Miguel De La Torre Sobrevilla is a Peruvian engineer and entrepreneur who founded the engineering and consulting company

Geoservice Ingeniería Geoservice Ingeniería is a Peruvian firm founded in 1995 which provides engineering and consulting services. It work includes environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies, hydrological studies, construction management, and geotechnical studie ...

back on 1995, he undertook his undergraduate on Civil Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería from 1961 to 1965. He is specialist in dam engineering, foundations, slope stability, geotechnical instrumentation and related activities with geotechnical engineering applied to energy projects, irrigation, transportation and mining nationwide.

Geosynthetics in Peru

De La Torre is a pioneer of

Geosynthetics Geosynthetics are synthetic products used to stabilize terrain. They are generally polymeric products used to solve civil engineering problems. This includes eight main product categories: geotextiles, geogrids, geonets, geomembranes, geosyntheti ...

applications in

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. In 2000, he led along with his company Geoservice Ingeniería the usage of geogrids in roads constructions, Peruvian Transport Ministry as well as the engineering community were adamant to the implementation of

geogrid A geogrid is geosynthetic material used to reinforce soils and similar materials. Soils pull apart under tension. Compared to soil, geogrids are strong in tension. This fact allows them to transfer forces to a larger area of soil than would otherw ...

s back on those days. However, nowadays geogrids, geotextiles, and groundwater drainage system are a widely utilized in Peruvian roads construction and Peruvian Transport Ministry fully accept the usage of geogrids. Peruvian mining industry is using geosynthetics more often in order to control emission of toxics materials due to mining processing and operations, the type of geosynthetics materials support the development of mining activities and they are not harmful for the environment as these are not biodegradables, having as long as 100 years of lifetime. Peru is currently, across Latin America, one of the leaders in using geosynthetics in mining and infrastructure projects.

Appointments

During the period 2007-2008, De La Torre was appointed president of the board of directors of International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) in Peru. IGS Peru was founded in 2001 and constitutes the first chapter of the IGS in Spanish speaking countries across Latin America.

Works

De La Torre lead execution of dams construction, hydrological services, feasibilities studies, geotechnical evaluations,

Environmental impact assessment Environmental Impact assessment (EIA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action. In this context, the term "environmental imp ...

, closure plan preparations for mining companies in Peru such as

Toquepala mine The Toquepala mine is a large porphyry copper mine in the Tacna Province, Tacna Department, Peru. The mine is an open-pit mine producing copper, molybdenum, rhenium and silver with minor gold and zinc. The Toquepala mine and the Ilo smelter we ...

Uchucchacua Uchucchacua is a mine in Oyón, Peru, Oyón province, region Lima, Peru. The mine exploits primarily silver, zinc and lead. ReferenceMindat - Uchucchacua mine
See Uchucchacuaite. Silver mines in Peru Zinc mines in Peru Lead mines in Peru Poly ...

Tia Maria mine The Tia Maria mine is a large copper deposit located in the south of Peru in the province of Islay, Arequipa Region. The deposit contains an estimated total reserves 711 million tonnes of ore graded at 0.36% copper. The project is operated by Sou ...

, Parcoy gold mine,

Las Bambas copper mine Las Bambas copper mine is an open-pit copper mine in the Cotabambas province of Peru. With over a billion tons of copper ore, the deposit is one of the largest in the world and produces 2% of global copper. Las Bambas also produces molybdenum concen ...

, Yauricocha Mine.

References

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