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Louis Berger (1914 – 1996) was an American civil engineer. A graduate of
Tufts College Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...
, Berger received his
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in soils and geology from
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and
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in soil mechanics from Northwestern. He was a former faculty member of
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's engineering department which designed a large portion of the
Pennsylvania Turnpike The Pennsylvania Turnpike (Penna Turnpike or PA Turnpike) is a toll highway operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. A controlled-access highway, it runs for across the state. The turnpike's we ...
. After completion of the contract, he opened a second office which often employed local labor to fulfill international contracts. He was involved in designing and building highways, railroads, bridges, and airfields in 120 countries. His company grew to become the
Louis Berger Group Louis Berger (formerly known as Berger Group Holdings) is a full-service engineering, architecture, planning, environmental, program and construction management and economic development firm based in Morristown, New Jersey. Founded in 1953 in ...
. In 1994, Berger designed the world's longest car bridge (at the time) in
Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...
, The
Bang Na Expressway The Bang Na Expressway (full name: Bang Na - Bang Phli - Bang Pakong Expressway), officially Burapha Withi Expressway ( th, ทางพิเศษบูรพาวิถี), is a six-lane elevated highway in Thailand. It is a toll road and ru ...
. It held the title of the world's longest bridge from 2000 until 2004. Today, it is the 6th longest bridge in the world.


References


Louis Berger's biography on The Louis Berger Group's website.
American transportation businesspeople Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni Tufts University alumni Tufts University School of Engineering alumni Northwestern University alumni American civil engineers 1914 births 1996 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American engineers {{US-engineer-stub