Gerry Millar, LEG

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Gerry Millar is an engineering geologist with 40 years of experience with tunnels, slope stabilization, and dams. Recent project accomplishments include resident engineering for double-stack clearance work on 25 concrete-lined and unlined tunnels in the Western United States for Union Pacific Railroad, and 28 tunnels in the Eastern United States for Norfolk Southern Railroad. 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 pre-feasibility, feasibility, design, and bid stages for six large (>197 ft/60 m) hydroelectric dams that included both TBM and drill and blast tunnels and four run-of-the-river dams with long (>3.1 mile/5 km) TBM-driven tunnels. He also served as resident geologist/tunnel engineer during the construction of three of the large dams.

Mr. Millar is a licensed engineering geologist in the State of Washington, and holds a professional geologist license 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. He also is conversant in Italian.