In this and future issues of CGS-Geotechnical Info Net, 2017 CGS award recipients are being featured. In this issue, Dr. Arvid Landva, winner of the 2017 G. Geoffrey Meyerhof Award of the CGS’s Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division, is highlighted. Established in 1993, this award honours Professor Meyerhof (1916-2003), the first President of the CGS, for his outstanding life-long contributions to the profession and the CGS, and for his numerous achievements that have received worldwide recognition. Arvid’s citation reads:
“A long-time and noted figure in the world of geotechnical engineering, Professor Arvid Landva has made extensive and significant contributions towards the advancement of geotechnical engineering, both academically at the University of New Brunswick and as a senior geotechnical consultant with Jacques Whitford.
For nearly 3 decades, Dr. Landva taught courses in basic and advanced soil mechanics and embankments, mentoring students and bringing critical “out of the box” thinking to his multitude of projects, both inside and outside of academia.
In earlier years, he made major contributions to the classification of peat and the evaluation design and analysis of foundations seated on these difficult materials. In later years, he started ground-breaking research in the area of waste mechanics using large scale laboratory equipment and test fills to characterize these heterogeneous materials. Dr. Landva was one of the first to treat waste fill as a geotechnical material and to develop specialized laboratory and field testing methods for the evaluation of waste materials.
For his many achievements over a long and storied career, the CGS Soil Mechanics and Foundation Division is pleased to honour Professor Arvid Landva with the 2017 G. Geoffrey Meyerhof Award.”