Ignacio Barandiarán, PE, MBA, is a consulting engineer and transaction advisor
with over fourteen years experience. He has been with Arup where he has led the firm’s
Transaction Advice business in North and South America providing advisory services to
financiers of privately-financed infrastructure projects. He has worked on over twenty
transactions in the last four years, including pathfinder Public-Private Partnership
projects such as the financing of the Sea-to-Sky Highway in Vancouver, the Costanera
Norte Toll Road in Santiago, Chile which was named Project Finance Magazine’s Deal of
the Year (2005), and more recently the $1 Billion financing of the Port of Miami Tunnel.
Ignacio has been project manager and lead design engineer for high profile commissions
such as the Sony Center in Berlin, Germany, the Menil Foundation Byzantine Fresco
Chapel in Houston, Texas, the redevelopment plans for Penn Station in New York City,
the Utah Olympic Ice Skating Oval, and several signature pedestrian bridges. Of
Argentinean parents, Ignacio was born in the United States, raised in Chile, and
attended college in England (B.A., Oxford University) and graduate school in the United
States (M.Sc., M.Arch. and M.B.A., UC Berkeley). He has traveled extensively and has
taught at the Parsons School of Design and the Salvadori Center in New York, and has
been invited to lecture at UC Berkeley, Universidad Andres Bello in Chile, and the
Instituto Tecnológico de Monterey in Mexico. He has presented at international
conferences in subjects as diverse as the design of lightweight structures and current
trends in construction risk allocation in contracts. Currently Ignacio leads a non-profit
project to bring drinking water and wastewater facilities to an impoverished community
on the coastal desert of northern Chile.
Ignacio’s combined experience and interest in design and engineering as well as his
business background make him a key player in the D&E department where he will lead
the engineering team, and in the operations of Binishells Inc. His international
experience, especially as relates to project management for large projects gives him the
background and ability to spear-head larger projects in housing and public building.
