Amy Kohls Buehler is vice president and director of FIGG, located in Dallas, Texas. She joined FIGG in January 1995 after completing her master’s degree at Virginia Tech. Her bridge design and project management experience with FIGG includes major world-class bridges, with a construction value exceeding $1.1 billion. This experience includes a focus on high profile, signature projects, bridges in urban environments, and environmentally sensitive sites.



FIGG is currently designing the $600 million replacement bridges for I-10 over Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans that were critically damaged during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Ms. Buehler is the project manager and engineer of record for these 5.5-mile long twin bridges.



Ms. Buehler has also served as the head of several other prominent projects. She was the project engineer and project manager for the Smart Road over Wilson Creek, near Blacksburg. This $14.6 million bridge serves as part of the Smart Road research facility that is run by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute in conjunction with the Virginia Department of

Transportation (VDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The bridge was completed in 2001 and has received eight design awards. She served as the project manager coordinating all design activities for the 2,120 ft. cable-stayed concrete segmental bridge currently under construction over the Penobscot River in Prospect-Verona, Maine. Ms. Buehler was project engineer for the Maumee River Crossing, a $220 million precast segmental cable stayed main span and approaches on I-280 in Toledo, Ohio - the largest project ever done by the Ohio Department of Transportation.



Ms. Buehler received her BS in civil engineering (CE) from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC in 1993. She earned her MS in CE with emphasis on structures from Virginia Tech in 1994. In addition, she received a Texas Transportation Institute Engineering Fellowship to Texas A&M University in the summer of 1992.



Ms. Buehler is registered as a professional engineer in Texas and seven other states, a structural engineer in Illinois, and is certified by NCEES. In addition to her other professional activities, she is the past-president of Virginia Tech Alumni Association Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter, serves on the board of the Virginia Tech Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Board and is a board member of the Arts District Friends, the marketing arm for Dallas’ Arts District.



Ms. Buehler is active in the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, the Texas Council of Engineering Companies, and the American Segmental Bridge Institute. She recently graduated from the 2004-2005 Leadership Arts Class XVII through the North Texas Business for Culture and the Arts.



Amy and her husband, Bob, were married in November 2005. In their free time, they enjoy the arts in Dallas, golfing, skiing, relaxing at home, and visiting with friends and family.