SUNDT EXECUTIVES SELECTED FOR LOCAL AND NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION BOARDS

    John Carlson and Michael Hill of Sundt have been tapped to serve on two prestigious local and national transportation boards, underscoring the expertise and value the Arizona-based company has to offer influential industry organizations in the state and beyond.

    Carlson, vice president, business development manager and director of Sundt’s CMAR, design-build and private-public-partnership pursuits, was appointed to the Transportation Research Board (TRB), a division of the National Research Council (NRC), which is a private, nonprofit institution that provides expertise in science and technology to the government, public, and scientific and engineering communities.

    Carlson is now a member of the TRB’s Committee on Project Delivery Methods. He is the only Arizonan to serve and was selected for his depth of experience in the transportation and business development realms.

Hill, a senior project manager with a special focus on aviation, was recently nominated and elected to a two-year term as corporate director for the Arizona Airport Association board of directors. The association concentrates on the needs of Arizona airports from a legislative and training standpoint, as well as the needs of corporations integral to airport operations. Hill has been involved with the association since April 2004.

Sundt, an employee-owned company headquartered in Tempe, has offices in Tempe, Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; San Diego, Sacramento and Novato, California; and Reno, Nevada. The company builds projects for both public and private clients throughout the United States, including commercial and institutional structures of many types; infrastructure projects such as highways, dams, pipelines and airport facilities; and facilities for the Department of Defense and other federal agencies.

    Two of Sundt’s current high-profile regional projects are the San Diego International Airport and the Fort Bliss Army Post in El Paso, Texas. The San Diego airport construction project is called “The Green Build,” which is expanding Terminal 2. It is a joint venture of Sundt, Turner Construction, PCL Construction Services Inc. and Flatiron Construction Corp. and Kiewit Pacific Co.

    The Fort Bliss Army Post project was the first of nine Military Construction Army projects funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also called the Stimulus Package. Sundt is constructing a $30 million barracks building for Fort Bliss’s new Warriors in Transition Complex, which will house up to 232 wounded soldiers returning from combat as they recover and re-integrate into the Army.

In Arizona, the company’s most-touted project is its joint venture with Kiewit to expand Tucson’s 1-10 freeway. To the delight of ADOT and area residents, the expansion is set to be completed at least six months ahead of schedule.

    In 2008, Sundt completed work on many high-profile projects around Arizona, including the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University’s downtown campus, Dial Headquarters at One Scottsdale and several sections of the Phoenix METRO Light Rail system.  Among the many projects Sundt currently has underway are the 202 freeway expansion in Phoenix, Chandler City Hall and the Mesa Municipal Court Facility.