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Dr. Iqbal Bhuiyan is a senior environmental engineer with over 30 years of experience in civil engineering, project management, and environmental planning. He has extensive expertise in areas such as landfill design, solid waste management, wastewater treatment, and stormwater management. Some of his responsibilities include designing landfills, developing management plans, conducting research, and preparing proposals and cost estimates for infrastructure projects. He is skilled in areas like strategic planning, quality management, and building effective teams.

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Dr. Iqbal Bhuiyan

Dr. Iqbal Bhuiyan is a senior environmental engineer with over 30 years of experience in civil engineering, project management, and environmental planning. He has extensive expertise in areas such as landfill design, solid waste management, wastewater treatment, and stormwater management. Some of his responsibilities include designing landfills, developing management plans, conducting research, and preparing proposals and cost estimates for infrastructure projects. He is skilled in areas like strategic planning, quality management, and building effective teams.

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Contact
604-789-7182 (Mobile)
Dr. Iqbal Bhuiyan, P.Eng.
[email protected] Senior Environmental Engineer, Sperling Hansen Associates
Vancouver
www.linkedin.com/in/dr-iqbal-
bhuiyan-p-eng-0413924b
(LinkedIn) Summary
www.sperlinghansen.com
(Company) Effective management skills. Exceptional operational analysis,
strategic/capacity planning, and decision-making strengths.
Top Skills Set process and structures in terms of policies, performance
Project Management management, financial controls, etc. to efficiently reach the goals
Strategic Planning of the organizations. Resourceful and productive in a high volume
Quality Management and high stress environment. Extensive experience with planning,
designing, and implementation of municipal infrastructures.
Languages Thorough knowledge of civil engineering principles and practices
English (Full Professional) as applied to the planning, design, construction and maintenance
Urdu (Limited Working) of municipal infrastructure, and engineering construction methods
Bangla (Full Professional) and procedures. Exhibit talent for consistently improving operational
Hindi (Limited Working) quality standards through research and creative thinking. Proficient
French (Limited Working) in solid waste management, landfill design, landfill leachate,
and landfill gas management, water resources and storm water
Publications management, wastewater treatment and groundwater modelling.
Thermal decomposition of Considerable knowledge of the Federal and Provincial Acts and
struvite and its phase transition.
regulations relating to land development, solid waste management,
Chemosphere, 70(8), 1347-1356.
2008 recycling etc. Familiarity and experience with financial business
Dissolution kinetics of struvite grown casing methodologies. Ability to critically review the cost-benefits and
in a pilot-scale crystallizer. Canadian sustainability of projects and apply business models to evaluation
Journal of Civil Engineering, 36(3),
550-568. 2009 of projects, work proposals, and facility plans. Proficient in geo-
Determination of temperature technical and slope stability analysis. Offered essential quality
dependence of electrical conductivity assurance measures for various municipal projects. Prepared
and its relationship with ionic
strength of anaerobic digester contract and tender documents for construction projects and
supernatant, for struvite formation. administered. Prepared terms of reference for consultants. Very
ASCE Journal of Environmental
Engineering, 135(11), 1221-1226.
good team player and possess excellent interpersonal skills.
2009 Understand that positive relations improve efficiency in work.
A solubility and thermodynamic Outstanding communication skills and ability to convince others by
study of struvite, Environmental
making valid points. Able to provide leadership in order to motivate
Technology, 28, 1015-1026. 2007
and inspire staff. Very good computers skills.
Phosphorus recovery from
wastewater through struvite
formation in fluidized bed reactors:
a sustainable approach. Water
Science and Technology, 57 (2): Experience
175-181. 2008

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Sperling Hansen Associates (SHA)


Senior Environmental Engineer
February 2007 - Present (14 years 9 months)
North Vancouver, BC

• Designed numerous landfills in BC, Canada;


