DLR Group, a United States global integrated design firm, has announced the launch of its Infrastructure practice, expanding the firm's multidisciplinary capabilities across aviation, power generation and horizontal transportation markets, according to Morningstar.

The new practice brings together industry-leading expertise, strategic hires and major project wins to support growing demand for resilient, future-ready infrastructure worldwide.

Steven McKay, managing principal and CEO of DLR Group, said: "Clients are navigating unprecedented change, from volatile energy markets to the modernization of critical transportation systems. DLR Group's new Infrastructure practice vertically integrates design, engineering, and planning to deliver reliable, efficient, and sustainable large-scale solutions."

DLR Group's Infrastructure team delivers services to standalone clients including public utilities and transportation agencies, whilst also serving the firm's existing affinity markets including federal, data centre and manufacturing, and healthcare.

The Infrastructure practice is anchored by seasoned leaders with deep experience delivering complex, mission-critical programmes at national and international scales.

David Chow, principal and global infrastructure leader, brings extensive leadership in global infrastructure systems, informed by more than two decades directing multimodal and transportation planning programmes. Joshua Stephens, principal and national aviation leader, and Ana-Maria Drughi, senior associate and aviation design leader, will anchor Infrastructure's aviation arm, with design and delivery specialisation spanning international terminal and concourse planning, airfield infrastructure and aviation system modernisation.

John Weiskopf, principal and renewable energy leader, will expand the renewables practice he established at the firm almost a decade ago into new energy and power markets including utility infrastructure, grid modernisation and emerging technologies in energy integration.

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