Saied Saiedi, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Senior Discipline Specialist, Bergmann Associates
Dr. Saied Saiedi is a civil engineer with 30 years of engineering and academic experience in Iran, Australia, Malaysia, Canada, and USA. His hydrotechnical interests cover a wide range: Free surface flow (hydraulic structures, sediment transport, river engineering, hydropower dams), water and power tunnel design, flood studies, stormwater management, dam safety review, coastal structures and processes, and floating offshore structures. He has developed, managed, and reviewed several numerical and physical modeling works. His COUPFLEX model (J. of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, May 1997; link) is among the first coupled simulations of unsteady river-sediment flow. Dr. Saiedi designed and oversaw the construction of a flume for river, wave, and sediment studies at Water Research Laboratory (Sydney, Australia) in 1991-1992. The facility has been since used for many projects involving riverine flows and coastal waves (link).
For several years in the 2000’s, Dr. Saiedi served NAHRIM (National Association of Hydraulic Research in Malaysia) as the senior adviser for coastal engineering projects. He also managed and technically led a design project on erosion protection and rehabilitation works related to a major TNB (link) hydropower facility in Malaysia in 2006-2007. While working for PETRONAS (Malaysian national oil and gas company, link), he trained several groups of engineers from various engineering disciplines to enter the realm of marine engineering (link). In 2006-2008, Dr. Saiedi conceptually designed a large wave flume and a large wave basin for the “Offshore Engineering Lab.” (link) at UTP for applied research projects in the areas of coastal and offshore engineering.
While working in Canada, Dr. Saiedi led or participated in the design and investigations for many HPP and dam facilities such as Site C (Canada, link), Kokish River (Canada, link), Toba Montrose (Canada, link), Tapoco Scheme (four HPP’s in US, link), Karcham-Wangtoo, Vishnuprayag & Baspa-II (four HPP’s in India, link), Stave Falls (Canada, link), John Hart (Canada, link), and Kemano (Canada, link). He has also shared over the years his experience with Professional Engineers in Canada and US through several short-courses on erosion control (link), hydropower facilities (link), sediment engineering (link), hydraulic structures (link), water tunnels (link), coastal and marine structures (link), and physical modeling (link).
Dr. Saiedi is a Staff Consultant at Bergmann, US. He technically leads, or is involved in, projects on erosion protection (Lake Michigan …), Dam Safety Reviews, stormwater protection, etc. He has extensive concurrent academic experience as an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering. While in Canada, he was the Director of Progress International Consultants and the former Hydrotechnical Discipline Lead (Western North America) of Hatch based in Vancouver.