Eric Peissel

Global Director, Transport and Infrastructure

Eric, Global Director Transport and Infrastructure at WSP, has over 20 years of experience in transportation and has worked across Canada, the USA and internationally. 

In his current role, he is responsible for setting strategic direction, coordination, and delivery for the 22,000 Transport and Infrastructure WSP Changemakers globally. Previously, Eric has had responsibility for managing teams of over 2,000 staff across multiple sectors including: highways, bridges, aviation, major projects, ports & marine, rail & transit and planning & advisory.

With a strong background in transportation planning, Eric has headed the planning and preliminary design components of numerous billion-dollar projects. This includes significant transit projects in the BRT, LRT, Metro and Commuter rail sectors. He has also led the pursuit and delivery of large complex design-build and PPP projects in transit and highways.

Respected and recognised for this leading work, Eric was a guest lecturer in Transportation Planning at McGill’s School of Urban Planning. He has also prepared and taught the master’s level course in Computer Applications in Planning and has guest lectured at the University of Waterloo, University of Montreal and University of Quebec at Montreal.

WSP awarded funding to investigate environmentally sustainable road surfacing

The research arm of leading design and engineering firm WSP in New Zealand has just received $9.1 million in funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) Endeavour Fund to investigate use of biomass as a replacement for roading bitumen.

Highway Tolling for Social, Economic, and Spatial Equity in the United States

This webinar is for those who have wondered about the social, economic, and spatial equity story of highways and the expansion of tolling. 

World’s highest single-span bridge nears completion

Designed by WSP, the arch of the bridge was erected using a cableway crane. The deck is bolted at assembly points using a total of 600,000 bolts with WSP describing the design process for the bridge as "pushing the envelope with BIM" which was used to 3D model the structure.

Managing Water: How Digital Twins Reveal Hidden Leaks

New digital tools can make the invisible visible — and offer a solution to the perennial problem of leaking pipes.

WSP USA to Manage World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Underground Storage Project

Hydrogen is a key part of the energy cocktail of the future, not only for storage and some transportation solutions, but also feedstock for making greener steel.

Hydrogen in Maritime: Opportunities and Challenges

Exploring how hydrogen and hydrogen hubs at ports can advance the global transition from fossil fuels to clean energy