and then district manager of Nicholson’s New York office. He then moved to a construction manager role and later to manager of the Special Projects Group, where he oversaw the successful completion of the company’s largest, most complicated projects. Nicholson Construction was awarded the geotechnical contract for San Francisco’s new Central Subway Project, with joint venture partner Condon-Johnson. The new light-rail system will extend the current Muni T-Third Line by 1.7 mi (2.7 km), improving public transportation in San Francisco and providing direct connections to major retail, sporting and cultural venues. Nicholson’s portion of the contract includes diaphragm wall installation for the subway launch box, jet grouting and treatment at two of the stations, compensation grouting and secant pile wall installation. Nicholson, with partner E.E. Cruz, has another JV contract for Columbia University’s Manhattanville project. The New York contract includes the construction of approximately 208,000 sq ft of diaphragm wall, which will surround the School of Arts, Business School, School of International and Public Affairs and the Academic Conference Center. The $6.4 billion Manhattanville project spans 17 acres (6.6 hectares), and when completed, will include 16 new buildings. Jacobs Associates has appointed a new asso- ciate, Shimi Tzobery, P.E. He is based in the firm’s Pasadena, Calif., office. Tzobery has nearly 20 years of experience designing, constructing and managing tunneling projects in excess of $2 billion, including highway, rail tran- sit, drainage and water tunnels. His track record for complex tunneling projects includes work on the Inland Feeder System Arrowhead Tunnels in California and East Side Access and Harbor Siphon Tunnels in New York. Tzobery has provided tunnel design and construction management services for projects using a wide range of excavation methods and in various ground types. Tzobery has an M.S. in Tunneling from the Colorado School of Mines. Jacobs Associates also named four others as principals of the firm. Isabelle Lamb, L.G., is the firm’s first female principal. Her career includes tunnel design and geotechnical consulting projects in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Based in Seattle, she is vice president of Jacobs Associates New Zealand Ltd. Gregg Davidson, P.E., C.Eng, has worked in the firm’s Seattle office since 2003, and has 24 years of experience in design, program and construction management of tunnel and underground projects around the world. He serves as a vice president of Jacobs Associates Canada Corporation. Dan Dobbels, P.E., is project manager for the Ottawa Light Rail Transit project and vice president of Jacobs Associates Canada Corporation. He joined the Boston office in 2009. Mark Havekost, P.E., has 19 years of underground industry experience. He opened the firm’s Portland office in 2007, where he is active in the development of the firm’s hydropower ser- vices and is currently leading the engineer- ing teams on several hydro-power projects. Brian Bieller is the new vice president of business development at Atlas Copco Construction Equip- ment, effective April 1. He is now part of the man- agement team and reports directly to Erik Sparby, president and general manager for Atlas Copco Construction Equipment. Most recently Bieller was the sales manager for Atlas Copco Rental, responsible for Canada and the western U.S. Before going to Atlas Copco’s rental division, Bieller had been vice president of sales and marketing for compaction products at Dynapac USA, an Atlas Copco company. Atlas Copco also announced that Larry Drapeau is now store manager for the Atlas Copco CMT USA store in Ludlow, Mass. He will manage store operations while also leading local surface drilling equipment sales. Most recently, Drapeau had managed company stores in the area for other major companies in the industry. Jerry Hackett is now a sales representative for the Atlas Copco store in Vista, Calif. In his new position, Hackett is now responsible for the sales of Dynapac road construction equip- ment. Kevin House is sales representative for the Atlas Copco Rocky Mountain store in Denver, Colo. House is responsible for sales of water well drills, rock drilling tools and geotechnical drilling equipment for multiple states serviced out of the Rocky Mountain region. SolData Inc., Cuddy, Pa., was selected by Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP) to install, read and manage instrumentation related to the construction of the Washington State Department of Transportation’s (WSDOT) SR 99 Tunnel project in Seattle, Wash. SolData’s proprietary state-of-the-art instrumentation program will monitor ground conditions and structures above and near the 1.7 mi (2.7 km) long tunnel, which will be bored by the world’s largest diameter tunnel boring machine as part of a series of projects to replace the SR 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct. More than 1,000 different types of instruments will be installed above and below the ground surface before tunneling begins in 2013. SolData plans to install more than 40 CYCLOPS (Automated Monitoring Total Stations) to monitor the 3D movement of buildings, structures, ground surface and rail lines during construction. The system will allow STP and WSDOT to monitor all data in real time. All automated and manu- ally collected data will be managed with a SolData proprietary package called “Geoscope.” The monitoring program is set to start in the spring of 2012 and continue until tunneling is completed in 2015. The Indian Group of IABSE is organizing the IABSE Symposium “Long Span Bridges and Roofs — Development Design and Implementation” in Kolkata, September 24- 27, 2013. The Scientific Committee is chaired by Bidhan C. Roy, (vice president of IABSE); the Organizing Committee is lead by the chair of the Indian Group of IABSE, Chock- alingam Kandasamy, director general (Road Development) of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. The Symposium is intended for civil and structural engi- neers, architects and associated profes- sionals and representatives of regulatory authorities. Authors may submit a 200-300 word abstract in English in accordance with the themes and topics without illustra- tions, by August 30, 2012. The Preliminary invitation is online and abstracts can be submitted to: www.iabse.org/kolkata2013. DEEP FOUNDATIONS • JULY/AUG 2012 • 83
