Title: Project Manager
Department: Structural-Bridge
What is your role at Larson Design Group?: Manage bridge design projects in our Lititz staff with a growing staff of five engineers and designers. Projects range in size from small concrete box culverts to multiple span bridges with steel and prestressed concrete beams and everything in between. Also responsible for construction services work contracted directly with bridge contractors, including design-build bridge projects, temporary bridge designs, temporary support of excavation designs, demolition plans, and temporary falsework plans.
What is your background?: Registered Professional Engineer in four states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York. Eighteen years experience in the transportation industry focusing on bridges, culverts, and other structures, including one year as a project manager and estimator for a bridge construction company. Experience has been primarily in Pennsylvania but also includes projects in New Jersey, Maryland, New York, Delaware, and Virginia.
What do you enjoy in your free time?: Ordained Minister in the Church of the Brethren. Married with four wonderful daughters. Enjoy camping, reading, computers, and growing tomatoes.
Posted in Bridge Design | Communities | Education | Employees | Leadership | Municipal Services | Professional Development | Structural Engineering | Transportation by Quentin D. Rissler, PE (Structural-Bridge) on August 24, 2011
At least once a year, I participate in middle school career fairs to talk about being a bridge engineer. While I have many stories I find interesting and enjoy my career and the challenges of each day, I do not want to bore the students. So I developed a fairly simple exercise that I have been doing with each group of students.
I ask for 2 volunteers to help me design the best bridge for this location – which is just a box but could represent any of the thousands of bridges that need to be designed. See photo 1 for the working materials which includes various sizes of wood, a steel tube, a brick, and a cardboard tube.
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Posted in Bridge Design | Client Service | Codes & Regulations | Communication | Communities | Economic Development | Structural Engineering by Quentin D. Rissler, PE (Structural-Bridge) on October 20, 2010
Photo: Cocalico No. 3 bridge in Lancaster County © Larson Design Group
Transportation funding has been in the news with discussions on the need to repair, maintain, and improve our extensive network of roads and bridges, not to mention mass transit facilities. As in most discussions of finances, we tend to boil it down to whether we need more money or if we can cut costs to be more cost effective in what we are already doing. > Read the rest of this article
