Mr. Zerges is a waterfront engineer based in New York City, responsible for project management, quality assurance and control, engineering design and oversight, contract review and execution, accounting, value engineering and preparation of construction documents. He has worked as an engineer in the field of waterfront engineering for 25 years, including everything from structural design and inspection to hydraulic modeling in both coastal and inland environments. He is a Professional Engineer-Diver, certified bridge inspector, and certified weld inspector with extensive experience in heavy civil and waterfront engineering, construction and inspection projects. He has performed above water and underwater inspections of timber, steel and concrete structures throughout the United States, as well as structural design and rehabilitation of bridges, piers, and bulkheads. Mr. Zerges is experienced in all phases of waterfront construction, having managed and executed projects of all sizes from bid to close-out. In addition, he has lengthy expertise at composing condition reports and recommending design repairs for inspected facilities inspecting marine facilities for corrosion and designing cathodic protection systems leading marine field teams as a licensed Captain and certified diving supervisor and conducted logistical planning for field operations. He has been in marine construction and inspection diving since the early 1990’s, starting work in the marina industry, and was owner/operator of a mid-west dock and pile driving business in the early 2000’s. Mr. Zerges' experience is not limited to structural engineering. He has a graduate certificate in coastal engineering and has performed coastal wave and tidal bridge scour modeling analysis and design of bridge scour and protective measures urban storm water and sanitary sewer design including field study and instrumentation design, installation and monitoring marina design and construction and, bridge scour and stream stability field analysis. Mr. Zerges is also a published co-author for multiple hydraulic publications for the Federal highway Administration.
EDUCATION
B.S. Civil Engineering/2001/Colorado State UniversityCoastal Engineering Graduate Cert./2009/Old Dominion University Underwater Bridge Inspection Technician/ 2002 and 2009/NHI Commercial Surface Supplied Diving Training/2002/Florida State University Arctic Engineering/2010/Univ. of Alaska Stream Stability & Scour at Highway Bridges for Bridge Inspectors, NHI/USACE
KEY SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS
PE/NY/#089322 PE/CO/#44456PE/AK/#12735Air Diver Certification #8154/2003/ADCIAir Diving Supervisor #10863/2004/ADCIUSCG Captain License #1092115Certified Corrosion Technician/2002/NACECert. Weld Inspector #2017613/2011/AWSBridge In-Service Safety Inspector/2010/NHIOSHA 10-Hr & 30-Hr Construction
