Wade Ludlow, CPEng, NER, RPEQ
Wade Ludlow is a Senior Principal Geotechnical, Civil, and Water Resources Engineer based in Australia with more than 12 years of experience focused on tailings storage facilities, civil structures, liner systems, dam engineering, and water resource projects for the mining industry.
Specialties
Tailings and Water Dams; Tailings Deposition and Improvement; Project Management and Delivery; Risk Assessment; Constructability Reviews; Design of Spillways and Hydraulic Structures; Water Balance Modeling
Practice Areas
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Education
BE, Civil Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, 2000
Registration
CPEng, NER, RPEQ
Client Service
Clients turn to Wade’s expertise in water resources, dam engineering, water management plans, hydraulic and hydrologic analyses, seepage modeling, and spillway optimization, particularly for large and complex mine sites. Wade offers in-depth geotechnical experience of slope-stability analyses, highway embankments, dam walls, bridge abutments, and geotechnical investigation for civil and mining projects, among other topics.
Wade is the Engineer of Record for major mine sites and tailings storage facilities and is also an expert in mine closure. In addition, he manages mud farming and tailings-improvement campaigns and is the technical reviewer for a major closure project to cap an existing slurry tailings dam. He serves on the Australian National Committee on Large Dams (ANCOLD) working group to update their tailings dam guidelines.
Contact Wade at Wade.Ludlow@geosyntec.com
