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Nasri Munfah, Chairman Tunnel Services

Tunnels are important elements of our nation’s aging infrastructure. They can be the preferred solutions to otherwise unfeasible transportation dilemmas, providing critical multimodal linkage and access routes. For insights into the state of America’s tunnels, the latest design innovations and trends, and how technology is changing planning and construction, turn to the experts at HNTB Corporation.


Nasri Munfah, a senior vice president and chairman of HNTB tunnel services, has worked nationally and internationally on some of the most complex tunnel projects and serves as a focal point and HNTB’s client advisers across the country.


Munfah brings more than 30 years of experience in all phases of national and international transportation, transit and complex underground engineering projects, including the:


• Istanbul Strait Road Crossing Tunnel in Turkey


• Central Subway Program in San Francisco


• Trans-Hudson Express in New Jersey/New York


• East Side Access Program in New York


• Amtrak North Access Tunnel (Empire Connection) in New York


• Great Belt Tunnel in Denmark


• Windsor GreenLink in Ontario, Canada


• 63rd Street Connector in New York


• Messina Strait Crossing in Italy


• Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Rehabilitation project in New York


• Sir Adam Beck Tunnel in Niagara Falls, Canada


• Hudson-Bergen LRT Weehawken Tunnel and Bergenline Avenue Station in New Jersey


He has extensive experience in project management, engineering management and construction management of multidisciplinary national and international tunneling and underground projects, and has been responsible for managing all phases of many multi-billion-dollar transportation projects from feasibility to final design and construction.


Munfah also serves as an adjunct professor for Columbia University’s civil engineering department in New York City, where he teaches a graduate level course on the design and construction of tunnels and underground structures. He is also the main investigator and author of FHWA Tunnel Design Manual, the first comprehensive Manual in the United States on this subject.


Munfah can discuss tunnel design and construction, including:


• Choosing the proper method for tunnel construction


• Design and construction techniques of tunnels and underground facilities


• Utilization of the state-of-the art methods, equipment, and approaches for tunnel construction


• Assessment of tunnel construction risks and implementation of project specific risk management plans


• Government and industry regulations and standard practices related to risk


• Ingredients for a successful, proactive risk management approach

Market: 
Tunnels
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