VHB places two senior engineers to White Plains office

VHB Engineering, Surveying and Landscape Architecture, P.C. (VHB) has appointed two senior engineers, Mike Junghans, PE, PP and John Canning, PE, to serve clients in the Westchester and mid-Hudson Valley area. VHB has been working in the region for almost a decade and acquired Saccardi & Schiff in 2010 to augment its New York operations. Junghans, who previously served as office manager at VHB's Edison, New Jersey office, will be working on site/civil engineering projects in the Westchester and mid-Hudson Valley area. Canning, who joined VHB as a project manager, will lead the White Plains office's transportation division. A 10-year veteran of VHB, Junghans' areas of expertise include land development, permitting, site design layout, grading, utility design as well as stormwater management, residential development, and Brownfields redevelopment. Junghans has worked on retail, corporate, industrial and government projects throughout the New York metropolitan area. Junghans obtained his bachelor of science degree in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University and his master of science degree in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University. Junghans regularly provides engineering services to Stop & Shop, Garden Commercial Properties, Garden Homes, CVS, Digital Realty Trust, and JP Morgan Chase. Canning's experience focuses on traffic engineering and transportation planning on projects with a combined construction value exceeding $2 billion, including City Center, the Ritz Carlton, Bank Street Commons, and Avalon in White Plains as well as New Roc City and Trump Plaza in New Rochelle. In addition to managing projects, staffing and scheduling, Mr. Canning provides cost control and quality assurance services and has served as a liaison with public and private clients. He has extensive experience preparing traffic impact studies, accident/pedestrian analyses and parking utilization studies. Canning's experience includes serving as the transportation consultant for the towns of Bedford, Cortlandt and Woodbury and the Villages of Elmsford, Tarrytown, Port Chester and Nyack. Canning obtained his degree in civil engineering from the University College of Dublin. VHB is affiliated with Watertown, Mass.-based Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., a 850-person firm that provides integrated planning, transportation, land development, and environmental services from 21 offices along the east coast. Engineering News-Record ranks VHB 80th of the Top 500 U.S. Design Firms and among the Top 50 Transportation Firms in the Nation. For more information, visit www.vhb.com.