Gordon Chen, Steven Highfill, and Peter J. Quigley occupy leadership positions in newly created strategic business groups.

New York, NY and Cambridge, MA – Weidlinger announced the appointment of three new principals. The promotions coincide with the creation of three new strategic business groups: East Coast Buildings, West Coast Buildings, and East Coast Infrastructure. Gordon Chen and Steven Highfill lead the East Coast Infrastructure group from Cambridge and New York, respectively. Cambridge-based Peter J. Quigley is one of several principals who lead the East Coast Buildings group. Weidlinger also named six associate principals, seven senior associates, and eight associates.

“As we enter Weidlinger’s 60th year, we celebrate the promotion of three engineers who built their careers with the firm and are working on some of our most challenging projects. They should provide steady leadership during these difficult times and, in collaboration with other talented members of the firm, ensure that our deep resources in advanced analysis and innovative research are used to produce the greenest, safest, and most economical structures possible for our clients,” said Raymond Daddazio, Weidlinger President and CEO.

Ge (Gordon) Chen, PE, joined Weidlinger in 1995 and became head of the firm’s geostructural group in 2005. He is a member of the Deep Foundation Institute and a recognized expert on slurry walls, underground structures, and soil/structure modeling and analysis. He recently designed construction-stage slurry walls in New York City for the Second Avenue Subway and East Side Access projects and worked on the Dey Street concourse in Lower Manhattan. His other projects include pedestrian tunnel structures for Logan Airport; temporary and permanent structures for Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel; foundations for Harvard University and MIT buildings; and interconnecting subway tunnels in downtown Chicago and in Boston. Chen received an MPhil degree in civil engineering from the City University of New York and holds BSCE and MSCE degrees from Zhejiang University, China.

Steven Highfill, PE, relocated from Cambridge to New York in 2003 to manage Weidlinger’s infrastructure group, transferring his expertise from work on Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel and MBTA transit lines to New York public transportation projects. He is currently managing upgrades of several subway stations, including design of the new Dey Street concourse, an underground pedestrian walkway that will connect the WTC PATH terminal to the Fulton Transit Center. Highfill, who has extensive experience in the design of institutional, commercial, and public buildings, joined the firm in 1980, after receiving his BSCE from Northeastern University. He is an active participant of the Transportation and Infrastructure committee of the NY Chapter of AIA.

Peter Quigley, PE, joined Weidlinger in 1987, after receiving his BSCE and MSCE from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His focus is on institutional, commercial, and industrial buildings, but has extended at times to highways, tunnels, mass transit, and physical security. He is currently managing additions to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with Foster + Partners and CBT Architects, and to the MIT Media Lab with Maki and Associates and Leers Weinzapfel Associates. He was project manager for Boston’s State Street Financial office tower (formerly One Lincoln Street) and a covered water storage facility at the Norumbega Reservoir in Weston, Massachusetts. Quigley is a member of the Boston Association of Structural Engineers and on the editorial board of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section Journal.