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JAMEY BARBAS – SUMMARY BIOGRAPHY
Registration
Professional Engineer:
New York
Education
BS,CE 1982
Columbia University
BA, 1981
Barnard College
Jamey Barbas, PE is the Project Director, charged with
replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York with the
Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge – one of the largest
bridge projects in the US, on behalf of the New York
State Thruway Authority.
A transformative senior executive with a career in
bridge design and construction, she has held
leadership positions in several international consulting
firms. Her industry experience includes the
development of the infrastructure business for
international firms, such as Arup, where she was the
Principal that initiated the bridge practice and grew
the infrastructure business in North America as well
as the Senior Vice President and Global Practice
Leader for Louis Berger. Her duties included
leadership of the strategic, operational and technical
aspects for the practice, as well as corporate
leadership roles in Risk and Quality Management.
A registered professional engineer with over 35 years
of experience in bridge management, design,
construction and inspection, she has expertise on
successful delivery of complex and long span bridges
and tunnels utilizing Alternative Delivery such as
Design/Build, Public Private Partnership and CMGC.
Barbas’ experience includes a number of award
winning, domestic and international projects. She has
led the inspection, design and construction support
services for the reconstruction of the Williamsburg
Bridge in NYC - one of the largest bridge
reconstruction projects ever undertaken in the U.S.
and led the design of the major bridges of the
AutoRoute 30 project in Montreal, Canada - one of
the largest P3 bridge projects in North America.
Barbas is a native New Yorker, graduate of Barnard
College and the Columbia University School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences. She has written
numerous technical papers and was named by
Engineering News Record as one of their top
Newsmakers of 2004 for her work in providing an
emergency solution to a failing historic suspension
bridge.
She also serves on the board of directors for Bridges
to Prosperity, a non-profit that provides footbridges in
rural communities to increase access to schools,
health care and market.
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