CLIMATE RESILIENT RURAL AND LOW-VOLUME ROADS
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CLIMATE RESILIENT RURAL AND LOW-VOLUME ROADS
Gordon Keller | Geotechnical Engineer, GENESEE GEOTECHNICAL
Date: 6th August, 2026
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 1 hour
Type of Course: Live Webinar
Climate-related storms and fires cause a great deal of damage to roads and rural infrastructure, causing erosion, damage, delaus and social impacts, and expensive repairs. Application of "best engineering practices" and climate resilience measures can reduce or prevent a lot of damage from weather related events.
Low-volume roads and rural infrastructure suffer an increasing amount of damage today from climate-change related impacts from storms, flooding, droughts, and fires. Often damage is caused or increased by poor construction practices, lack of drainage control, over-steepened slopes, and lack of application of "best engineering practices". Additionally, damage can be reduced or avoided by specific climate resilience measures including adequate surface drainage measures, appropriately sized drainage structures, use of "stream simulation" designs, cost- effective slope stabilization techniques, hardened road surfaces, etc. Many "storm-proofing" measures are relatively easy to implement and are very cost-effective, particularly given the high cost of repairs today. General "Best Engineering Practices" and specific resiliency, climate adaptation, or vulnerability reduction measures will be presented.
Gordon Keller
Geotechnical Engineer, GENESEE GEOTECHNICAL
Genesee Geotechnical
Mr. Keller is a licensed Civil and Geotechnical Engineer in California. He received a BS in Civil Engineering from UCLA in 1968, and then a MS in Geotechnical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 1972. He has worked with the U.S. Forest Service for over 40 years and is currently retired, but continues working as a private engineering consultant. Professional experience has included extensive work with low-volume roads, slope stability, retaining structures, drainage, materials source development, bridges, dams, environmental mitigations for roads, wildlife crossings for roads, and road climate resilience or climate change adaptation.
Recent professional experience has included conducting over 50 Low-Volume Roads Engineering Best Practices lectures and training courses (one to five days long) worldwide over the past 15 years. Training and project experiences have included storm damage repair work in Central America after Hurricane Mitch and in the Dominican Republic after Hurricane Georges. Roads Natural Hazard Vulnerabiluty Reduction training has been conducted in most countries of Central America for OAS. Rural roads design and environmental analysis training courses have been presented throughout Central America, Mexico, South America, Haiti, Africa, Australia, China, India, Nepal, and the Western Pacific, working for World Bank, IADB, International Road Federation, US Agency for International Development, Pan-American Highway Institute, Rainforest Alliance, TNC, Brazilian Forest Service, Mexican Transportation Institute, VicForests, India National Institute of Technology, Universities, and other groups or partners of the USDA, Forest Service Office of International Programs.
He is involved in activities with the Transportation Research Board Low-Volume and Rural Roads Committee, International Erosion Control Association (IECA), Americal Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), International Roads Federation, and US Forest Service Office of International Programs, and a variety of other agencies and Universities.
He has published numerous papers on various aspects of Geotechnical and Geologic Engineering, as well as manuals on Minimum Impact Low-Volume Roads Engineering Best Practices, Storm Damage Risk Reduction, and Climate Resilient Low-Volume Roads.
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