Michael Baker International

Michael Baker International is an engineering and consulting firm headquartered at 500 Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, with more than 6,000 employees working out of over 120 offices. The firm works across transportation, water, federal and commercial markets, covering engineering design, construction management and program management on the same jobs. It held construction management on the Howard Street Tunnel clearance project in Baltimore alongside STV, the program that raised an 1895 CSX bore to double-stack clearance without taking down its brick arch. Michael Baker also handled repairs to the Hernando de Soto Bridge at Memphis after a fracture closed the crossing. The firm is privately held under DC Capital Partners and does not publish a founding year on its own site.

The part of this firm that is least like a traditional engineering consultancy is its technology arm, and it is now large enough to be a reason to hire them. The published practice areas include artificial intelligence, BIM for infrastructure, broadband, cloud hosting and managed services, community and resilience solutions, cybersecurity and building controls, DATAMARK technologies, digital government solutions, digital twins, electric vehicle solutions, indoor mapping, mobility technology, and virtual design and construction. The company has run a Tech Summit built around AI, digital twins and connected data in the built environment, with live demonstrations of platforms it says are already in production.

That is being pushed hardest into transportation. The BIM for Infrastructure team works with state transportation agencies on digital project delivery, and the firm has published on advancing infrastructure design through engineered models and data-driven workflows, and on running pilot projects to prove the approach before scaling it.

The service list underneath is conventional and deep: advisory and consulting, architecture, buildings and systems engineering, civil engineering, construction management, design-build and alternative delivery, emergency management and response, environmental, geospatial, geotechnical, land development, program management, and resilience and sustainability. Markets run from transportation, rail and transit and water through to federal work, defense OEM, healthcare, education, life sciences, public safety, industrial and commercial, state and local government, and data centres and mission critical.

Emergency work is a real line rather than an afterthought. The firm lists emergency structural engineering and winter weather operations among its capabilities, and publishes guidance for communities on FEMA’s BRIC programme and its 2026 funding cycle.

Leadership has moved quickly through 2026: Kevin R. Collins, P.E., was named President of the Infrastructure business in August, Alex Shannon was named National Director for Water in July, and Jim Duguay was promoted to National Aviation Planning Lead the same month.

The company works from more than 120 offices across the country, holds a GSA Schedule, and partners with Fika, formerly Bridges to Prosperity, to build footbridges in underserved communities.