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Elizabeth Rao
HNTB public transit
Our nation has a game-changing opportunity to elevate transit to achieve a balanced, integrated transportation system for our nation, according to Liz Rao, HNTB’s public transit services spokesperson. The increased attention and funding for transit will produce a multi-generational payoff similar to that of the Interstate Highway System introduced in the 1950s.
According to the American Public Transit Association, for every $1 cities invest in public transportation, they generate $4 in economic returns. With the help of federal grants, cities that turn to transit to solve their mobility issues and spur their economies today will be the successful, viable, desirable places to live tomorrow.
Progressive cities, such as Indianapolis and Tampa Bay, Fla., are taking advantage of the pro-transit climate and forging ahead with plans to create and fund major transit systems that include commuter rail, light rail and bus rapid transit to supplement their existing bus service.
Throughout her 25-year career in the transit industry, Rao has worked proactively with clients and business partners, elected officials, governmental agencies and communities to successfully implement transit projects.
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Samer Sadek
HNTB tunnel and geotechnical services
With our nation’s metropolitan areas becoming increasingly congested by public infrastructure, tunnels offer cities and government agencies a space-saving solution to convey people, vehicles, utilities and materials quickly and conveniently underground.
Tunnels are nothing new to HNTB. In 1987, HNTB received the national ACEC Grand Conceptor Award for our design work on the Mount Baker Lidded Tunnels in Seattle, Washington. HNTB was Washington State Department of Transportation’s prime consultant to design the 63-foot-diameter, 1,500-foot-long bored tunnel, the largest diameter soft-soil tunnel in the world at that time. The project involved building a soft-earth bore tunnel through Mt. Baker Ridge as well as 1,900 feet of additional cut-and-cover tunnel in Rainier Valley. The Rainier Valley tunnel was designed to re-connect the community that had been divided by the highway that was being expanded to eight lanes.
With the firm's and his clients' best interests always top of mind, Sadek, department manager for the tunnel and geotechnical department in the Boston office, is driven to keep more work within HNTB by organizing geotechnical engineers on a firmwide basis.
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Peter Gertler
HNTB national high-speed rail services chair
High-speed rail offers America many benefits, including greater mobility, convenience and energy savings. Such a rail system will generate new jobs at a time when we desperately need them. It's the missing link in our nation's multimodal transportation network.
After decades of relatively modest investment in passenger rail, now is the time to rectify funding imbalances to secure the long-term health of our transportation system. Doing so will improve America's economy as well as its mobility.
Gertler has extensive public and private sector experience in the development, planning and evaluation of urban transportation planning and program management projects in the U.S. and abroad, with more than 22 years of specific expertise in identifying reasonable and feasible multi-modal alternative. He has managed several large and diverse rail, transit, airport, and other transport studies and consultant teams, including leading a variety of strategic plans, alternative analyses and feasibility studies and serving in key management roles on major program management assignments.
HNTB is working with states and transportation authorities across the country, including California and the Northeast to effectively leverage funding and determine next steps.
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Jim Peterson
HNTB design-build project manager for the Missouri Safe & Sound Bridge Improvement Program
HNTB design-build projects offer professionals the opportunity to work on some of the largest, most complex and challenging infrastructure projects in the industry. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and like to see designs translated into constructed work in real time, a career in design-build may be right for you.
Design-build takes collaboration to the next level. Designers and contractors sit in the same office and work side by side every day. It’s essential to delivering the most cost-effective product possible.
Design-build projects challenge us, as professionals, to embrace new methods and advanced technologies for delivering traditional engineering services and to adapt to an ever-evolving and changing work environment.
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John Bourne
HNTB program manager for I-15 Utah County Corridor Program Management
At HNTB, we define program delivery as a comprehensive approach to define, develop and manage the delivery and operation of a major capital improvement program consisting of either a single large project or multiple projects.
The demand is growing because public budgets are under attack, tax revenues are down and owners are reaching out to consultants to help them manage programs.
Bourne is a principal engineer and serves as senior project manager on various projects for the transportation service line of HNTB. He has expertise in the overall management of a wide variety of transportation and highway projects, including client liaison and coordination, budget monitoring, technical design, public involvement and quality control reviews.
Program delivery integrates all of HNTB’s services – design, project controls, construction services, financial planning, environmental compliance, government relations, alternative project delivery and risk mitigation. We are able to customize our approach to match our client’s needs and each program’s magnitude and complexity. At the same time we’re meeting client needs, we’re developing talented professionals that we’ll be able to leverage to win future PMC assignments.
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