Born in Texas and raised in New Jersey, Dr. Garbin comes from a family of builders, architects, and engineers. He has been involved with construction for most of his life, having amassed over three decades of diverse experience in commercial and residential construction, civil-geotechnical engineering, and academia. He is the President and Founder of Garbin GeoStructural Group, offering subject matter expertise and design in civil/geo-structural engineering and construction.
In 1988 and 1989 Dr. Garbin briefly studied architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thereafter, he attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, earning degrees in Structural Engineering (B.S.) and Geotechnical Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.). While at USF, he taught courses in both structural and geotechnical engineering, and remained an Adjunct Professor until 2007.
For several years Dr. Garbin worked for Applied Foundation Testing in Tampa, specializing in instrumentation and verification testing of shallow and deep foundation systems. Next, he profitably managed the Geotechnical Engineering and Drilling departments of Universal Engineering Sciences’ Tampa branch. In 2007, he joined Hayward Baker (now Keller North America) as their Southern Region’s Chief Engineer, responsible for specialty geotechnical and geo-structural projects in the Southeastern U.S., the Caribbean, and Central America. He left Hayward Baker at the end of 2014 to join Earth Tech, where he served as Vice President of Engineering for nearly three years.
Dr. Garbin is a Licensed Professional Engineer in 39 states in addition to maintaining Board-certified status as a Diplomate, Geotechnical Engineering through ASCE’s Academy of Geo-Professionals. His areas of technical expertise include heavy civil engineering and construction, value engineering of foundation systems, geo-structural instrumentation and data acquisition, ground improvement for weak soils and karst, earth retention, and deep foundation systems.
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