Instructor Profile.

Nasri Munfakh, P.E. is a Partner and a Principal of Gall Zeidler Consultants (GZ), a global specialty tunnelling and underground engineering firm with offices in the US, Canada, UK, Austria, India, and Latin America.

Mr. Munfah has over 40 years of experience in tunnelling and underground engineering design and construction, including TBM, SEM/NATM, cut and cover, and Immersed Tube Tunnels for transportation, water/wastewater, and energy projects. He has been responsible for successfully delivering multi-billion-dollar projects from conceptual engineering through construction and operation. Among his notable projects is the $12B East Side Access Program in New York; the $15B Gateway Program in New York; the Alaskan Way Tunnel in Seattle, a 17.45 m (57’-3") diameter TBM tunnel; the Istanbul Strait Crossing, a 13.7m (45 ft) diameter underwater roadway tunnel with 11 bars water pressure; California High-Speed Rail Program; the Regional Connector in Los Angeles; and the Central Subway project in San Francisco.

Mr. Munfah led global tunnelling practices in major engineering firms and was instrumental in growing their tunnelling and underground engineering practices. He held leadership roles in several professional organizations, including the Chair/Animateur of ITA Working Group 19 – "Conventional Tunnelling," and a former Member of ITA Working Group 11, "Immersed and Floating Tunnels"; he is a member of the "Moles" organization in New York and a former ExCo member of UCA of SME in the US.

He published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, received numerous awards, lectured at various universities and short courses. He was an adjunct professor at New York's Columbia University. He was the Principal Investigator and the Primary Author of the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) "Technical Manual for Design and Construction of Road Tunnels", the first design manual of tunnels in the US.