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Frank Frandina

Practice Leader: Project Delivery

Frank Frandina, PE, is the Project Delivery Practice Leader for Hatch Mott MacDonald. With 37 years of experience, he is skilled at managing the delivery of complex, high-visibility transportation and utility projects, and has specialized skills in underground facilities, urban rapid transit systems, and airports.

Frank’s experience has included work on some of the most complex tunnel rehabilitation, subway expansion, highway, and bridge projects throughout North America, for public agencies and authorities, private railroads, and utilities. Most recently, Frank served as the Deputy Project Manager for a $3.4 billion expansion of the Los Angeles International Airport, responsible for the structures and utility groups to support the design of new infrastructure, as well as the management of a large group of subconsultants. He was also the Project Manager for a light rail transit tunnel to extend Toronto’s light rail transit system under a major expressway, and he was the Project Manager for the APM Tunnel Systems project at Washington Dulles International Airport.

Frank has authored or coauthored many technical papers covering subjects including Hatch Mott MacDonald’s work on Norfolk Southern’s Heartland Corridor project, and the design of the Whittier Tunnel in Alaska, which was the recipient of the ASCE Outstanding Civil Achievement Award for 2001 . He is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the United States Green Building Council.