Theodore P. Zoli, PE

Theodore P. Zoli, PE, an HNTB vice president, serves as the technical director of HNTB’s bridge practice nationwide. During his 17 years with HNTB, Zoli has led the preliminary and final design of numerous challenging and award-winning bridge projects including the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston; the Sixth Street Viaduct in Milwaukee; the Bandra Worli Sea Link Bridge in Mumbai, India; the Blennerhassett Island bridge in West Virginia; and the Missouri River Pedestrian Bridge in Omaha.

Zoli has led HNTB’s infrastructure security practice and has developed innovative protective measures for some of our nation’s largest and most important bridges. He has served as an instructor at the FHWA sponsored Bridge and Tunnel Terrorist Vulnerability Workshop in conjunction with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He is currently participating in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program to develop advanced armor strategies. He is currently working with the Army Corps of Engineers to develop an innovative all-aluminum light-weight modular causeway system (floating bridge) with compliant connections for equipment deployment.

Zoli has published and presented numerous technical articles. He serves on the Post-Tensioning Institute stay cable committee, the project engineering panel for NCHRP12-49 Development of Seismic Provisions for AASHTO LRFD, and on the oversight panel for NCHRP 12-72 Blast/Impact Resistant Highway Bridges. He serves as an adjunct professor of graduate studies in civil engineering at Columbia University where he is engaged in research on the effects of fire on bridges as well as the design of long span bridges to resist progressive collapse. He is also a visiting lecturer at Princeton University’s Department of Civil Engineering where he teaches a course on the design of long span bridges. He is a member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering.

He received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Princeton University and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the California Institute of Technology.