Bruce DeVito Passes Away
March 19, 2010
 (New York, N.Y.) With great sadness, Gannett Fleming, an international planning, design, and construction management firm, reports that Bruce P. DeVito passed away on March 2, 2010, after a lengthy illness.
Based out of the firm’s New York, N.Y., office, Bruce served as a vice president and regional director of rail and transit services with Gannett Fleming, guiding the firm’s efforts at several rail and transit agencies in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area.
“Bruce distinguished himself throughout the engineering industry as a leader,” said James R. Laurita, vice president and regional/area manager. “He touched the lives of many in the transit industry throughout his illustrious 40-year career.”
Bruce joined Gannett Fleming after a long, successful career as chief engineer with the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). Bruce’s hands-on style of management was instrumental in the success of many of LIRR’s most important projects, including the award-winning Penn Station Renovation and the Holban Hillside Complex Construction Project. Bruce also handled the majority of LIRR’s interface with agencies, local governments, and community groups in capital program matters.
After retiring from LIRR, Bruce joined Gannett Fleming as regional director of transit/rail services, where he also served as a senior project manager for many of Gannett Fleming’s prestigious projects, including, the New York City Transit Grand Avenue Bus Depot and Central Maintenance Facility and the Metro-North Railroad Croton-Harmon Phase II Design-Build Project. He also served in an advisory and consulting capacity for the New York City Economic Development Corporation on the Penn Station/Moynihan Feasibility Study and on numerous other transit related projects throughout the metropolitan region.
“With his warm and outgoing personality, he touched the lives of many people in the transit industry,” said Laurita. “His contributions to our firm and industry and his youthful spirit will be greatly missed.”
For more information, please contact James R. Laurita at (212) 967-9833 or via e-mail.
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