Rodger Rochelle, PE, has joined H&H as Carolinas Regional Manager/Director of Alternative Delivery. His responsibilities will include leading H&H’s Carolinas Business Practice and steering the firm’s Alternative Delivery Program. Rodger joins H&H after retiring from the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). “We are delighted to have Rodger Rochelle join our growing North Carolina team,” said H&H CEO Sean Bluni, PE. “Rodger brings great insight and innovation as a leader in alternative delivery methods and project management to our Carolinas Region and beyond.”

During his 30-year career, Rodger held several leadership positions at NCDOT after starting his career designing bridges, ferry basin structures, and unique bridge rehabilitations. Early on, he served as the engineering group leader responsible for establishing bridge design policy, standards, software, manuals, and training for all NC bridge engineers. After Rodger served as NCDOT’s Research and Development Program Administrator, he was asked to develop and implement the NCDOT Design-Build Program, resulting in a model organization for delivering design-build programs across the country that has now delivered more than $10 billion in successful design-build projects.

Expanding his role, Rodger implemented additional alternative delivery methods, including public-private partnerships, sponsorships, design-build-finance, nested and modified design-build, CMGC, and the NCDOT Express Design-Build Program. The Express Design-Build Program allowed NCDOT to rapidly complete NEPA investigations and low-bid procurement of nearly 600 bridges statewide to date. Rodger has been involved in numerous national alternative delivery efforts, including assisting other state DOTs in establishing and refining design-build programs, committees, and NCHRP research steering committees. Rodger also served as the NCDOT lead for the state’s first public-private partnership, the $800 Million I-77 managed lanes project, a full revenue risk transaction.

Serving as NCDOT Technical Services Administrator, he led hundreds of engineers and planners in nearly all preconstruction engineering groups as well as all professional services and construction contracts, including design-build and public-private partnerships. Rodger concluded his NCDOT career as the Chief Engineer of the North Carolina Turnpike Authority, overseeing the project development of nearly $6 billion in toll facilities, the procurement, and construction of the state’s largest project, as well as the maintenance and operations of all toll facilities.

Rodger is a graduate of Duke University with a BSE and MSE in Engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer in North Carolina. He served as a member of the AASHTO Special Committee on Research and Innovation and has served on numerous Transportation Research Board committees.