LAWRENCE R.

HOUPS
2373 Vera Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Tel: (707) 591-9374
Email: lhff51f6@westpost.net GE, CE, REA
Geotechnical Engineering
Geo-Environmental Engineering
Earthquake Engineering
Project Management/Marketing
Professional Synopsis
Brunsing Associates, Inc./BACE Geotechnical, Santa Rosa, CA, Principal Geotechni
cal Engineer
2005-2009
Terrasearch, Inc., Livermore & San Jose CA, Sr Geotechnical/Environmental Engine
er, 2004
Kleinfelder, Inc., Pleasanton CA, Sr Geotechnical Engineer/Sr Project Manager,
1999-03
David Newton Associates, Portland OR, Sr Geotechnical Engineer/Sr Project Manage
r, 1997-99
Versar, Inc., Alameda CA, Sr Environmental Engineer/Sr Project Manager,
1995-97
Woodward-Clyde Consultants, Bay Area offices, Associate/Sr Project Manager,
1986-94
Education
University of California, Berkeley, M.E., Earthquake Engineering
University of California, Berkeley, M.S., Geotechnical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley, B.S., Civil Engineering
Numerous Continuing Education Courses and Seminars
Registrations/Certifications
California: Geotechnical Engineer, No. 416, Civil Engineer, No. 31779, Registere
d
Environmental Assessor, No. 5408
Oregon: Professional Engineer, No. 19715PE
Washington: Professional Engineer, No. 23201
Certified Ground Water Professional, No. 529, National Association of Ground Wat
er Scientists
and Engineers
Professional Society Memberships
American Society of Civil Engineers (No. 170169); Earthquake Engineering Researc
h Institute (No. 1605); National Association of Environmental Professionals (No.
3742); CELSOC (now ACEC)
Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering
Mr. Houps is a Geotechnical/Civil Engineer with 20+ years of senior-level/manage
rial experience in soil and foundation engineering, earthquake engineering, and
geo-environmental/remediation engineering. He has been responsible for over 500
projects, ranging from numerous small to medium-size private and municipal deve
lopments, infrastructure improvements, schools, hospitals, and residential, to m
any major multidisciplinary projects for high-rise buildings, reservoirs and dam
s, harbors and waterways, fossil and nuclear power plants, and power and communi
cations distribution grids. Local practice has been primarily in the San Franci
sco Bay Area, and broader project experience is nationwide and in other countrie
s.
Responsibilities have typically included client marketing and maintenance; proje
ct planning and management; supervision of geotechnical and environmental field
and laboratory investigations; engineering analysis and design; construction spe
cifications and field QA/QC during construction; and associated project interfac
ing with local, state and federal regulatory agencies. He is experienced with d
evelopmental/environmental project permitting procedures and regulations and has
working relationships with the involved agencies, particularly in the San Franc
isco Bay Area (e.g., city/county public works departments and redevelopment agen
cies, the RWQCB, Cal-EPA-Region 2, and U.S. EPA-Region 9).
Geotechnical specialties include soil/foundation engineering, earthwork and seis
mic design for soft-soil and fill soil sites, and waterfront sites such as Bay M
ud sites. This includes shallow and deep foundation design for control of struc
tural settlements and site grading techniques for control of land subsidence; s
ite improvement/stabilization techniques at difficult sites, such as filled land
and former sanitary landfills; landslide evaluation and stabilization technique
s; underground structures; earth dam design and rehabilitation of existing dam
s; and municipal infrastructure improvements. As a Certified Ground Water Prof
essional and a member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, his geot
echnical/geological experience and expertise include methods of groundwater eval
uation and control for design, construction, and post-construction; and earthqu
ake engineering aspects for seismic design including design response spectra, ge
ologic fault evaluations, and soil liquefaction potential/seismic ground settlem
ent evaluations for structures, including numerous essential facility projects.

