On January 6, Walker Consultants announced the appointment of five new company officers. Walker currently has 31 officers based throughout the company’s 22 nationwide locations providing multi-discipline engineering, restoration, and consulting services. Congratulations to the following leaders for their contributions to the team and success!

 

Al Bustamante, PE (Houston) has been promoted to Senior Vice President. Al is the National Director of Forensic Restoration and is responsible for coordinating the firm’s activities in the evaluation, testing, and design repairs of a variety of structural, architectural, and material distress related projects. His experience includes nondestructive testing of concrete structures, computer modeling and analysis of steel and masonry structures, design of repairs for steel structures, and building envelope assessments, and investigation and repair of parking structures.

 

Todd Lohman, PE (Indianapolis) has been promoted to Senior Vice President. Todd is the Managing Principal for Walker’s Indianapolis office of Walker Consultants and the Managing Director of firm’s Southeast Region. He has project experience in both precast and post-tensioned concrete design and has been involved in the durability design and maintenance recommendations on a wide range of facility types. Todd is responsible for parking consulting, design, and restoration for mixed-use, airport, university, and hospital parking projects.

 

Dave Ryan, PE (Chicago) has been promoted to Senior Vice President. Dave is Managing Director of the Central Region for Walker. Dave oversees Walker’s Chicago, Michigan, and Minneapolis offices and is responsible for overall project planning, budgeting, scheduling, quality assurance and the overall delivery process meeting Walker’s goals and client needs. Dave has experience in all aspects of Walker services including new design, restoration, parking consulting, studies, master planning and car park management systems.

 

Art Stadig, PE (Boston) has been promoted to Senior Vice President. Art Stadig is the Managing Director for Walker’s Northeast Region and Managing Principal for Walker’s Boston office. He is an expert in parking design, parking consulting and master planning and has helped clients throughout the nation optimize their parking possibilities. Art joined Walker Consultants in 1985 after several years of experience with other design firms.

 

Anurag Jain, PhD, PE (Los Angeles) has been promoted to Vice President. Dr. Jain has over 20 years of experience designing, analyzing and investigating structures for extreme loads. His expertise is in the area of earthquake and wind engineering and structural dynamics. He has completed numerous investigations for damage caused by extreme winds, earthquakes, fire, ground movement, construction-induced vibrations, construction defects, design omissions and corrosion. Dr. Jain also uses computer modeling to determine the cause of structural failures.

What to Expect

A great resource for Parking Consultants, the 3rd Edition of Shared Parking is now available and is intended to help provide “Just enough, No Regrets” parking stock for future mixed-use development projects.

Walker’s Mary Smith, Senior Vice President, Director of Parking Consulting, co-Chair and Principal Author of the 3rd Edition of Shared Parking has provided a synopsis of updates and modifications made to the revised resource.  To learn more about the changes and updates, read it here.

 

WALKER CONSULTANTS’ Board of Directors recently named three new Managing Directors to its senior management team.

 

Art Stadig, PE,  Managing Principal of the Boston office, and a thirty-four-year employee, Art has held positions in five of WALKER’s offices.  Art will now lead the firm’s newly created Northeast Region to include Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.

 

 

 

 

Todd Lohman, PE has been with WALKER since 1998 and oversees the Indianapolis office.  He will now lead the Southeast Region (Indianapolis, Charlotte, Atlanta and Tampa) for the firm.

 

 

 

 

David Ryan, PE currently oversees the firm’s two Chicago area offices.  He began his career with WALKER in 1998 as an entry level structural engineer.  As Managing Director of the Central Region, he will now lead the Chicago, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, and Minneapolis offices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join our Indianapolis office at this year’s SCUP Northeast Regional Conference

 

As one of this years sponsors, Jeff Smallidge, PE, LEED AP BD+C and Todd Lohman, PE, Vice President and Managing Principal of the Indianapolis office will be in attendance.

 

 

 

Todd will also be presenting “Autonomous Vehicles and the Impact on Parking” Tuesday October 2nd at 3:45 PM EDT.  Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the transition to AV’s and how they may affect parking for higher education facilities and adaptive reuse of existing facilities.

For more information about the conference click here.

Duke University Garage’s Sustainable Design Cuts Energy Cost in Half

 

At Duke University, the Science Drive Garage anchors the main campus portal.

Building the garage on an existing lot maximizes land use and provides users with access to public transportation, lodging, educational facilities, and sporting venues.

The garage’s environmentally friendly design begins with the entry plaza, which includes a mix of green space and hardscape and hundreds of trees and shrubs.

EV-LEV and Bikes

Faced with limited parking and a steady increase in demand, the university built this sustainable garage as the primary parking facility for graduate and professional students on West Campus. The garage also adds parking access  for the athletic facilities where some parking was lost to new construction. It has electric vehicle charging stations on all tiers, low-emissions vehicle spaces, and moped, motorcycle, and bike parking.

 

“The Science Drive Garage is optimized with energy saving components, leading to a 50 percent reduction in energy costs.”

Light Harvesting

The parking fixtures have individual motion/photocell controls to maximize light harvesting. Roof and exterior fixtures feature photocell controls.

 

Ready for Back-Up

In lieu of site generators, emergency power is provided externally by the university. An uninterruptible power source system is provided for strategic equipment.

AVI Emissions

PARCS equipment, including automatic vehicle identification (AVI) for permit holders, streamlines the garage access. It maximizes traffic flow efficiency, thereby reducing emissions from cars searching for parking spaces.

 

Todd A. Lohman, PE, is a vice president at WALKER CONSULTANTS.

Email him at TLohman@walkerconsultants.com.

 

As printed in PARKING September 2018 Issue.  Click the link to the left view the current issue.