
Richard Carman, PhD, Senior Principal Emeritus
After over 40 years of professional experience (35 of them with Wilson Ihrig), Dr. Carman now works with us on an as-needed consulting basis. In his extensive work history, he has served as the noise and vibration project manager on numerous rail transit and high speed rail projects in the United States and abroad in both the environmental assessment (EIR/EIS) and the engineering phases of projects. He has presented numerous technical papers at conferences throughout the world, and is the author of Chapter 9 – Acoustics and Vibration in “Building Types for Transit Facilities.” He was the Principal Investigator for the NCHRP 25-25 research project (Current Practices to Address Construction Vibration and Potential Effects to Historic Buildings Adjacent to Transportation Projects) and the ACRP 07-14 research project (Guidelines for Improving Intelligibility of Airport Terminal Public Address Systems).
Education
Ph.D., M.S., B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley