A Proven Leader

Robert Valceschini, PE has more than 40 years of experience as a civil/ geotechnical engineer. He has performed geotechnical investigations and analyses; prepared geotechnical reports; and performed technical reviews for mining heap leach pads, tailings storage facilities, waste rock disposal facilities.  He has also performed analyses and provided designs for municipal solid waste, coal combustion ash and industrial waste landfills, lined process solution ponds, lined evaporation ponds, large rock fills, commercial structures, roadways, airports and water tanks.

Mr. Valceschini’s specialties include unsaturated soil mechanics, unsaturated soil laboratory testing and characterization, vadose zone hydrology, evapotranspirative (ET) cover design, waste containment liner system design, geotechnical site characterization, borrow source evaluation, advanced field and laboratory soil testing, construction management and construction quality assurance (CQA). He has designed liner systems, conducted geosynthetic and natural material evaluation, and provided construction management and CQA during construction of large tailings dams, landfills and heap leach pads for numerous mining and solid waste clients. He has been responsible for over 250 million square feet of lined surface area. Mr. Valceschini has provided ET soil cover design and consultation for numerous municipal solid waste (MSW) and hazardous waste landfills, mine waste facilities, and industrial site closure projects.

Contributions to the Science

Mr. Valceschini was selected to be a member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Alternative Cover Design Workshop (ACAP) teaching team along with Dr. Craig Benson and Dr. William Albright who taught throughout the United States from 2004 to 2011. He has also taught classes at the University of Nevada, Reno including Waste Containment, Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, Advanced Geotechnical Laboratory and Geosynthetics.