Gary Antonucci Joins Moffatt & Nichol as Principal Bridge Engineer

LONG BEACH, CA, December 13, 2011—Moffatt & Nichol is excited to welcome Gary Antonucci as the Principal Bridge Engineer for the firm’s Walnut Creek office. Mr. Antonucci joins Moffatt & Nichol with more than 30 years of engineering experience, including over 15 years with TY Lin International in the planning and design of transportation facilities encompassing urban and interstate highways and rail systems.

His background includes design of bridges and transportation structures, heavy and light rail, pedestrian/bicycle trails, water supply systems, and flood control facilities. For the past 15 years, he has focused specifically in project management of complex assignments requiring large, multi-discipline teams. His work has encompassed more than 200 individual bridge projects. With a strong Caltrans bridge design background, he has completed numerous state highway projects requiring Caltrans’ review and approval.

Mr. Antonucci’s expertise also includes Federal HBP projects and he has completed project management for several major assignments under this program, with individual project costs exceeding $20M. He has served as Project Manager or Lead Structural Engineer for more than 20 highway/railway grade separations. His experience on these projects has included serving as liaison with railroad staff as well as preparing PUC and railroad agreements. Mr. Antonucci is a Professional Engineer and received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Carlos Noguera Joins Firm as General Manager for the Colombia Office

LONG BEACH, CA, December 13, 2011—Moffatt & Nichol welcomes Carlos Noguera to the firm as General Manager for the Colombia S.A.S office. Mr. Noguera brings more than 30 years of experience and an in depth knowledge of Colombia’s engineering industry specifically in the areas of environmental advisories, water quality evaluations, navigation channel design, dredging, and economic and technical feasibility studies throughout Colombia and worldwide.

Mr. Noguera joins Moffatt & Nichol after serving more than 30 years with HMV Ingenieros, a Colombian based firm, where he held a leading role as the Legal Representative and Chief Director Engineer since 2002 overseeing projects in the private and public sector. Mr. Noguera’s previous work experience with Moffatt & Nichol included the design of the navigation channel access to the Port of Buenaventura, Colombia where his role was a key factor in the firm’s achievements in Colombia.

His expertise also includes environmental impact evaluation on development projects. Serving as an environmental advisor, his specialized skillsets include air quality studies and environmental impact of industrial developments; development and control during execution of studies on natural risk valuation, design of navigation channels, docking, and dredges.

Mr. Noguera holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of La Gran Colombia and a specialization in Environmental Impact Assessment by the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano – Tuffs University in Bogota Colombia.

Helga Junold to Lead NY-Based Global Commercial Group

LONG BEACH, CA, November 30, 2011 — Moffatt & Nichol is proud to welcome Helga Junold, CEng as the business unit leader for the firm’s New York-based commercial and advisory services unit. Ms. Junold joins Moffatt & Nichol after serving more than 20 years with Halcrow, where she launched the firm’s U.S. presence. She led and grew a significant and successful strategic transactions advisory practice in the areas of ports, freight, logistics, and public-private partnerships bringing together competencies in civil engineering, infrastructure development financing, and general management.

Ms. Junold has served as project manager in the United Kingdom, United States and Latin America. Working with lenders and guarantors, including the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the United Kingdom’s Export Credits Guarantee Department, she has led major infrastructure development and financing initiatives in the United Kingdom, Argentina and Venezuela.

She has also supported major clients, including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Texas Department of Transportation, New York Economic Development Corporation, New Jersey State Treasury Department, and various private sector infrastructure developers. Ms. Junold is a Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom and received her Masters Degree in Civil Engineering Hydraulics from the University of Salford, United Kingdom.

Moffatt & Nichol Adds Eastern Great Lakes Office

LONG BEACH, CA, August 8, 2011— Moffatt & Nichol is pleased to announce the expansion of our firm with the addition of an Eastern Great Lakes office, located in Rochester, New York. Led by Senior Project Manager, Mr. John Schirmer, the Eastern Great Lakes office will focus on providing innovative solutions to ports, urban waterfronts, marinas, transportation and goods movement, and related maritime industries. For the last three years, Moffatt & Nichol has supported the area with various projects relating to waterfront planning, design, and engineering. Located in western New York, with convenient access to Canada and the eastern Great Lakes region, the new office will serve as a key facility to meet the needs of our clients worldwide.

