GLEN ALLEN, VA. — Schnabel Engineering Inc. opened a new office in Raleigh, N.C. The firm’s Raleigh office will focus its efforts on providing all of Schnabel’s services, with local personnel having extensive geotechnical and environmental engineering experience.

The office will be managed by Nigel Miller, P.E., an associate with the firm. Miller has more than 15 years of experience in transportation, energy, and infrastructure projects, including work for North Carolina Department of Transportation, Progress Energy, and major universities in the area.

Miller has experience on highway bridges, roadway pavements, airport runways, retaining structures, high-rise buildings, earth dams, energy transmission lines and large-diameter pipelines. He has managed, reviewed, and performed design and construction phase engineering duties for projects with technical challenges such as soft soils, deep excavations, high seismic loads, landslides, dewatering, corrosion, and rock excavation.