• Developed design and operation plan including leachate generation
assessment using HELP model;
• Designed landfill leachate management and treatment systems;
• Performed landfill gas generation assessment using IPCC, LandGEM and
Scholl Canyon model and designed landfill gas collection and utilization
systems;
• Conducted feasibility studies to determine suitable methods for utilization of
landfill gas;
• Conducted research on waste to energy facilities and prepared a report;
• Conducted research on the use of recycled concrete in the leachate
collection layers and drainage layers of the landfills and prepared a report;
• Performed a feasibility study on landfill mining;
• Designed storm water management and leachate collection systems;
• Developed closure plans and conducted hydrogeological studies of the
Landfills;
• Developed draft guidelines for Industrial non-hazardous waste landfills
incidental to wood processing industry for BC Ministry of Environment;
• Developed Best Management Practices for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills in
Canada;
• Updated Landfill Criteria for Municipal Solid Waste in BC;
• Designed landfill leachate treatment system through investigation of the
environmental legislation and developed operations plan for landfills;
• Prepared budget, cost estimate and proposals for several solid waste,
leachate, and storm water management projects; and
• Liaised with clients, regulatory bodies and other agencies.

The University of British Columbia


Research and Teaching Assistant
December 2002 - March 2007 (4 years 4 months)
Vancouver, BC, Canada

• Course Taught: CIVL 569- Biological Wastewater Treatment


• Delivered classroom instructions, graded undergraduate courses and
assisted students with projects and lab assignments
• Delivered lecture on Climate Change Impacts on Developing Countries
Course Taught: CIVL 202- Introduction to Civil Engineering Practices

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• Designed a fluidized bed reactor for phosphorus removal from wastewater


through crystallization;
• Conducted research with pilot-scale fluidized bed reactors at UBC Pilot Plant
and Lulu Island Wastewater Treatment Plant in Richmond, BC, Canada and a
bench-scale reactor at Environmental Engineering Laboratory at UBC;
• Analyzed data and interpreted to investigate performance of the system
in recovering phosphate through struvite crystallization using appropriate
statistical tools;
• Investigated the influence of different parameters in phosphorus recovery
through struvite crystallization; and
• Investigated the physical quality of the products.

Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)


Municipal Engineer
November 1992 - November 2002 (10 years 1 month)
Bangladesh

• Participated in the rural and urban infrastructure planning processes;


• Surveyed, estimated, designed, prepared request for proposal and
tender documents, administered tender and supervised rural infrastructure
development projects such as bridges, culverts, roads, flood shelters, storm
water management systems;
• Supervised staff and provided training for capacity building;
• Implemented two model villages in the rural areas of Bangladesh to improve
communication, health, education, sanitation and over all life standards
developed and successfully implemented a solid waste management plan for
these villages that has been widely accepted in other municipalities;
• Developed successful management procedures for drinking water supply and
distribution systems and sewer systems in five different municipalities;
• Received high appreciation for developing a systematic and cost effective
plantation system in both sides of the roads developed under LGED;
• Improved the database management system and developed a computerized
management system for maintenance of rural infrastructures.

BSB-Development Financial Institute


Technical Specialist
January 1990 - November 1992 (2 years 11 months)
Bangladesh

•Conducted evaluation and feasibility study on numerous projects;


•Prepared technical and feasibility study reports and appraisal reports for
several successful projects, and analyzed their environmental impacts.

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CARE
Field Engineer
March 1988 - January 1990 (1 year 11 months)
Bangladesh

•Monitored USAID funded projects implemented by the Local Government of


Bangladesh;
•Performed geotechnical investigation and designed rural infrastructures such
as bridge, culverts, earthen roads and embankments;
•Liaised with the local government representatives, politicians, community
leaders and other government departments and donor agencies
•Provided training to the local government officials and staff;
•Designed and improved supervision of construction system of storm water
and irrigation drainage culverts and earthen embankments for flood protection;
•Improved program efficiency and effectiveness by developing positive working
relationship between CARE and local government staff.

Education
The University of British Columbia
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Civil Engineering (Pollution Control and Waste
Management) · (2002 - 2007)

UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education


Master of Science (M.Sc.), Hydrology and Water Resources · (2000 - 2002)

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology


Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Civil Engineering · (1983 - 1988)

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