tittabawassee River slope involving a 600-foot s
ection of River Road.
Crow Island Dikes Failure, Saginaw, Michigan. Designed remedial construction.
Rouge River Sloe Failure at New Industrial Complex, Southfield, Michigan Failur
e analysis and remedial construction design.
Dike Distress, New Ashfield, Erie, Michigan. Distress investigation and constru
ction resumption of 30-foot high, 1-mile long dikes with control of foundation
soil excess pore pressure development and dike movements using piezometers, ref
erence points and slope indicators. (Published in international conference)
Wadhams Bridge Approach Embankment Instability, Port Huron, Michigan. Movement
analysis with instrumentation, including slope indicators.
Salzburg Landfill Dike Failure, Midland, Michigan. Geotechnical services relate
d to failure on the geotextile interface.
Morton Salt Stockpiles, Detroit, Michigan. Evaluated maximum salt storage heigh
t on soft clays along the Rouge River.
Slope Stability and Remedial Design, Fairfax, Virginia. Slope stability analys
is and remedial design for a long-term failure in a housing complex.
Containment Dike Designs, Michigan.
Ashfields, JR Whiting, Plant, Consumer Power Company, Erie. Designed a 36-foot h
igh, 1-mile long containment dike for disposal of fly ash in a slurry form.
Salzburg Landfill: Midland. Prepared a 34-foot high containment dike design for
solid wastes.
James Township Landfill
Greenpointe Landfill
PUBLICATION (PARTIAL)
Gangopadhyay CR, Nasr A. 1990. A study of Su predicted by pressuremeter test [cl
osure to discussions]. Journal of Geotechnical Division, American Society of Civ
il Engineers.
Gangopadhyay CR, Nasr A. 1988. A study of Su predicted by the pressuremeter test
. Journal of Geotechnical Division, American Society of Civil Engineers.
Gangopadhyay CR. 1988. The failure and the remedial construction of a containmen
t dike on a lacustrine clay. In: Second International Conference on Case Histori
es in Geotechnical Engineering, proceedings; 1988 Jun; Rolla, MO.
Gangopadhyay CR, Nasr A. 1986. Interpretation of pressuremeter tests using labor
atory-simulated tests. Special Technical Publication, ASTM - STP 950.
Gangopadhyay CR, Bhattacharya U. 1984. One-dimensional consolidation under linea
r loading. Journal of Testing and Evaluation, American Society for Testing Mater
ials 12(3).
Gangopadhyay CR. 1982. A new approach for consolidation settlement analysis. Pro
c. ORVSS, Recent Advances in Geotechnical Engineering Practice, Lexington, KY.
Gangopadhyay CR, Das S, Som N. 1980. Stress path influence on drained deformatio
n of clay. Journal of Geotechnical Division, ASCE 106 (GT11).
Gangopadhyay CR. 1962. The mode of consolidation initiated by pile driving in va
rved clay [PhD thesis]. Available from: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai
gn. (Cited in: "The Art and Science of Geotechnical Engineering At the Dawn of t
he Twenty-first Century - A Volume Honoring Ralph B. Peck", Cording, E.J. et al,
Prentice Hall, NJ, 1989.)
PRESENTATIONS (PARTIAL)
Gangopadhyay CR. Spreadsheets for bearing capacity analyses of concentrically an
d eccentrically loaded footings. In: Ninth National Conference of Microcomputers
in Civil Engineering; proceedings; Orlando, FL.
Gangopadhyay CR. 1987. Proportioning footings on a multi-layered clay deposit fo
r equal or a specified settlement. In: Fifth National Conference of Micro-Comput
ers in Civil Engineering; proceedings; 1987 Nov; Orlando, FLORIDA
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Senior Geotechnical Consultant, Tetra Tech, Inc. 2007-Present
Individual Consultant, 2005-2007
Vice President/Principal/Senior Geotechnical Consultant, McDowell & Associates,
Ferndale,
Michigan, 1981-2005
Principal/Chief Geotechnical Engineer/Project Engineer, Soil & Materials Enginee
rs, Plymouth,
Michigan, 1974-1981
Associate Professor in Civil Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michi
gan, 1981-1985.
Chairman/Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Detroit M
ercy, 1985-2005