Shannon & Wilson is expanding its underground services practice with strategic hire Axel Nitschke, PhD, PE, leading the effort as the firm’s new director of operations for underground services. Shannon & Wilson seeks to widen its national underground services portfolio and provide full-service underground consulting and engineering to transportation, utility, and other infrastructure clients throughout the United States and Canada.
Nitschke, based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., Metro office, will focus on growing the firm’s underground practice in new geographic markets and for new clients.
Nitschke is a 20-year veteran of the underground services industry working on road, rail, and utility tunnel projects for infrastructure and mining clients in both urban and remote areas throughout North America, South America, and Europe.
With the addition of Nitschke, Red Robinson will shift his role to director of marketing for underground services. Robinson has been with Shannon & Wilson since 1974, and he has more than 40 years of underground experience consulting on 300 plus tunnel projects throughout the U.S. and abroad for city, state, and federal agencies, construction contractors, private industry, and railroads. He has written or co-authored more than 60 papers and 200 technical presentations for professional publications and associations.
