Paul Wells to Lead SEH Highway Design Practice in the West

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SEH has hired Paul Wells as Regional Practice Center Leader for the company’s Highway Design practice in its West Region. Mr. Wells will lead a growing practice that serves municipalities, counties, state and federal agencies, and private clients.

Mr. Wells comes to SEH from URS, where he held the position of Transportation Design Group Manager. His experience includes interstate, highway, arterial, and interchange design. Mr. Wells has completed multiple state and local agency design projects in his career. These projects range from relocating a Wyoming State Highway over 275 ft. of unconsolidated fill to preparing final construction plans for 5 miles of I-25 in Colorado.

“Our overall objective is to help our clients achieve long-term transportation goals in a technically sound and economically responsible manner. This means offering appropriately scaled highway design services for a variety of clients, from local agencies to state and federal authorities. By bringing Paul on board, we strengthen our ability to deliver complete highway system designs. His expertise perfectly complements our existing highway and roadway design, transportation planning, traffic engineering, structural engineering, and drainage teams,” said John Simmer, Vice President and Regional Leader for the SEH West Region.

SEH is currently working on several major highway and roadway projects in Colorado, including an interchange modification design at Dillon Drive and I-25 in Pueblo, an intersection improvements project at County Road 49 and County Road 44 in Weld County, and a bike/pedestrian underpass of Baseline Road in Boulder.

Building a Better World for All of Us™ requires a multidisciplined and collaborative approach. As a full-service professional services firm, Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. (SEH^®) is comprised of 550 engineers, architects, planners, scientists, and funding specialists located in offices across the nation. SEH provides public and private clients with civil, environmental, transportation, drinking water, wastewater, and structural engineering; funding acquisition; planning and landscape design; architectural design; and technology and GIS services.