CGS CCLT featuring Dr. Jie Han on "Engineering Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls for Special Site Constraints"
Join us in the Maple Room of the Park Town Hotel on Thursday, May 21, 2026, for dinner and the CGS Cross Canada Lecture Tour presentation featuring Professor Jie Han, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE Doors open at 5:30 pm. Dinner - 6:00 to 6:45 pm. Presentation - 6:45 to 7:45 pm. Networking - 7:45 to 8:30 pm.
Time & Location
May 21, 2026, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Park Town Hotel - Maple Room, 924 Spadina Crescent E, Saskatoon, SK S7K 3H5, Canada
About The Event
About the presentation:
Steel and geosynthetic reinforcements have been widely and successfully used in mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls for a variety of applications. In certain situations, MSE walls must be designed and constructed under special site constraints, such as tiered configurations, back-to-back walls, and limited right-of-way conditions. Many design methods provided in current standards and manuals are based on conventional MSE wall configurations and therefore require modification to adequately address these nonstandard conditions. This lecture discusses the necessary design adaptations for MSE walls under special site constraints, highlights recent advances in MSE wall research, and presents case studies that illustrate both the challenges and advantages of MSE wall systems in such applications.
About the presenter:
Dr. Jie Han is a Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor in the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department at the University of Kansas. He is a past president of the ASCE Geo-Institute, the treasurer of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), the chair of the US Transportation Research Board Geomaterials Behavior and Properties committee, and the specialty chief editor of Frontiers of Built Environment. Prof. Han has gained extensive teaching, research, and industry experiences in geosynthetics, ground improvement, pile foundations, buried structures, and roadways. He is the sole author of the book entitled “Principles and Practice of Ground Improvement” and has published more 500 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Prof. Han has been invited to give more than 300 keynote/invited lectures and short courses around the world, including the Burmister Lecture and the Ardaman-Wissa State-of-the-Practice Lecture both in 2025, the Sun Jun Lecture in 2024, the 3rd Robert M. Koerner Award Lecture in 2021, and the State of the Practice Lecture at the 21st Annual George F. Sowers Symposium and the 18th UK IGS Lecture both in 2018. He has received numerous awards from the profession including but not limited to the 2024 Irvin E. Youngberg Award in the Applied Sciences (the Kansas state higher education system’s most prestigious recognition for scholarly excellence), the 2018 ASCE Kansas City Section Engineer of Year Award, the 2017 ASCE Martin S. Kapp Foundation Engineering Award, and the 2014 the International Geosynthetics Society Award. Prof. Han was elected to the ASCE Fellow in 2014.
The Canadian Geotechnical Society, and the Saskatoon Geotechnical Group would like to thank the following CCLT sponsors:
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