DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION OF the SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN BRIDGE
2.1-mile long cable-stayed bridge
September 27, 2021 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM
Presenters
Dr. Marwan Nader, PE
Engineer of Record and Design Manager - Samuel De Champlain Bridge - T.Y. Lin International
Dr. Marwan Nader is a Senior Vice President and T.Y. Lin International’s Bridge Technical Director. He has over 30 years of experience in long-span bridge design and construction. He is the Engineer of Record for the signature cable-stayed span and the Design Manager for the 3.4 km-long, $2.2 Billion CDN Samuel De Champlain Bridge in Montreal, Canada. His global bridge expertise extends from his hometown San Francisco where he is the Engineer of Record for the San-Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the world’s longest self-anchored suspension bridge located in a seismic zone, to the Philippines, where he is the Chef Engineer for the Bataan-Cavite interlink Bridge Project, which consists of two cable-stayed bridges (the longest span length of which is 900 meters).
Marwan is a recipient of ASCE’s Arthur Wellington Award. In 2014, he was selected for the Distinguished Alumni of the Year by American University of Beirut. He is an inductee of the Academy of Distinguished Alumni at UC Berkeley. Marwan was appointed to UC Berkeley’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisory Council, a committee of professional engineers, leaders in business and higher education, and government/policy officials dedicated to furthering the important role of engineering education and research. In 2016, Marwan received the IABMAS Senior Prize in recognition of his contributions to the field of bridge engineering.
Guy mailhot, p.eng., m.eng., fcsce, feic
Chief Engineer - Samuel De Champlain Bridge Corridor - Infrastructure Canada
Mr. Guy Mailhot is a member of the Quebec Order of Engineers. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (FCSCE) and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC).
Employed by Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Inc. since 1999, Guy has worked for Infrastructure Canada since 2012 as Chief Engineer – Samuel De Champlain Bridge Corridor.
For over 30 years, Guy’s career has focused on the design, inspection, and rehabilitation of bridges including Montreal’s most important bridges and the Alex Fraser Bridge in Vancouver, at the time the word’s longest span cable stayed bridge. His last 9 years have been devoted to the Samuel De Champlain Bridge, a signature bridge, recently opened to traffic. He contributed to all phases of this project’s delivery, including prefeasibility studies, preliminary engineering, procurement documentation, the design-build phase, and the design and construction currently underway to incorporate a light-rail transit system on the bridge.
Guy is the recipient of the 1992 C.W. Gilchrist Award from the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC). He received an ACI-CCA Award of Merit from the American Concrete Institute-Cement Association of Canada in 2002, and is also the recipient of the 2010 CSCE P.L. Pratley Award for the Best Paper on Bridge Engineering.