Margaret McBride, CGeol. Margaret_mc_bride@yahoo.com PH:6047791524

205-1545 East 2nd Ave, Vancouver, V5N 1C8

Experience Summary

Ms. Margaret McBride is a Senior Project Manager with 15 years of project management, design

and site experience encompassing a wide range of disciplines including geotechnical, civil,

structural, and environmental. Margaret’s work experience includes the investigation, design, and

construction and rehabilitation of tunnels (drill and blast and TBM), highways, rail, ports, bridges,

residential and commercial property, pipelines and power stations (including nuclear). Past project

roles include portfolio manager, project manager, discipline lead, interpretative report writing and

detailed design including pile design, foundation design, earthworks design, soil nail design and

slope stability assessment, contaminated land, mine remediation, hydrotechnical studies and

technical studies for court hearings. Project and site experience includes sites within heavy urban

environments and environmentally sensitive public and private lands. Margaret has worked in

Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, Germany, Australia and India.

Project Experience

Hydropower Tunnels

Kemano Backup Tunnel, Rio Tinto Alcan / Bechtel, near Kitimat, BC Senior Project Engineer/Engineering Geologist/Geotechnical Engineer responsible for the

Geotechnical Data Report, the Geotechnical Baseline Report, the Feasibility Report for the Tie-in,

the specifications and managing the activities of the geotechnical site and design team for the T2

tunnel ground investigation and Resident Engineer during construction.

Confidential Project, BC

Review of geotechnical information and technical studies for court hearings.

Ambuklao Dam, SN Aboitiz Power Benguet Inc, Philippines

Interpreted geotechnical information from the materials found within the dam tunnels for a sensitive

legal case.

Infrastructure Tunnels

Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (ECLRT), Metrolinx/IO, Toronto, ON Senior Project Engineer responsible for Instrumentation and Monitoring contract management,

including coordination of sub-consultant exp, review of contractor submittals, review of sub-

consultant QA/QC procedures, Health and Safety documentation and procedures, monitoring of

VDV web-based monitoring system, daily monitoring reports, response action reports, weekly and

monthly monitoring and progress reports, site meetings, instrumentation installation and condition

reports, permission to enter and precondition survey reports, RFI’s and liaison with HMM design

team, Construction Management site based team and Metrolinx. The ECLRT Project is a 19km

planned corridor with a 10km underground portion and represents a $5.3billion investment of a $50

billion, 25 year regional transport plan for Toronto and the largest transit expansion in the history of

Toronto.

Bangalore Metro, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), India Engineering Geologist / Geotechnical Engineer office and site based responsible for interpretation

of rock conditions for the Geotechnical Interpretative Report.

Dublin's Metro North, Railway Procurement Agency, Dublin Assistant Resident Engineer responsible for site supervision during the main ground investigation.

Education MSc, Applied

Environmental Geology

(Geotechnical Engineering,

Contaminated Land,

Hydrogeology and

Geophysics),

Cardiff University, UK

2004-2005

Higher Diploma in

Education, Trinity College,

Dublin, 2000-2001

BA/MA (Hons) in Natural

Science (Geology), Trinity

College, Dublin,

1996-2000

Registrations European Geologist,

European Federation of

Geologists, 2010

Chartered Geologist,

Geological Society of

London, 2010

Years Experience – 15

Memberships Fellow of the Geological

Society of London, 2005

Experience

WorleyParsons (Advisian)

in July 2014 – September

2015.

Hatch MottMacDonald and

MottMacDonald in Canada

and UK 2010-2014

Jacobs Engineering in UK

and USA 2005-2010.

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Hultman Aqueduct Interconnections, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA),

Massachusetts, USA

Responsible for the review of the specification for the interconnections on this US$5.4M project,

which was a Massachusetts Water Resources Authority 17-mile-long tunnel that carries most of

metropolitan Boston's water supply.

Pipelines/Marine Terminals

Confidential Client - LNG Marine Terminal and Uplands Design, Kitimat, BC,

Canada. Senior geotechnical assistance for data gap analysis of existing information for front-end engineering

design (FEED), detailed design phases, and liquefaction assessment for FEED phase of export

terminal.

Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) - Terminal C Port Development, Kitimat, BC, Canada. Senior geotechnical assistance for liquefaction assessment and pile design for FEED phase of port

development project. Proposed port infrastructure consisting of pile supported Terminal C wharf,

barge berth, and confined disposal facility for dredge sediment.

