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Havan joins Nitsch Engineering's transportation department as senior traffic engineer

According to Nitsch Engineering, Nick Havan, PE, PTOE, has joined the firm's transportation department as senior traffic engineer. Havan has 26 years of experience in both the public and private sectors, including 14 years of experience with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. His expertise includes preparing traffic impact studies; integrating sustainable and multi-modal design elements; providing signal design; performing parking studies and analyses; providing way-finding design; preparing construction phase traffic and parking management plans; and performing peer reviews. Havan is a registered Professional Engineer in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, a certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineer, a certified Work-Zone Safety Specialist, and a certified Soil Evaluator in Massachusetts. He earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology. Nitsch Engineering is a civil engineering, land surveying, transportation engineering, sustainable site consulting, planning, and GIS firm that provides services on private development, public building, and infrastructure projects. Nitsch Engineering has projects in 17 states and five countries. The company is the largest Woman-owned Business Enterprise (WBE) civil engineering firm in Massachusetts, and is also a certified WBE in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Since 1989, Nitsch Engineering has provided professional services to public agencies, academic clients, developers, corporate and institutional owners, architects, and other design professionals on a variety of project types.
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