Benoit Wentzinger, CPEng, RPEQ
Benoit Wentzinger is a Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer based in Australia with over 20 years of experience focused on investigation, design, construction, and peer review to support dam design, stability assessments, and understanding of soil-structure interactions.
Specialties
Tailings dams and mine-waste facilities, soil-structure modeling, deep foundations, ground-anchor design
Practice Areas
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Education
MEng, Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering, Polytech Grenoble, 2003; BEng, Civil and Transportation Engineering, Napier University Edinburgh, 2000.
Registration
CPEng, RPEQ
Client Service
Clients benefit from Benoit’s experience designing and supervising mine-waste and tailings-storage facilities. This work includes designing dams, conducting stability assessments, modeling complex soil-structure interactions, evaluating bearing capacity and foundation settlement, analyzing pile groups, designs ground anchors, soil nails, and anchored walls, predicting settlement, and developing monitoring programs.
No matter the work, Benoit combines field experience and design principles to construct best-value solutions for clients in Australia, France, New Caledonia, the Middle East, and Vanuatu.
A member of the Australian Geomechanics Society, Benoit has authored and reviewed multiple publications for subjects including upstream tailing-storage facilities, numerical modeling mechanisms, and coal-boiler-ash estimates.
Contact Benoit at Benoit.wentzinger@geosyntec.com