Triton LPG Partnership - LPG Export Terminal, Surrey, BC, Canada. Senior geotechnical assistance for Basis of Design for pre-FEED feasibility assessment of Liquefied

Petroleum Gas (LPG) export terminal. Terminal infrastructure comprising LPG tanks, flare, loading

arms, dock facility, refrigeration units, and rail car handling infrastructure. Responsible for feasibility

level geotechnical input to support site selection and general arrangement, as well as pre FEED cost

estimate.

Mine Remediation

Government of Yukon Energy, Mines and Resources - Assessment and Abandoned Mines

(AAM)- Clinton Creek Mine Reclamation Assessment, Clinton Creek Mine, YT, Canada. Project Manager for replacement of drop structures, damaged as a result of high water flows from

Hudgeon Lake. Channel protection is required as erosion is impacting the stability of the adjacent

waste rock pile. Senior Engineering Geologist for the Mine Engineering Review, and Channel Risk

Assessment. The project involved advancing the engineering on various reclamation options for the

tailings deposit and waste rock dumps at the site to allow for generation of sufficiently accurate cost

estimates to feed into a Life Cycle Cost Analysis.

Government of Yukon Energy, Mines and Resources - Assessment and Abandoned Mines

(AAM)- Faro Mine Dam Safety Review, Faro, YT, Canada Senior Engineering Geologist for the 2014 Dam Safety Review of the Faro Mine. An abandoned lead

and zinc mine, the site is currently maintained by the Government of Yukon awaiting reclamation.

The site has three dams, impounding tailings and contaminated water, all of which were inspected in

2014.

Transportation (Highways and Railways)

A470 Cwmbach to Newbridge-on-Wye, Welsh Assembly Government, UK Project Manager / Engineering Geologist / Geotechnical Engineer responsible for scoping the ground

investigation, tender document for ground investigation, design input statement, cost / project control,

project management (schedule of works / site staff coordination), Health and Safety plan, review of

contractors submittals, report on utility plans, coordination of contract documents, slope stability

analysis, soil nail design, and foundation design.

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M4 Widening, Welsh Assembly Government, UK

Engineering Geologist / Geotechnical Engineer / Resident Engineer / Project Manager responsible for

the Geotechnical Data and Interpretative Report, site supervision during ground investigations and

construction including soil nail installation, slope stability analysis and earthworks designs.

Crossrail, UK

Engineering Geologist/Geotechnical Engineer responsible for the ground model at Whitechapel

Station and completed a retaining wall design at Pudding Mill Station, including using the software

programme Wallap by Geosolve, produced a specification for ground anchorages.

Aberdeen Western Peripheral Road, Aberdeen City Council, UK Engineering Geologist / Geotechnical Engineer responsible for site supervision, rock core check

logging, borehole log checking, laboratory scheduling, and rock core logging training for the main

ground investigation.

Fitchburg Main Line Corridor Improvement Project, HNTB/MBTA, Boston, USA Project Engineer/Engineering Geologist responsible for the schematic design report, stations site

assessment report, reviewing existing bridge inspection reports, site inspection, planning for

geotechnical investigation including health and safety plan.

South Coast Rail Project, VHB/MBTA, Massachusetts, USA

Desk studies for Stoughton, Attleboro, Middleborough, and Route 24 alternatives for use to determine

the preferred alternative to improve transportation between Boston and the cities of Fall River and

New Bedford. Liaised with Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Massachusetts Bay

Commuter Railroad, Massachusetts Highways Department, and The Department of Conservation and

Recreation.

Nuclear/Power

Oldbury Nuclear Power Station, E-ON, UK Engineer’s Representative responsible for a ground investigation for the placement of two new

nuclear reactors.

Pembroke Power Station, Alstom, UK Engineering Geologist/Geotechnical Engineer/Project Manager responsible for production of

geological model and interpretative report.

National Grid, UK

Project Manager/Geotechnical Engineer responsible for programming, financial control, geotechnical

and geo-environmental desk studies, interpretative reports, risk registers and ground investigation

supervision, for the installation of a number of 400kV sub-stations.

Marine Structures/Port development

Little Narrows Gypsum Company, NS, Canada. Project Manager and Geotechnical Lead for Desktop Study, Factual Report, Interpretative Report, and

piled dock design for partial replacement of a 144-m dock shiploading facility for a gypsum mine and

slope stabilisation concept design of adjacent slope where a crib wall in disrepair currently exists.

Portland Bulk Storage Terminal, Canpotex, Portland, OR Senior Project Engineer/Senior Engineering Geologist/Geotechnical Engineer involved in the

feasibility stage design of a new potash storage building which has both static and seismic design

requirements.

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Bridges

Glaziers Lane Bridge, Network Rail, Guildford, Surrey, UK

Project Manager/Engineering Geologist/Geotechnical Engineer for the desk study, ground

investigation, geotechnical interpretative report, and design of engineering options.

