Emil is a certified Civil Engineering Technologist through OACETT and holds a Certified Senior Road Supervisor designation through AORS. He started working for the Region of Waterloo in 1988 working in Transportation Operations and held various positions over the decades. He brings hands on experience in the field and management. Currently Emil is the Manager, Transportation Operations.
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Faculty Description
Doubra Ambaiowei, Ph.d., P.Eng., MCSCE
Dr. Doubra Ambaiowei is a Professional Engineer in Ontario. He has developed extensive and practical experience in asphalt research and technical studies, and pavement engineering consulting services. His work specifically supports all technical requirements to promote the quality use of hot mix asphalt, and all other road building materials and construction.
Donald Johnson
Donald graduated from Fanshawe College in Civil Engineering Technology diploma and has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from University of Western. He has a wealth of municipal experience, working for the City of London for 10 years in Road Design and Building Departments. He spent 22 years in the Building Department with the Town of Ingersoll and he’s now officially retired, however works part-time for RSM Building Consultants in Kitchener. He’s been an active volunteer instructor for more than 39 years with Good Roads for the Municipal Survey course.
Don Kudo
Don has over 30 years of municipal engineering experience in the areas of design and construction, development engineering, infrastructure planning and asset management. He is actively engaged in the municipal engineering community as President Elect of the Ontario Public Works Association and Chair of the Ontario Provincial Standards Specifications Environmental Committee, along with being a Good Roads Course Director. He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and a bass guitar player.
Don Hamly
Don has been with the Township for 32 years and started his career out operating the grader, grading roads then moved into management. He’s responsible for the Township’s fleet and other duties. Don has his CRS-S and enjoys teaching the Fleet Management course with Good Roads.
Derek Nunn
Derek’s pavement preservation career began when he was 12 years old, helping his grandfather maintain the roads in a trailer park he owned in Tillsonburg. He graduated from McMaster University, Civil Engineering and Management. His official working career began in the asphalt lab and managing the micro-surfacing operations. Derek joined Walker Industries in 2007 and is currently Manager Products and Innovation where he continues to advocate, advise and educate on the benefits of pavement preservation.
Dennis Baxter
Dennis is a professional engineer with over 33 years of experience specializing in transportation structure design, bridge rehabilitation and inspection, asset management, structural planning and construction services. He has managed a wide variety of bridge design and rehabilitation assignments, including design of bridge structures over railways, navigable and non-navigable waterways, roadways and pedestrian thoroughfares, detailed structural inspections, detailed condition surveys, structural steel fatigue inspections, underwater inspections, timber inspection, load assessments, and emergency services.
David Grabel
David is a Manager at WSP Canada’s team and a P.Eng. with over 22 years of experience. He’s been responsible for all contract administration duties involving project management and inspection services for earthworks, SWM ponds, underground servicing and watermain. Including road construction, tunneling, and landscaping for residential and ICI site plans and subdivisions, including all contract related documentation.
David Gagné, C. TECH
David Gagné is the National Transportation Structures Inspection Manager with Morrison Hershfield now Stantec with 33 years of experience. He has been involved in MBADES inspections and OSIM bridge and culvert inspections and has supervised over 500 detailed deck condition surveys.
David has been involved in over 15,000 OSIM Biennial inspections of bridges, culverts, and overhead sign support structures for various MTO regions, municipal clients and on Highway 407 ETR. David has published a paper on the Logistics of Inspection the Prince Edward Viaduct – Don River Section.
Dr. Colin Van Niejenhuis, E.I.T.
Colin has a BASc Civil Engineering, 2012, University of Waterloo, MASc Civil Engineering 2015, University of Waterloo PhD Civil Engineering, 2020. He’s a Structural Engineer Intern/Bridge Designer at B. M. Ross and Associates in Goderich Ontario. His MASc research specialized in materials, specifically looking at the corrosion resistance of different grades of stainless-steel reinforcing steel in reinforced concrete structures. His PhD research focused on the structural performance of concrete structures containing glass fibre reinforced polymers. Colin also has extensive research into the effects of different chlorides on concrete strength and pore solution chemistry to determine how different concrete paste and chlorides interact.