Lunch and Learn

The Landform Design Institute is pleased to have started making public the lectures from its quarterly “Lunch and Learn” sessions. The first two are below. The lectures are presented live for corporate members by LDI founder and chair Gord McKenna. Our corporate members have found these lectures to be a valued resource, and once a lecture is a year old, the Institute found it beneficial to distribute them to all. Each lecture includes a question period, as well as discussion. For our corporate members, it is a great opportunity to share industry practice and trends as well as to connect with fellow practitioners.  If you or your organization are interested in supporting LDI and becoming a corporate member please contact us at admin@landformdesign.com. 

The first Lunch and Learn introduces the basics of safe closure for tailing facilities, starting with the broad outlines recently developed in the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management by the International Council on Mining & Metals, and filling in the details, definitions, and industry experiences from the past 25 years.

The second session is devoted to the best practices involved in preparing and writing a design basis memorandum. It revolves around the question of what routine use of DBMs would mean for the industry, why they’re important, and what they look like. The discussion draws on feedback from participants in the first session to explore some of the fundamental concepts.