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SEATTLE — Buckland & Taylor Ltd., a North Vancouver, British Columbia-based engineering company specializing in bridge design, announced the opening of its U.S. office in Seattle’s Queen Anne district. Founded in 1972, the company is recognized throughout North America and internationally as a leader in the design, evaluation, rehabilitation, seismic retrofit, and construction engineering of bridges of all sizes and types.

The Seattle office is already pursuing and winning projects and has recently started work on the $100 million design-build Milton Madison Bridge project spanning between Milton, Ky., and Madison, Ind. Using a method called “truss sliding,” a new 3,181-foot-long truss will be moved along steel rails and plates and will “slide” into place atop the existing piers, which will be rehabilitated (To read more about this project, click here). The “truss sliding” method also was used recently on another Buckland & Taylor project in North Vancouver: Capilano Bridge.

The Seattle office will be led by Buckland & Taylor’s Director, U.S. Practice, Scott Roux. Roux has 15 years of technical structural engineering experience, working on a wide range of infrastructure projects in Canada, the United States, and other countries. Roux earned his bachelor’s and master's degrees from the University of British Columbia, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Iowa. He is a licensed structural engineer in Hawaii, as well as a licensed professional engineer in Washington state, British Columbia, and Alberta.

New hires in the Seattle office include two senior bridge engineers, Greg Griffin and Alan Cukurs; three junior bridge engineers, Brandon McGinnis, Aaron Pettis, and Emily Roche; and a marketing and business development coordinator, Melissa Philpott.