>> The scale of the project is tremendous.
It's a lifetime experience.
As a, you know, as an engineer in the civil field, it's very rare that you get to work
on such huge and momentous projects.
It's a career that is, I've been lucky to have relative to the scale of the project.
I was actually in the facility, in the buildings when the first, you know, strike hit.
I wasn't with the Port Authority at the time,
but I was in the area when the 9/11 tragedy occurred.
So to be able to come back, give back, and be a part of the rebuilding of it holds a symbolic
and emotional component to be able to, you know, throw a portion of career into something
that has such emotional significance, you know.
It's one of the, if not the most complicated projects I think in the country,
and for that reason, and several other reasons, of course, political, course, design,
but at the end of the day, Lower Manhattan is one of the most dense areas in the country,
and it is being built around other infrastructure,
major New York City trade systems, Wall Street, the financial center.
So it's a bustling, incredibly busy area,
and the construction has to go on regardless of that.
People have to get to work.
The system has to work in terms of the transportation system, and it's a challenge.
It's definitely a challenge to be able to design and build and construct in that environment.