Brighton Goods Bridge 6, Battersea, Network Rail, UK

Engineering Geologist/Geotechnical Engineer responsible for the site investigation, the geotechnical

interpretation of the ground conditions, settlement analysis, geotechnical input to the pile design, and

technical piling specification.

New River Wear Crossing, Sunderland City Council, Sunderland, UK Engineering Geologist/Project Engineer responsible for the geotechnical interpretative report.

Greensand Way Footbridge, BAM Nuttall / Network Rail, Witley, Surrey, UK

Geotechnical Engineer/Engineering Geologist responsible for the geotechnical conceptual model, a

Wallap analysis, pile design, site supervision of piling works, geotechnical interpretation, and slope

stability analysis.

Renwick Road Overbridge, Network Rail, Barking, UK

Geotechnical Engineer/Engineering Geologist responsible for detailed pile design of a pile group for

bridge upgrade, including pile group analysis under 3-dimensional loading using the software

program Repute by Geocentrix, Form A, Form B, piling specification, design risk assessment, impact

assessment, geotechnical interpretation, and site supervision of piling works.

Somerleyton Swing Bridge, Kier Rail, Suffolk UK

Category III Checker for a piled platform in alluvium, completed design check statement, ultimate

pile capacity, and geotechnical interpretation including interpretation of dynamic probe results.

London Overground, UK

Various sensitive projects involving geotechnical analysis and foundation design.

Buildings

Wembley Stadium, UK

Engineering Geologist responsible for site supervision of dynamic probing and window sampling to

interpret geotechnical condition of fill.

Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, UK

Project Manager/Geotechnical Engineer responsible for, geotechnical and environmental services

including scope, programme, staffing, and financial management of the ground investigation,

foundation design and subsequent reporting.

Earthworks/Slope Stability

Dawley and Malinslee Development, Telford & Wrekin Council, UK

Geotechnical Engineer/Engineering Geologist responsible for the earthworks specification for this

development using the specification for highway works, including requirements for acceptability and

testing of earthworks materials, requirements for excavation, deposition, and compaction and

treatment of disused mine workings.

Strangford Closed Landfill Ground Investigation, Herefordshire County Council, UK

Project Manager and Supervisor for a ground investigation and subsequent reporting.

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Tir John Landfill Site, Swansea City Waste Disposal Company Ltd, UK

Project/Geotechnical Engineer responsible for detailed landfill design including preliminary

settlement report and settlement monitoring plan for the existing landfill, as well as predicting

settlement for additional cells and assistance with a number of permit applications to the Environment

Agency for landfill expansion and development.

Cwm Coking Works, CPL Industries Limited, UK

Engineering Geologist responsible for ground investigation, slope stability assessment report, and

research project entitled “Instability in Spoil Heaps in South Wales”.

Supplementary Information

Class 5 BC Driving License

Red Cross (Diamond) Level 2 First Aid Certificate, 2015

Presently applying for Professional Geoscientist with APEGBC and APGO

Member of Canadian Geotechnical Society, 2013

CN Rail, Canadian National Contractor Safety Program Certification, 2013

Secretary of the Trinity College Dublin Alumni Group, Vancouver BC, 2011

Regional Groups Coordinator of the Engineering Group of the Geological Society, 2010-2012

Chairperson of the Southern Wales Branch of the Geological Society of London, 2010

(Secretary from January 2007-December 2009, committee member since 2006)

Member of the Ground Engineering Group (ICE), 2005

CCNSG Supervisors Card (05 December 07)

CSCS Platinum Card

OSHA USA trained (17June 08)

MBCR – Roadway Worker Protection trained (23May 08)

Member of EFOD (Engineers for Overseas Development)

Member of the Irish Geological Association, 1996

Language Capability

English : Mother tongue

German, Spanish, Irish – basic written, reading and spoken

PUBLICATIONS / PRESENTATIONS

Presentation for the Southern Wales Geological Society in November 2009 and presented at Imperial

College London for Engineers Ireland (GB Branch) in January 2010: “Dublin's Metro North, Irelands

First Underground Railway”, McBride, M and Gammon, J

A Geotechnical Assessment of the Widening of the M4 Motorway from Junction 29 to 32, North of

Cardiff. MSc dissertation. Cardiff University. 2005, McBride, M

The Bedrock Geology of the West of the Dingle Peninsula. MA Thesis. Trinity College Dublin. 2000,

McBride, M

The Diagenesis of the Scrabo Sandstone. BA Dissertation. Trinity College Dublin. 1999, McBride, M