GeoDesign, Inc' Chris Raeburn

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GeoDesign, Inc.Chris Raeburn
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Our Firm

• Founded in 1997

• Employee owned

• Now over 70 full-time employees, company began
  with just the 5 principal engineers.

• 15 new employees added since the beginning of our
  internship.

• Offices in Portland and Vancouver opening new
  office in Los Angeles.

• 90 percent of our business comes from repeat
  clients and referrals

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Wages and Benefits

• 13.50hr base pay 20.25 for OT
• Paid mileage .375 per mile.
• 200 rain gear and safety boot allowance.

• 40 hour work weeks. Expect to work Saturdays.
• Overtime anywhere from 5-17 hours.
• Hours 8-5 when not working at Macadam 7-5 when
  at Macadam.

• Cell phones

• Paid holidays, no paid vacation.

• Company parties. MECOP Golf Tourney.

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Services

• Geotechnical Engineering

• Environmental Consulting

• Geological Consulting

• Geological hazard evaluations

• Landslide characterization and remediation

• Seismic studies

• Hydrogeological Consulting

• Water supply well testing and analysis

• Wellhead protection

• Groundwater resource studies

• Pavement Design

• Construction observation and testing

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Geotechnical Engineering

• Full range of geotechnical engineering, design,
  construction monitoring, and laboratory testing

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Geotechnical Technician, What I did

• Billing multiplier of 4x

• Lab work for two weeks. (CE 372)

• GPR (ground penetrating radar) project

• Nuclear Density Gauge Certification

• Field reports
• Soil compaction testing
• Asphalt density testing
• Boring logs
• Test pits
• Infiltration testing
• Turbidity testing
• Soil screening
• Foundation probing

Tyson and Chris working hard
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South Macadam Project

• 140 acre project site as of now
• 16 story 100M OHSU building, blocks 25/29
• 32 story Merriwether hotel, block 30

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What I learned

• Lab procedures
• Soil classification and logging
• How to use a density gauge

• Construction Monitoring
• Proof rolls
• Soil screening
• Foundation and footing probing

• Installations
• Tie-Backs
• Pin-Piles
• Pipe-Piles
• Solider-Piles
• Grout-Driven Piles

• How to work with contractors

• How to write field reports

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Useful Courses Positives/Negatives

• CE 372
• WR 327
• CE 202
• CE 361
• WR 327
• COMM 111

• Positives
• Working hours and flexibility
• overtime wages
• people I was able to work with
• free lunches, parties
• Negatives
• working Saturdays
• having to drive my car on sites

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Overall Impression

• Awesome internship!
• Outside almost every day making site visits,
  and/or doing inspection. Even if it was 100deg
  for a couple weeks.
• Was able to gain field experience that can be
  taken into consideration when doing design, that
  other engineers may not ever get the opportunity
  to do.
• Felt like and was treated like a full time
  employee at GeoDesign. By the end of my
  internship I had more experience with the company
  longer than 25 of the current employees.
• Extremely fun group of people to work with,
  feel like Ive made friends not just contacts.