GeoEnviro Training Professionals Inc. (GeoEnviroPro)

Jay Rao, M.A.Sc., P.Eng. (AB & BC), CSAP is the Manager for Environmental Services in Western Canada for EXP Services Inc. (formerly Trow Associates) with a total of more than 22 years of combined civil and environmental engineering experience. He directs and manages projects involving site assessments, remediation and risk assessments. He is a Contaminated Sites Approved Professional since 2011 in good standing. He has authored and managed environmental investigations on more than 30 medium to large scale environmental projects that have received BC Ministry of Environment & Climate Change Strategy instruments including Approval in Principles and Certificates of Compliance over the years. He is a Director on the board of the Surrey Board of Trade and on Metro Vancouver’s National Zero Waste Council. He has investigated a variety of sites which have included works yards with road deicing salt storage related contamination, automotive repair shops, dry cleaners, gas stations, a former coal gasification plant, a former acetylene manufacturing operation, pulp and paper mill and an exploratory mine site. He has been involved in managing teams of contractors, engineers/scientists to set up remedial systems such as soil-vapour extraction, dual phase extraction and chemical oxidation systems at sites. He has also recently completed expert witness testimony on two supreme court cases, one involving a cost recovery action and the other involving a residential property affected by the migration of dry cleaning chemical and its degradation products.