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James Elsey, Aff.M.ASCE, P.E. (he/him/his)

Area Engineer
Tensar CMC
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Jaye Elsey, P.E., Aff.M.ASCE Area Engineer at Tensar, a Division of CMC has over a decade of experience working with soils and geotechnical engineering. Jaye began his career working for FK Engineering, a consultancy in Michigan that specializes in underground infrastructure. Notable projects at FK included work on the Coxwell Bypass tunnell in Toronto and the 2016 Oakland-Macomb Interceptor Drain Collapse Recovery where an 11.5' internal diameter tunnel collapsed 60 feet beneath the ground...on Christmas. Needless to say holiday plans were impacted that year but that project was the first opportunity to work on ground improvement in the form of cementitious grouting from within the damaged tunnel. After that project Jaye continued to work with other forms of ground improvement including chemical grouts, chemical stabilization, and geosynthetics. With a focus on geosynthetics at Tensar, Jaye has specialized in designing paved and unpaved working surfaces for heavy traffic loading for ports, railroads, and other intermodal logistics facilities. Design tools for this work include the Giroud-Han method, KenPave linear elastic analysis software, PCASE, and more recently the Lees Han method for Mobilized Bearing Capacity design. The Lees Han methodology for unpaved surface design for Crane Pads and Heavy Traffic Loading and how it can be used to increase reliability and reduce costs at port facilities is the topic of the short course at Ports ’25!

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