Kwong Cheng
Retired
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Telephone:
415 989 4551 x215
Registration:
Professional Engineer in California, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
Chartered Structural Engineer in the United Kingdom.
Education:
M. Eng. - Civil Engineering, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, 1978
B. S. - Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976
Employment History:
1992-2021 (Retired)OPAC Consulting Engineers, President and Principal Engineer.
1978-1992T.Y. Lin International, Design Engineer to Chief Bridge Engineer,Vice President and Board Director.
Professional Experience
Kwong Cheng has 43 years of experience in structural engineering design, management, and constructability analysis of bridges and transit structures. Mr. Cheng served as Project Manager and Lead Engineer for numerous bridge projects in Asia and America, and has in-depth experience in the construction engineering of long span structures.
Key Qualifications
- Management of large-scale projects in which multiple companies are involved
- Production of contract documents for large-scale bridge projects
- Development of complex stage-by-stage bridge erection procedure
- Design of urban interchange viaduct structures with multiple layers of complexity
- Design of bridges utilizing segmental cantilever construction method
- Design of viaduct structures under high aesthetic standard
- Design of viaduct structures to accommodate strict urban and traffic constraint
- Seismic analysis of bridge structures
- Design of long span bridges
- Preparation of bridge evaluation/design reports
- Retrofit concept development for bridge structures
- Structural modeling analysis
- Design of cable-stayed bridges
- Design of high speed rail bridges
- Development of bridge design tools.
- Development of project management tools.
Relevant Project Experience
Selected projects by Kwong Cheng are listed below:
Hoover Dam Bypass: Colorado River Bridge - Construction Engineering
Construction engineering for a 1,090 ft concrete arch bridge downstream of the Hoover Dam.
Nevada-Arizona. Construction completion 2010
Nanning Bridge - Design
A 300 m span steel arch bridge across the Yong River. The arch ribs are steel box sections and the deck consists of a steel box girder with an orthotropic deck.
Nanning City, China. Construction completed 2009
Shenzhen Western Corridor Bridge - Design Supervision
Design supervision and review for a 3.8 km long bridge between Shenzhen and the Hong Kong SAR, with separate 210 m span asymmetrical single-tower cable-stayed units across two navigation channels, and 75 m span concrete box girder viaducts.
Shenzhen, China. Construction completed 2005
Third Carquinez Strait Bridge - Design and Construction Support
A 728 m span suspension bridge with a steel orthotropic deck. The new suspension bridge replaced a 75 year old truss bridge across the Carquinez Strait.
Sacramento River, Crockett - Vallejo, California. Construction completed 2004
Maysville Bridge - Design Support, Design Services During Construction
Design and design services during construction for a 1,050 ft span cable-stayed bridge across the Ohio River. The 60 ft wide deck consists of steel edge girders supporting a composite precast panel deck.
Ohio River, Maysville, Kentucky - Aberdeen, Ohio. Construction completed 2000
SFIA Elevated Circulation Roads - Design and Construction Support
Design of a single-level and double-deck concrete box girder structure to provide access between the freeway and international/domestic terminals at the San Francisco International Airport.
San Francisco, California. Construction completed 2000
San Francisco - Oakland West Bay Crossing - Seismic Evaluation
Seismic analysis of the West Bay Crossing of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The West Bay Crossing is a tandem suspension bridge with main spans of 704 m.
San Francisco - Oakland, California. Study completed 1994
Jamestown Bridge - Design and Construction Support
A replacement structure built by segmental cantilever construction across Narragansett Bay.
West Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Construction completed 1993
Pitan Bridge - Design
Two parallel concrete arch bridges across Hsintien Creek.
Hsintien, Taiwan. Construction completed 1993
H-3, North Halawa Viaduct - Design
Twin viaducts built by segmental cantilever construction over rugged, environmentally sensitive terrain.
Oahu, Hawaii. Design completed 1991
Sun Yat-Sen Freeway Widening Project - Design
Twin 22 km long elevated structures to carry traffic over or alongside the existing freeway.
Taipei, Taiwan. Design completed 1991
Parrotts Ferry Bridge - Investigation
Inspection and structural investigation to determine causes of excessive deflection of main span.
Vallecito, California. Investigation completed 1990
James River Bridge - Construction Engineering
A 600-ft long cable-stayed bridge across the James River.
Richmond, Virginia. Construction completed 1988
Weirton-Steubenville Bridge - Construction Engineering
A 1,965-ft cable-stayed bridge across the Ohio River.
Weirton, West Virginia-Steubenville, Ohio. Construction completed 1988
Connaught (Cambie Street) Bridge - Design
A six-lane elevated expressway project with a 275-ft-span segmental bay crossing in Vancouver, Canada.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Design completed 1985
San Juan International Airport Roadway - Design
An elevated terminal roadway consisting of two-way concrete waffle slab that is post-tensioned in both directions.
San Juan, Puerto Rico. Construction completed 1983
Lewiston-Clarkston Bridge - Design
A cast-in-place prestressed concrete segmental bridge across the Snake River.
Lewiston, Idaho and Clarkston, Washington. Design completed 1979