Marian Barth Selected for the WTS-Boston 2020 Innovative Transportation Solutions Award
Marian C. Barth, P.E., Deputy Chief Engineer of the STV Boston Structural Group, has worked at STV for over 25 years and currently serves as Project Manager and Senior Structural Engineer. Throughout her career she has been a Design Engineer, Project Engineer, or Project Manager on primarily bridge and transit related multidisciplinary projects for a variety of STV’s clients.
Marian serves as Project Manager and Technical Lead for the MBTA’s Fenway Portal Flood Protection Project, a complex tunnel resiliency project currently under construction. The project is installing flood gates and doors at the tunnel entrance east of Fenway Station to reduce the risk of flooding from the Muddy River into the tunnel to Kenmore Station. All MBTA utilities in the project area are being relocated or modified to accommodate the door installation and to improve resiliency to operations. Communications, signals, and pump room improvements, along with automating the overhead catenary system to move out of the way to close the doors required management/coordination of multiple disciplines and stakeholders including numerous MBTA departments.
Marian was also Design Manager on the award-winning Fanny Appleton Pedestrian Bridge over Storrow Drive as part of the Longfellow Bridge Rehabilitation Design-Build Project for MassDOT Highway Division and Project Engineer on the Arthur J. DiTommaso Memorial Cable Stayed Bridge in Fitchburg. She has been a member of WTS for over 10 years and has co-chaired the Management Networking Roundtable for the past 3 years. She has also been a mentor to many in the STV Boston office guiding and supporting staff in their career development. Marian graduated in 1993 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University and received an MBA from Babson College in 2001.