About Aldea

Aldea provides expert engineers and geologists for design and construction management of heavy civil underground projects and risk management of all major infrastructure projects.

Our experience includes:

Aldea participated in key roles for some of the largest infrastructure programs in the nation, including LA Metro Purple Line Extension, Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement, Montreal Airport Station, and various major CSO programs.

LEADERSHIP

Bob Goodfellow, President
ROBERT GOODFELLOW

President

Global expertise in tunnel design and construction, technologies of tunnelling and contracting strategies. Risk management expert, having published widely on the topic and contributed to national and international guidelines documents.

PAUL HEADLAND

Senior Vice President, Geological Services

Over 25 years of global underground design and construction experience with expertise in engineering geology. Nationally recognized expert in trenchless technology, with appointments and papers at national and international conferences.

JIM BRADY

Regional Manager, Southeast

Over 30 years of tunnel and underground design and construction experience with expertise in soft ground and hard rock tunnels, quantitative risk management, and cost estimating.

MIKE NUHFER

Regional Manager, Midwest

Over 25 years experience in design and construction management of tunnels and underground structures in extremely challenging geology. Expertise includes complex data management, geotechnical engineering, and risk management.

NICHOLE BOULTBEE

Regional Manager, Canada-West

Over 15 years of underground experience in geotechnical investigation, design, and construction for numerous tunnel and infrastructure projects in North America, South America, and Australia. Expertize in water, wastewater, and mining projects.

ASHLEY HECKMAN

Regional Manager, Northwest

Over 20 years underground design and construction experience with expertise in ground characterization, tunnel lining analysis and design, site inspection, condition assessment and construction management.

ANGEL DEL AMO

Regional Manager, West

Over 15 years of global experience in tunnel design working with contractors on major design build projects. Expertise in tunnel design and structural engineering for tunnel lining, concrete segments, and temporary works.

CHRISTIAN MAGUIRE

Construction Management Director

Over 30 years of global design and construction management experience on major design build tunnel infrastructure projects on four continents. Expertise in construction management, contract practices, and geotechnical engineering.

FEDERICA MERCURIELLO

Sr Tunnel Engineer/Project Manager

Over ten years of international experience in design and construction of tunnels for transit and water/wastewater projects. Expertise in temporary support design, numerical analysis, and contract document preparation.

BEN YANG
Senior Structural Engineer

Over 25 years of underground design experience using reinforced concrete and structural steel for tunnel lining, deep foundations, and temporary support of excavation. Expertise in soil-structure interaction, seismic design and tunnel lining design.

OFFICES

Frederick

Corporate Headquarters
5940 Frederick Crossing Lane, Suite 101
Frederick, Maryland 21704

 

Phone: 301.355.9703
Fax: 301.355.9705

Columbus

1900 Polaris Pkwy

Suite 450
Columbus, Ohio 43240

 

740.972.6838

Denver

18274 W. Plymouth Pl

Littleton, CO 80128

 

 

301.979.7485

Los Angeles

17180 Coriander Court
Yorba Linda, CA 92886


 

213.294.6688

Atlanta

403 W Ponce de Leon Ave
Suite 120B
Decatur, Georgia  30030

 

404.600.4110

Miami

48 NE 88th Street

El Portal, Florida  33138

 

 

786.563.0012

Vancouver

#220 – 145 Chadwick Court
North Vancouver, BC

V7M 3K

 

604.628.3491

Toronto

90 Allstate Parkway

Markham, ON 

L3R 6H3

 

905.910.0476

With over 20 years in the industry, Aldea is at the forefront of the underground construction industry. Aldea has expertise in water, wastewater, cable conduit, gas pipeline, transit and highway projects.

INDUSTRY INVOLVEMENT

Aldea is a leader in the tunnel industry. Our involvement in industry associations runs deep, with our President, Bob Goodfellow, serving as the current Chair of the American Underground Construction Association (UCA of SME). Mr. Goodfellow also writes a regular opinion piece as “The Insider” in the North American Tunneling Journal magazine. Senior Vice President, Paul Headland, serves on the organizing committee of No-Dig, the major trenchless technology conference (organized by NASTT); and also serves as the liaison between UCA and the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG).

Jim Brady provides liaison between UCA and the International Tunneling Association and Underground Space (ITA) for their working group on lifetime costing of underground infrastructure; and Angel del Amo is actively contributing to the publication of several works on EPBM tunneling and precast concrete segment design and construction for ITATech, the technical products and manuals committees within the ITA.

Other Aldea Engineers assist with the UCA young members, women in tunneling professional organizations, and serve on organizing committees for all of the major tunneling conferences in the US and Canada.

Our senior professionals have been instrumental in major industry publications, such as:

  • History of Tunneling in the United States
  • Guidelines for Improved Risk Management Practice on Tunnel & Underground Projects (GIRM)
  • Better Contracting Practices Manual
  • Use of Concrete in underground construction

Other roles and industry involvement include:

  • American Underground Construction Association (UCA of SME) – Chair of Executive Committee
  • American Underground Construction Association (UCA of SME) – Chair of Task Force to improve state of the practice when using concrete in underground application
  • George Fox Conference Organizing Committee (2007 to present)
  • Transportation Research Board (TRB) – Tunnel and Underground Construction Committee Member
  • TRB – Past Chair of Sub- Committee on Tunnel Rehabilitation; Session Chair (2005, 2008)
  • North American Tunneling Conference (NAT) – Organizing Committee (2004), Session Chair (2006)

  • Rapid Excavation and Tunnel Conference (RETC) – Session Chair (2005, 2009, and 2015)

  • Invited lecturer: Colorado School of Mines. “Breakthroughs in Tunneling.” Lecturer in risk management (2008-present).

  • Invited lecturer: Colorado School Of Mines. “Microtunneling Short Course.” Lecturer in risk management (2009-present).

  • Regular Columnist for North American Tunnelling Journal magazine (2010-present)

  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

  • Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG)

  • British Tunneling Society (BTS)

  • Underground Construction Association (UCA)

  • North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT)

  • ASCE HDD Executive Committee

  • ASCE Pipe Jacking Executive Committee

  • Tunnelling Association of Canada (TAC)

  • Association of Engineering Geologists (AEG)

  • American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)

  • Underground Construction Association of SME (UCA of SME)

  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

  • Georgia Society of Professional Engineers (GSPE)

  • Disputes Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF)

  • Society of Mining Engineers

  • Women in Tunneling