Guy Rouelle, AAAE

DuBois & King is pleased to announce that Guy Rouelle, AAAE, has joined the firm’s Airport Engineering group as Senior Airport Planner. Guy brings to DuBois & King 33 years of varied, in-depth experience working in and around airports. His expertise includes an understanding of public administration, planning, project development, contracts and grants administration, airport operations and maintenance, security, property management, easement acquisition, airport facilities, and FAA and airport regulations.

Most recently, Guy served as the Vermont Aeronautics Administrator overseeing the ten state airports. In this position, Guy was ultimately responsible for the execution and distribution of work through the state aeronautical service retainer contracts, and he provided oversight of the entire Vermont State aviation property management program, which involved more than 270 airport leases. During his tenure, Guy transformed many state airports from a condition of disrepair to fully functional, FAA-compliant, revenue-generating airports. He had the vision and trusted relationships with local, state and federal regulators, the congressional delegation and the FAA to secure discretionary funding to address 56 years of delayed repairs to Vermont airports in under 6 years.

Guy’s previous positions have included aviation education coordinator, aviation accident investigator, and chief pilot for the Vermont Agency of Transportation. He is a master flight instructor and DOD Air Traffic Control Examiner, and he served in the U.S. Army Aviation Branch and the U.S. Air Force. Guy holds multiple aeronautical ratings, including commercial pilot, multi-engine rating, certified flight instrument instructor, FAA Designated Pilot Examiner, and TERP instructor. He holds a master’s degree in Aeronautical Operations, a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Science and an associates degree in meteorology.

Guy’s deep expertise in all things airport combined with his passion for the aviation industry make him a strong asset to D&K’s airport engineering team. Guy lives in East Calais, Vermont, and works in the firm’s Randolph headquarters. Contact Guy at grouelle@dubois-king.com.

Courtesy Rutgers CAIT/Drew Noel Photography ©2015

Courtesy Rutgers CAIT/Drew Noel Photography ©2015

Courtesy Rutgers CAIT/Drew Noel Photography ©2015

On October 14, Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) in Piscataway, New Jersey, unveiled the Bridge Evaluation and Accelerated Structural Testing Lab (BEAST), the world’s first accelerated testing facility for full-scale bridges.

Applied Research Associates, Inc, (ARA), an international research and engineering company, designed and built the core of testing facility in their Randolph, Vermont location. DuBois & King supported ARA with civil/site design, permitting, and structural engineering services including design of concrete abutments and foundation design for the environmental simulation enclosure. Site engineering included utility relocations, coordination of electrical design for 1200 KVA and as-built survey of the rail system.

According to the CAIT website, the BEAST will be used to “quantitatively measure stresses and deterioration caused by extreme traffic and environmental loading on full-scale bridge systems—and do so in an extremely compressed time frame. Data from the BEAST will allow us to project future performance and longevity of bridge materials and components. The BEAST subjects bridge specimens to rapid-cycling environmental changes and extreme traffic loading to induce and speed up deterioration as much as 30 times, making it possible to simulate 15 to 20 years of wear-and-tear in just a few months.”

“We anticipate being able to validate how various bridge designs, construction materials, and elements can be expected to perform decades from now and give bridge owners empirical evidence to support decision making,” says CAIT research engineering project manager Andrés Roda.

Additional information can be found here:

http://cait.rutgers.edu/beast/ready-to-roll