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COTTON, SHIRES AND ASSOCIATES, INC.
WEB: www.cottonshires.com
Northern California Contact:
William R. Cotton
Principal Engineering Geologist
330 Village Lane
Los Gatos, CA 95030-7218
(408) 354-4452
(408) 354-1852 FAX
Degrees/Licenses: MS, BS, San Jose State College, California, CEG 882, RG 3047
Central California Contact:
Patrick O. ShiresPrincipal Geotechnical Engineer
(209) 736-4252
(209) 736-1212 FAX
Degrees/Licenses: MS, BS, Stanford University, RCE 26397, GE 770, RGPh 879
Southern California Contact:
Stanley R. Helenschmidt
Managing Geotechnical Engineer
5245 Avenida Encinas, Suite A
Carlsbad, CA 92008-4374
(760) 931-2700
(760) 931-1020 FAX
Degrees/Licenses: BS, Civil Engineering, San Diego State University, RCE 36570, GE 2064
EXPERT PROFILE: Geotechnical engineering consulting firm providing expert witness testimony and other services with offices in Los Gatos, San Andreas, and Carlsbad, California. Cotton, Shires and Associates provides expert witness testimony in the following areas: Air photo interpretation; building and foundation distress; construction and design deficiencies; damage assessment; drainage; earth movement; earth retaining structures; earth settlement; earthen fills; erosion; excavation, expansive soils; failure analysis; faults and earthquake hazard evaluation; field investigation; foundation construction design; geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring; grading; groundwater; hillside homes; hydrology; landslides, liquefaction; ocean cliff instability; pipelines; RCB/RCP culverts and embankments; residential, commercial, and industrial forensic studies; retaining wall; seepage; settlement; slope erosion; slope stability; soil creep; soil-structure interaction; stabilization of embankments on liquefiable soils, subsidence; testing and inspection.
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