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Don Green

Don Green, PE

Senior Technical Advisor and Geotechnical Specialist

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Don Green is a AK Hydro’s Senior Technical Advisor and Geotechnical Specialist, bringing over 45 years of experience as a geotechnical engineer. He has served as the lead geotechnical engineer for the rehabilitation design of over two dozen high-hazard dams and is one of six Engineers of Record for the design of the first USACE float-in-dam (Braddock Dam). Don has also contributed his expertise by serving on a panel of experts that was assembled by FEMA to assess overtopping protection for non-accredited levee systems. Don’s experience spans the full berth of the geotechnical field from investigator, to lead design engineer, to lead foundation engineer on design-build projects worth more than $500 Million, to forensic investigator and expert witness for litigation of multi-million-dollar structure failures, to resident engineer for structures with complex soil-structure interaction. Don graduated with BSCE and MSCE degrees from the University of Pittsburgh.

Don is active in multiple professional affiliations including Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO), Deep Foundations Institute, and FHWA National Highway Institute. Don has authored or co-authored and has presented and authored multiple technical proceedings at ASDSO National Conferences. Don is also a NHI-certified instructor for FHWA teaching LRFD substructure and retaining wall design. Don is also the principal author of the Landslide Best Practice Handbook that was commissioned by the IRISE Consortium of Western Pennsylvania.

Presentations & Publications

Green, Don (September 2023). Lessons Learned – Artesian Head at Earth Dams in Glacial Country. 2023 Association of State Dam and Safety Officials (ASDSO) National Conference. Palm Springs, California.
Green, Don (July 2023). Reuse of Milton Madison Bridge Piers. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) GeoRisk Conference. Track D Technical Session, Risks and Rewards of Foundation Reuse. Washington, D.C. July 2023.
Green, Don (June 2023). Reuse of Milton Madison Bridge Piers. FHWA Workshop, Foundation Reuse for Sustainability and Accelerated Construction. International Bridge Conference (IBC). Washington, D.C. June 2023.
Green, Don (August 2022). Asset Management of Pile Foundations at I-43 Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge. Structural Engineers Association of Illinois (SEAOI), 2022 SEAOI Failure Webinar. August 2022.
Green, Donald; Hawk, Daniel; and Lahm, Jason (June 2021). Saving the Bridge – The Long-Term Solution to Mitigate Aggressive Pile Corrosion. IBC June 2021.
Green, Don (April and May 2017). Locking Down the Right Flood Mitigation Plan. The Association of State Floodplain Managers, Inc. (ASFPM) Annual National Conference. Kansas City, Missouri. April/May 2017.
Green, Donald (February 2017). Buckled Piling at I-43 Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge. ASCE 2017 GeoOmaha Conference. Omaha, Nebraska, February 10, 2017.
Green, Donald and Zinn, Kenton (March 2016). Buckled Piling at I-43 Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge. 64th Annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference, Minnesota Geotechnical Society. St. Paul, Minnesota, March 3-4, 2016.
Osler, Mark; Gallup, Robert; and Green, Donald (February 2016). Coastal Flood Risk and Urban Resiliency in Lower Manhattan. ASCE Lehigh Valley Section. Bethlehem, PA, February 2, 2016.
Green, Donald (September 2015). Full-Scale Collision Load Test Builds Confidence in Deployable Flood Wall at World Trade Center. 81st PA Society of Professional Engineers 2015 Conference. Pittsburgh, PA, September 25, 2015.
Green, Donald (September 2015). Buckled Piling at I-43 Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge. 81st PA Society of Professional Engineers 2015 Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 25, 2015.
Davis, Chad, Green, Donald, Mohan, Madan and Aveni, Marc (September 2015). Unraveling the Mystery of Lake Jackson Dam. 2015 ASDSO National Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Green, Donald (June 2015). Buckled Piling at I-43 Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge. 32nd International Bridge Conference, IBC Emergency Response Session 15-56. Pittsburgh, PA, June 8-11, 2015.
Green, Donald, Davis, Chad and Rokovec, Jack (September 2015). Keeping an Aging Dam Upright. 2012 ASDSO National Conference. Denver, Colorado.
Green, Donald and Davis, Chad (June 2011). Pins and Needles – Keeping an Aging Dam Upright. 2011 ASDSO Northeast Regional Conference. Lake Placid, New York.
Green, Donald; Kase, Edwin; Ross, Timothy; and Descour, Josef (2004). Investigation of Unknown Bridge Foundations. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) for the National Academy of Sciences. Washington, D.C. 2004.
Green, Donald (December 2003). Leveraging Existing Infrastructure: Using What’s Already in the Ground. 3rd International Conference on Applied Geophysics – Geophysics 2003, Orlando, Florida, December 8-12, 2003.
Green, Donald (September 2023). Leveraging Existing Infrastructure: Using What’s Already in the Ground. 54th Annual Highway Geology Symposium, Burlington, Vermont, September 24-26, 2003.
Green, Donald; Ciloglu, Fatma; and Dorn, Stacey (2023). Landslide Best Practices Handbook. University of Pittsburgh Center of Impactful Resilient Infrastructure Science and Engineering.
Ng, Kam; Green, Don; Sritharan, Sri; and Nop, Michael (2017). LRFD Guides for Driven Piles Considering Pile Setup Phenomenon. Institution of Civil Engineers, Geotechnical Research Volume 4 Issue GR2. Paper 16.00016.
Green, Donald; Ng, Kam; Dunker, Kenneth; Sritharan, Sri; and Nop, Michael (2012). Development of LRFD Procedures for Bridge Pile Foundations in Iowa – Volume IV: Design Guide and Track Examples. Iowa Highway Research Board. IHRB TR-573, TR-583 & TR-584.
Green, Donald; Schaffer, Andrew; and Green, Brian (June 2000). Testing the Load. ASCE Civil Engineering, Volume 70: No. 6: A2-A9.