Geo-Environmental Engineering and Site Assessment/Remediation

In addition to professional registrations in Civil Engineering and Geotechnical
Engineering, Mr. Houps is also a Registered Environmental Assessor and a Certifi
ed Groundwater Professional with expertise in the environmental and hazardous wa
ste assessment and remediation aspects of site development. Since the early 198
0s, with the beginning of enactment and implementation of the current environmen
tal/hazardous waste laws and regulations (including RCRA, CERCLA/ SARA, the Clea
n Water and Clean Air Acts, NEPA/CEQA, underground storage tank regulations, and
Brownfields approaches to redevelopment), he has also specialized in providing
geotechnical/geological engineering applications to environmental assessment and
remediation of sites having soil, groundwater and air contamination. His exper
ience in these areas is described in a separate resume and includes projects ran
ging from numerous private and municipal site developments, where environmental/
hazardous waste issues were important aspects of the developments, to major fede
ral and state Superfund projects, including international projects.
Representative Experience V Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering
Following is a representative list of geotechnical/earthquake engineering projec
t types managed or collaborated on by Mr. Houps, focused on Bay Area and Califor
nia sites and clients. A detailed list of specific projects can be provided upo
n request, in a more extensive resume. Many of these projects included environm
ental/hazardous waste remediation/permitting of soil and groundwater as importan
t aspects of the projects:
Commercial and industrial developments
Residential, subdivisions, hillside and coastal developments
Schools, hospitals, high-rise buildings
Municipal developments, infrastructure, pavements, bridges and overcrossings
Underground structures, tunnels, pipelines, underground and aboveground tanks
Blasting vibrations predictions and monitoring
Hillside and coastal bluff stability, landslide evaluation and stabilization
Reservoirs, dams, levees, stream channels
Waterfront developments, harbors, bulkheads, piers, dredging, fill on soft mari
ne soils
Sanitary landfills, hazardous waste landfills, surface impoundments
Telecommunications distribution grid tower networks
Fossil, cogeneration and nuclear power plants, power and telecommunications dis
tribution grids
Shallow and deep foundations, seismic design and seismic retrofit, grading, con
struction and post-construction settlement and groundwater control, static and s
eismic site improvement and stabilization techniques
Selected Publications
- Hydrogeology of Central San Leandro (with R. Wagner, Woodward-Clyde Consultant
s). Consultants report prepared for California Environmental Protection Agency,
Department of Toxic Substances Control, Berkeley, CA March, 1993
- Geological and Geotechnical Siting Assessment, Proposed Kirker Pass Waste Mana
gement Landfill, Contra Costa County, CA (with C.L. Taylor and H.J. Berger, Wood
ward-Clyde Consultants). Consultants report for Corrie Development Company and C
ounty of Contra Costa, May 1985
- Soil Improvement at East Bay Park Condominiums, Emeryville California, in Perf
ormance of Improved Ground during the Loma Prieta Earthquake, Mitchell, J.K. and
Wentz Jr., F.J., University of California, Berkeley, Earthquake Engineering Res
earch Center, Report No. UCB/EERC-91/12, October 1991
- Design Response Spectra for Moderate Magnitude Local Earthquakes at Rock and S
tiff Soil Sites (with K.S. Sadigh and I.M. Idriss). Annual Meeting of Seismlogic
al Society of America, Sacramento, CA, April 1977
- The Finite Element Method and its Application in LSBUILD, a Computer Program f
or the Non-Linear Analysis of Embankments. Master of Engineering Thesis, Univers
ity of California, Berkeley, 1973
- Development of Risk-Based Levels for the San Francisco International Airport (
with C. Bramer, Sierra Environmental Services; R. Von Berg, ICF Kaiser Engineers
, Inc.; S.E. Campbell, Versar, Inc.; and J.T. Johnson, Versar, Inc.). Consultant
s report prepared for City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Internatio
nal Airport, Environmental Control Branch, April 1995
- Vapor Flux and Air Sampling Program to Evaluate On-Site Air Pathway for Input
into a Health Risk Assessment (with J. Reyff, Woodward-Clyde Consultants; and B.
Cook, Cal-EPA DTSC). Annual Meeting of Air Waste Management Association, Vancou
ver, British Columbia, June 1991
- Mr. Houps has prepared more than 400 major client-proprietary technical projec
t reports in the fields of geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering and
environmental/hazardous waste engineering
References
Professional and personal references will be provided upon request. This is an
abbreviated resume. A more complete resume, including a list of projects and cl
ients, will be provided upon request.
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