The new location, located at 8201 Greensboro Drive, Suite 300, Tysons Corner, Virginia, 22102, is Shannon & Wilson’s 12th office, and allows the company to better serve clients throughout the Northeastern U.S. in addition to its already established offices in St. Louis, Missouri and Jacksonville, Florida.
The new Washington, D.C. Metro office, which will be overseen by new hire Axel Nitschke, vice president and director of operations for underground services, is a part of a strategic move to widen Shannon & Wilson’s national underground services portfolio. Nitschke will jointly lead Shannon & Wilson’s underground services department with Red Robinson. In addition, he will be in charge of Shannon & Wilson’s upcoming pursuits of underground projects nationwide, the company said. From this new location, Shannon & Wilson will offer a full spectrum of geotechnical and underground services, and Nitschke will take an active role in strengthening Shannon & Wilson’s presence in the Northeastern Corridor.
"Nitschke’s hire is a strategic move as Shannon & Wilson widens its national underground services portfolio," the firm said in a release. Later adding, "by hiring Dr. Nitschke, Shannon & Wilson has taken steps to become a full-service underground services provider, adding and emphasizing structural design, cost estimating, scheduling, and construction management to its portfolio of underground services."
A 20-year veteran of the underground services industry, Nitschke has experience in wide-ranging aspects of tunnelling, including design, management, QA/QC, safety, and construction. He has worked on road, rail and utility tunnel projects for civil infrastructure as well as mining clients in both highly congested urban areas and remote conditions with clients including Sound Transit, New Jersey Transit, CALTRANS, DC Water, and agencies throughout Europe, as well as a multitude of construction companies. His practical experience builds on a solid scientific knowledge of tunneling, which he has gained during his graduate and post-graduate studies as a research assistant at Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB) in Germany.
