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NEW YORK — Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, and Hardesty & Hanover, the 120-year-old bridge engineering firm, have formed a strategic alliance to collaborate on the evaluation and engineering of transportation infrastructure and movable structures.

The alliance unites Thornton Tomasetti’s global reach in the design and evaluation of stadiums, arenas, and special structures, and Hardesty & Hanover’s expertise in the transportation sector as well as architectural kinetics.

Both firms have extensive experience in the transportation and sport markets. Hardesty & Hanover has worked on bridges and other moveable structures nationally and internationally. Thornton Tomasetti has designed or evaluated more than 35 major sports facilities, and conducted a forensic investigation of the August 2007 collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis. It maintains 18 offices, including six outside North America.

The two firms collaborated on the replacement of the drive system for the five retractable roof panels at Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. They also worked together to determine the cause of premature wheel bearing failures for the retractable roof drive system of another stadium, and on a multidisciplinary evaluation of the 34-year-old Roosevelt Island Aerial Tramway system in New York City.

For more information, visit www.thorntontomasetti.com or www.hardesty-hanover.com.