
Our Markets
Education
Setting the Stage for Success
Bringing out the best in students, faculty, and staff begins with providing welcoming, vibrant and enduring spaces within well-designed, safe facilities, and campuses. This sets the stage for academic excellence to flourish. Our full-service design team helps make that happen. We have worked on dozens of public and private K-12 and higher education projects across the Northeastern United States.
A Full Spectrum of Fresh Ideas and Personalized Solutions
We bring fresh ideas and apply creative solutions to support master planning, expansion initiatives, renovations, and new construction projects. This includes buildings, roadways, parking lots, athletic fields, infrastructure, and campus security and planning. For renovations this could involve environmental services such as hazardous building materials investigation and abatement, structure demolition, oil storage tanks, and contaminated groundwater and soil management.
The needs of today’s administrators, teachers, faculty, and students keep evolving. We plan to be right there with personalized and cost effective solutions that will help them achieve their goals and successes.

Robert Smedberg, PE
Client Sector Leader - Institutions
Rob is a Senior Civil Engineer with experience serving hospitals, colleges and universities, K-12 schools, and other institutions on a varie...

Francis Hoey, III, PE, LEED AP
Chief Strategy Officer / Client Sector Director
Fran Hoey is the Business
Line Leader who oversees
our land use and
transportation efforts.
Committed to the
success of his client...

John Block, PE, LS
Principal
John Block is an experienced civil engineer, land surveyor, and Principal-in-Charge. For 50 years, he has overseen and designed many large, ...

Bradlee Mezquita PE, LEED AP
Vice President
Brad Mezquita is a principal who specializes in site/civil design, and is a strong advocate of sustainability as part of the overall design ...

Charles Croce, PE
Vice President
Charles (Chuck) Croce is a Senior Project Manager with more than 25 years of experience in land development and site utility projects for bo...

Joseph Viamari, PE, LEED AP
Vice President, Land Use and Transportation Business Line Leader
Joseph (Jay) Viamari is a
Senior Project Manager
and LEED AP with more than
22 years of engineering experience. He specializes in the ...

Joseph Persechino, PE, LEED AP
Vice President
Joe Persechino is a Vice President who has 15 years of experience in civil engineering, site design, permitting and construction. He adminis...

Patrick Crimmins, PE
Senior Project Manager
Patrick Crimmins is a Senior Project Manager who specializes in site/civil engineering projects.
With more than 17 years of experience, he...

Daniel Valentine, PE
Project Manager
Daniel Valentine has broad civil engineering experience that includes water supply and distribution, dam evaluations and emergency action pl...

Joseph Canas, PE, LEED AP, CFM
Principal Engineer
Joe Canas has more than 23 years of experience in floodplain management, stormwater management, roadway design, hydrologic and hydraulic mod...

Michael Toto
MEP Group Leader & Senior Project Manager
Michael Toto is a senior
electrical manager who
oversees Tighe & Bond’s
Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing
and Fire Protection (MEP/FP...

Craig French, PE
Principal Engineer / Structural Engineering Manager
Craig French manages Tighe & Bond’s structural department, and is responsible for structural engineering and architectural design. He ...

Ron Maniscalco, PE
Senior Engineer
Ron Maniscalco is an electrical engineer with more than 28 years of experience in electrical and telecommunication design
for both public ...

Jason Urso, PE
Senior Engineer
Jason Urso specializes in mechanical design for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. He has experience in a multitude of build...

Jason Curtis, PE, LEED AP
Project Manager
Jason Curtis is a mechanical engineer who specializes in the design of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. He designs HVAC sy...

William Hardy, PE
Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Business Line Leader - Building Services
Bill Hardy is Tighe & Bond’s chief operating officer, working with the firm’s management to ensure optimum client service delivery a...

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