{"id":26282,"date":"2024-04-09T19:36:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T09:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=26282"},"modified":"2024-04-09T19:36:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T09:36:52","slug":"pat-porzillo-to-serve-as-hdrs-transit-engineering-director-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=26282","title":{"rendered":"Pat Porzillo to serve as HDR\u2019s Transit Engineering Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

HDR\u2019s<\/a> Pat Porzillo, P.E., was recently promoted to be the firm\u2019s transit engineering director.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Working out of Washington, D.C., Porzillo will provide technical leadership focused on transit engineering design and implementation services for light rail, subway, automated people movers and commuter rail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s transit ridership environment is fast-changing, and Porzillo will help HDR\u2019s<\/a> transit teams monitor trends to better understand, serve and connect clients and communities. He will provide direction and oversight through all phases of projects, from planning through preliminary engineering, final design and construction to the initiation of service. Porzillo will work with teams to leverage resilient and emerging technologies, developing tailored solutions that tackle communities\u2019 greatest transit challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur industry is in a position of sustained growth \u2014 transit is evolving with new off-peak ridership improvements and transitioning from serving the commuter via suburbs to downtown core to other destinations for entertainment and sports,\u201d Porzillo said. \u201cWe have an opportunity to support new and emerging ridership trends and develop infrastructure to connect new destinations as well as developing new revenue opportunities for our transit clients.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Porzillo has 37 years of experience in planning, design, construction, and maintenance and operations of transportation infrastructure. His experience includes serving as chief engineer of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority,<\/a> associate vice president of commuter rail for the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, deputy division engineer at Amtrak, and track, bridge and building supervisor at Norfolk Southern. Porzillo implemented infrastructure upgrades that enabled the Acela high-speed operation in Amtrak\u2019s Northeast Corridor. As a project manager, he\u2019s led contracts valued at up to $1.5 billion across the U.S. and overseen teams of up to 1,000 employees.<\/p>\n

Active in the overall transportation industry, Porzillo is a member of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association<\/a>\u2019s Ties and Fasteners Committee and the Rail Transit Committee. He\u2019s also a member of the American Public Transit Association\u2019s Noise and Vibration Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cPat possesses deep technical knowledge combined with diverse public agency and consultant-led project experiences which are invaluable,\u201d said Matt Tucker, HDR\u2019s<\/a> Global Transit Director. \u201cI look forward to collaborating with him as we partner with the transit industry to develop and implement infrastructure improvements that enhance the quality of life in communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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HDR\u2019s Pat Porzillo, P.E., was recently promoted to be the firm\u2019s transit engineering director.\u00a0 Working out of Washington, D.C., Porzillo will provide technical leadership focused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,47,488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-opinion","category-rail-news","category-railway-stations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}