• Dispute Review Board (DRB) Foundation Member
• Experience with multiple DRB’s
• Partnering Trainer for California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Joint Training with Industry
• Caltrans Construction Partnering Steering Committee founding Member
• AAA Trained Mediator
• Engineering &/or Building Contractor in 10 Western States

Phil George, a ’76 CSU Chico Grad, has worked in construction since graduation, been a Civil Engineer since 1980, and, been licensed in California, Oregon and Washington.

Phil, Senior Engineer with Stimpel-Wiebelhaus Associates, Inc since 1981, has bid and managed construction projects, designed falsework (up to 120 feet high), shoring, controlled blasting, bridges, aggregate plants, quarries and obtained permits from multiple State and Federal Agencies including Site Safety, Health & Decon Plans for EPA Superfund Sites. Projects include dams, bridges, freeways, forest roads, breakwaters, river and harbor work, powerplants, etc.

Phil is also President of WBA Engineering Services, Inc. in Redding, CA who provides a wide range of Civil Engineering and Surveying services for both public and private owners.

Before working at Stimpel-Wiebelhaus, Phil was with MCM Construction as an Estimator and Designer of bridge falsework and shoring for various projects in California including a $12 million freeway project on Highway 41 in Fresno.

Phil worked for George Reed, Inc. as Project Engineer on the MGM Grand Hotel/Casino in Reno, Nevada and Estimator/PM on jobs in the Mother Lode of CA as well as being involved with asphalt, concrete and gravel production.

He has witnessed first-hand the inefficiencies and lose-lose results (regardless of who “wins”) when contracting parties turn to attorneys, arbitrators and judges or Federal Courts for resolution.