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<br />HERNANDO R. RAMOS, PE
<br />PRINCIPAL GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER
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<br />EDUCATION: M.S. Civil Engineering -1988 (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta); M.S. Civil Engineering - 1986
<br />(Florida International University, Miami); B.S. Civil Engineering - 1978 (University of Cartagena, Colombia)
<br />PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS: P.E. Florida No. 42045; LBR Technician-CTOP Certified
<br />PROFESSIONAL AFFILlA TIONS: American Society of Civil Engineer
<br />YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 25 Years YEARS WITH HR ENGINEERING SERVICES, INC.: 1999 - Present
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<br />ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE
<br />Geotechnical engineer with more than 25 years of experience with transportation, industrial, ports, and civil projects. His
<br />experience includes design, planning, execution of new geotechnical projects and the remedial procedures to correct
<br />foundation problems of existing structures, extensive involvement with axial and lateral pile analyses, slope stability
<br />evaluation on retaining walls and embankment projects using geogrid layers. Other specialties include design of numerous
<br />retaining walls types such as mechanically stabilized earth, reinforced concrete, sheet pile cantilever and anchored walls.
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<br />RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
<br />PLANNING, ANALYSIS, EXECUTION AND REVIEW OF GEOTECHNICAL PROJECTS
<br />During the past 20 years, he assisted in, as well as supervised over 1200 geotechnical explorations and construction
<br />monitoring projects ranging from one story structures such as industrial and commercial facilities to more complex
<br />projects including high-rise buildings, several roadway and bridge foundation evaluations, one elevated light rail people
<br />mover, two extensions to the existing metrorail, and two tunnel evaluation projects. Extensive experience with shallow
<br />foundations bearing on both soil and natural rock. Responsible for geotechnical recommendations for deep foundations
<br />on soil, weathered and hard rocks and a combination of soil/rock conditions for projects in south Florida. Deep
<br />foundation system recommendations have typically consisted of driven piles, redundant and non-redundant drilled
<br />shafts, augercast piles, Franki piles, pin-piles and micropiles.
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<br />SHALLOW FOUNDATION RECOMMENDATIONS AND EVALUATIONS
<br />Shallow foundations on fill soils generally included the removal of unsuitable soils and their replacement with structural
<br />fills. Shallow foundations bearing on the South Florida Limestone generally included a special foundation preparation
<br />consisting of cleaning of the cavities in the rock and filling with lean concrete. Shallow foundation types ranged from strip
<br />and individual footings for several multi-story buildings, telecommunication towers, for support of the piers for an
<br />elevated people mover, an extension of the Metrorail Transit System, and FOOT bridge piers. Bearing capacity and
<br />settlement evaluations have been an integral part of preparing shallow foundation recommendations for most structures.
<br />Mr. Ramos has been involved with roadway projects requiring evaluation of embankments bearing on soft soils, in
<br />particular the widening of five miles of State Road 5 (U.S. 1) near Key Largo. The stability of the new embankments was
<br />provided with geogrid layers.
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<br />DEEP FOUNDATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDATIONS
<br />Deep foundation system recommendations have typically consisted of driven piles, augercast piles, Franki piles,
<br />pin-piles, micropiles and drilled shafts. He has recommended augercast piles to pile lengths up to 110 feet and drill
<br />shafts with diameters up to 9 feet, lengths up to 80 feet and capacity of about 1400 tons in friction, drilled over water, and
<br />driven piles with sections up to 30 inches by 30 inches, and lengths up to 130 feet and capacities of 300 tons for bridge
<br />support. These foundation alternatives have been recommended for several major structures in South Florida, including
<br />a 62-story high-rise building in downtown Miami, a 70-foot high new MacArthur bridge, and numerous mono shafts for
<br />support of telecommunication towers up to 200 feet in height and an extension of the Metrorail in Miami.
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<br />SLOPE STABILITY SETTLEMENT ANALYSIS
<br />Mr. Ramos has also been responsible for planning, analyzing data and providing recommendations for slope stability
<br />and settlement analysis for numerous projects. He has recommended MSE, reinforced concrete, sheet pile, cantilever
<br />and anchored walls. His experience has included the design of driven piles; concrete panels cantilever retaining walls
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<br />R. J. BEHAR & COMPANY, INC. I RFQ No. 11-11-02 131
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