{"id":2541,"date":"2025-06-06T19:05:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landformdesign.com\/?page_id=2541"},"modified":"2025-06-06T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T19:05:01","slug":"course","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/landformdesign.com\/index.php\/course\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 LANDFORM DESIGN COURSE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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VANCOUVER, BC \u2014 The Landform Design Institute is pleased to be hosting its third in-person Landform Design and Closure Planning course, which will take place at the UBC Golf Club in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 24\u201328, 2025.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn how to design, build, reclaim, and monitor mining landforms and landscapes that reliably meet post-closure land use goals and design criteria. Perfect for mine closure professionals, consultants, engineers, and regulators, the course blends expert instruction with real-world case studies and interactive exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with the previous, highly successful, in-person courses, LDI Chair Gord McKenna will act as the lead instructor. Dr. McKenna is a seasoned landform design professional and has lectured often on landform design and related topics in Canada and abroad. The course will also welcome special guest lectures given by other experienced experts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fee is $1,999 for LDI members and $2,499 for non-members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign up here: https:\/\/landformdesign.thinkific.com\/courses\/landform-design-and-closure-5-day-in-person-course-vancouver-bc-1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, contact Jasmine Winter, LDI Administrator, at jasmine@landformdesign.com<\/a> or by phone at +1.780.903.7903.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGENDA<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Monday, November 24<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

INTRODUCTION<\/strong>: THE BIG PICTURE
Presenters: Gord McKenna and Justin Straker<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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  • A snapshot of landform design and the institute<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Introducing the five-day landform design course<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Understanding the current state of practice with micro case histories<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Emerging trends in mine waste management and the rise of landform design<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • How landform design fits into the bigger global picture (Sustainable Mining Now)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Introduction to landform design and closure planning (a landform design activity)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    SETTING UP FOR SUCCESS<\/strong> I
    Presenters: Casey Cawston, D\u00ebn\u00eb<\/strong> Cheecham-Uhrich, Christine Daly, Natalie Melaschenko, and Jean L’Hommecourt<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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    • Vulnerability and being with the land<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Living laws of relational mining<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Case studies: A two-roads approach to reclamation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Closing:  Leave with a challenge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Tuesday, November 25<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      SETTING UP FOR SUCCESS II<\/strong>
      Presenters: Gord McKenna, Justin Straker, and Mike O\u2019Kane<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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      • Forming the landform design team<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Establishing governance for landform design<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Forging a design basis memorandum (DBM)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • DBM exercise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        DESIGNING YOUR LANDFORM I<\/strong>
        Presenters: Justin Straker, Mike O\u2019Kane, Gord McKenna, and Brent Mooder<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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        • Landform design philosophy and tools<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Knowing your materials<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Following every drop of water (surface water and groundwater)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Partitioning the water<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Operational and closure water balance<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Designing for topography and surface water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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          Wednesday, November 25<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

          DESIGNING YOUR LANDFORM II<\/strong>
          Presenters: Stephen Day, Stella Swanson, Mike O\u2019Kane, Justin Straker, and Jerry Vandenberg<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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          • Changing needs for mine waste management: planning for the distant future<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • HHERA toxicology and working with local communities<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Designing, constructing, and monitoring cover systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Constructing your landform to support a cover system (also source control)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Exercise: Cover design<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Designing for soils, vegetation, and ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Worked example designing for ecological land use<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Designing and managing pit lakes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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            Thursday, November 27<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

            DESIGNING YOUR LANDFORM II<\/strong>I
            Presenters: Gord McKenna, Justin Straker, Haley Schafer, and Kathleen Hanley<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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            • Designing and constructing wetlands<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Designing for wildlife<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Using instrumented watersheds for reclamation research<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Landform design for tailings, including technology TRL<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Assessing and managing landform performance risks<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Designing and enacting contingencies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Risk assessment exercise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              CONSTRUCTING, RECLAIMING, MAINTAINING, AND SURVEILLING
              Presenters: Gord McKenna, Aileen Cash, and Kathleen Hanley<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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              • Constructing and progressively reclaiming landforms<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Landform operation, maintenance, and surveillance LOMS<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Designing for aesthetics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Detour reclamation trial case history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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                Friday, November 28<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

                HIGHER-LEVEL STRATEGIES
                Presenters: Gord McKenna, Kathleen Hanley, and Monica Ansah-Sam<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                • Management leadership for landform design<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Preparing closure plans for mines without one<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Preparing permit level and detailed landform designs<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Tailings reclamation case histories<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Principles of landform design, hard won lessons learned (a recap)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                  BIG EXERCISE AND REFLECTING
                  Presenters: Gord McKenna and participants<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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                  • Exercise \u2014 Big landform design group exercise and report out (includes coffee pm)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  • Discussion \u2014 Six real-world landform design situations<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  • The charge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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