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ON THE MOVE BRIDGE ARCHITECTS MAX NASAB AND MICAH DODSON JOIN FINLEY BRIDGE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING FIRM, FINLEY ENGINEERING GROUP (BEST FIRM #2 STRUCTURAL FOR 2016) IS PROUD TO WELCOME BRIDGE ARCHITECTS MAXIM NASAB, AIA, MRAIC, LEED GREEN ASSOCIATE AND MICAH DODSON, AIA NCARB, LEED GREEN ASSOCIATE, TO ITS GROWING INTERNATIONAL FIRM. THESE TWO KEY HIRES WILL EXPAND FINLEY’S BRIDGE AESTHETICS, BRIDGE INFORMATION MODELING, AND DESIGN VISUALIZATION CAPABILITIES. Nasab has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from Savannah College of Art and Design where he graduated with honors, was on the dean’s list, and is a LEED Green Associate. Nasab studied the importance of bridge architecture in his thesis, “Connection Through Intersection: An Urbanized Bridge for Montréal, Québec “ and received the coveted Student Voice Award for his research. This thesis was also published in Montréal newspapers, including The Gazette , the Journal Métro , and the American journal Next City . Max brings his five years’ experience working in the United States, Canada, and China with various architecture firms on project types including bridges, modular housing, governmental buildings, opera houses, and museums. He has worked on dozens of bridge projects as lead bridge architect and project manager. Some key projects include the George V. Voinovich Bridge Design-Build in Cleveland Ohio and the Kosciuszko Bridge Design-Build in New York.

Nasab has published nine articles on bridge architecture topics. He currently serves on the AIA Tallahassee President’s Taskforce, the Transportation Research Board Aesthetics Committee, and is an active member of the U.S. Green Building Council and the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada. Nasab will be FINLEY’S bridge architect providing bridge aesthetics, bridge information modeling, and design visualizations. “As a bridge architect, joining the FINLEY team was an essential step in advancing my knowledge and design skills in the industry. The prospect of working directly with Craig Finley and the entire FINLEY team is wonderful opportunity for me. I enjoy the daily interactions between bridge architects and bridge engineers to deliver enhanced designs that are fully integrated functionally and visually.” said Nasab. Dodson has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, graduated magna cum laude, and is a LEED Green Associate. He has six years’ experience in bridge architecture where he has been involved in design, development, and construction administration on a wide range of bridge types such as steel girder, cast-in-place segmental, precast span-by-span, cable stayed, and extradosed bridges. As a bridge architect, Dodson has developed and produced drawings, renderings, models, and graphics for project presentations. He has served as an internal project manager for the design of a major architectural lighting

package and has expertise in website design, 3-D printing, and virtual reality. Some key projects include Kosciuszko Bridge Design- Build in New York, the George V. Voinovich Bridge Design-Build in Cleveland, Ohio, and the U.S. 181 Harbor Bridge Replacement Project Design-Build in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Architects Tallahassee Chapter where he currently serves on the presidential advisory committee. Dodson’s title is bridge architect, providing bridge aesthetics, bridge information modeling, and design visualizations. “I have always enjoyed the combination of creativity and mechanics. I am very fortunate to have been responsible for developing 3-D models and visualization graphics for complicated, high-profile projects. New technologies are beginning to integrate virtual reality into bridge projects which will provide better visualization of the final project and eliminate the possibilities for project errors.” said Dodson. “Bringing Max and Micah to the FINLEY team has expanded our bridge information modeling and bridge aesthetic capabilities for our projects in our United States and international markets. Every complex bridge project has aesthetic requirements and these bridges are viewed and acclaimed by the public as signature bridges. FINLEY now offers full in-house bridge aesthetics and bridge visualization capabilities. The addition of Max and Micah, along with our recent transition to SOFiSTiK and AutoCAD, now provide full BIM

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gards to long-termkey issues, especially the operational side of such complex projects, says Martin Murphy, a director at Hill’s office in Madrid. In Spain, Hill has worked on many projects developed under a similar setup as those in Turkey, like long-term, 25-plus years of concession contracts with transfer of construction and availability risks from the pub- lic to the private sector. “Our client wishes to transfer some of the lessons learned in other more mature markets with similar PPP models and requested that this knowledge transfer come from Hill’s team in Spain.” Hill’s foray into Turkey takes place against the backdrop of the firm’s long-standing relationship with the Madrid Regional Health System, with the company being award- ed a contract to provide operational monitoring services for 11 hospitals throughout the region of Madrid. There, Hill supports hospitals with a methodology for the ad- ministration and monitoring of concession contracts

under the PPP schemes, in both the construction and op- erational phases of a project. The experience positioned the company as a premier consultant for this type of service within the industry, and that experience comes in handy in Turkey. The role of Hill Spain will be to focus on the identification of key issues regarding project commissioning and start up, which could generate risk either on the correct operation of the hospital, or on the delivery of services transferred to the concessionaire company. A team from Spain is expected to visit the Turkey site once a month. “Our client wishes to transfer some of the lessons learned in other more mature markets with similar PPP models and re- quested that this knowledge transfer come from Hill’s team in Spain,” Murphy says. “What we have provided is also a layer of support and added value to the technical QA/QC function provided by Hill Turkey.”

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