Dr. Chris Breeds, Ph.D., P.E., CEng., President of SubTerra, Inc., is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE-USA) and Chartered Engineer (CEng – UK) with over twenty years of professional engineering experience. His career has exposed him to a unique combination of education, applied research, and engineering. Chris’ technical field experience includes numerous projects involving underground and surface engineering and construction for coal and hard rock mining projects, feasibility studies and conceptual design for mined facilities, mine systems analysis, mechanical excavation method selection, rock engineering and ground support selection, shotcrete and concrete materials selection, operation logistics, and design, subsidence engineering, and geotechnical instrumentation and testing.

He also has considerable experience in preparation of cost estimates, contract documents and specifications, and project management of both private and government projects. His broad experience provides the ability to develop a project from concept, through preliminary design, to implementation.