Two Tunnel Experts Join HNTB
Two recognized tunneling experts have joined HNTB Corp. to lead and enhance its firmwide tunnel practice: Nasri Munfah and Sanja Zlatanic.
Munfah, PE, joins HNTB as a Senior Vice President and Chairman of tunnel services. Munfah, who also is an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s civil engineering department, has 30 years of experience in all phases of international transportation, transit and underground engineering projects. His work includes the East Side Access Project in New York, the Windsor GreenLink in Ontario, Canada, the Istanbul Strait Road Crossing tunnel in Turkey and the Central Subway Project in San Francisco. He also was the principal investigator and one of the main authors of the first tunnel design manual in the United States. Munfah is an active member of several major tunneling organizations, including the Executive Committee of the American Underground Association.
Sanja Zlatanic, PE, joins HNTB as a Vice President and Chief Tunneling Engineer. With more than 20 years experience, she has gained widespread experience managing complex transportation, transit and underground mega projects, including work as the project manager and the chief structural engineer on the No. 7 Subway Line Extension, the East Side Access Project, the Trans Hudson Express (ARC) Project, and the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit Project’s Weehawken Tunnel and Bergenline Avenue Station in New York. She has extensive experience managing multidisciplinary joint venture staff, from feasibility and conceptual engineering through final design and construction. She recently was elected a member of the International Tunneling Association Committee for Underground Space and an ITACUS ambassador for the Americas, promoting sustainable underground space use. She won the 2010 Technical Excellence Award from her previous company.
Munfah and Zlatanic will be located in HNTB’s New York City office.
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Jacobs Associates Announces Promotions
Jacobs Associates, the San Francisco-based engineering and consultant firms, recently announced the following promotions at the Lead Associate level:
Mike McKenna, PE, has 13 years of experience working as a design engineer specializing in permanent and temporary underground structures, with an emphasis on tunnel design, deep excavation support systems, soil-structure interaction, and ground improvement technology. He has performed work on water, wastewater, and transit projects in both soft ground and hard rock. Mr. McKenna is currently serving as Jacobs Associates’ project manager on the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Silver Lake Bypass Tunnel project and River Supply Conduit Lower Reach Unit 1A project.
Yiming Sun, PhD, PE, has more than 20 years of experience in civil, geotechnical, and mining engineering, including design and analysis of highway tunnels, water and sewer tunnels, shafts, underground facilities for high-level nuclear waste repositories, subway stations and tunnels, railway tunnels, and deep foundations. Dr. Sun has extensive experience in numerical modeling for seismic, stress, structural, groundwater, slope stability, and thermal analyses. He is currently providing preliminary design and analysis on the Ottawa Light Rail Project in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Sam Swartz, PE, has more than 13 years of civil engineering experience. He has developed expertise in bolted and gasketed, precast concrete segmental lining systems. His technical knowledge also encompasses design of other initial and final tunnel linings, analysis of settlement above tunnels, and geotechnical assessment of ground conditions. Swartz is currently providing design support during construction for the University Link Light Rail Project in Seattle and preliminary design support for the Ottawa Light Rail Project in Ottawa, Ont.
Jacobs Associates is also pleased to announce the following promotions at the Associate level:
Renee Leslie, PG, has 16 years of experience in construction management, specializing in grouting and geotechnical management. She is currently serving as project manager on New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Independent Engineering Consulting Services contract, where Jacobs Associates is providing oversight for all of MTA’s tunnel projects. She served as the office engineer, grout manager, and inspector on a suite of projects for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
Isabelle Pawlik, PE, has more than 15 years of experience in the design and project management of large underground engineering projects. These have included water supply, wastewater, and rail transit projects in the United States, Australia, and Germany. Her technical expertise includes the structural design of initial and final tunnel linings in rock and soft ground and analysis of settlement above tunnels. Most recently, she served as project engineer and lead tunnel designer on the Bay Tunnel project in San Francisco and is currently providing engineering support during construction for this project.
Rick Vincent, PE, has more than 16 years of experience in managing and designing large underground projects of all types, including tunnels, shafts, and chamber designs in both soil and rock. He has comprehensive underground structural design experience, including both new designs and assessment/repair of existing structures, and has led projects with all types of excavation, and installation methods, including bored, sequential, jacked, drill-and-blast, trenchless technologies, and cut-and-cover.
His project experience comprises transportation, water, wastewater, heavy and light rail, bus rapid transit, and high energy physics linear accelerator projects. He is currently serving as the program management structural lead for the Anacostia River Tunnel on the DC Water’s $2.7 billion Clean Rivers Project.
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AECOM Welcomes Dandie
Bruce Dandie, PE, has joined AECOM, a leading provider of professional technical and management support services for government and commercial clients around the world, as senior vice president of its North America Tunnel Ventilation practice within the transportation business.
Dandie is an expert with more than 30 years of international experience in mechanical and multidisciplinary projects, including program management from concept to handover, feasibility studies, cost-benefit analysis, construction management, and engineering coordination.
Located in Oakland, Calif., he assumes business development and project delivery responsibilities for the firm’s clients in the United States and Canada.
Prior to joining AECOM, Dandie served as senior design manager for a major engineering firm where he managed and operated complex engineering and construction projects. He is a member of he American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers; the Institution of Engineers, Australia; the Mechanical College of the Institution of Engineers, Australia; the Australian Tunneling Society; and serves on a working group for the World Road Association (PIARC).
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Two Tunnel Experts Join HNTB
