When Ted Zoli and 2010 Award of Excellence winner John Hillman discussed the format for the American Road & Transportation Builders Association's initial TransOvation educational workshop last September, they agreed on the need to do something different.
"We didn't want people to simply sit and listen," says Hillman. Instead, the 2010 and 2012 AOE winners came up with a group problem-solving exercise: They tasked teams to identify infrastructure improvements that would help revitalize the city of Detroit.