Steep tuition and vertigo steered George J. Tamaro away from architecture and high-rise engineering, so he went underground—becoming one of construction’s most accomplished “below-grade guys” in a 50-plus-year career in New York and globally as a foundation engineer and geotechnical building expert.
“Economics directed me to civil engineering at Manhattan College, which was the best decision that I could ever have made,” he said in an American Society of Civil Engineers interview last year. The impacts of his engineering instincts and innovative thinking on countless projects are largely out of public view, but they have pushed the technological needle far forward.