R. W. (Bob) French, President
HBG Flatiron, Inc.


R. W. (Bob) French, President of HBG Flatiron, Inc., has 25 years experience in construction, specializing in heavy civil, highway, structures and facilities projects. He has managed a variety of projects ranging from dams, bridges and power plants to an automotive assembly plant, hospitals and airport facilities. He has worked on a number of significant highway and bridge projects throughout his career, and since joining HBG Flatiron, he has continued that trend. Currently he is responsible for a series of transportation projects with a constructed value of over $2 billion.

Bob is overseeing three significant projects in the Boston area. Two of the projects, the I-90 Logan Airport Interchange and the South Boston Interchange West, are part of the Central Artery/Tunnel project; the third is the terminal elevated roadway project at Logan International Airport. In California, he is involved in three San Francisco Bay Area toll bridge projects: the seismic retrofit of the historic Benicia-Martinez Bridge, the construction of the new Carquinez Suspension Bridge and the construction of the $1.04 billion San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge approach contract.

In other areas of North America, Mr. French just completed the Sagadahoc Bridge in Maine, a design-build project; is overseeing the $250 million Carolina Bays Parkway, a new highway design-build project in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina as well as the $531 million Cooper River Bridge, a design-build cable stay bridge.

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