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Key Staff
PEOPLE
Key Staff
KEVIN B. COLSON, PG, CEG
Principal Geologist
Kevin’s thirty years of experience in the geotechnical industry of Southern California have made him a passionate and dependable co-founder and Vice President of LGC Geotechnical. His involvement in numerous residential, commercial, retail, transportation, and public works projects has made him a pillar of Southern California’s geotechnical industry.
Kevin’s dedication to his career comes from the intrigue he finds in his execution. Each project is like a puzzle in need of logic, patience, and expertise in order to solve it. To Kevin, the process of each geotechnical project is an invigorating and engaging puzzle, and in solving each one he finds immense satisfaction. It is this passion that drives him to engross himself fully in each project that comes his way.
Throughout his career, Kevin has rigorously developed expertise in fault evaluations, landslide mitigations and slope stabilizations (by both mechanical and earthen stabilization methods), hillside grading, flat land grading, hard rock rippability studies, liquefaction studies, distress evaluations, and reviews. Equipped with this admirable expertise, Kevin spearheaded several of LGC’s most complex projects such as: the design and construction of a major landslide stabilization with tie-backs and grade beams beneath multi-storied residential structures; slope-stabilizations via nail and tieback walls below active roadways; the design of earthen stabilizations for several hundred-foot-high slopes; fault trench investigations of active and potentially active faults; and the mitigation of unstable rock slopes.
The only passion Kevin has that surpasses his love for geotechnical work is his love for his family. He and his wife are happy to have raised their three children in beautiful San Clemente, California. With one college graduate on her way to graduate school, a son on his way to his undergraduate degree, and a college-bound daughter finishing high school, Mr. and Mrs. Colson are very proud of their strong and successful family.
EDUCATION
M. Sc. in Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, 1996
B. Sc. in Geology, San Francisco State University, 1993
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS
California, Certified Engineering Geologist, CEG 2210,
California, Professional Geologist, PG 7119