SGG Lunch Presentation: Municipal Engineering featuring Melville Street Storm Sewer Micro-tunnelling Installation

Municipal Engineering featuring Melville Street Storm Sewer Micro-tunnelling Installation

Becoming an engineer at the City of Saskatoon, Vanessa encountered a steep learning curve for how complicated municipal engineering can be. To clarify the engineering is relatively straight forward it’s all the other aspects such as interaction with private property owners, managing resident’s expectations, working with other City departments, constructing around existing utilities and infrastructure, managing easements and numerous other unpredictable items that provides the complications!

In this presentation Vanessa will discuss some of these complications and how they have the capacity to significantly delay or derail (pun intended) in relation to a recent project of installation of a large diameter stormwater sewer extension under a rail line in the CN industrial area of the City.

Vanessa Heilman, P.Eng

Vanessa is a geotechnical engineer with 7 years’ experience in a variety of geotechnical and brownfield development projects in the UK and a further 12 years’ experience of Canadian geotechnical projects. Since moving to Canada Vanessa has been involved in slope stability analysis of recent failures that have occurred along the South Saskatchewan Riverbank and was a core member of the design team for the tailings management area for a new potash solution mine. In 2018 Vanessa joined the City of Saskatoon as the geotechnical engineering specialist with a focus on managing the riverbank instability and provides a geotechnical review and input to internal departments.