Moffatt & Nichol
250 Mill Street, Suite 307
Rochester, NY 14614
P: 585-641-7128
E: jschirmer@moffattnichol.com

Richard Rocktoff Joins as Senior Transportation Project Manager

LONG BEACH, CA, July 25, 2010—Richard Rocktoff joins Moffatt & Nichol’s Transportation team as Senior Transportation Project Manager. With more than 20 years of experience in transportation projects, Mr. Rocktoff bring his expertise and unique skillset of complex horizontal and vertical geometrics, interchange and intersection design, post-design services, and alternative delivery projects to the firm.

Prior to joining Moffatt & Nichol, Mr. Rocktoff held a significant role being responsible for several of FDOT’s largest alternative delivery projects in multiple FDOT districts. He previously served as Deputy Design Manager on the I-595 Reconstruction Public Private Partnership for the Florida Department of Transportation District Four. He coordinated the efforts of multiple design teams to complete an eighteen month design which included ten interchanges over twelve miles of interstate highway. The $1.2 billion P3 project also introduced three tolled reversible express lanes within the existing right of way.

As a Project Engineer for the US 1 / Jewfish Creek Bridge Design-Build, Mr. Rocktoff oversaw design of the seven mile reconstruction of US 1, including replacing the existing bascule bridge from Key Largo to the Florida mainland with a 1.5 mile high level bridge and the addition of two new interchanges. He was also the Engineer of Record for the I-4 Design-Build project and managed the roadway design of the US 27 interchange reconstruction and mainline widening and resurfacing of nine miles of I-4 through the Green Swamp.

Mr. Rocktoff is FDOT certified in Advanced Maintenance of Traffic Design and has extensive background in Geopak and MicroStation software. He is a graduate from University of South Florida where he received his M.B.A. and from the University of Florida where he received his B.S. in Civil Engineering.

Moffatt & Nichol Grows in Latin America with Colombia Office

LONG BEACH, CA, July 18, 2011—Moffatt & Nichol continues its expansion into Latin America with the opening of their branch office in Bogotá, Colombia. Though Moffatt & Nichol has long been active in Colombia, the opening of Moffatt & Nichol Colombia S.A.S. marks the firm’s commitment to a long-term presence in the country to support the continued modernization of Colombia’s maritime and transport infrastructure.

Moffatt & Nichol
Av. Cra. 9, No. 113-52, Of. 1201
Torre Unidas 2

Bogotá D.C., Colombia
P: +57 313 373 5350
E: dames@moffattnichol.com

Moffatt & Nichol GPA Project Wins Georgia Engineering Honor Award

SAVANNAH, GA, April 1, 2011— Georgia Engineering Alliance presented Moffatt & Nichol with an Honor Award in Engineering Excellence for the Cross Terminal Road & Bridge Project. As part of an ongoing contract, Moffatt & Nichol provided planning, design, and construction support for the new $6.6-Million, 2-mile roadway corridor called the “Cross Terminal Road,” that provides direct access from the north end of the terminal to the south end.

“I believe this project may prove to have the most impact on productivity and safety of any single infrastructure project at Garden City Terminal since conversion to a container terminal,” said Wilson Tillotson, P.E., GPA Senior Director of Engineering & Facilities Maintenance.

The Georgia Ports Authority’s FOCUS 2015 Plan for the Garden City Terminal included a new roadway corridor that includes five lanes wide with two lanes in each direction and a turning lane. The project included the installation of an approximately two-mile long asphaltic concrete roadway across the terminal that not only improved congested intersections, but was also constructed while maintaining terminal operations.

Moffatt & Nichol provided full-time support throughout various construction sequences–demolition, utility relocation, grading, bridge construction, paving, striping, signage, and traffic control, in order to minimize impacts on the operations of the terminal. Construction of the Cross Terminal Road was completed with virtually no negative impact to the operations of the terminal, under budget and two weeks ahead of schedule.