Transit design, construction management expert Trabold joins HNTB
Trabold’s background encompasses work on many key infrastructure projects, including New York City Transit’s enhanced station initiative.


Michael Trabold PE, joined HNTB Corp. as a senior project manager and VP in the New York transit/rail practice, based in the firm’s Empire State Building office.
He has more than 28 years of experience in transit design, construction management and tunneling, including design-build projects, with transportation agencies in the New York City area and Washington, D.C.

Michael Trabold PE, joined HNTB Corp. as a senior project manager and VP in the New York transit/rail practice.
Trabold’s background encompasses work on many key infrastructure projects, including New York City Transit’s enhanced station initiative — a design-build program — and serving in various roles in both design and construction, including project manager for the Second Avenue subway line extension.
He also has served as lead structural engineer on multiple design packages for the Gateway Tunnel project, project engineer for the Dey Street Tunnel project, which is a design-build contract that became part of NYCT’s Fulton Street Station complex, and project engineer for a Metro North Railroad facility at Grand Central Station as well as NYCT entrances at the Times Square station.
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