President, Engineer

Mr. Garcia has been practicing engineering as a structural engineer since 1965 in both the private and public arena. This experience includes bridges (both of steel and concrete), retaining walls, cut & cover tunnels, port facilities, transit stations and maintenance facilities. Throughout his career, Mr. Garcia has been extensively involved in large, multi-disciplinary projects. While with the Florida Department of Transportation, he served as District Special Projects Director overseeing the construction of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, as State Structures Design Engineer (Chief Bridge Engineer), he was involved in the design decisions for many of Florida’s major bridges such as the Acosta Bridge, Edison Bridge, Howard Frankland, and many others. As of June 30, 2004, he has been President of his own firm, Garcia Bridge Engineers, P.A., with his partner, Dr. Juan J. Goñi.

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Vice President, Engineer

Dr. Juan José Goñi has over 30 years of engineering experience in both steel and concrete bridge design, foundations and earthquake engineering. Dr. Goñi's experience in complex and emblematic bridges includes his participation in the design and construction of six signature cable-stayed bridges among them the precast concrete segmental Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Bridge with a 750 feet main span and the steel composite Charles River Bridge in Boston with a main span of 745 feet. He is also the author of several technical articles on bridge analysis and design and a chapter on curved concrete box girder bridges in the Structural Engineering Handbook published by McGraw-Hill.

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Engineer

Technician

Joshua has over 7 years using AutoCad and engineering software to draw plans and calculate structural capacities for bridges using AASHTO LRFD Bridge Specifications