Bridget O’Hanlon

Deputy Commissioner for Design and Construction

Bridget O’Hanlon, P.E. leads the Division of Design and Construction, which delivers high-quality, cost-effective, and timely design, procurement, permitting, and construction management services for capital construction projects to over 50 client New York State agencies and authorities.

Bridget is a NYS Licensed Professional Engineer and LEED AP accredited design professional with more than 26 years of design and construction experience, including five years in a senior management role. Bridget has received several professional accolades, including the ACEC 2017 Engineering Excellence Gold Award for the transformation of the New York State Fairgrounds and 2021 Outstanding Women Award from the Women’s Building Council. Among Bridget’s professional accomplishments was her management of the $200 million complex rehabilitation project for the Office of Mental Health. Bridget has led many other high-priority and Governor’s initiative projects throughout New York State during her tenure at OGS, including the agency’s first design-build procurement for the State Fair’s Exposition Center. Others include OCFS’s Raise the Age Initiative, the Fair Haven State Park shoreline stabilization and parking lot reconstruction REDI Initiative project, and DMNA’s lead remediation projects and Jamaica Armory renovation.

Bridget received her BS in Environmental Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.