Ken Johnson
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ken.johnson@exp.com Cell + Text 780 984 9084 Ken knows the infrastructure of the Canadian Arctic like few others. After 33 years working and occasionally living in the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut, Ken’s work in water, sanitation, and community planning helps communities flourish from Iqaluit to Dawson City. He has helped communities with landfill problems, planned areas for new neighbourhoods, engineered wastewater systems, and much more.
Ken’s experience gives him more than a solid grasp on the considerable challenges the Arctic presents to project delivery. It also gives him connections—to people, to the land, and the history of both. His understanding of the region and its inhabitants lets him anticipate and proactively solve client needs. Ken is a Canadian authority on Arctic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and an Arctic civil engineering historian. Ken has applied this unique knowledge and experience through projects in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Labradour. Ken also shares this knowledge and experience through the Northern Territories Water and Waste Association, the Western Canada Water Association, the National Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Standards Association, the University of the Arctic, the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Ken’s knowledge, experience and commitment to the Arctic, and his commitment to the communication of this knowledge, was recognized with a Fellowship from the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2018. Ken also received the Can-Am Amity Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2018 for his outstanding work to advance international relationships with civil engineers across the Pan Arctic region of North America.