Career
Bernhart earned his Diplom-Ingenieur in 1936 and Doctor of Science in 1950 from the Technical University of Gratz. He then emigrated to Canada in 1951 as an environmental engineer for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. In 1954 he started his own consulting firm which he maintained in Toronto until 2008. He was on the Engineering Professorial Staff, University of Toronto (1959 to 1976), and a consultant for environmental problems (1954 to 2008) on 150 projects in 22 countries. Invited by colleagues and former students to speak to their universities, he went on a lecture tour to the Orient in 1968.
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