Gerry Millar, LEG

Principal

Gerry Millar is an engineering geologist/geological engineer with more than 40 years of experience with tunnels, slope stabilization, and dam foundations. Recent project accomplishments include resident engineering for double-stack clearance improvement and structural rehabilitation work on 24 concrete and brick-lined tunnels in West Virginia for Norfolk Southern Railroad (Heartland Corridor Project); design and resident engineering for 25 concrete-lined and unlined tunnels in Oregon and California for Union Pacific Railroad (I-5 Corridor); and the design and design services during construction for 11 brick-lined tunnels in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland for CSX. Mr. Millar is currently the design manager for three individual tunnel rehabilitation projects for Union Pacific Railroad in Washington, California, and Arizona, and for feasibility studies of similar work on over a dozen tunnels for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. Mr. Millar also managed the seismic upgrades and track structure replacement in four commuter rail tunnels in San Francisco for Caltrain, and two tunnels in Los Angeles for Metrolink. In 2004 he authored a major cost study for tunnel construction on United States freight railroads for a Surface Transportation Board hearing.

Mr. Millar also maintains an active practice in the fields of dam foundation design and hydro tunnel design. He has performed the duties of project manager/project engineering geologist for the feasibility, design, and bid stages for six large (>200 feet [60 m]) hydroelectric dams that included both TBM and drill-and-blast tunnels, and four run-of-the-river dams with long (>3.1 miles [5 km]) TBM-driven tunnels. He also served as resident geologist/tunnel engineer during the construction of three of the large dams. He is currently the principal reviewer for the design of two new power tunnels in Washington State, which are located on existing hydroelectric dams.

Mr. Millar is a licensed engineering geologist in the state of Washington, and is a licensed geologist in the state of North Carolina. He received his BA in geology from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and his MS in geological engineering from the University of Missouri–Rolla. Mr. Millar is fluent in English and Spanish and has prepared engineering studies and construction documents in both languages.