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CURRICULUM VITAE
Arieh KLEIN M.Sc. M.ASCE
Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Consultant (November, 1998 to present).
 Geotechnical and geo-environmental consultancy in Israel, Egypt and Europe, including report on slope stabilisation of the Hiriya Solid Waste Dump near Tel-Aviv. Development of joint Palestinian-Israeli environmental projects in the framework of the West-Bank Environmental Clean Up Project (now CED - Center for Environmental Diplomacy). Consultancy on rehabilitation of Jewish cemeteries in Cairo, Egypt and in Europe (Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Lithuania).
Lecturer in geotechnical engineering at the National School for Practical Engineers, Technion, Haifa, Israel (October 1997 to present).
Geotechnical consultancy - foundation and geotechnical consultancy for small and medium sized projects, both in Israel and abroad (Egypt, Europe), including all aspects of geotechnical consultancy and supervision: houses, apartment buildings, industrial buildings, slope stability, bridges, off-shore work, underpinning. Expert opinions given in a number of legal cases, regarding crack phenomena and collapse of buildings.
Geo-environmental consultancy - consultancy work involving slope stabilisation measures at the Hiriya landfill site near Tel-Aviv (this together with Edge UK, a leading geo-environmental consultancy in Britain). Geo-environmental consultancy for the rehabilitation of Jewish cemeteries around the world, including work in Egypt, Poland and other countries in Europe.
Previous employment:
1997-98 Geotechnical and geo-environmental consultant.
Yivneh-El Ltd., Rishpon. Head of environmental division.
Geotechnical and geo-environmental consultancy. Preparation of consultancy reports. Consultant for WECUP - the West-Bank Environmental Clean Up Project (now CED - the Center for Environmental Diplomacy), involved in the development of joint Palestinian-Israeli environmental projects.
1994-97 Geotechnical Consultant. Klar Israel Foundation Consultancy, Haifa. Geotechnical consultant. Preparation of geotechnical reports. Responsibility for projects in the south of Israel. Contact with clients, including design meetings, and billing. Specialising in environmental geotechnology. Responsibility for training of junior engineers.
1985-93 Manager, Jerusalem branch. Klar Israel Foundation Consultancy, Haifa. Geotechnical consultancy.
Preparation of geotechnical reports, including site investigation, and supervision of site works.
1988-93 Freelance Project Manager, Jerusalem. Project management and site supervision of renovation and underpinning works in Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.
1988 89 Assistant Project Manager. Juliusburger-Muchawsky Architects, Jerusalem. Project management and site supervision of renovation of Augusta Victoria Church, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Israel, including responsibility for all structural work.
Introduction of computerised database system.
1984 86 Company Engineer. Yivneh-El Building Co., Herzliya. General building engineering and site supervision of renovation and underpinning works.
1979 84 Laboratory Technician. Standards Institute of Israel, Tel-Aviv. Head of soils and roads testing section of Galilee laboratory of S.I.I. (1981-84). Responsibility for training new laboratory workers.
Membership of professional organisations:
Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Charter Member of the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Member of the Association of Engineers in Building and Infrastructure in Israel
Member of the Israel Organisation of Consulting Engineers, Architects and Technology Graduates
Member of International Geosynthetics Society
Publications and lectures: many lectures in different forums, including in the Faculty of Geotechnical Engineering at the Technion, Haifa, and to the Professional Forum for the Treatment of Solid Waste in Israel, on geo-environmental engineering. The following papers have been published:
KLEIN, A. (1998) "Environmental Geotechnics in Israel - overview and case studies". Contaminated and derelict land, Proceedings of GREEN 2 (ed. by R.W. Sarsby), publ. by Thomas Telford, London, pp. 24 - 27.
KLEIN, A. (2000) "Geotechnical Engineering in an Archaeological Environment". Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Geotechnology and Global Sustainable Development, Boston, Mass., USA (August, 1998), edited by H.I. Inyang and V.O. Ogunro, The Lowell Volume I.
KLEIN, A., and SARSBY, R.W. (2000) "Problems in Defining the Geotechnical Behaviour of Wastewater Sludges". Geotechnics of High Water Content Materials, ASTM STP 1374, T.B. Edil and P.J. Fox, Eds. American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA, USA.
KLEIN, A. (2001) "Sewage, foundations and building failure, a case study". The exploitation of natural resources and the consequences, Proceedings of GREEN 3 (ed. by R.W. Sarsby and T. Meggyes), publ. by Thomas Telford, London, pp. 442 - 446.
KLEIN, A. (2006) “Covering the mass graves at the Belzec Death Camp, Poland; geotechnical perspectives”. Proceedings of GREEN4 International Symposium on Geotechnics Related to the Environment (ed. by R.W. Sarsby), to be published by A. A. Balkema – Taylor & Francis The Netherlands.
KLEIN, A., D. M. Tonks and M.V. Nguyen (2006) “Slope stabilisation measures at Hiriya waste site, Israel”. Proceedings of GREEN4 International Symposium on Geotechnics Related to the Environment (ed. by R.W. Sarsby), to be published by A. A. Balkema – Taylor & Francis The Netherlands.
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Arieh Klein M.Sc. arieh@mesilah.com
49 Einstein St. Haifa 34602 ISRAEL
Telefax: +972-4-8340656 Cellular: 050-5493414
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