Principal & Founder, BioTerraVa — Senior Civil Engineer (Water & Wastewater), S. Burnett & Associates LTD — PEO Certificate of Authorization
Medhat is a civil engineer who has spent 36+ years designing, expanding, and operating water and wastewater treatment infrastructure across Canada, the United States, the GCC and Egypt. He currently serves as a Senior Civil Engineer — Water & Wastewater at S. Burnett & Associates LTD, one of Ontario's established consulting firms, while delivering BioTerraVa engagements personally under a PEO Certificate of Authorization. His project record spans municipal plants serving 1.2 million residents, industrial facilities in more than a dozen sectors, and remote community systems built to run reliably with local operators.
He founded BioTerraVa on a simple conviction: clients paying for senior engineering should receive senior engineering — on every drawing, every site visit, and every regulatory submission. Every BioTerraVa engagement is delivered personally by Medhat under a Certificate of Authorization from Professional Engineers Ontario.
Beyond consulting, Medhat leads BioTerraVa's proprietary technology platform: four provisional patents in circular water and waste technology, currently at TRL 4 bench-scale validation at the University of Western Ontario with OCI and IPON government funding support. His applied innovation record reaches back years — including published technical work on INNPT nano-technology for pollution control at one of the world's largest drainage canals. He also founded NovaSignal AI, a venture applying engineering-grade discipline to practical AI tools for local businesses.
Innovated Nano Particles Material as Advanced Oxidizing Nano Material for Textile Wastewater Treatment for Reuse
22nd International Conference on Wastewater Technology (ICWT) — Montreal, Canada · May 2020
INNPT nano-material tested on real Turkish textile effluents: 92% COD, 95% TSS, 98% colour, 99% sulphate, 90% phosphorus and 77% TKN removal with a 10-minute mix and 30-minute settling process.
INNPT Nano Particles Material Technology as Enhancement Technology for Biological WWTP Performance and Capacity
International Conference on Wastewater Treatment Technologies — Berlin, Germany · July 2020 · Int. Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Vol. 14 No. 7
Demonstrated how INNPT integration upgrades existing biological plants — raising capacity up to 4x within existing footprints while achieving tertiary-quality effluent in under one hour of treatment time.
Sewage Sludge Thickening and Stabilization using ECO NADIC HMR, ECO NADIC 3S as Alkaline Additives for Reuse in Agriculture and Soil Fertilizing
International Conference on Chemical, Agricultural and Medical Sciences (ICAMS) — Antalya, Türkiye · May 2014 · DOI 10.15242/IIICBE.C5141089
Alkaline-additive chemistry thickening raw sludge to 30% cake solids in 30 minutes and producing EPA Class A fertilizer in 72 hours — verified by Egypt's HBRC and Agriculture Research Center.
P.Eng. — Professional Engineers Ontario
PMP® — Project Management Institute
Civil Engineering — Water & Wastewater
PEO Certificate of Authorization
Senior Civil Engineer (Water & Wastewater) — S. Burnett & Associates LTD
Published: INNPT Nano-Technology (2016)
4 Provisional Patents — Filed April 2026
36+ Years · 4 Countries · 12+ Sectors
Founder — NovaSignal AI
Filed April 2026 and under bench-scale validation at the University of Western Ontario, our technologies close the loop between industrial waste and water treatment.
