T.Y. Lin International acquires
Medina Consultants, P.C.

For immediate release | March 24, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – T.Y. Lin International (TYLI), an internationally recognized, full-service infrastructure consulting firm, announced today that it has acquired Medina Consultants, P.C. (Medina), a multi-disciplined engineering and surveying professional services firm headquartered in Hackettstown, New Jersey with offices in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Maryland. Medina will now conduct business as T.Y. Lin International | Medina.

Over the last 20 years, Medina has built an award-winning, ENR Top 500-ranked firm with seven offices in the Northeast U.S. and a staff of more than 125 professionals. In addition to the firm’s strong transportation/transit design background, Medina has expertise in the federal, water/wastewater, facilities (buildings, grounds and site design) and planning/consulting markets.

“This is a landmark acquisition for T.Y. Lin International and will expand the number of clients and range of services offered by both firms,” said Alvaro J. Piedrahita, P.E., TYLI president and chief executive officer. “We are confident that Medina’s dedication to client satisfaction and fundamentally sound engineering designs makes it an excellent addition to T.Y. Lin International, and we welcome Medina’s staff of professional engineers and land surveyors to our growing company. Together, the expertise offered by T.Y. Lin International and Medina, will be a powerful combination for our clients and partners.”

“I’ve spent my entire 35-year career in the New York/New Jersey marketplace and our firm has developed great relationships with clients and other engineering firms,” said Robert Medina, P.E., Medina president and now senior vice president of T.Y. Lin International. “The specialties that T.Y. Lin International brings combined with our knowledge of agencies, engineers and contractors in the East Region will create tremendous opportunities for partnering and strategic alliances.”

Medina principals James F. Steere III, P.L.S., Chandu Bhoraniya, P.E., Wassim Nader, P.E., and Joseph Messina, P.L.S. join T.Y. Lin International as vice presidents.

Founded in 1954, T.Y. Lin International is an internationally recognized, multi-disciplined full service infrastructure engineering firm committed to providing innovative, cost-effective, constructible designs for the global infrastructure market. With more than 1,650 employees working in offices throughout the United States and Asia, the firm is able to provide support on projects of varying size and complexity.

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